…and to think that a significant (but probably not primary) reason why Trump is punishing Ukraine is because he wants to oversee a peace treaty regardless of the circumstances, all so that he can earn a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama.

Yes, the man is that shallow and vain.

Slight correction; you’re referring to Super Mario Bros. (1985).

The plain ol’ Mario Bros. (1983) was the arcade platformer about bunking mobs coming out of pipes:

Multiple Ceasars are spinning in their graves, at your first sentence. 🤣

Oh don’t you worry, they’ll still get vaccinated using whatever blend a competent government (EU) decides upon in collaboration with the WHO.

You know that they will still get the best quality healthcare, right? In the taxpayer dime no less!

Not yet mentioned:

Prince of Persia Trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones)

God of War 1&2

Devil May Cry 1-3

Bully (Canis Canem Edit in PAL)

Killer7

Under the Skin

Viewtiful Joe 1&2

She’ll always be Jenny from Eurotrip to me. 🥺

Replace mega corp with ‘a publicly traded entity’ and you’re spot-on the money.

There are a very few studios that aren’t beholden to the whims of vulture capitalist investors, and they’re the only ones still putting out absolute bangers (Larian), upholding their promises (Hello Games) or keeping the entire gaming industry from consuming itself in a blaze of pure shitfuckery (Valve).

I’ll give Libre Office a crack over the weekend, if/when I get my Bazzite installation going and will see how it goes; I wonder just how much support it has for the newer functions that have outputs that overfill into adjacent cells (e.g. UNIQUE)?

I think the biggest hurdle against transitioning away from Windows to Linux for most government offices isn’t the OS itself - but rather the MS Office suite!

You’d honestly be surprised how pervasive Excel is amongst white collar workers; and I think the biggest hurdle is the uncertainty of compatibility (of formulas, macros, workbook links etc.) from Excel to Open/Libre Office alternatives.

Very true, same applies to the ESRB in the US. The ESA literally only formed the organisation to self-censor rather than leave it to the Gov’t following outrage over Mortal Kombat — if I’m remembering correctly?

Here in Australia, the ACB is a government body — but just about as useless, if not even more so! For the longest time, we had to have our games additionally censored because they were viewed as for children and therefore couldn’t depict excessive violence, any sexual themes or drug use. Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City were notable examples.

What am I getting at, even I don’t know. I guess to say that both implementations can be shit…? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, etc.

That was a rabbit hole to fall down, unlocking so many childhood memories! For some reason, I thought those were all by Klasky Csupo, turns out I totally misremembered… 😅

May as well throw CatDog onto that list too, I sing the theme song to my daughter to make her laugh…

I kinda feel sorry for later generations, there really is no way that modern kids animation holds a candle to what we millennials got to experience.

Didn’t know about the NES game, thanks for the heads-up! It looks like it was only released in Japan and based on the original Kyatto Ninden Teyandee version, and not the deranged English dub.

Even calling the original series notionally relevant is probably a stretch, it wasn’t even renewed for a second season! 🤣 But I guess we have its general failure to thank for setting in the Rube Goldberg series of events which led to the absurd English dub?

I honestly have no idea who greenlit this or why; but given just how obscure the source is - I have hopes that it’s a passion project, and will be made with love and care.

“One of us, one of us, one of us!”

While the win is good, the fact that it’s still a PEGI 12 game while FIFA is a PEGI 3 shows what an absolute joke the whole process is.

Australia had to deal with similar levels of bullshit for way too long before our ratings board finally capitulated to common sense and introduced an R18 rating (for games like The Last of Us, not even XXX content!).

We have an endemic gambling problem too, so I don’t foresee much common sense coming out of that mob anytime soon - either.

$250K isn’t that outrageous of a household income (or at least it shouldn’t be); literally two good white collar jobs would reach that point in the coastal cities.

The bigger thing at issue is to not frame it as 90% vs 10%, it’s literally 99% vs 1% — if not 99.9% vs. 0.1% if we are really talking about the ‘disconnected from reality wealthy’.

That’s the line that the wealthiest amongst us are trying to draw, in order to build class disunity. A white-collar household pulling in $250K has a lot more in common with a blue-collar household pulling in $65K, than they do the oligarchy above them.

Colour me intrigued, have never come across it before…

…and brand recommendations for the zero-sugar variety?

Would you happen to know whether this is something that a UserAgent spoofer would suffice to get around?

Thanks! I was already aware of that, but others might not be.

I used tweet in the generic sense because like hell I would ever say “Holy crap, that’s a real truth!”