Are these actually smart glasses, or just glasses with a camera in them? Because that is not the same thing. We’ve had glasses with cameras in them for like 20 years. They can be great for recording a ride or run, for example.

TIL the ANCAP safety rating of a car isn’t a global thing.

Anyway, here it means anarcho-capitalist. Libertarianism taken to the extreme. Zero government, just businesses, rich people, and private hired security imposing whatever they want on anyone who can’t afford to stop them.

I have plenty, thank you. That doesn’t change the fact that people who wear hats inside look like douchebags.

I honestly hate it when people wear caps indoors.

I’m anti-copyright in general*, and especially in favour of stronger fair use–type laws to allow remixing. But as far as copyright does go, this doesn’t actually sound all that egregious to me. The fault lies mostly with the musician that Mumbo Jumbo licensed from, rather than with Warner Chappell themselves. The ideal would probably be that MJ could keep the music up and the licenser would have to pay the entire cost of it to WC. But that’s a rather difficult thing to expect.

* sort of… Under capitalism it’s absolutely necessary that artists can protect their works in some form to be able to make a living, and I’m not entirely sure how to square that with the idea that artistic expression should be free.

Welp, time to hoard milk and bread I guess.

I honestly think articles like this are irresponsible reporting because they create panic and invite precisely the kind of hoarding that will make the problem more likely to occur.

and dint like it because u didnt read the culture tree

That is…more than a little bit reductive.

The game is also downloadable the normal way not just as torrent

Oh cool! Glad to see! 8 months ago either it wasn’t an option, or it wasn’t presented very prominently.

The “sexism” thing has been fixed, pesants now have random gender

That’s ok, but like I said in that thread, the problem isn’t really the sexism (that was just an added factor), it was the game design that came with that. The unintuitive way some military units can also do eco work, but some can’t, and there’s no simple or intuitive way to know which is which.

And as much as I liked the idea of having a trade-off that you have to decide how many and when to send citizen-soldiers to battle vs when to hang back on eco didn’t feel good. Maybe with more experience that gets better? But first impressions matter, and it definitely doesn’t feel as good as Age.

The threat of being sued or charged with criminal fraud.

Particularly dangerous in an environment where the courts are in the pocket of fascists.

It’s less that there’s anything inherent to 0AD I don’t like, and more just that it doesn’t really do anything well. It’s poor enough in terms of UX that it’s impossible for me to even evaluate its fundamental game design.

Here’s the comment I wrote up after my latest experience.

0AD is so much better than AoE

It really, really isn’t. It’s really quite terrible in comparison. I was actually quite saddened, because I first played it like 15 years ago, but then replayed it late last year and was excited to see how much it had progressed, but it still really felt like the early alpha game of my memory.

i’d say descended from fish doesn’t count as fish

You can’t evolve out of a clade.

Cool. I stopped paying for it back when it was still called “YouTube Red”, during one of their many crackdowns on creators’ freedom in the name of benefitting advertisers. I dumped it and installed an adblocker, and eventually YouTube Vanced and its successor Revanced.

Less fundamental than their right to stop people outside the EU from selling cheese by describing the type of cheese they made.

Transcription:

3 panels. 1: the Stephen Crowder “change my mind” meme: Age of Empires is shit, change my mind. 2: a red monk from Aoe says “Wololo”. 3: the Stephen Crowder meme edited to show him wearing red and the sign saying “I love Age of Empires ❤️❤️❤️❤️”

The Wololo tournament just took place this past weekend, culminating in the grand final at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Some absolutely fantastic gameplay in both aoe2 and aoe4.

Oof. Lumo wrong too, in a different way. There’s no federal electorate of Aspley. The suburb of Aspley is in Lilley and Petrie.

Stop looking to LLMs for answers

You don’t look for it. Google shoves it right there where it’s unavoidably the first thing you see.

The “critique” is a non-issue pushed mainly by uppity Europeans

fwiw I’ve seen it most often from Latin Americans.

The first woman (Christina Koch), non-white person (Victor Glover), and non-American (Jeremy Hansen) in deep space. And Reid Wiseman.

I worry about this sometimes. I don’t ever want to be seen as speaking “for” minorities I’m not a member of, but I do want to be seen speaking “up for” them. And I worry about finding the right balance. I don’t want to speak over them, but do want to help make it clear that I support them and I am opposed to those who are opposed to them. I don’t want to be MLK’s “white moderate”.