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Cake day: October 25th, 2023
  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!English
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    8 days ago

    There’s a rather long documentary on it. I want to say by NoClip but not totally sure.

    Short version is they came up with the idea in the 90s I want to say, playing tabletop with a friend group. Two main designers. Helped set up a company to make a computer RPG version and designed and built the game with a team. Outsider investing came in and bought up some amount of the company.

    Once game was built and shipped and they were looking into what to do next they were effectively ousted from the company. So the two original designers of the game now get nothing and lost control of their passion project.

    Edit: while. NoClip is making one, the one I’m thinking of was done by People Make Games. At least I think it’s this one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGA8taN-M

  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Canadian citizen dies while in U.S. ICE custody in Florida
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    8 days ago

    My parents used to go down to Arizona. They sold their trailer back in 2018 (so just before Covid which was very lucky). They’ve done the odd trip down to the US (they sold because they wanted to go to different places) but plan to go out to Vancouver Island and other places more often now.

    Family friends with a house in Palm Desert sold their place after Trump joked about Canada being the 51st state and plan to never go back down again. At least for as long as he is president.

  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?
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    2 months ago

    Software engineering in Canada in the 2000s. Most of the labs in my university ran Linux, at least in the engineering, math, and science areas of campus.

    Personally I ran, depending on the year, LFS (Linux from Scratch), Slackware, or Gentoo (which still lives on that laptop today but also it hasn’t been booted or connected to a network in like 10 years).

    I think there was only one lab with Windows. We also had a lab of Solaris machines but I bet those are gone now.

    No idea what Law, Nursing, and other faculties in the other side of campus used.

  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that's free that everyone should know about?
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    3 months ago

    Since no one really answered you, there are generally two routes.

    If you use newsgroups you can run sabnzbd, which is a service that downloads from newsgroups. I’ve been out of the loop for a while but there used to be something like CouchPotato for movies or SickBeard for TV (which migrated to SickChill, though you shouldn’t use that anymore as it installed a crypto miner last I heard). Lastly you sign up with a news indexer (look up Nzb.su or nzbgeek.info). CouchPotato could be linked to your imdb watch list.

    Plug all of those together with API keys, and now movies on your imdb watch list just show up in your plex library as they become available.

    Now if you use Torrents instead of newsgroups, there are similar things that all exist, I’m just less familiar with them.

  • BlackAura@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was cancelled or discontinued that you wish wasn't or that they brought it back?
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    7 months ago

    Canadian here. Chocolate company Laura Secord made a chocolate bar called the Royale. Or Mint Royale? Something like that. Basically a “solid” mint milk chocolate bar that would just melt in your mouth. Those things were fantastic.

    When I was 16 (now late 30s for reference) they sold off the chocolate bar to Nestlé Canada. Who immediately changed the recipe to use, I assume, cheaper chocolate. Maybe cheaper everything. It was never the same and after a year or two they just disappeared, never to be seen again.

    My first experience with enshittification I guess.