What are you talking about? He’s much more humble than you would understand.

(I love her expression after he drops that line without a hint of irony or self-reflection.)

They were referring to Mario and Luigi matching the Italian flag.

Hitman has massive open levels set in scenic European cities, lavish resorts, beach villas, old manors, and a bunch more. It’s a social stealth game where you try to blend in as you explore the levels and get close to your targets, so it would be pretty easy to roleplay as a vacationer if that’s what you wanted.

“The Only Thing They Fear Is You” intensifies.

Damn, you’re right. That frog has been thoroughly boiled.

Mon petit chou-fleur.

The document also includes details about a way for players to get a digital version of a game that they already own on a physical disc, which The Verge’s Tom Warren reported on in July. The document says that if a player puts an Xbox One or Series game on disc into an Xbox One or Series X console with a disc drive, they’ll be granted a digital license that’s bound to “that disc and the player’s account.” The license will stay with a player across Xbox devices, but if the disc “changes hands,” the license will transfer to the new person. That should mean that gamers can still trade and sell discs; once the original owner of a disc does so, they can’t play the digital version they got from that disc anymore.

What a fair and simple system. Sony, take notes!

It’s 100% a mistake. “Wretched souls” is a well-known phrase that goes back to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, if not earlier.

I’m guessing they didn’t catch it because retched is also a word, even though that use is grammatically incorrect (unless they were souls that’d been vomited up).

Two geriatrics get physically violent towards the son of a family friend after politics are brought up.

IIRC Fox scored well below people who reported watching no news at all.

No, for that you’d use Cherokee.

I read it! I know most of the characters you use, and the remainder were easy enough to figure out through context. :)

What was VTM? Search is not being helpful today.

Unicode support in your coding language is great right up until someone accidentally inserts a lookalike character or closing quotation mark somewhere (phone keyboards and accessibility tools do this a lot). The code will look correct but fail to compile, and it can be a nightmare to debug if you don’t know to look for it.

They’ve technically been compliant since Godot 4 came out in 2023, but they’ve continued to update their i8n and l10n (internationalization and localization) support with every subsequent release. And since the Godot editor runs on the Godot game engine, developers benefit from these changes too.

From what I hear they’re one of the nicer engines to work with when it comes to translations now - Godot has added lots of usability and testing tools, including in the UI design layer so developers can verify the localized versions are working and look right from the earliest stages of development onward.

I prefer vertical langs myself.

I wonder if users of vertical languages prefer portrait screen orientation to landscape?

Horny Wants to bone

FTFY.

Not necessarily. They might internally encode strings as Unicode, but that doesn’t mean the engine will include full support for multi-grapheme glyphs, right-to-left (or top-to-bottom) text order, combination characters, or a host of other features that aren’t needed when rendering English text.

It took a lot of work to make Godot compliant.

There was a graph going around during Stewart’s first stewardship of the Daily Show, listing how well viewers of various news programs scored on a test of current affairs. The Daily Show came in third, ahead of every single “real” news channel save PBS and NPR. A comedy program is a more reliable news source than the actual news!

(Fox was near the bottom, as one would expect.)

Last I read the “deal” is saddling EA with $20 billion in debt, so here’s hoping.

But also, leveraged buyouts are fucking disgusting and should be illegal.

Crazy Taxi is also the reason there aren’t more games like this. Sega patented the gameplay and UI and later sued Fox and EA over The Simpsons: Road Rage’s similarities. Fear of Sega’s legal team killed the genre until the patent expired.

It’s a shame Oracle’s downfall couldn’t have happened a decade ago. Ellison has branched out and bought up a bunch of media companies in recent years and is setting up his (somehow even worse) son as heir to his empire, so even if Oracle dies we’re still stuck with the fuckers for the foreseeable future.