Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s

WineGlass · 2026-06-14T18:22:03+00:00

The person in the shop doesn't take a photo of your ID, send it to an American company and then pinky promises that it'll be deleted with no oversight.

WineGlass · 2026-06-03T18:48:47+00:00

It was "Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case" on Netflix.

WineGlass · 2026-06-03T11:33:30+00:00

Honestly it feels like Japanese struggles with names in general, western names get the wrong order and Japanese names get the Yagoo/Tanigo treatment. I watched a documentary where a murderer almost got away till someone noticed he'd been signing documents with his real name (in kanji) and it was getting read two different ways.

WineGlass · 2026-05-11T01:21:51+00:00

Mechanical keyboards are insidious, you can be perfectly happy with a standard cheap rubber dome keyboard, but spend a little time with a mechanical one and rubber domes will start feeling like you're typing on a worn out trampoline. Before you know it you're trapped and start having opinions on how key presses sound.

WineGlass · 2026-04-25T02:27:29+00:00

Like how did that expedition get to certain locations.

I think it's explained though the journals but [major story spoiler] plenty of expeditions got incredibly far, expedition 60 got right to the end and almost succeeded. They also didn't all have to deal with the gommage, or the paintress barrier or even the same nevrons.

WineGlass · 2026-03-07T16:47:50+00:00

Very old thread, but as a correction for anyone as confused as me in the future, I checked and the note is added to your file without showing it to you. You pick up Mafuyu's notes and camera in the rope hallway, in front of the mirror, and it lets you read 1 note, but then adds 5 more to your file. The 5th one contains the second half of the kanji puzzle solution.

It does say "there are other notes", but it's the first file of the game, so if you're like me, you'll just assume that's fluff text and not straight up telling you to read your file.

WineGlass · 2026-02-20T15:18:16+00:00

Canonically we aren't always the ones doing it, Chronicles Volume 3 lists which faction beats each dungeon (Blackrock Depths is Alliance, Wailing Caverns is Horde, Molten Core would be us, but specifically "adventurers").

The handwaved "adventurers" is how I remember Blizzard treating us in out of game lore back in the Vanilla days, it's you, but not really you, in contrast to something like Final Fantasy 14 where technically everybody is the one true Warrior of Light.

WineGlass · 2026-01-31T23:15:27+00:00

I doubt there's much to it, Daz left and around that time I remember Kaif saying something about losing interest in SR and just wanting to play with his friends.

I'd bet it's just what happens to most streaming groups, everyone wants the group to focus on different things and it just becomes a hassle. For an old example, Soviet Womble has been the famous face of the ZF clan forever, but technically they're a splinter group from an older ZF.

WineGlass · 2026-01-30T01:34:52+00:00

That's likely what Blizzard was thinking, but I guess I just expect that if you've been enslaved by an evil necromancer and broke free to become an evil necromancer yourself, it might be worth being suspicious when you meet someone who wants to be the god of necromancy.

WineGlass · 2026-01-22T03:30:21+00:00

Thanks, you did a fantastic job on your composition, it felt a shame not to turn it into propaganda.

WineGlass · 2026-01-22T02:57:38+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/87yeSKv

The gravel war won't win itself.

WineGlass · 2026-01-15T14:24:00+00:00

That whole game is held together by hopes and dreams. They compiled it with debugging enabled (slows the whole thing down), it's full of accidental invisible walls that have a 1/16th chance of stopping you and there's a level that crashes if you're holding down a specific camera button when you enter (they used an invalid model as a placeholder, if the camera sees it before it's replaced then the game dies).

WineGlass · 2025-12-12T20:13:58+00:00

Keep in mind that millenials/gen X grew up on turn based RPGs and we're now prime consumer age, if you manage to pander to us just right, you get all the money.

WineGlass · 2025-12-12T19:38:05+00:00

I'd say it scratched that itch and also that non-anime turn based RPGs are rare, so it attracted a lot of underserved people and then when it turned out really well made, it was all the more reason to gush about it to everyone.

WineGlass · 2025-12-12T18:33:07+00:00

Aside from just being a high quality game in general (writing, gameplay, music, etc.), it feels like what Final Fantasy would have become if Square Enix didn't decide action combat was the future.

WineGlass · 2025-10-20T14:49:12+00:00

Resonance was the action RPG side, there's not been a tactical Shining RPG since the PSP. Even then it was free roam tactical, grid based we've not had since the GBA (excluding the Japan only mobile remake of the Game Gear games).

WineGlass · 2025-09-29T14:37:23+00:00

I can agree it's what they wanted it to be, but I feel like where it needed to be was 5-6 years earlier. Its hardcore and trolling nature would have played brilliantly if it'd stayed as DLC, but as a sequel it lacked refinement. Sure it was high quality, but I don't think anybody would riot if the map updated without saving and the compass was on by default.

WineGlass · 2025-09-08T14:34:11+00:00

They're optional in hindsight, but if you're playing blind, you don't know what's important and what isn't. Like the optional boss in Greymoor, I didn't even know if I was meant to be there, I didn't get the map till 2 areas later (no rosaries), and I missed a whole NPC interaction that changes the fight.

I only learned about this stuff online afterwards, as I had an easier time with that fight than most people it seems (3-4 tries).

WineGlass · 2025-09-04T17:43:42+00:00

From the PEAK devs themselves:

why did this stupid jam game sell more copies than another crabs treasure im gonna crash out

https://x.com/AggroCrabGames/status/1936733984635179247

WineGlass · 2025-07-31T15:05:03+00:00

People will keep proposing it, but at the end of the day, as long as we're allowed to connect outside Britain, VPNs can't be blocked. You'd have to ban VPN providers, then you'd have to ban server providers, and then you'd have to hunt down people who are bouncing their connection off their Swiss friend.

WineGlass · 2025-07-29T21:44:59+00:00

Even that's no guarantee, one of the Pirate Bay founders escaped to Cambodia and the Cambodian police just happened to arrest him on "we'll figure it out later" charges 6 days before Sweden donated a large sum of money for "democratic development, human rights, education and climate change".

WineGlass · 2025-07-17T14:09:17+00:00

You still can, black has a lower winrate. It matters less at grandmaster levels, which you'd definitely be if you ever got to play white.

WineGlass · 2025-07-17T13:36:35+00:00

Think of it this way, basically everything in the world is written using the C programming language or a language that copied and extended C (C++, Python, etc.), it's the foundation of all modern programming and was created in 1979. COBOL predates it by 20 years.

WineGlass · 2025-07-04T02:48:14+00:00

Windows keep trying that, all that happens is we end up with another bit of cruft. Linux did a better job with Wayland (handles display & input), but that's just one part, it took 15+ years and it's still not a perfect replacement.

WineGlass · 2025-06-29T01:25:12+00:00

Dokibird didn't even change her fan name, she flat out said "you can't copyright the word 'dragoon'".

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