That's right

I know you probably don't actually care, but things that the Pope says are only infallible when they're made ex cathedra, which is like a special phrase that indicates "this stuff came straight from God". Most of the things the Pope says don't have that authority

Capitalist innovation

+1 for Chants of Senaar. For anyone reading who hasn't heard of it, it's an isometric puzzle game based on linguistics. You control a person trying to climb this megastructure where each level has a different culture and language and so you have to figure out the various writing systems and syntaxes to find your way

Damn, the orcas are getting police voice in the media

I wish there was a way to filter out visual novels when sorting through the stuff in the bundle. I respect the art form but it's not the sort of thing I'm ever looking for

lmao

I've been plowing through The Talos Principle 2. It's wild to me how much they expanded on the first game. The writing is great and there was at least one Marxist on the writing team because there's a lot of discussion of material conditions and ideology and how they shape societies

Here's a good article about Unity going down the shitter: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity

The most recent debacle is that Unity announced that developers will have to pay a fee every time a game is installed. This seems to include re-installs or pirated installs as well.

Also, the description of this novel is fucking wild

RIDE THE WORMWAY TO NO-WONDERLAND

The essence of a truly null-Earth logic may never be as clearly defined as in this novel-length package of interplanetary surprises.

Consider this marooned astronaut. His spaceship and supplies are swallowed in one gulp by something from beneath the featureless plain of an unknown world.

The natives are not hostile but they seem incurious. He is welcome to use their free railroad system--the "alimentary express" of a world-girdling WORMWAY. Those he regards as sane are considered to be crazy. The culture techniques he is sure are crazy turn out to be quite rational--by that worlds standards.

He fathers a child without ever touching the mother. It's when he does physically create his true offspring that he gets his most startling surprise.

1960s and 70s science fiction novel cover art was god-tier

You'd think that at least some of the techno-libertarians would remember that data harvesting is a bad thing.

Reminds me of the graph I saw that shows how five or six years ago, appearances of the term "spyware" basically fell to zero because that's just a fundamental of how almost every piece of software works now