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Thad

I was momentarily baffled as to why in fuck's name you can't drag an icon from the "Recommended" section of the Start menu to the desktop, but on further reflection that has to be a bug, not an intentional decision, right? You can drag from the "Pinned" section and from All Apps.

Thad

Of course you can't update the firmware on an Xbox controller without connecting to a Microsoft account. Of course you can't.

Thad

If I make a joke about handing the forums over to Norondor, is that a fun nostalgic reference yet, or is it just going to be shouting again?

Thad

Niku wrote:except Spider-Man didn't end until '98.

The level of pedantic detail in this fucking gem.

If T'Chaka is still Black Panther, then that puts us somewhere before "Prey of the Black Panther", which aired in November 1995.

Thad

José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards' Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy is out and looks to be an interesting history. It's open access and you can get the whole thing as a free PDF on the MIT Press website if you're so inclined, though I'll be keeping an eye out for when I can buy a physical copy at my ...

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So how'd we do? Onslaught? Well, things went a little differently this time, but I'd still be very surprised if it didn't happen. Joseph? Well, we don't have the setup for it at this point but it could still happen later. Outback Era? I would have sworn that was where we were headed when...

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Company sells "Fuck the LAPD" T-shirts. LAPDF's attorneys send vexatious takedown demand. Company's attorneys send response letter consisting entirely of "LOL, no." And then follow it up with a more detailed letter which concludes, The LAPD is not expected to like the existence o...

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Masnick: Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It I think he makes a convincing argument that what's put Dorsey off is that Bluesky's built both the protocol stack and the reference implementation, which was not the original plan but became ...

Thad

Yeah, even if his mentees included just one of Coppola, Scorsese, Bogdanovich, or Cameron, he'd have a legitimate claim to changing cinema.

Thad

Wow, that didn't register with anyone? The opposite: I've got a lot of thoughts about Corman and haven't had time to put them all together. There have been a lot of people who have done the same kinds of things Corman did, but nobody did it as well as he did. He had an incredible eye for talent, an...

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And now if you want to run the Linux-native version of Aleph One instead of the Windows version in Proton, you can use Luxtorpeda for that.

Thad

I think Cyclops needs to work on his strategizing a little bit. When dividing up the team to fight Magneto and Mr. Sinister, maybe consider where to send the guy whose bones are made of metal and the only person who can actually harm Mr. Sinister IIRC Wolverine losing his adamantium was the result ...

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⋅ Lighting and sets are looking a lot better than they did in season 1. It’s amazing how SNW got something so basic so right, right out the gate. I mean TBF saying "right out the gate" kinda omits the Discovery episodes they got to use as a trial balloon. I read somewhere that t...

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KingRoyal wrote:It is currently being published?

I guess that makes sense in isolation but I'd probably use a phrase like "currently running" instead of a word that, in this context, is typically used to mean the opposite of a miniseries.

Thad

Friday wrote:To be fair, it's a pretty amazing joke.

I use some variation on the "when Marge first told me she was going to the police academy, I thought it would be fun and exciting, like that movie, Spaceballs" joke on at least a weekly basis.

Thad

Various Doctor Who deals on, what with tonight's premier. Humble's got a comics bundle ; there are a hell of a lot of them and I haven't read them all but Paul Cornell wrote a few and the ones I've read of his are pretty good. I don't think I've read any of Al Ewing's Who comics but he's been doing ...

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KingRoyal wrote:The Judgement of Magneto for Defector*

This is the setup for Resurrection of Magneto, an ongoing miniseries by Al Ewing and Luciano Vecchio.

wait, what the fuck is an "ongoing miniseries"

Thad

Fanatical's got some deals on. Eiyuden Chronicle for $38 instead of the usual $50, Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series for $8.59, SteamWorld Dig for a buck.

Thad

Classic Marathon now free on Steam, with Classic Marathon 2 and Classic Marathon Infinity listed as "Coming Soon". It's the Aleph One versions of the games, which have been available for free for close to twenty years. But if you've been, say, waiting for a way to play them on a Steam Dec...

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Yeah, the open moderation stack is what caught my eye in the Masnick article I linked. That's at least potentially a brobdingnagian goddamn deal. I'm still concerned about the centralization (open APIs are all well and good but having to trust a single for-profit company not to turn them off isn't, ...

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