tumblr exodus, birdsite link
(For those wondering what this is or without access to images: Tumblr’s traffic at the edge to one of their network providers fell by an apparent 50% on the day their algorithmic filters and flagging were released. Which, assuming that has a relationship to user traffic, is more of an impact than I expected.)
tumblr exodus, birdsite link
holidays, gdpr, birdsite link
Relatedly, NORAD’s Santa tracker this year is still happening, which makes me happy.
holidays, gdpr, birdsite link
He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Santa Claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679
🐲🤖, birdsite link
Pretty sure they’re using this as a marketing hook based on the book description, but said hook (if they followed through with it) is definitely to my interests.
🐲🤖, birdsite link
x4, space capitalism
The space-is-boring-so-let’s-economy subgenre has always been strange to me, because there are so many interesting things to find out there even without embellishing it with science fiction. There’s even an entire nebula tour thingy for Elite, where William Shatner (!!) will narrate you on a tour of the known galaxy.
Where’s the space tourism genre of game? I waaaaant it.
x4, space capitalism
Apparently, space capitalism in _X4: Foundations_ boils down to creating the most efficient exponentiating gray goo possible and then setting it upon a hapless universe. The fact this is indistinguishable from the evil ambitions of this game’s totally-not-the-Borg faction is not lost on me.
Nor is the fact that, at the highest levels of play, this game is indistinguishable from Cookie Clicker.
Still, it’s good as a digital ant farm for adults.
gift PSA, smash
Also, I totally main Isabelle. She is an amazing character in general, and just as amazing in Smash.
gift PSA, smash
The Isabelle figurine from Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival works with Smash, and pricing for the box set hasn’t caught up with this fact yet: https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Crossing-amiibo-Festival-Bundle-Wii/dp/B00ZSHRPN0
If you’d like to get someone an amiibo that works with Smash for the holidays for $10-15, this is a good way to do it.
space games, artsy
Why do space games always go for the same authoritarian brown and utilitarian gray tones to their stations, including inside their hab units? I want my station to be hot pink and gouache tones just for fun, and this game won’t let me.
... okay, thinking about actually trying to live in that kind of environment, maybe that’s why they settled on brown and gray.
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