Monday, August 26
Daily News Stuff 26 August 2024
Damnazon Edition
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- Black Myth Wukong is utterly mediocre and undeserving of all the attention it has been getting thanks to games and tech media trying to destroy it. (The Verge)
Black Myth Wukong is a new Chinese computer game based on the 16th century novel Journey to the West. One of many such adaptations, including the TV show Monkey and the anime Dragon Ball.
Anyway, as far as journalists are concerned, the developers of Black Myth Wukong made the unforgivable error of not actively hating their own customers, even going so far as to not hire expert bankruptcy generators Sweet Baby Inc. (Which is a whole 'nother drama in itself.)
That, coupled with guidance encouraging independent reviewers not to be hyper-partisan communist ratbags, spelled death for the game according to journalists. (The Gamer)
Black Myth Wukong has sold ten million copies.
In three days.
- Meanwhile Dustborn, a game which - and I quote - "let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship on a road trip across America" - in other words, a game that has done everything right according to those same journalists, launched at the same time and has sold... We don't know. (PC Gamer)
The developers have gone very, very quiet after release.
But it has 74 reviews on Steam.
Black Myth Wukong has 379,672 reviews.
Dustborn peaked at 83 simultaneous players.
Black Myth Wukong peaked on the same day at 2,415,714 players. On Steam alone; Black Myth Wukong is available on console as well.
Of course, Dustborn is a much smaller title and was never going to be as popular, but 3,000,000% is a hell of a delta.
Tech News
- If you always wanted a Sinclair Spectrum - and I don't know why you would, because it was never actually good, just cheap - well, you can now get one for about $99. (Tom's Hardware)
Well, an Android emulator in a Spectrum case with a Spectrum keyboard. In other words the worst parts of the original Spectrum have been faithfully reproduced, while the parts that worked have been replaced with software.
- Asus is showing off GaN PC power supplies. (Tom's Hardware)
GaN power transistors are becoming common in laptop and phone chargers because they are compact and... Well, that's it really. How much this matters for PC power supplies is another question.
- Well, yes, but actually no. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (Cryptography Engineering)
This question is suddenly important with the recent arrest of Telegram's CEO by French fascists. The answer remains... Kind of.
- The Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport have been eaten alive by a cyberattack or maybe they're just incompetent. (Tech Crunch)
Late Saturday evening, the airport said it was still experiencing outages: "There is not an estimated time for return and Port teams continue to work to restore full service." It also encouraged travelers to use airline apps to get their boarding passes and bag tags, and to allow extra time to reach their gates.
Well, that's definitive.
Disclaimer: Unless it isn't.
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Once you know their criteria, even blithering idiot reviewers can help, in an inverse way - as long as you can recover quickly from the headaches you get from reading them.
Posted by: Frank at Monday, August 26 2024 07:16 PM (+i6Xr)
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Akshully, the current regime in France is, as a matter of EU trade name protections, not fascist.
To be fascist under EU rules, a political party must have its headquarters in the historic Faesces region of Italy, or be collaborating with or subordinate to such a party.
To be Nazi under EU rules, a political party must have its headquarters in the historic Ns'Dap(1) region of Germany, or collaborating with or subordinate to such a party. The historic Ns'Dap region of German happens to include Berlin, but this is obscured by the 'white washing' of Europe's history by the Soviet Union/Russia/Moscow empire. This has the result that the SED is a Nazi (2) organization, and thus Merkel is a Nazi, and thus almost every mainstream party in the EU are by collaboration with Merkel, Nazis and Nazi collaborators.
Under EU trade name protections, to be Vichy, you have to be from or in the French region of the EU, and a Nazi, or a Nazi collaborator.
It is misinformation to say that the current French regime is fascist. It is not misinformation to say that the current French regime is a) Nazi b) Vichy c) sparkling authoritarian d) sparkling murderously totalitarian in its ambitions.
I hope you appreciate this Terry Britain Approved (TM) (R) attempt at scolding, and attempt at speech policing.
#FreeFrenchInExile
#SetEuropeAblaze
#SowTheWindReapTheWhirlwind
#DeGaulleDidNothingWrong
#IsParisBurning
#EUCanGoFrustrateItself
(1) place name is in a Bantu tongue
(2) The SED's HQ was a building that the NSDAP constructed in East Berlin.
To be fascist under EU rules, a political party must have its headquarters in the historic Faesces region of Italy, or be collaborating with or subordinate to such a party.
To be Nazi under EU rules, a political party must have its headquarters in the historic Ns'Dap(1) region of Germany, or collaborating with or subordinate to such a party. The historic Ns'Dap region of German happens to include Berlin, but this is obscured by the 'white washing' of Europe's history by the Soviet Union/Russia/Moscow empire. This has the result that the SED is a Nazi (2) organization, and thus Merkel is a Nazi, and thus almost every mainstream party in the EU are by collaboration with Merkel, Nazis and Nazi collaborators.
Under EU trade name protections, to be Vichy, you have to be from or in the French region of the EU, and a Nazi, or a Nazi collaborator.
It is misinformation to say that the current French regime is fascist. It is not misinformation to say that the current French regime is a) Nazi b) Vichy c) sparkling authoritarian d) sparkling murderously totalitarian in its ambitions.
I hope you appreciate this Terry Britain Approved (TM) (R) attempt at scolding, and attempt at speech policing.
#FreeFrenchInExile
#SetEuropeAblaze
#SowTheWindReapTheWhirlwind
#DeGaulleDidNothingWrong
#IsParisBurning
#EUCanGoFrustrateItself
(1) place name is in a Bantu tongue
(2) The SED's HQ was a building that the NSDAP constructed in East Berlin.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, August 27 2024 03:27 AM (rcPLc)
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IIRC BMW broke Steam concurrent user records, and my son told me the reason it dropped so far 12 hours after release was because that's when everyone in China went to bed.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 27 2024 04:34 AM (MItL9)
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Posted by: lanaderay at Wednesday, August 28 2024 12:00 PM (D02HJ)
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