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tumsfestival··on Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil's isolated peoples
They won't unfortunately. The government is too soft on religious extremists, in fact they're in the government itself all the way to the top.
tumsfestival··on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
You're not wrong. I read a couple days ago that this group receives funding from evangelical organizations to do stunts like this. I don't know if the intention is to false flag feminists as responsible, but it sure seems like it.
tumsfestival··on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content
Rape of who? Pixels?

My god, those poor pixels are being sexually abused!

tumsfestival··on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
Mostly mobile ported gacha and Korean MMOs. It's good that it runs on Linux for you, but most people don't play these games. Most people are interested exactly in the ones you've listed as not supported.
tumsfestival··on How to Firefox
For me the killer feature is tab stacking. It's crazy that no browser other than Presto-era Opera has this feature, that with workspaces is _so_ useful for tab organization.
tumsfestival··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
I agree he's the person who managed to give rise to Brazilian fascism, yes. Unless you consider nationalism as the desire to regress back into a brutal dictatorship where dissenting voices get "disappeared", the media is heavily censored and controlled by the state and the government kowtows to American supremacy and interests.
tumsfestival··on ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data
Who cares. Doesn't matter who did it, it matters that it happened and you're about to commit the same mistakes again. It matters that you let this slide just because he's your guy.
tumsfestival··on ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data
I wonder if you'll feel the same when they come for you once they run out of easy scapegoats.
tumsfestival··on Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3
No one is gaming on PC because of "first party" games, and Valve's offerings are literally the whole of Steam with more excellent games you could ever possibly play in a lifetime. Then there's GOG and the other stores. Hell, there are many great games outside any of the major stores. This flimsy excuse only has any sway if all you want to play is the next Mario or Zelda slop, but even then there are emulators.
tumsfestival··on Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
>I use a tracker to try and fight this, showing how many games I've started and also achievement progress in them in aggregate.

I've tried something similar before and it worked, for a while, but I started feeling the free time I spent gaming at best felt like a chore and at worst like a job. Nowadays I just play what I feel like and don't really bother much with completing games or not, because realistically I never will finish my backlog.

tumsfestival··on Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil for Bolsonaro trial, trade deficit
You sound absolutely deranged to say the least.
tumsfestival··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
After race it's religion, when it's not religion it's politics, when it's not politics it's social class... It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if we will ever achieve anything like the Star Trek future where we just get past racism and bigotry. I have a feeling bigotry will be our great filter as a species.
tumsfestival··on Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil for Bolsonaro trial, trade deficit
It's what happens when you don't play ball with the biggest bully there is this side of the pond. Not surprising at all though, the US has been continuously pushing their agenda around these parts for many decades now, even aiding the former military dictatorship, now aiding our former putschist president and his criminal family. Then they wonder why every day we're inching closer to China and their allies instead of them.
tumsfestival··on 'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives'
You really can't take the Nazi out of Grok, can you? I almost want to see the default prompt just out of morbid curiosity, must be horribly obscene.
tumsfestival··on Stop Killing Games
Giving Asmongold of all people a shout-out feels so wrong... Guy is a creep to say the least, but I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
tumsfestival··on Brazil's Supreme Court clears way to hold social media liable for user content
You say as if that's a bad thing?
tumsfestival··on US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data
Historians using highly biased sources from the victors.
tumsfestival··on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
If you're lucky, that is. As things are going it could be another 4 years... Maybe more.
tumsfestival··on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games
I refuse to believe that's a real thing. Seems like something you'd see in a Paul Verhoeven movie.
tumsfestival··on How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
You ahole!
tumsfestival··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
Well, that is what happens when everything costs money and most people are just trying to get by on a daily basis, making cuts everywhere just to pay their bills, not everyone has a nice disposable income to throw away at apps. That people prefer ads over paying yet another subscription is a symptom of unchecked capitalism and the inequality that comes with it.
tumsfestival··on A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil
Come on, how many pariah international magicians are there who are famous around these parts?
tumsfestival··on What was Radiant AI, anyway?
RimWorld is only superficially comparable to Dwarf Fortress, if you want to talk about basic gameplay then sure, but what makes the latter special is the immensely complex world simulations and interactions going on in the background, RimWorld has absolutely nothing like that.
tumsfestival··on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
>winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add/Remove programs" (msstore/appx and the "uninstall" group in the registry).

I find that behavior incredibly annoying. I mainly use Chocolatey, so every once in a while when a package is heavily outdated or missing from the repo I end up using Winget instead for convenience's sake. That means Winget keeps trying to update or manage Chocolatey packages, and as far as I know, there's no easy way to stop that.

tumsfestival··on Why old games never die, but new ones do
>The RPG genre has largely died. By that I mean we have Bethesda games (notably Skyrim and Fallon 3 and New Vegas were huge in their time) and that's... about it. Well, apart from Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect I guess. We used to have a bunch of other franchises. Bard's Tale, Wizardy, the TSR D&D games, Ultima Underworld, etc.

That's just not true, I think you're just not keeping up with new releases if that's your real opinion. CRPGs aren't as big as they used to be in the 1990s, but we've had plenty of those recently too, in fact we're in sort of a small renaissance of the genre considering all the new ones coming out.

Off the top of my head there's 40K Rogue Trader, Skald Against the Black Priory, Colony Ship, Solasta, the Pathfinder games, Disco Elysium, The Thaumaturge, Wasteland 3 and they all came out in the last 5 years or so. If you go a little back you have the Pillars of Eternity games, Tyranny, Encased, the Divinity games, Age of Decadence, Torment: Tides of Numenara...

Recently we even got a remake of the first Wizardry and some of the newer japanese ones ported to PC.

tumsfestival··on Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions
So what is the point of spending money and effort to preserve video games if nobody can play them? Seems like a waste of time and resources, especially for something so trivial as games.
tumsfestival··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
Your problem is that you fail to understand that autism isn't a disease, it's a neurodivergence, their brains are just wired slightly differently. Many autists live their whole lives without even suspecting of their conditions, and most of those who are aware of it live absolutely normal lives. The only way we could potentially "cure" autism is if we somehow altered peoples' brains while in the womb, if that's not eugenics I don't know what is.
tumsfestival··on People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test
Absolutely.
tumsfestival··on AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
Call me back when ChatGPT isn't hallucinating half the outputs it gives me.
tumsfestival··on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
I remember reading his book 'The Naked Sun' back in highschool and one of the things that stuck to me was how Earth was kind of a dump bereft of robots, meanwhile the Spacer humans were incredibly rich, had a low population and their society was run by robots doing all the menial work. You could argue he envisioned our current world even if accidentally.
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