Cool. I'd play it if it ever goes on sale.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are odd and dangerous folks to do business with.

I live in France. One thing that comes to mind is hesitancy to report it due to parents not taking their children to hospital.

The other thing is that there is a lot of pressure put on children starting in middle school.

I teach at a business school and the students tell it like this:

• growing up their parents sign them up for extra curriculars, usually 2 days a week;
• starting middle school, they must cope with the joys of adolescence on top of extracurriculars and teachers telling them that the brevet is the most important thing ever;
• the brevet is a test that helps determine their parcours, or education path;
• getting into a good high school is very important for some students;
• once arriving in high school they begin to prep for the final exams, the baccalauréat (the Bac);
• there is a very poorly designed thing called Parcoursup that determines post-secondary education choices...

Basically, students are told again and again that everything they do is the most important thing.

Some of my students are still so traumatized that they cry if they get below 75% (15/20). To underline how things have changed, in 2006 (when I moved to France) students used to applaud each other for getting higher than 60% (12/20) but now everything is ranked. Add in hormones and social media and anxiety... Lots of burn out and depression.

I still haven't played Deathsmiles despite hearing about it at least once a week since I discovered the joy of shmupping.

(Side note: I got my first true 1cc yesterday. Yay me! I say true because some games let you change the number of extends.)

This weekend we're finally replacing a dresser that literally fell to pieces. I'm pretty happy that my socks will get a new home.

I'm also making a list of blogs that I plan on supporting over ko-fi or liberapay because I think a lot of bloggers deserve a tip from time to time.

Le nouveau twofold est cool

https://2xtwofold.bandcamp.com/album/aftermath

I don't have 4 or 5 haha. Just the 30th Anniversary Collection that I just bought on sale and 6.

Nothing new. Might play some Street Fighter. I only ever played the SNES version in the 90s and SF2 in arcade. I'll finally see what I missed out on between SF2 and SF6.

Cool!

I was team mpc until about 2006, now I'm team mpv.

I still can't remember why I disliked VLC, I think the first time I used it the video would not work but it played with mplayer.

Still good to have VLC around though, glad to see them stickin' around all these years.

Part of it is RFK Jr. and MAHA who are on a mission to "cure" autism because the whole anti-vax thing doesn't fly (due to common knowledge and, you know, science).

So it looks like they are blaming the most common medication used by pregnant people.

It is just their anti-AI thing, not a paywall. 404 are good journalists that published tonnes of great stories.

Not entirely positive that this happened. I mean the Americans beating pickpockets. I'm sure it could have happened, but I live in France and was here and never heard about this...

There is a Medium post (https://scribe.rip/the-bad-influence/americans-in-paris-ready-to-rumble-with-pick-pocketers-f62b169abccd) but there isn't a single French news source (that I can easily find) related to this ever happening.