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Honestly this seems too absurd even for the onion!? What the fuck lol

Well I linked to an article from the Australian national broadcaster, so that tracks :P

They’re still called athletes I guess? but for some reason we* nonetheless never (?) use “athletics” to mean “all sports”. I’d never really thought about how it’s a bit strange until this thread!

* at least here - can’t speak definitively for everybody

It’s referring to athletics - Wikipedia suggests that in North America it’s usually called “track and field”?

Maybe the person playing The Sims on their PC let their younger sibling play and now the simulation is getting fucked up sideways?

RIGHT THERE OFFICER, THAT’S THE ONE

The process described and shown by the screenshots does seem a bit much for a cancellation. Suing feels disproportionate when I first hear it, but are there many other recourses to force it to become more user friendly?

She apparently did make at least one appearance during the sixth six months for whatever that’s worth (sourced from her Wikipedia page)

The sum of all human knowledge isn’t Wikipedia, it’s the combination of two books:

• What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
• What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School

For those that didn’t read the 9-sentence (plus title/captions) article, the biggest issue is damage risk from adhesives rather than anti-fun:

The council also said that in the past other decorations like Santa hats and wreaths have been added but that this was different.

“While we don’t condone the wreaths… and Santa hats, let’s stay away from adhesives, graffiti and all things that can damage the art” it said on it’s social post.

The council leader has explained that while they want the community to engage with the art and have fun, they also don’t want things to be damaged.

So stick the googly eyes onto a headband or something first I guess?

…would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

The problem is that the opposite of the headline would be the surprising one. If it was “Trump refuses to give Elon Musk’s buddy total control over NASA, citing <X/Y/Z valid reasons>”, that would be the current Onion-level headline.

I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.

Yes: https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

Fair point, but I guess I would hope that the person being paid to write the copy would check it, since getting that right seems like it’s part of their job description ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or 53.6 degrees Fahrenheit if you believe whoever wrote the page for Nissan lmao. I guess they just typed it into a converter with no context, and the converter spat out an answer amounting to “if your thermometer says it’s 12 degrees C, that would be 53.6 degrees F”… but without that context.

Thanks for so politely and cordially sharing that information

edit: I would be even more appreciative if it were true: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rocket-league-ending-mac-and-linux-support-because-they-represent-less-than-0-3-of-active-players

Quoting their statement:

Regarding our decision to end support for macOS and Linux:

Rocket League is an evolving game, and part of that evolution is keeping our game client up to date with modern features. As part of that evolution, we’ll be updating our Windows version from 32-bit to 64-bit later this year, as well as updating to DirectX 11 from DirectX 9.

There are multiple reasons for this change, but the primary one is that there are new types of content and features we’d like to develop, but cannot support on DirectX 9. This means when we fully release DX11 on Windows, we’ll no longer support DX9 as it will be incompatible with future content.

Unfortunately, our macOS and Linux native clients depend on our DX9 implementation for their OpenGL renderer to function. When we stop supporting DX9, those clients stop working. To keep these versions functional, we would need to invest significant additional time and resources in a replacement rendering pipeline such as Metal on macOS or Vulkan/OpenGL4 on Linux. We’d also need to invest perpetual support to ensure new content and releases work as intended on those replacement pipelines.

The number of active players on macOS and Linux combined represents less than 0.3% of our active player base. Given that, we cannot justify the additional and ongoing investment in developing native clients for those platforms, especially when viable workarounds exist like Bootcamp or Wine to keep those users playing.

Fair enough! I barely use its social side since most of the games I’ve played on there are singleplayer titles - honestly didn’t even know that wasn’t there yet!

I kinda understand it not being a priority; even if they dedicated the resources to both create and adequately maintain Linux support, I imagine very few of the games on the platform have native support anyway. Sure, many would work (to varying degrees) with the various bags of tricks available, but it’s still an extra step of compatibility that’s sort of beyond their immediate control.

I guess our opinions differ, because I don’t consider either of those to be “basics”. They’re nice features for e.g., Steam to have, sure, but they’re not “game launcher 101” imo.