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It's so frustrating that Social Security reform became the "are you a good progressive?" litmus test in the early 00s. We've had our wages tithed for our whole lives - money that w…

HOLY SHIT THOSE SOUNDTRACKS WERE JUST CDS?! THPS and Crazy Taxi had some of the best soundtracks ever compiled.

It's been so long since I've put the CD in, I forgot.

I had the Mac version of Quake II. They encoded the game as an audio CD, so you could toss the disc in a boombox and listen to the soundtrack when you weren't playing. Very cool!

Same. Weird to see a DLC for a game that's older than Steam. Would have been more interesting if they released the WADs or whatever that you could play on the open source version o…

I know that now, but I'd only heard the hysteria around it as a kid.

> Ugo feels that he ran a good business, and the government unfairly barred him from operating. In his view, if the government wouldn’t allow him to sell the product, they could ha…

The talk of glutamic acid made me wonder if fish sauce is related to MSG. Gemini confirms MSG is just salt and glutamic acid, which is to say fish sauce is naturally derived MSG. F…

My mom wanted to stop in Savannah, GA on a roadtrip when we were kids. We got out of the car for a few seconds, got back in, and unanimously decided we were continuing on. It smelt…

Brotato is also a Godot game. You can look up engines on SteamDB.

> The Anthropic copyright case set the precedent — the US court ruled that by making a digital copy and destroying the physical in a one-for-one transfer, the process is deemed “tr…

"Bring your whole self to work" was HR virtue signaling to the people favored by DEI, when it was still en vogue.

I wonder how you'd actually go about prosecuting that. What's the line between crass and illegal? People have infantilization fetishes - where they wear diapers and shit. You can c…

This is also why Steam hardware matters. If something runs on a Steam Deck, you can be sure it will run on your >= Steam Deck-equivalent device.

Yes, but PDT = MST

Glad to see progress made on this. In my 20s, I strongly considered taking some time off to create and drive petitions across the Pacific states to put us all on permanent PDT (mat…

It's tempting to sell a bunch, but then you've got cash. What do you do with cash when the government keeps printing money and assets are all overpriced?

The Rock Band guitars have a photoresistor for precisely this purpose: the screen flashes and the guitar responds when the light hits it. It helps make the otherwise very painful c…

As my dad told us every time we crossed a bridge when we were kids: "Tolls are a ratchet - they only move in one direction."

The employee experience was very different 9y ago.

SteamOS got me to migrate from a Nintendo. There's a lot that I love about it, but "choose which of these thousand settings permutations to get the game to look good without crashi…

> DirectX is losing ground too thanks to Proton and Vulkan [citation needed] My understanding is that Proton is effectively a distribution of WINE + DXVK, which does for DirectX wh…

Include "add" and other potential weasel words