Does any of that actually matter? If they took on a project too big for their studio to do properly, it’s going to suck regardless of why they did it. If they were forced into it by a publisher or similar then I’ll have some sympathy for them, but I don’t pick games to play based on how sorry I feel for the devs

couldn’t or just didn’t spend time finding someone

Is that not concerning to you?

There are two big issues that that doesn’t fix:

• Showing the trailer in this state very clearly implies that they don’t really care about the game. Even if it really was only meant to be a placeholder, would you think highly of a game with obvious placeholder assets in its trailer? If it’s not a placeholder, then they’re passing off major things like what the protagonist looks like to the hallucination box

• There are a lot of people who have ethical issues with AI, and just removing the stuff in the trailer is not going persuade anyone at all that the rest of the game isn’t full of AI rubbish

Ahh, my Beam NG custom car builder

Soup and bread is genuinely great if you have them available and don’t want to put effort into cooking. It’s the right kind of simple and hearty thing that helps when you feel run down

It has, but the article is specifically associating this bill with the more recent reveals about Peter Mandelson. Both general public awareness of Mandelson’s association with Epstein and his appointment as ambassador to the US that brought that connection to the current government’s attention happened well after the introduction of the bill. The article draws no other connection to Epstein whatsoever, only Mandelson

The article does mention Epstein, but this Bill was first introduced to parliament way back in 2024

Turquoise Cyprus

(More seriously it’d probably be Türkish if you were going to do that, but as far as I’m aware the request at the UN to use the name Türkiye does not seem to have come with a new adjectival form to go with it)

As the article says, Mexico said it didn’t want American troops in the country. There is no indication that that happened. The US contribution here, as far as we know just now, is information

Even then, though, Mexico may well decide that even if it doesn’t want US troops, bringing them in to cooperate might be preferable to fighting the US over it when the US is being so belligerent

You don’t have to like Cuba’s government to have some sympathy for the people. Countries regularly send food aid to North Korea when its people are starving

To be honest it seems like they’re so paranoid about The Woke™ that it would be almost useless. It would just be a recommendation for every single game that has a plot and wasn’t made by dickheads

The Gobi is in China (and Mongolia, it covers most of the border between them). It’s actually quite possible that the documentary was about the same project as this article, though. The Taklamakan is either next to the Gobi or just the western part of the Gobi depending on who you ask

“Quietly” as in it’s being done with far fewer bombs and bullets than Gaza

The second-biggest cryptocurrency split in two becaue some people just decided to undo transactions. The transactions were absolutely theft, but the point is that some people just decided to change what the ledger said.

I got a lovely reply with the lyrics:

Why do I feel so sad

When people all around me look so glad

Why is my heart breaking in two

When I look at a friend such as you

You always tell me you’re so happy

You’ve really got it made in this life

And although the world was against you

You managed to make it on your own

Not yet! But it is a Sunday, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect one right away. I will be sure to update you if I do get one!

Not a bad call actually. I will try that tomorrow

That account is less than a month old and the literal first thing they did with it was defend Putin. Yesterday they got banned from some communities for spreading antivax nonsense. Classic stuff.

“local .ml account approves of billionaire Jeff Bezos manipulating major new outlet”

I invite you to take a look at how much of their post history is RT and Sputnik