The Entire Budget Of The US Military Should Be Reallocated To Insect Research

the entire budget of the US military should be reallocated to insect research

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

Happy Emmy Wemmysday!

Reason #936 why you should play Outer Wilds:

It contains a quantum poem. It's a poem which behaves in a quantum manner, such that it acts as a wave when not observed and a particle when observed.

How many games can you think of that could even imagine something this neat, let alone have the brilliance to make it functional in game, not just flavor text on an object?

The best part? This is in an entirely missable part of the game. An idea that wild (no pun intended), and it's just in a side area and a conversation, for some extra flavor of the world.

The ideas they use in the main plot are even wilder.

I be scrolling thru tumblr casually when all the sudden my eyes are ASSAULTED by the loudest, most garish light imaginable. As my brain readjusts to this visual ambush on my eyes i realize.

Oh that’s my art, tee hee!

bold of you to assume Grosky can't already survive a fall as high as the Marianna Trench is deep.