Cribbing has a less negative connotation than that definition implies. Back in grade school in the eighties, you would crib your friends notes from a class you missed or something. Closer to sharing information. I guess you could crib from a friend for an essay, but the implication would be that although your essay might share the same information, you would not literally copy theirs word for word, that would be plagiarism and risk getting your friend in trouble.

In this context. I would read it as taking inspiration from, or in the style of. It’s not like you are trying to cheat Psygnosis out of sales by selling knock-off games. Rather you are creating a retro style logo in the style of a much beloved eighties icon.

I should’ve included Bandcamp links, it’s a good way to support the artists. Thanks!

Suffer - Boy Golden (English)

Never heard of Boy Golden, and only heard this song on the radio while driving a month or so ago. Thank goodness for our modern high tech radios, I noted the song info, and it is now in my regular offline backup MP3 collection.

DIminishing Returns - Dan Mangan (English)

From Dan Mangan’s Natural Light album, released in May 2025.

Dan Mangan is a longstanding favourite of mine, and I believe I nominated Call Me Up High last Lemmyvision. As such, here’s some bonus Dan Mangan tracks:

• Robots, live at Granville Island, probably his biggest song, performed live in his hometown, outdoors.
• Troubled Mind, one of my personal favourites.
• There’s A Tumour In the White House, no reason…

Edit: extra plug, Dan Mangan will be doing some BC shows in September, maybe I’ll see you there!

I have lots of shelf space, but it’s full. Plus shipping is painful, so similar boat.

The filenames aren’t too big a deal, since I use directories, sub-directories, and sub-sub-directories. Still, meaningful filenames aways help.

Hilarious! Appropriating this for redistribution!

The real NFTs were the AI models we saw in VR along the way.

Ironically Meta’s Llama model that ran well self-hosted. I’m sure Meta will get around to enshittifying it eventually.

New favourite website!

Problem is those same Americans are perfectly happy with deploying the National Guard to cities like Portland, DC, and Chicago.

It is a joke, and it’s funny because it holds a kernel of truth. “We laugh so we do not cry.”

No tears shed for Maduro, but it’s pretty obvious that Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t have a plan.

Staging a secret service raid to kidnap Carney is pretty out there, but then El Presidente Trump just talked about “doing something about Mexico” from the Southern Presidential Palace.

It’s a joke, you should laugh, and you should also remember what the joke is referencing.

Second installing Heroic or Junk Store. Get those Epic freebies, but games in GoG sales as well.

As you are new with the Deck though, using Heroic does involve using desktop mode. If you have Minecraft, you can set up Prism Launcher as well. There’s also EmuDeck for emulating older systems.

This is a bit more involved than just buying Deck verified games on the Steam store though. Get comfortable with it first. Watch some YouTube tutorials.

Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don’t think it’s analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can’t order anything by the pallet.

The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn’t being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.

Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.

Microsoft has been placing Bedrock before Java ever since they named it Java Edition, but Java has survived. I’m sure Bedrock is much more popular now, but I would be worried about Microsoft enshittifying Java further to push players to Bedrock, and any new microtransactions they figure out.

Okanagan Spirits makes “BRBN Bourbon-style whisky”. Bourbon (as you say) is a protected designation of origin product, meaning that it has to be made in the US. It’s not on the PDO list on Wikipedia though, so it appears it is a separate designation, same idea though.

Point being that you can boycott US products and still have Bourbon “style” whisky. Kind of like how some distilleries outside Scotland make Scotch style whisky, which is often very very good.

My Steam Deck is a second wave pre-order 256GB modern, and that is exactly my feeling. Between the internal 256GB and the excellent Steam Deck micro SD utilization, it was good enough that I never opened it up just to change the SSD. When I started to get some stick drift, I finally upgraded the SSD at the same time.

The 256GB is “good enough”, but 512GB is “enough” and 64GB is tight.

I think somewhere close to $500 is around the zone they should target the base model. It’s in the console price zone. At that price, the specs are pretty decent.

Invest in online gaming? Maybe the real gamble was the investments we made along the way.

Outrage! Scandal! When will the developers be held to account for Gestral Volleyball and Only Up?!‽ Never in the history of video games has there been such an affront.

But seriously, great game!

I think I’ve reported 4 different versions of these ads. They look pretty near identical for the little bit I watch before I report, but the advertiser is always different, but also based in Poland.