Yeah that’s the one. They must have renamed it in the US

Was there a US version? Or did they rename it in the US? Or are we thinking about different things? Gemma Chan as the lead robot?

I’d love a proper retro-futuristic TV series. The latest Fantastic Four film showed that people will swallow a retro-futuristic vibe. Just something unironic with rayguns.

Heroes, too. Same deal.

She tries the second one and sets herself on fire again. She complains, and the AI apologises again and says that the correct spell is the first one…

Here’s the thing - the protections are good. If the Justice Department weren’t compromised and the President wasn’t one of the people in the files, they would be exactly the protections which make sense. You don’t want child porn released. You don’t want the names of the victims released. You don’t want information released if it will harm the chances of prosecuting a paedophile. You don’t want information released if it will make citizens significantly less safe.

If we could trust the President and the Justice Department, these rules would be exactly what we want.

There are genuinely and unironically men out there who don’t wash their own arses because touching a man’s arse is gay.

Webp is a smaller file size than jpeg for the same image quality in almost all circumstances - so it’s more efficient and quicker to load. It also supports lossless compression, transparency, and animation, none of which jpeg do. And the jpeg gets noticable visual artefacts at a much higher quality than webp does.

People didn’t adopt it to annoy you. It’s started to replace jpeg for the same reason jpeg started to replace bmp - it’s a better, more efficient format.

He called for them to be executed. Let’s not soft-pedal this.

Where’s that cartoon about financial news stories making much more sense if you replace the words “the economy” with “rich people’s boat money”?

I was once driving to work very early in a bank holiday morning. Dual carriageway, literally nobody but me in either direction. I’m doing 70 in the left lane (which, for those who don’t know, is the correct lane and the speed limit here in the UK).

Suddenly, a guy comes haring up behind me at what must have been at least 100. He doesn’t overtake, but instead sits an inch from my bumper. I do what any reasonable person would do - i take my foot completely off the accelerator and just let my car slowly slow down, to encourage him to overtake.

I shit you not, my car got down to 30 MPH before he pulled out and started overtaking.

And then he gave me WTF gestures as he shot past.

Reminder - this was a dual carriageway, two lanes in the direction we were travelling, and there was literally nobody else on the road.

It’s the weirdest thing.

If i were Freddy Kreuger I’d invade the dreams of tailgaters and give them a different nightmare every night - one night they’re paralysed for the rest of their life from an accident they caused, the next they have to live with having killed a child, etc - until they stop fucking doing it.

I’m burnt out on it at this point. In the whole bullet haven gameplay loop.

I’ve got something like 200 hours in Vampire Survivors, and it cost me less than a fiver

I mean…you do see the irony here, right?

500 billion…

I’ve got perhaps an unusual one - 99% of the time I play games with the music turned off. I just find it much more immersive and I enjoy, for example, not knowing that combat is about to start because the music’s just changed.

There are plenty of games where you can’t turn the music off. I’m not a fan of that, but I get it. The devs want you to play their game in a certain way, and turning the music off isn’t part of that. No complaints.

But then there are games which allow you to turn the music off, but all the rest of the sound has been made under the assumption that the music will be playing. The music often covers up a litany of jankiness like background sound effects not looping well. And sometimes the atmosphere sounds (say the drone of an engine in a spaceship) are also controlled by the music slider.

So, if you’re going to give the option to turn the music off, make sure that the game still sounds good without the music.

For me, it’s cutscenes in general. I know there are people who do care in general, but for me a game where I care about the plot is very rare. And the examples I can think of (Outer Wilds, or Ico, for two examples) either have no cutscenes or very few brief ones, and tell the story in a different, more immersive way.

For me, a general rule is - if the game forces moments on me when I can put the controller down and wander into a different room, then that’s not what I’m interested in. I want to actually play the game.

The shocking thing here is not that there are MAGA accounts from outside the US, but that twitter introduced a feature which would expose that

One woman famously sent the BBC a dry cleaning bill because her husband had literally shat himself