It has been suggested the name “Stan” is a portmanteau of the words “stalker” and “fan”, though it is unknown if the name was chosen with that intention. The term “stan” has since become an internet slang term for an extremely obsessed fan of something or someone and is derived from the song’s title.

Might be both!

If by always you mean the last 15-20 years, plenty more warring from the likes of Nintendo and Sega before then!

As others have said, the best answer is “whenever you want”, though obviously sometimes you don’t know when that is! If you need a little more structure you can see what the game presents to you as all the things you can do, for instance by completing all the achievements. Remember that sometimes the final achievements are ludicrously difficult, so if you’re not enjoying it just call it a day!

the answer given by the watch was not generated by AI in the strict sense but “by grabbing public information on websites on the Internet.”

So it’s just doing the same thing that Google’s “AI search” does where it copies the joke answers from reddit?

“Wobbledogs” definitely has more of a Swumble’s Big Jumble energy though

Blimey, and they say IGN only does 9/10 reviews nowadays! Fascinating article, very keen to hear if it develops any further.

What was this guy’s motivation? Playing the long game to get rich selling his kick-started ventures? Just for the glory of everyone telling him how great he is? Real altruism in a really weird way? Did he actually help improve accessibility enough in games for the ends to justify the means?

I don’t remember 4 being that chill, when you press the frog button and have to leg it back to the start for fear of losing your loot it gets pretty intense!

Wario Land 4 was probably my fave

It does, thanks!

Speaking of Spelunky, does anyone know where you can download the original open-source version? The link on the official website times out, and the discussion forums seem dead too.

Valve do what they want, not what’s flavour-of-the-month

Same thing, innit, the only difference is the plot

Actually a fascinating read! Once again, the way to make money in a gold rush is by selling shovels:

it seems like the people most reliably making money are the ones racking up YouTube and podcast views and selling ebooks, guides, and WhatsApp and Telegram access to places where you can learn more about how to do this yourself

Crazy that Facebook will pay you to churn out low-effort shit now, the platform already died for most of us when they were doing that just for the ego boost!

The monkey’s paw curls, Mozilla now has no income and goes out of business

Just because it’s something we already think is obvious, doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing that actual studies are being done to prove it!

“People just don’t get consumer, I view this as saving money. Much less money needs to be spent on marketing, it’s a one time thing,” Schiffmann said.

The fact that we’re now reading this article and talking about it kind of proves his point!

!chaoticgood@sopuli.xyz

“Download our app!”

“Oh, I don’t have a smartphone.”

Thanks for this, this goes from quite big world news to completely irrelevant for most!

But I thought blockchain AI was going to change everything!

Don’t rely on any company keeping a service running unless you’ve got a contract with them

I’ve not played Half Life Alyx but people seemed to like it. And let’s not forget the huge success of the Steam Deck!

HotS is a Blizzard game, Valve has DOTA2

I think it was a single purchase which included the base game and the expansion. You still get it now with “GOTY edition” etc.

I stand corrected!

Have they launched a replacement for the Virtual Boy yet, eh?

Once installed, Temu can recompile itself and change properties, including overriding the data privacy settings users believe they have in place

If this is actually possible then isn’t that a huge security vulnerability in Android and/or iOS? I feel if this was the case we’d be hearing about it from security researchers rather than a lawyer.

Seems like we’re all in agreement that all information should be free, I look forward to them open-sourcing every proprietary bit of code they have

I’ve never played The Binding of Isaac’s multiplayer, but it’s an incredible game, infinitely replayable, and has full co-op now (as in you each have a full character rather than just “little brother mode”)

This one? Noted!

I do have a Logitech mouse and as far as I’m aware all the buttons are customisable (through their questionable program), so hopefully this is just marketing nonsense

Dedicated AI button: ✋😒

Dedicated change-LED-colour button: 👈😯

Yeah but seeing actual proof is always important

A bit of that, but hopefully if they piss off too many people they’ll just go elsewhere

Isn’t the real use case just so they don’t have to waste staff time changing labels manually when stock changes or moves?

Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they’ll go back to the drawing board and try something else.

Hopefully they’ll realise it’s a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase

If Google can do that then hopefully sponsor block can too!

TL;DW: the ads will be in the video stream itself which will mess up timestamps, sponsor block uses timestamps to know when the ads are.

Seems to me that this will also break every other use case of specific times like direct linking to a timestamp of a video, right?

A more optimistic way of looking at it is that this tool makes people more interested in alt-text in general, meaning more tools are developed to make use of it, meaning more web devs bother with it in the first place (either using this tool or manually)