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Clownshoes Churchill at it again

You’d think that, as a French company, they’d have expected this

Given its scarcity, helium should be more expensive, to the point where filling party balloons with it is decadent profligacy.

It’s not meant to be funny, it’s meant to be a salve to a specific kind of soul. If you don’t feel the effects, that kind of soul isn’t yours.

Everything old is new again

A miserable little pile of secrets, but only if it’s featherless and bipedal

They made some shitty tap-the-screen game with collectibles for the iPhone maybe 10 years ago, though the less said about it the better. My guess is that it was a fuck-you to Takahashi-san.

Going by Apple’s transition from Intel to ARM, an ARM-based Steam Deck would be a no-brainer. They could make it a lot less bulky, ditch the cooling fans and still bump up performance.

ARM64 is already here (Apple have replaced Intel with it, and Windows PC vendors are following suit), it’s just, as William Gibson put it, not evenly distributed. Mainstream high-performance ARM devices are imminent in a way that RISC-V isn’t yet.

You can have reenactment of actual historical events with your character inserted as the hero, or you can have a vivid open world, but not both. AC 3 goes for the former and has the vibe of being embarrassed of being a lowly entertainment product and aspiring to be one of the worthy but dry educational “games” you’d get to play on the school computers.

To the vatniks, he was just another “amer”, like the ones ransomware gangs target: soft, fat, stupid, greedy, barely human and deserving only of contempt. For a while he was a useful idiot, gullibly thinking he could be an Orc like them, but once the amusement value wore out, it was time to get rid of him.

The original one and the two Ezio games which followed are both worth playing. The American Revolution one ran on rails a bit too much to be fun.