Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

https://www.twitch.tv/grammacrackers/clip/CharmingSolidNoodleKevinTurtle-CCpMMy7EX_W4v7_S

Well, I would say the test results were conclusive, if nothing else.

The people before us weren't perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world

Disclaimer: I used an AI tool (DeepSeek) to polish grammar and wording only. All opinions, testing, and conclusions in this review are my own.

Recently got the GameSir "Taco" — overseas price is around $35, but I used a coupon in China and paid $15 (retail price $21). I didn’t expect much, but after testing it, here’s an objective review.

What it is

GBA SP size, 62g. Instead of stretching sideways like most phone controllers, it clips your phone vertically. Yes, it blocks part of the screen – a deliberate trade-off for portability and that GB-like feel.

Retro games that fit this format (d-pad only, no analog stick needed):

GBA: Metroid Fusion, Castlevania, Pokemon – set screen to 1:1 or original ratio

DS: DraStic emulator with dual screens stacked – physical buttons plus touchscreen

Arcade vertical shooters (TATE mode): Dodonpachi, Raiden, 1942 – mini TATE setup

GB/GBC: Native ratio, no stretching

NES/SNES/Genesis: Works fine, but black bars on sides

Specs

Bluetooth, 600mAh (claims 30h), wake-up support

D-pad and ABXY rubber membrane, shoulder buttons metal dome

Works as regular Bluetooth gamepad without phone

Comes with protective case, charging cutout

No headphone jack

Downsides

Ergonomics: Modern phones are heavy. Top-heavy, shoulder buttons easy to mis-press. Hand fatigue after an hour.

Software: Their app is clunky. Screen scaling is manual to avoid blocking content.

Charging: Use ≤30W chargers – fast chargers might damage it.

Build quality okay, not premium. 3-month exchange policy (China only? Not sure).

Tunic is an amazing game.

I started playing it over the weekend and it's one of the best games I've played. The combat is engaging and the art/music is great. I love the design decision to include the instruction manual pages as items to find in the game, complete with little pencil marks on some of the pages making it look like someone's personal notes. It really hits the nostalgia of when games came with physical books.

#games #gaming #tunic @games

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/50677034

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for an Android Fediverse client that does not send user-agent information (device or client details) to servers. Ideally, it should support both Mastodon and Lemmy, or other Fediverse platforms as well.

How was this not yet crossposted here?!

If I understood well, AA centralize all the other pirate ebook providers, or is there anything different I can use to find ebooks?

If I didn't find a book on AA it very likely means the book isn't available anywhere?

A game designer's essay on how the job is "tuning", and one of the goals, but not the most important one, is "balance". Largely from a fighting game perspective, as this is Keits, who is deeply in the fighting game community, but also includes some examples from shooters and others.

It took just a day for some clear patterns to emerge in the Xbox Player Voice feedback forum, with the clear-cut leading request being bringing back Xbox console exclusives. A player named Carlos Hernandez shared a request to bring them back, claiming that Xbox isn't selling enough consoles because there's no reason to buy them when the games can be bought and played on competing systems. Within a day, that request has received nearly 10,000 upvotes, and over a thousand comments.

A city councillor in Cork, Ireland is advocating to erect a public statue of a mosquito. It wouldn’t be a statue of just any mosquito , but the pest that some — at least in Cork–believe bit the English invader, Oliver Cromwell — sending him home to die of what was once known as 'Cork fever,' an old name for malaria.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1135683/x-announces-significant-restrictions-to-free-accounts-50-posts-and-200-replies-per-day

• Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
• Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.
• Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
• Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
• Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.

Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

title from subheadline so still the original headline. superheadline is "Trump's windswept hair: Untangling fake images from real photos"