Sounds like Ultima VIII.

Even with an immutable distro you’re able to obtain the source code and modify and recompile it to fit your needs. If EAC only accepts kernels signed by “trusted partners” that freedom goes away.

It’s poking fun at the Epic Games Store, which launched as the most barebones piece of shit imaginable and didn’t get basic features all online stores have had since the nineties until years after launch. The lack of a shopping cart was the most famous, and I’m half-convinced they only added one because people were getting locked out of their bank accounts (since you had to buy each item separately, the many transactions close together tripped some banks’ anti-fraud heuristics).

They didn’t learn anything from it either. Their mobile store launched years after the PC one and still doesn’t even have a library. There’s just the main store page listing every app they sell, and any you own will have the price replaced with a download icon. No sorting or filtering either, of course.

I’m not sure about that. Mandating a locked-down system with signed modules will be a tough sell for the Linux crowd depending on how strict they make it. Removing the ability to customize your kernel and restricting what drivers and services you can run goes against the entire open-source ethos.

Vibe-coding a program that manages and deletes massive amounts of files, what could possibly go wrong?

They swapped from one game you’ve probably heard of to two obscure indie games each week a while back, but yeah it’s still going on. They’re almost all forgettable outside of December, when they give out one game a day for the Advent calendar and a AAA game for Christmas.

They also have a rotation of three free developer assets every few weeks. Most of those are licensed for use in any engine, so it’s a good resource for game developers to follow even if they don’t use Unreal.

Free demo discs and downloads were everywhere in the shareware days. Maybe you played one of those?

Requiring a signed kernel+modules plus TPM and Secure Boot attestation is another problem, especially if EAC limits you to approved signing keys since self-signed keys would still allow you to modify the system how you want.

TPM alone is a non-starter. Loads of people with old PCs moved to Linux in recent years due to Windows 11 requiring a TPM 2.0 chip, and now is hardly the best time to expect people to upgrade their hardware.

That and the risk of gaming distributions including Epic’s crap by default like they do for Steam, though I doubt any distro worth its salt would do so.

You can’t have a cheating problem if nobody plays your game. *taps forehead*

Epic are reportedly going all-in on integrating AI tooling into the next version of the Unreal Engine. I wonder if this is a test run for that, and if they’ll backtrack on the idea once this catastrophically fails.

Probably not. Tim Sweeney is infamously stubborn about admitting his mistakes.

It’s Marvel and Star Wars, so not that unusual aside from it being a crossover.

He’s not just crawling back, he’s actively trying to ruin Linux by introducing kernel-level spyware.

Sounds like you need to play some Monster Hunter!

That sounds more like a Duke Nukem thing.

TL;DR: chickens are pretty much the only bird who can, but they’re exclusively of the silent-but-deadly variety.

It’s important knowledge for reheating leftovers. Reheating a plate of food for 30 seconds on high results in the outside being hot but the middle cold. Reheating for three minutes at 50% results in a perfectly heated meal.

It also helps prevent temperature-sensitive ingredients from overheating. Reheated pizza tends to be extremely greasy if you throw it in on high because the cheese breaks long before the crust gets warmed through, but the low cost of an extra minute or two will give you pizza that’s nearly as good as when it was fresh.

By sticking on the ground, mostly. They don’t climb and make webs like other spiders, they crawl and actively hunt or ambush prey.

The forest floor (with its thick layer of detritus) is also a much better cushion than concrete or rock, so they can more easily weather small falls in nature.

It’s just one of the downsides to having an exoskeleton while being so large. They’re a big bag of spider soup with a thin, fragile shell, and any cracks in their exoskeleton are permanent until their next molt.

Even a tiny wound has a high chance of them bleeding to death, and since they move through hydrostatic pressure, bloodloss also essentially paralyzes them.

Well yeah, that’s to be expected. Chris Roberts wanted to be a big Hollywood writer/director even more than he wanted to be a game developer, and then people handed him hundreds of millions of dollars. Is it any wonder he spent a fortune hiring all his favorite actors?

Give them ten thousand more years and they’ll have evolved snail-like prehensile eye-stalks. Then who’ll be laughing?