I switched over to this script on my desktop, and I use NewPipe on mobile. The script requires you to disable your ad blocker for YT, and then uses a different method to bypass ads that hopefully google will be less likely to patch.

Seems cool, but I would bet that it will never see a true consumer application. The amount of radioactive material you would need for the proposed 1 watt version is too much to mass produce and sell - this aint the Fallout universe.

I quit League of Legends (checks notes) ten years ago and it was a great decision. Since then I’ve tried other competitive online games - Titanfall was my jam for a while, then Overwatch of course, tried to get back into Starcraft/SC2, really like Dragon Ball Fighter Z but I haven’t been able to play for a while - but I always quit as soon as I cross the threshold of getting pissed more than I’m having fun.

My favorite online experiences now are all cooperative with relatively small player bases. I dug the hell out of Final Fantasy XI playing it through last year (though I still have a lot of content left if I ever go back to it again), on DCS I play on a “casual milsim” server that’s mostly frequented by Australian dads where we play against a pretty hardcore computer opponent, and now that I think of it Dungeons and Dragons (and most other TTRPGs) totally has the same vibe of “coop gameplay with a small playerbase”.

The solution here is obvious. Molten lava N95 masks - perfect for cold weather!

This sounds exciting but I’m trained to automatically assume that any news headline with the word “quantum” in it is bogus.

Starfield for “Most Innovative Gameplay”

tfw you were awake at 10, but decided to pack up and load your car which took until 11, only to find that the free breakfast you were looking forward to closed at 1030

The “Kim Family Special” - visiting an industrial facility and pointing at the machinery while smiling - remains my favorite genre. It’s just so wholesome.

Finally playing Baldur’s Gate 3. I played it during Early Access and that made me uninterested in playing the full release, but I’m glad I went back to it because it’s really, really good.

It’s florida but I was also underwhelmed. I have the suspicion that they don’t have anything really flashy to show off yet because they’re still working on it and have over a year of dev time to go.

Looking forward to getting to get shot out of a barrel at a giant bee.

I think you meant to say “Deck” in the second paragraph.

But yeah I totally vibe with your observation. Something a bit ironic with this situation is that a big part of why other companies simply can’t provide the kind of service Steam does is copyright issues - XBox and Playstation both give out free games, Nintendo has their online service, but no option remotely compares to “make everything available on one app on the most modern device.” Imagine if Nintendo put everything that had ever appeared on the Wii/DS/Wii U/3DS/Switch shops all on one online storefront on the Switch, and let you attach ownership to your account and play everything you owned on the most recent device - then they would have about a quarter of the functionality that Steam has on the Deck, where you have access to every game you’ve bought for PC for as long as Steam has existed (and quite a few things from before that) and the number of things that have lost compatibility is pretty low.

It’s a people-catcher - asian police forces including both Japan’s and China’s use them as standard procedure, one of the reasons why their police forces are so much less deadly than equivalent Western ones.

That’s true of a lot of different drugs and treatments, but harder than it sounds.