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  • Playframe doesn’t exclusively highlight small indie games, but they do cover a fair number of them alongside various bigger games.

    Although, I guess it depends on how unknown a game has to be to “count” as “lesser-known”; I’ve certainly been introduced to games by Playframe, but, it’s not like they’re going onto Steam Roulette or anything.

    Some examples of games that I personally hadn’t heard of until they showed up on Playframe include “Worldless”, “Cursed to Golf”, “Frog Detective”, “Say No! More!”, etc. I don’t think any of those are, like, deeply obscure or anything, but, they’re “smaller” indie games in my book.

    Also, they’re just really rad people.





  • I mean, the linked Wikipedia article literally describes for many of them who coined the terms and, in some cases, why. “The Greatest Generation” is the title of a contemporary book about the people who fought in World War 2 (and their cohort), and the name became popular as a way to describe people of that cohort.



  • I’m always keen to shit on Google, but, this is about “having search terms in the query string” and “having links that take you directly to the thing you clicked on without any redirect dance to obfuscate the Referer header”. With all the other shit to legitimately complain about from Google, this seems so silly to focus on. Google isn’t even the one that sent the Referer header, that would be your browser (which, Chrome didn’t exist yet at the time). RFC1945, from 1996, for HTTP 1.0, even explicitly stated that any application that communicates over HTTP (i.e. a web browser) should offer the user a configuration option to disable sending Referer headers.

    Edit: slight clarification, Chrome did exist during part of the time period that the lawsuit covers, though it only started to pick up serious market share towards the end of the relevant time period.


  • As part of the deal, she will serve six years of probation, will be fined $6,000 and will have to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at future trials.

    (Emphasis mine)

    I’m pretty sure if she reneges on the terms of the plea agreement, she’ll be back to facing the other counts against her (although I’m not a lawyer and don’t know the intricate details of how that process works). And I’m fairly sure she’s not smart enough to successfully bullshit her way through with false testimony undetected (though whether she recognizes that is another story). Essentially, though, this is the same sort of “flipping” that previous defendants have done, it’s just headlined differently, for whatever reason.










  • I don’t think I could possibly pick just one.

    • Playing Civilzation: Call to Power, together was one of the first shared activities I ever did with the woman who is now my wife.
    • When I was in middle school, my dad made me a text-based game (mildly Roguelike, even, if I recall correctly) set at school centered around going to classes and solving puzzles/collecting school supplies.
    • Years ago, I made a game myself for my then-girlfriend to play that secretly just an elaborate proposal wrapped in a video game.

    Honorable mentions would go to Xenogears, Metroid 2, Ur-Quran Masters, and obscurities like Rollin’, Tranquility, and Omega, which collectively ended up defining my taste in games, more or less.


  • philomory@lemm.eetoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldBased GPT
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    Honestly, ChatGPT is so consistently bad at accuracy that the fact ChatGPT says there’s no god is one of the most cogent arguments in favor of the existence of god that I’ve seen (although to be fair this may have more to do with the poor quality of the other arguments).