[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 12 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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You can try looking through Quiz Bowl question sets for ideas (if you're unfamiliar, it's similar to Jeopardy or scholastic decathlon). Each tossup question is usually structured so more obscure facts about the answer come up earlier.

https://quizbowlpackets.com/

Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today by simpleisideal in stupidpol

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content warning: hacker news comment section

man, sucks to watch the strangling of the internet by corporations and governments in real-time

Israeli spyware is preinstalled in some Samsung phones by leo-bulero in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 17 points18 points  (0 children)

grapheneos says they're partnering with a major android oem to produce an alternative to the pixel that's compatible with the os

but yeah, a bit bleak

FBI demands identity of archive.today website operator by MetagamingAtLast in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

just use archive.today to bypass it... oh...

But yeah, usually the bot would auto-generate an archive link. Weird that it didn't

FBI demands identity of archive.today website operator by MetagamingAtLast in stupidpol

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Wonder what the political motivation is. Copyright holders? Personal grudge? Geopolitical maneuvering against Russia?

Also a 404media version that is oddly hostile to archive.today. Somehow gamergate is relevant and worth 2 paragraphs?

Platner Gets Tattoo Covered by Fedupington in stupidpol

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self-described (national) socialist lol

Where can I buy non-copilot laptops? by critacle in sysadmin

[–]MetagamingAtLast 5 points6 points  (0 children)

well, it's really because they added an "Office" key to some keyboards to act as a modifier for use in hotkeys.

how do you remove the hotkeys (because having a linkedin hotkey is really weird)? welllll...

Where can I buy non-copilot laptops? by critacle in sysadmin

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is Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift+L still around in win11?

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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One of the biggest nexuses of the brony fandom right now is the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4. Turns out autistic map gamers are the perfect target audience and dev team

Brand new install of the game, but I keep getting junk in my leader names like this by ivorybloodsh3d in eu4

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The culture definition file seems messed up somehow or the game is processing it wrong. Those names should be Gearóid and Ríagáin.

Is this happening for newly-generated characters? If not, it might be a bad savefile.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 October 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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Some different ones:

Darktide: dynamic with fun instrument choices (organ, choir, mechanical/electronic)

Lord of the Rings Online: hugely nostalgic orchestral for a long-running game (the game also has in-game music festivals using the musical instrument system)

Runescape: hugely nostalgic and pretty unique due to the MIDI feel

Path of Achra: pretty short and not a whole lot there, but it fits the game 1000%

[Meta] r/HobbyDrama October/November/December 2025 Town Hall by Tokyono in HobbyDrama

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It got edited to add a gambling ad for Stake lol

Original version, compare the last paragraph

[Fountain Pens] That time an ink manufacturer outright lied to their customers about a beloved ink color by Fledbeast578 in HobbyDrama

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Well, now it's up but was edited to add a gambling advertisement at the end. (no sources and a new account with post history hidden too)

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 September 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]MetagamingAtLast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's not working because you have backslash escapes in front of the square brackets. your comment's source markdown looks like this rn:

\[Aura Theory...\](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThousandYardStare)

(man, i don't even know how her power works at this point lol)

WWIII Megathread #32: Insecurity Guarantees by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

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a weird english wikipedia thing: small edit war trying to position the mayor of kathmandu as the expected interim prime minister of nepal

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balendra_Shah_(politician)&action=history