When the liberals enact conservative policies the conservatives in turn move further right. Shouldn't be surprised the whole thing ends up looking like MAGA

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Seeing Steam forums and moderation bubble up again so giving my I Moderated Games On SA For 8 Years And I Still Have A Liver advice:

- post somewhat vague rules that are easy and obvious to follow if you're in the spirit of the thing

Microsoft erodes trust with every forced update and "new feature." Every time agency is taken away from the user it shows a blatant disregard for individuality and process. Faster is not better - in fact the vast majority of the time it's skipping all the checkboxes that makes the end results worse.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Like we really need to internalize that the response to fascism is to reject any equivalence between violent, supremacist, or exceptionalist ideologies & other ideologies that are defensive, communal, or constructive. Even when the former masquerade as the latter. You just have to reject that.

When someone designs/describes their "ideal society", it often comes with the assumption that they would be at the top.

Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.

A city builder featuring greedy landlords and cutthroat corporations certainly seems intriguing.
www.pcgamer.com/games/city-b...

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup

This is one of my all time favourite videos, essential viewing for system designers.

By dynamic, do you mean using something like INDIRECT with a table or spill (#) reference to auto-update the drop-down options as stuff is added to the source list?

I haven't found a way to do that without INDIRECT, which feels a bit kludge.

"The president of the United States is choosing to escalate a conflict between the federal government and the state of Illinois into, also, a state-on-state conflict."

It isn't what it kind of sounds like, yet, but it's pointing in that direction. @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Affinity Designer, Publisher, and Photo seem to currently be free on iOS. As in the in-app purchase to fully unlock them is $0

Awkward “photo of my iPad using my phone” for quick evidence

May or may not be intentional. You should act fast if you’re interested

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

Oh weird, now that you've got me paying attention to it, I'm noticing that if I start picturing an object and then move my head / body, it stays wherever it was with respect to the room, rather than moving relative to me. 😵‍💫

Ooh, this was interesting.

If I think about encountering the object or "I want an apple", it's a short distance in front of my face, closer than I'd hold it to look at.

If I start considering the object in detail, like turning it around or thinking about its structure, then it's inside my head.

override music synced to the main music

I assume it's because our major U.S. press is owned by a handful of guys who are close friends, one of whom also owns the retailer

Not sure how to explain to normies how impressive this is, but DAMN

“A new report released yesterday by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found that the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since October 7, 2023.”

No money for healthcare but lots for AI slop and genocide

More studios SHOULD take risks on making games like these.

But until we have a mechanism that forces studios to actively protect their developers from hate campaigns, and address the most toxic parts of their fanbase, I don't think we'll see games like this from major studios very often.

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.