Fonzie!

Yep, my prev. CEO capped working from home to 1 day a week and treated it like we were requesting a holiday.

“I have such a nice office and then nobody shows up, you know how much that hurts?”

Man, how far removed from reality can you be?

Oh cool! An IRL map of Galar! /j

I’ve had Black Desert letting me play a bit with an outdated version (I didn’t know there were updates, I hadn’t used the launcher for a while) but it gave my account a time out of 10 days after my play session.

I was also surprised it didn’t just go “Nope, update first!” immediately, I kind of expected that would be the case if I didn’t use the launcher.

This also works with any Unity game which prefers to launch through a launcher.

If it’s an online game, like an MMO, they might put your account on timeout if you keep playing some outdated version of the game, though.

Sometimes updates require a game to be restarted. With a launcher it never needs to REstart, it will be started fresh afterwards anyway.
I’ve noticed Genshin Impact on Android (which doesn’t have a launcher) regularly needs to restart after updates, while the Windows version (which does have a launcher) never requires in-game updates nor restarts.

It’s also in general a good place to centralise account management (esp. if parts of the game would need to be reloaded if another account is logged in!)

Lastly, although this is more of a side-effect, but it gives a good place to shows recent news/posts of the company about their game to players, such as when there’ll be downtime, in a way that’s practically impossible for the players to miss.

Don’t (really) let the owners set a price, have the (min and max) price set based on objective factors such as square metres of floor and the amount of schools, shops etc. nearby, as set by the government instead of by the highest bidder.

That might be a fair point, I don’t know about vampire anatomy.

Ok but the back issues after laying down that long would be insane.

“Disney has gone woke” has to be the stupidest thing to say, they’ve been woke longer than I’ve been around.

I thought you were joking (missing /s) but judging by the comments you mean it?

I don’t think this sounds plausible, no. You’d try to make yourself look completely every time if that were the case.

I’m surprised by South Korea not using Korean, and slightly surprised by Japan not using Japanese.

Same for me trying to figure out why Italy would go with Portuguese.

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VPN doesn’t necessarily block telemetry, and some providers, like NordVPN, have tons of telemetry in their clients alone. Even if they come with “blocking telemetry” in their VPN, I guess they want to be the only one hoarding your data.

Use tracker blockers/firewalls, TrackerControl is a good open source app on Android for this, a PiHole can block a lot of tracking traffic as well.

I feel this image from the link has a clearer colour scheme:

So how are we a full democracy? Our PM wasn’t even elected.

Walcat, if you will.

XMPP/Matrix for me, I like my, interoperability and E2EE.

Well, that the usual spying messaging service I need for family members, fellow tenants and coworkers…

Yeah Imma get this printed into a shirt.