(it is so annoying that Time Extension does their meta tags in a way that prevents site like this from fetching the opengraph data…)

I really need to try a Xevious game. I still haven’t played any of them.

This is beautiful. Humanity comes together to drink beer blast zakos. Nice.

I haven’t played AV2 yet, but I’m planning on getting it. Bandcamp Friday is coming on 4 October, so I’m going to buy the soundtrack because it is quite good.

The dev is on fedi too I believe.

It really does! I smoked for 26 years and even as a smoker it bothered me.

Excellent find. I’m going to bookmark that and bring it up the next time my colleagues from those countries try to tell me to move there.

Excellent point. You don’t have to convince me. I still think France is safer. But, back to the point of my comment: articles like this make people want to leave Europe, but they are misinformed.

I can’t believe the number of people who just don’t put their vape thing down. It is always in their hand. Driving, shopping, in class, at work, in the restaurant. The have sacrificed an entire hand.

I work with a lot of internationals. I think those countries are more dangerous, but my colleagues and other contacts have told me that things have improved to the point that they are all similar. I haven’t ever looked into it. It could be a feelings thing: they live here and read the sensationalist headlines and assume France is more dangerous than their country of origin.

In a very good way!

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Well, that’s all I needed to know! Thanks for the share.

I played through Axiom Verge again. I enjoyed it a lot more than the first time I played it, which was years ago.

When we first started dating in 2014 she really wanted to go to El Salvador or Colombia or Venezuela. Things have changed quite a bit in 12 years, and I wouldn’t call them dangerous compared to France now.

Edit: I really shouldn’t listen to my colleagues. I thought perhaps things people used to say about the countries listed above as examples were just stereotypes. My colleagues are misinformed, I was misinformed. They all seem more dangerous than France now that I’ve looked at some stats.

Yes. No discussion about it. I don’t live in Canada anymore, but public pools here have never let you bring anything like that with you — like cameras or phones.

I would suggest that all the pools agree on this or they’ll end up putting a “speedo” rule in place to prevent people from sneaking in recording devices.

This type of stuff scares the crap out of my wife. She listens to too many doomer podcasts then talks about how we should move somewhere safe only to name a country that is far more dangerous than France.

Agreed. I seem to remember security researchers hacking moving cars on a highway many years ago. Every part has some sort of wireless access, it only takes one weak link.

Many half-assed ideas will never make a full-assed idea.

Between this and Wsocial, it is pretty clear that whoever is making IT decisions needs to be let go.

This is not Doctorow’s enshittification; this is an attempt at domesticating users into thinking it is a normal thing to upload your ID to random cloud servers or hand over your biometric data to use WhatsApp??? This isn’t protecting children. It is giving the social media giants permission to allow ads for things like gambling and line their pockets. If I worked in advertising, I’d be pretty happy.

Wait until October 17… It’ll be 2018 all over again.

I see… This is another game about looking cool doing something (at least for this section).

Re: other gaming comms

The games (@lemmy.world) comm lists this comm in their sidebar I think. Maybe retrogaming comms? We could also add the shmupindex.com site (even though it is GenAI).

I don’t have a Google account. I’ve had issues. The app for my CO2 sensor has the CHECK_LICENSE permission activated, which asks your phone for a Google account. I can’t use it with the new version of the apps. I’ve complained and the company responded that I should have a Google account so there is no issue. We shouldn’t need to make workarounds and bridges to use the gadgets we buy.