World be worth getting for the multiplayer alone. That was always good fun, unless you were among the people that could not connect to anyone because you forgot to sacrifice your unborn child to the sun god of some strange networking reason.

The launch price is what killed it. In a genre dominated by AA games, games need to use AA pricetags.

Cars being online has some tangible benefits in that they can transmit location data to emergency services, especially if the driver is unresponsive. Might save someone from dying in a ditch in the middle of nowhere.

Arguably, some of the data collected while driving is also very useful for maintenance and development (e.g. if a lot of vehicles start having a similar issue after X miles).

That said, this data should be limited in scope and use (e.g. must not be sold, especially not to insurance companies), as well as anonymized as much as possible. Which is currently not the case, and that definitely needs regulation.

Petition to bury him in an undisclosed landfill somewhere in the desert.

https://omaps.app/test.html

This page lists all links that OM is supposed to open, including GM.

Yes, this does nothing for game dev. But I don’t think it was supposed to.

The fact that this is a genAI Model generating a reasonable, context aware image a whopping 20 times a second is nonetheless pretty impressive.

I played it as a kid and then some friends reintroduced me to it on uni, including time of custom maps and game modes (the rules of which had to be enforced by ourselves)

Like maps where you only had rope, but there was a crate spawn every turn.

Or where you had to rope over a spire in the center of the map before you were allowed to attack, with a 45s turn timer to make it even spicier.

At some points, we even projected the game above the blackboard while doing coursework, which was as about as productive as it sounds.

over thirty-one thousand landlord clients managing over 19.7 million rental units

In case anyone is still wondering why housing is fucked, this is it right here. That’s an average of over 600 rental units per landlord.

People renting out their old house for a small profit are not the issue. Like a lot of things, it really only breaks once corporations get involved.

To be fair, they spent a whole lot of money to make the Seine swimmable. The fact that we can even question if it is safe is a huge improvement over the old status quo.

You can get OsmAnd+ for free on FDriod: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/

Finally a good use for crypto.

Beef sausage is the norm for currywurst in the Frankfurt area, but pork is much more common everywhere else.

I dislike vdL as well, bit how the hell is this the EU commission’s fault? eIDAS is not fully in place yet, so while it dies have issues, you cannot blame that.

Spain is actively pursuing privacy invasions all by themselves. The Spanish government is actively pushing for the end of encryption in messengers so that shitty AIs can scan your photos and videos because “think of the children”, too.