Going through the lists everyone has posted I realized I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything from the Medal of Honor franchise posted. I only ever played Medal of Honor: Frontline because a roommate had it, but it was scored by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for the original Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Medal of Honor: Airborne. Giacchino won awards for the first four soundtracks in the series and it was his video game work that caught J. J. Abrams’s attention and led to him scoring Alias and Lost, starting his TV and movie career.

Also, if you enjoy soundtracks, you might like StreamingSoundtracks.com. It’s been around since 2001 and features soundtracks from movies, tv shows, and video games. It’s a free streaming radio service with the playlist queued by listeners along with limits on how frequently any track can be played, so you won’t hear repeats very often. A manager at a past job played it most days. One year someone took advantage of the “No repeats” rules and played all the horror tracks throughout October so that on Halloween there were basically no horror tracks available, angering many when they realized what had happened. I found it one of the more impressively planned and executed pranks I’ve personally witnessed.

There’s another version I’ve seen of this where some commenters don’t understand and are arguing about it which is pretty entertaining

All other things being equal I’d generally say bigger is better, but size is nowhere near the top of my criteria. That’s what I mean if I’m saying I don’t care about size; maybe that’s what others do too?

I really like SimCity 3000’s jazz soundtrack. That was the first time I remember playing a game where the soundtrack was released separately.

Honorable mention goes to DX-Ball 2, which introduced me to a lot of electronic music and the concept of module/tracker music. The game by default came with just 4 .mod songs but on the website you could download additional files from the same creator, or add other .mod files from other sources to a folder and they’d appear in the game. First shareware game I ever bought, and paid by sending a money order through the mail because I was too young to have a credit card.

I’m guessing they will aim for Steamdeck support? That seems like an ideal platform

Love that SNES inspired theme on the box

The article just cuts off mid-sentence; was it copied from somewhere else?

TL;DW: it’s talking about North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Not exactly something I’d call a neighborhood since up until relatively recently it was basically all commercial/industrial with almost no residential areas inside it. It’s been a phenomenal investment driving economic growth for the region and the state.

I think my parents started me on “swimming” lessons at age 3, might’ve even been age 2. I have read of parents getting their kids lessons even before they can walk. Of course, it’s not learning to do freestyle or butterfly, but enough to know how to hold your breath and get your head up out of the water, and hopefully not drown. I was just talking with my wife today about how curious it is that we can think of 3 shopping centers near us that have pools in them to teach children how to swim. I guess this is why!

Alright, the video is actually kinda funny though

Looks like PC Gamer is going to be mining this for multiple articles; there’s another one talking about how he got started at Microsoft because he was yelled at by Steve Balmer for distracting his brother, who was working there writing a C compiler at the time. I think I’ll just watch the video, it’s about a half-hour.

Maybe they make more sense in whatever the local language is, although Westarctica seems pretty blatant. Under the right circumstances I probably wouldn’t question it if someone told me Seborga was a province in Sokovia or something like that. I wouldn’t think I could get a job there, though.

Suspect allegedly claimed to be adviser or ambassador to made-up places such as ‘Seborga’ or ‘Westarctica’

This was obviously a bad thing he did because he was taking people’s money on the premise that they would be able to get work in a foreign country, but at a certain level you have to be impressed by the sheer audacity of the scam!

Thanks, so this was recent!

Oh, I’d missed that update!

Tying votes to accounts is pretty much required by the way activity-pub works; an upvote is basically the same as a heart/like on old Twitter and with federation it needs to know where the vote is coming from and where it’s going.

Piefed has an option to try to circumvent this by creating a second, “fake” account with no obvious connection to your own account and sends all your votes using that account. If the instance doesn’t have many accounts, though, it can still be obvious who’s voting.

As others have mentioned, other front ends or services can show the votes publicly to anyone who wants to see it. Even on other platforms that use a voting system one should always assume the votes are tied to one’s account.

I had coincidentally started reading the trilogy by Jeffrey and Michael Shaara a while back and had finished Gods and Generals and was about to start The Killer Angels when I noticed I was almost exactly 150 years to the day from the start of Gettysburg. I waited and read each day’s chapters on the 150th anniversary of the actual events, which felt more impactful.

Michael’s book was the best of the trilogy, but he was also an experienced writer by that point, whereas Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure were Jeffrey’s first novels. His later books have been better, although I haven’t read all of them. The Killer Angels can stand alone because it was written to stand alone, but I’d still suggest if you haven’t read it yet that you start with Gods and Generals to build a fuller picture of the war and the participants.

It’s from ClickHole, which is a site The Onion started parodying viral content sites like BuzzFeed or Bored Panda. It was sold to Cards Against Humanity in 2020.

I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.

Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.

Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!