The truth is worse.

That there’s more people who want this (or at least did until they realised it meant their families being abducted by ICE) than people who didn’t, and more people still who didn’t give a fuck enough to bother voting.

That should keep them up at night more than vote rigging.

This is how we get Dalamain.

I dunno, these fuckers turn on each other all the time. Where are Mike Pence and Rudy Guliani now?

I don’t think they’re smart enough to play 4D chess with PR.

They don’t have anyone describable as “friends” because they’re inherently unlikeable.

They’ll need it because the war money will stop immediately. They’re being funded only as much as it hurts Russia. Just like Afghanistan in the 80s.

By the time you finish the game, whatever you’ve seen so far will seem like the most normal thing in the world.

Definitely a lot of standard Kojima gameplay in there, among the apocalyptic Deliveroo simulator and bonkers 4th wall breaking.

a.k.a. how to own a social media platform without having to buy it.

Art of the deal.

The Play Store works exactly as designed.

It takes a search term, turns it into a list of completely random apps sorted by whatever makes Google the most money in in app payments and adverts, and then shows it to you.

What more did you want from a store run by the world’s biggest advertising company?

They’re polished, but nearly all of them are too safe.

The ones that subvert things a little are always best for me, and these always get mixed reactions from people who went in with a set idea of what they wanted from it.

Red Dead Redemption 2 being a slow paced wild west simulator rather than Grand Theft Horse is a prime example. It didn’t play by safety and doing popular things. It did what they wanted it to be, and it’s all the better for it.

It is mental, but I also kind of wish he’d hire somebody else to write dialogue for him.

And maybe somebody to check all the women characters, and make sure he’s not coming across as being a little bit odd.

Anyone up at that time on holiday wears socks with crocs.

Got plenty in my retirement pot, but I’ve been saving up bottle caps just in case.

No need for it now. America is so shit nobody wants to go there.

Be Mexico building the wall soon to keep Texans out.

And to add to that, it also gives you the tools for discovery. It’s not just “Ubisoft, but they hide the icons”.

The shrine detector (which can become an anything detector), the ability to look through binoculars or whatever it is and stamp a limited number of visible waypoints onto the map. Tears of the Kingdom gives you a slightly obscure ability to highlight all the cave entrances nearby, which you can then try to mark up and see if you’ve been there.

Other games have started trying to do some of this, but I think a lot of it is added late on in development and doesn’t really work well. Like Jedi Survivor gives you the ability to mark things with icons, but what for? You can’t see the markers when you’re walking around. There’s not really much to discover from a distance, and it’s pretty far from being a vast open world.

Is it perfect? No. The last few shrines are often a complete ball-ache to find, although a lot of them are just a generic fight and they’re pretty optional, it feels like you should do them.

Is it better than a world as a menu screen as offered by Ubisoft and those that copy them? Yes.

I think in general a lot of developers should take a long look at what they’re actually trying to make before going with the open world approach. It’s getting tired, and they’re mostly doing it badly.

If we’re going to have a religious book, it should be The Egg.

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Sounds perfect. A nation free of oppressive morning people.

It’s not a war, it’s a special military operation.

Yeah, I removed Snap mpv and reinstalled with apt.

Lo and behold, it works perfectly all of a sudden.

Firefox looks like more effort, and apt will install the snap version. Even if you uninstall snap. Fun. If I could enable what is missing I’d be OK, but I’ve no idea what it is…

Well, shit…

I went with Ubuntu because the N150 is fairly new (even if it’s just a slightly faster N100) and the 25.04 Ubuntu kernel supports it out of the box.

Yeah, tried all that, and not having much luck in Firefox and MPV. VLC fine. Replied to the other post, and it might be Snap blocking it. I dunno though, because I know basically fuck all about snap other than a lot of Linux people don’t like it.