[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

Would be even funnier with two "Allow" buttons.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/36744

This an an interview with Ross Scott and Steve from the GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy side channel.

⚠️⚠️ Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home ⚠️⚠️

"We got together with Ross Scott of Accursed Farms to discuss the Stop Killing Games initiative that he is presently spearheading. The Stop Killing Games initiative aims to preserve games in a reasonably playable state even after the game's publishers and/or developers abandon it, helping ensure consumers keep some level of what they have paid for rather than having all access revoked and the game destroyed."

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Stop Killing Games
03:26 - The Basics
05:55 - Games Make It Easier to Dismiss
07:17 - Where's Stop Killing Games Now
13:58 - Technical Alternatives to Stopping Service
19:47 - How Would a Law Work
23:50 - Momentum
27:18 - UK Petition
31:45 - Misconceptions
35:51 - Benefits for People Outside the EU
39:36 - Next Steps

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dremor@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Hi everyone.

It has been a while since last community update, as the old moderation team mostly vanished, and I was for a while the only moderator still active. A lot happened since then, and it is time to get the community back running at optimal pace.

New moderators

First, I'd like to welcome two new (temporary) moderator, that will help me moderating while we reform the community and examine permanent moderator applications.

  • u/JonsJava : You may already know him as the moderator of !gaming@lemmy.world, a video game focused community
  • u/fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com (and its moderation alt, فكسومت مدمر العوالم, aka u/modfxomt)

If you wish to help moderate this community, feel free to PM me in order to candidate to be a moderator for this community.

Sidebar rewrite

I took some time to rewrite the sidebar to better reflect the community evolution.

I added two new section:

  1. "Authorized Regular Threads", which are allowed to be post on a regular basis as long as they respect the rules
  2. "Related communities", which contains links to other games related communities. Feel free to PM me to add more of them

I also added links to a git repo to each rule, which point to the current ruleset. Currently all of them points to the same root anchor, but in the near future, every rule will point to their specific section. This will allow to give a lot more detail, as well as examples, without polluting the sidebar.

Community contribution

As a community, I'd like to encourage users to participate in the community. We are not meant to be monolithic, like Reddit was, and we'd like to offer the community the way to better itself, according to its own rules, not some corporate greedy interest.

As such, I'd like to offer you all way to make it your own, with a more democratic approach to moderation. In the following weeks, I'll post multiple topics about it, from which we will collectively amend our rules to better fit its collectively defined purpose.

This will be done in multiple steps :

  1. First, we will open a discutions on current rules, in which we will be able to discuss about them, suggest improvements, and maybe create new rules
  2. The rules will be then internally rewritten in order to respect the community wish while still following LW rules
  3. The new rules will be individually put to vote. If the total is positive, the rule is adopted, if not, the rule will be bought back in a new discussions/amendment topic, until it reach consensus

Best regards,

u/Dremor

Edit 1 : I continued my work on the sidebar, feel free to give me your feedback on it.

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[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

As a Frenchman, I concur. All the nice things we have are thanks to relentless strikes.

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Doom in an art gallery (arstechnica.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24129356

Because why the hell not!

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I raised her since she was a kitten. She now happily lives at my dad's house.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 202 points 8 months ago

Congratulation, you are being upgraded. Please do not resist. And pay while we are at it.

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Ready To Play (loadingartist.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18354109

October 23, 2024. Hello Everyone!

Our last update saw players enjoying a nice chilled time, fishing in No Man’s Sky. Our next update couldn’t be more different! As we approach Halloween, we are embracing the spookier side of the No Man’s Sky Universe, drawing upon threads first established way back in Atlas Rises, when ancient portals began to open and the boundaries between realities first began to crumble…

Today, we are announcing expedition sixteen: The Cursed – where players will fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension.

The Cursed takes place in a sort of twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next.

Travellers will not have access to hyperdrive technology, meaning no warping between star systems. Instead, interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network.

Haunting voices, leaking through from another dimension, will provide guidance, information, strange blueprints… and mystery. It is up to you to decide who these voices belong to, where they are coming from, and if they are to be trusted.

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18354109

October 23, 2024. Hello Everyone!

Our last update saw players enjoying a nice chilled time, fishing in No Man’s Sky. Our next update couldn’t be more different! As we approach Halloween, we are embracing the spookier side of the No Man’s Sky Universe, drawing upon threads first established way back in Atlas Rises, when ancient portals began to open and the boundaries between realities first began to crumble…

Today, we are announcing expedition sixteen: The Cursed – where players will fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension.

The Cursed takes place in a sort of twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next.

Travellers will not have access to hyperdrive technology, meaning no warping between star systems. Instead, interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network.

Haunting voices, leaking through from another dimension, will provide guidance, information, strange blueprints… and mystery. It is up to you to decide who these voices belong to, where they are coming from, and if they are to be trusted.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was at first, then they became a for profit organization, Xamarin, who was bought by Microsoft.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 72 points 11 months ago

Problem is distance and autonomy.

You can't really command drones that far, they are programed with the coordinates, then launched. And to go far, you need to have more fuel, thus a heavier drone, which in turn will be easier to detect and target for AA systems.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They already use that rhetoric for a long time.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

It's a RISC they are not willing to take.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

I can hear that kitten picture. An angry, tiny, meow. 😂

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

My own experience with Asus warranty was of utter incompetence.

It was a long time ago, around 10 years or so, and I sent a newly acquired laptop for repairs because of constants BSOD. Waited a month before getting it back... Without sound. Turn out they forgot to reconnect the sound card. I sent it back for repair, waited another month (because even if they are at fault, they won't even fast track that repair), only to get it back with a nonfunctional touchpad. I don't use it, so I didn't send it back a third time, because who know what would have come back damaged that time.

So their repair woes aren't recent. When their stuff works, it works well, but pray that you won't need to RMA it.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Love thy neighbor. Except this one. And this one. And those over there. And so on.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any source for said price?

Edit: Better known source says it is a baseless rumor circulating on social medias

Some accounts on social media are now circulating the claim that Niger has lifted prices from €0.80 per kilogram to €200. So far, there is no evidence for this beyond themselves quoting each other. The claim seems to trace back to a small digital outlet in Nigeria. Embarrassingly, the website has been confused as being from Niger itself.

Sources (as shared by @goo@lemm.ee) : https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliasferrerbreda/2023/09/12/more-rumours-what-is-really-happening-with-nigers-uranium/

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I agree with some anti-privacy woes, France (and more broadly Europe) is way more privacy friendly than the US. We have to fight for it from time to time, but for now it goes mostly in the right direction.

As for religious stuff, to understand that you have to understand France. We are, due to our history, mostly irreligious (50% of the whole population in 2017), with most religious people being non-practicing. Like every country we have our religious nutjobs, but they are mostly irrevelant compared to the US ones.
As such, we as a whole generally consider that religion should not impact public life and public places nor be displayed in there, with some specific exception (nuns and priests, as it is considered as being an uniform mandated by their trade).

School is a public space, as such public display of religion are forbidden. This is not specifically agains Muslim, the same would apply to a nun when going to school as a student. Other less ostensible religious sign, like crucifixes, are also banned.
All that is (mostly) to fight communitarianism, which is viewed here as a threat to society.

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