oof, ok that’s a bad look. Lucien Bouchard spinning in his grave.
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Having a general idea of the age demographic of this forum, the last thing I expected to see was Beyblades and Yu-Gi-Oh mentioned. I was really into Beyblades as a kid, but I was REALLY into Yu-Gi-Oh. It’s really incredible how certain things can endure through generations.
And it has been an entire 20 year generation.
Actually, someone mentioned this the other day, but I would really like to see a poll or survey or whatever of the forum’s general age range and such.
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I looked up that crypto company, and oh no
…I sent an email (thank you, apple “hide my email” feature) to their public contact address. I’m not optimistic about getting a reply, but who knows
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I haven’t read the whole thing but you and most people here might enjoy this Ars Technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Aaron clearly warns users that Nepenthes is aggressive malware. It’s not to be deployed by site owners uncomfortable with trapping AI crawlers and sending them down an “infinite maze” of static files with no exit links, where they “get stuck” and “thrash around” for months, he tells users. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models. That’s likely an appealing bonus feature for any site owners who, like Aaron, are fed up with paying for AI scraping and just want to watch AI burn.
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Total War: World War II x Sonic the Hedgehog was deemed too long of a title.
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they just can’t help themselves
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I’m so tired of hoping, but here’s to yet more hoping.
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If the paradox of 6 years ago did this, it would feel like a great move. Now it just feels like they’re going to put unrealistic expectations on their next project and shut them down if it doesn’t perform. I liked Surviving Mars but its sequels looked totally lifeless. I have no faith in Paradox’s ability to market a non-grand strategy game, much less a simulation game. I don’t know if there’s any way to predict what makes people rally behind an early access simulation game but it probably won’t go well for the publisher famous for selling DLCs.
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I thought that after waiting multiple console generations we were finally going to get another one when Vyse and the gang were playable in Valkyria Chronicles. That game came out in 2008.
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Football Manager 25 has been cancelled (it was already significantly delayed).
This was supposed to be a ground-up redesign of the game, so I’m not surprised it ended up pushed back into the “2026” version. But it’ll still be a huge financial blow I assume.
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Oh wild holy smokes! I only buy every couple years of FM so I had no idea there were development issues. I wonder what the scope of the redesign is
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Imagine forgetting that you worked on something as powerful as the Terranigma soundtrack.
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New game announced by Robert Yang and co. You manage a New Zealand rugby team. Looks fun!
They also wrote a sports game manifesto:
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Jeff Minter’s gone to town on remaking Atari’s I, Robot. That’s some good looking game.
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The art style is super cool. I didn’t dig to deep into it. Not much hype, but the mechanics are super interesting. I got my eyes on it.
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Hopefully it is actually Beamdog that’s doing this one
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