I just tried and got it. Might be worth shooting them an email.

It’s big. According to Wikipedia they gained 30.5 million dollars in 2022 and have almost 170 employees - not mentioning probably hundreds of other volunteers. It sounds simple in concept but storing petabytes of data safely and maintaining complex software and hardware for it is impressive. That’s why there aren’t really any alternatives to it.

They’re also much bigger than just the wayback machine, they have multiple projects like OpenLibrary which is a goodreads alternative and scans books to read online. The IA is also under constant legal fire for archiving copyrighted materials so I bet they spent millions of dollars on that alone.

Yeah, it’s a weird blunder to not have rotated keys after being breached. I’m not familiar with how the org works but it sounds like they don’t have a dedicated security guy, which is weird for something of that size.

I’m really not a fan of this. Opencritic’s entire point is to filter out the garbage and be a great way to see a summary of reviews from professional critics. One look at Metacritic’s user reviews and you know it’s just going to be flame wars of fanboys and haters.

Yes! There’s https://opencritic.com/calendar which is available in ics format. It usually only covers big releases though, not many indies on the list.

Yup, we’ve gone full circle. The initial release of vampire survivors copy pasted a lot of Castlevania assets, but now they’ve negotiated a deal to have them officially in the game, which is neat.

Yeah, it’s an accessibility update that adds cheats and minor options to the game. I’m not sure why they hyped it up.

Ugh. And here I was hoping they’d bring back the rest of their systems online soon, but it seems like their security is in shambles and we may be looking at a few months until IA is fully back online.

refusing to be transparent about updates and future dev for over a year just letting it slowly die.

That’s par for the course for Hi-Rez… Realm Royale was a smash hit when it was in alpha, and they ignored the fanbase and kept messing it up more each update until it faded into obscurity.

If we’re talking about weird video game ads, I want to give a shoutout to PS3’s baby ad

Thanks for your hard work as always.

I’m in favor of moving away from proxying. Too many images break and proxying in general is very wasteful, having to download images from potentially small servers constantly would definitely get you ratelimited.

Passing through external images is OK. Many people often post external links anyways to sites like imgur and catbox because of the file size limits anyways.

I think the end goal would always to store images locally though - or at least caching them for extended periods of time. Don’t large instances like Lemmy World and huge Mastodon instances work this way? How do they manage the risk?

The article is tongue in cheek, but I’m not sure where you’re getting “pretty decent AA game” from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It’s currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.

I don’t know if this was requested before but I really want there to be a way to see all comments throughout crossposted threads. It sucks that there are so many crossposts that have like 1-2 comments each. I want to see all discussion about a post at the same time.

What a stacked cast. I can’t believe they got fucking Charlie Cox here too.

Their problem is that these answers affect their bottom line.

It’s more complicated than that. Adding friction and paywalls will quickly kill their userbase, requiring a proof of identity or tracking users is a privacy disaster and I’m sure many people (especially here) would outright refuse to give IDs to companies.

They’re more like a compromise than a real solution. Even then, they’re probably not foolproof and bots will still manage.

Not even the biggest tech companies have an answer sadly… There are bots everywhere and social media is failing to stop them. The only reason there aren’t more bots in the Fediverse is because we’re not a big enough target for them to care (though we do have occasional bot spam).

I guess the plan is to wait until there’s an actual way to detect bots and deal with them.

It genuinely doesn’t matter. Your FPS will be almost the same regardless of what distro or desktop environment you use. It might matter on VERY low end devices like ones with 4gb of RAM, but other than that, just use whatever you’re comfortable with.

The point of a gaming distro isn’t performance but just setting up everything you need like drivers and important apps that could be useful in gaming - like Lutris and mangohud and stuff.

The leak was confirmed a few hours after the post was made, so it’s not just based on reports anymore.

Life imitates art or somesuch.

Technically yes but I doubt anyone would go through the effort only to be sued into oblivion.