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Yes, my bad. Fixed.

Made the switch to Mint recently. Steam says that of 750 games on my account, 748 can run on Linux, and I've had no problems with the dozen or so I've played lately.

This is great. I wish there was an RSS feed or newsletter I could sign up to - I'm not going to remember to check this in 12 months time. Also they have a lot of other cool sites l…

It piqued my curiousity too so I had a little look. It's called an Impressum. I think OP is incorrect that personal websites need to list a phone number and address - it seems to j…

A shockingly large amount of music used in old flash games and in old YouTube videos is by Kevin MacLeod, whose released thousands of high quality tracks of all styles under CC-BY.…

Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgot…

https://www.swilliams.io/ I should write more.

Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.

On the free ChatGPT, I got it to play hangman with the prompt: > Let's play hangman. I'm thinking of a word: _______ It made a variety of guesses generally in the form of > Based o…

If you want a source, Steam Hardware Survey[0] somewhat agrees with what you're saying, especially when taking in to account that gamers would have better specs than average. [0] h…

itch.io is massive for games if you want a new Newgrounds. The tech stack has moved on from Flash to use Unity or GameMaker or Godot or Construct. It's feasible for someone not kno…

Bless your heart.

Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.

The timing of birth does at least slightly influence a child's development through the relative age effect - the oldest kids in each academic year get a few benefits over their pee…

It was called Punch Buggy when it was for beetles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy I definitely also played the yellow car variant. I assume it's the preferred variant now…

See also: Pokemon test[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test

Recently found out about ClickUp. It's not quite as feature-rich as JIRA, but nowhere near as simplistic as Trello, and its fairly jank-free so I'm a fan.

That has kind of already been done in the 2010 PS3 game MAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG_(video_game)

The Mount & Blade Warband Persistent World mod servers are like this. All equipment and resources have to be mined, crafted, and used by players, and the only gameplay was player i…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

> also, period goes inside quote According to Wikipedia, it very much depends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Punc...

It is a common joke among fans for these games that Paradox Interactive does not have a QA department, given how incredibly buggy their DLCs are at launch.

As the old saying goes: "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People."