Peekystar

“Why should I talk to you? I’ve just been talking to your boss.”

• Wilson Mizner, 3 April 1933, to a priest at his death bed

Yesterday, the developers of Garry’s Mod, the 2006 Source engine sandbox game, announced on Steam that due to a takedown request from Nintendo, they were removing all the Steam Workshop (i.e; user-generated) content that used Nintendo’s IP. Some originally believed that this was a troll of some sort posing as Nintendo, but this screenshot tweet from Garry Newman, the titular developer of Garry’s Mod, indicates that he’s certain the takedown request is legitimate, and the probably-still-ongoing removal of Nintendo content on the workshop will continue.

Actually, I think you’ll find it’s the 870th of October, 2021, so this meme is perfectly seasonal.

Could also be useful because he claims to tape all your controllers. So if you’ve lost some, call up this guy and he’ll locate every controller in your house to bring them all together in a taped mass.

Whoa, don’t think achievements are all good! Video games left me with a chronic addition to achievement hunting that I only escaped from last year. To this day, I still have to fight the urge to take random objects and place them in obtuse places for the off chance that I’ll get an achievement for sticking a traffic cone on a road sign or something.

Ancestors, since they’d be far more likely rationalise my bizarre present-day manner as being possessed by demons or something to that effect rather than assuming I’m from half a millennium in the future, I can’t say I have any specific guesses as to what the society of 2523 might look like, but I suspect that they’d be far more likely to jump to the somewhat improbable sci-fi explanation of time travel (or perhaps some other technological explanation like mind malware if brain implants become a thing) than assuming supernatural explanations of demons or witchcraft.

Despite running the same code and (generally) being able to see each others’ posts, different Lemmy instances (or as you called them, versions) are not run by the same people, so often have different rules as to what is and isn’t allowed on their instance. Some instances are very lenient, allowing anything that isn’t outright illegal in their country of hosting to be posted, while another instance might have far stricter rules, disallowing things like nudity or vocalising certain political views, banning users on their instance who post such content and defederating other instances (effectively pretending the defederated instance doesn’t exist and refusing to view any content posted from there) where such content is prolific.

Okay, but what if some billionaire bought all the issues? Would that leave us with no issues because the billionaire paid to have them offloaded onto them, or low-quality issues because the billionaire now hogs all the premium paid issues?

It’s an ad blocker blocker they’ve been implementing as of late. I don’t think you’ll be banned if you continue disregarding it, but they do eventually entirely block the video player unless you disable the ad blocker. However, in my experience, uBlock can block that message to resume normal watching. (Double Edit: This method did stop working on the 15/10/23, but started working again a day later. I guess it’s a question of if the filters have been updated to counter YouTube’s updates, though I did notice that viewing in a private tab worked when regular browsing didn’t.) Go to the extension’s settings/dashboard (on Firefox, do this by clicking on its icon in the top right, then the settings icon in the subsequent pop-up), then the Filter Lists, click “Purge all caches”, then “Update now”. Open an entirely new YouTube tab (or hard reload your current one by pressing Control + Shift + R), and the message should stop appearing, at least for the time being.

Oh, no no no, this is actually just a plane shedding its skin, like a snake. In actuality, humans just fly around in the shed skin; you wouldn’t believe the industrial plane farms we have to encourage the shedding of skin we can use.

I’ve started encountering the ad-blocker blocker myself over the past few days, but fortunately it proves to be terrible at its job in my experience, as a small X allows it to be dismissed after 3 or 5 seconds, which is outright better than waiting for the 5 seconds plus load time of a skippable ad, or the many more seconds of an unskippable ad or two. This might be useful for me if they ever decide to remove the ability to dismiss the ad-blocker blocker, though.

I know that full well - in animation and with other skins, just looks like normal contemplation rather than any degree of distress. It’s just that the meme said it was distressed, so I rolled with that narrative rather than shooting it down with what I know about the game.

Not sure why the snowman’s so distressed, given that it’s a walking corpse itself.
(this is a screenshot from the game Dead Cells, where you play as a blob piloting a typically-headless corpse)

Nonsense, we all know that Newton was famously jumpscared by an apple shortly after inventing gravity. Or was it shortly before?

Minecraft players when the chicken farm’s a bit overpopulated.