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  1. Comment on Jimmy Kimmel pulled “indefinitely” by ABC after Charlie Kirk comments in ~tv

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    I don't think it is really even that they have dirt. The administration has shown they are happy to just make stuff up and take action unilaterally, then wait for that to catch up to them later on...

    I don't think it is really even that they have dirt. The administration has shown they are happy to just make stuff up and take action unilaterally, then wait for that to catch up to them later on months or years later after long drawn out fights. By which time the damage is already done.

    21 votes

  2. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 The Last Express in ~games

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    It's so weird how everyone's view of this game differs. I'm a huge adventure game fan - loved all the Lucasarts games from back in the day, playing through Discworld again currently.. I adore the...

    It's so weird how everyone's view of this game differs. I'm a huge adventure game fan - loved all the Lucasarts games from back in the day, playing through Discworld again currently.. I adore the way this game is made (watched the documentary!) and the idea and setting itself is fantastic. The voice acting, for the time, is generally great. However, I've bounced off it pretty hard.

    I think it's the odd control scheme with non-obvious options (sometimes you can look up, othertimes not.. Sometimes something is open and interactable, other times not - for seemingly no reason), combined with the fail states that seem to dissuade exploration and a lot of the time just end up wasting your time. I've even tried playing with a guide but it hasn't heightened my enjoyment of it much. It seems to be a game that you need to play a few times and be generally happy to be along for the ride with, along with the speed it runs at. Maybe I'll have more fun with a 'let's play' type video of it rather than playing it myself. For now though I think I'll put it down and try it again another time.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Perplexity’s Comet browser invites in ~tech

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    I'd love to check it out please!

    I'd love to check it out please!

  4. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 The Last Express in ~games

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    I have started getting setup for a run through this. For portability reasons I wanted to get it running on my MacBook. I can't believe no one has mentioned the latest dailies of SCUMMVM can now...

    I have started getting setup for a run through this. For portability reasons I wanted to get it running on my MacBook. I can't believe no one has mentioned the latest dailies of SCUMMVM can now run this game - see this post for how to get those setup:

    https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250617/

    I had to source the original 3CD release of the game and extract the files from the three ISOs (which also included the making of video mentioned in the post). I am not 100% sure but I think all you need are the three 'HPF' files. Got picked up in SCUMMVM no problem and seems to work flawlessly on my Mac (or at least the first few hours seem fine).

    Hopefully this will help some of you who want to play along

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech

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    I'd love to try this out if I'm not too late.. Keep seeing people talk about it here and on hackernews and with Google just getting worse it would be great to see if this is a viable alternative.

    I'd love to try this out if I'm not too late.. Keep seeing people talk about it here and on hackernews and with Google just getting worse it would be great to see if this is a viable alternative.

  6. Comment on US Department of Justice could seek break up of Live Nation-Ticketmaster, Bloomberg News reports in ~music

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    Given how concentrated everything is currently, I think the answer to your question is 'yes'.. as anything will be better than what we have today.

    Given how concentrated everything is currently, I think the answer to your question is 'yes'.. as anything will be better than what we have today.

    16 votes

  7. Comment on Have you or anyone in your family ever won anything? in ~talk

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    I worked in the City of London a loooong time ago back when everyone commuted in by train. We were out drinking with work at a big rowdy pub - it was a huge gallery style pub with about 3 levels...

    I worked in the City of London a loooong time ago back when everyone commuted in by train. We were out drinking with work at a big rowdy pub - it was a huge gallery style pub with about 3 levels all overlooking the bar like a cheesy Kung Fu movie but with besuited bankers. They had a business card prize draw where you could win a Guinness fridge. I joked with my mates saying 'That's such a stupid prize - someone will have to take that thing aaaall the way home on the train! What a joke!' I threw my card in the bowl anyway and we got to drinking..

    Fast forward several hours and they're doing the draw. The whole pub rallies around the gallery while the landlord drew the names. 'Scott!!'... Silence.. He'd left for the day. Then he drew a second card. 'Billy!' Welp - that was me.

    I had to get the thing back on the train. It was exactly as little fun as I suspected - heavy, bulky and stupid. But I used it for about 5 years before I had to get rid of it. Fun times.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s new trailer looks incredible in ~movies

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    Wow - didn't think I'd like it but I do. Love the animation style and the story idea looks awesome. Consider me hyped!

    Wow - didn't think I'd like it but I do. Love the animation style and the story idea looks awesome. Consider me hyped!