The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.
Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...
How many hours a day do you actually work?
I should actually be working 8h a day, but most of it is spend not working. If I’m honest I’m probably working more like 3h a day even though I enjoy my job.
Recommendation for romances books similar to Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
I am reading Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined and i was wondering if there are other books that have a similar love story/development of their relationship, I don’t care if the story is about vampires, i am just interested in the romance but I prefer a fantasy background if possible
Self-hosted CM4 NAS - I have questions; sources, ideas and answers appreciated
So I’m looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I’ve got the time to build it, and it’ll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device)....
Fighting game stick recommendations?
I’m getting back into fighting games! And I don’t want to wear out my gamepads or joycons, so can you recommend a good control stick?...
Why is there so much hate against children here?
It was the same on Reddit, people openly say disturbing things against children. What prompted me to post this is someone saying that babies should be put in overhead bins inside airplanes. Even if they’re joking, this is a disgusting thing to say. I won’t say that about anything else....
Japanese content
Can anyone direct me to where can I find Japanese movies and tv series (preferably Usenet)? I haven’t been able to find anything on Usenet servers…
Tip of My Tongue: Hitman/Spy PSX Game
I’ve been trying to find this old PSX game where you do these missions (e.g. go inside the hotel room and kill off the people/mercs inside)...
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I propose a challenge:...
Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3932795...
Holding companies for foreign domain names?
I have a .ch domain name, but I am not a resident, citizen, or business of Switzerland. For now, this is not a problem, but it’s always possible that the rules change and I am ineligible to renew it down the line....
How lbry and odysee provides us with lbry coins? is it fungible?
How odysee gets lbry coins out of nowhere? isnt there any loss to the company? they are hosting the service and they itself provides the lbry coins Can i exchange my lbry coins for usd/inr?
Where's the go-to place for UK TV, that I could reasonably get into?
I haven’t had a dedicated place since thebox.bz went down, and that was ages ago!
How did Synthwave end-up associated with Cyberpunk ?
If you look on “cyberpunk” play-list on youtube, it’s mostly some synthwave electronic music....
Fedi-fanfiction: How would a society look like in which the fediverse is established as THE social media platform?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4058689...
Fedi-fanfiction: How would a society look like in which the fediverse is established as THE social media platform?
Please be creative! Will there be more communities? Will we refer to each other based on the instances we belong to? Will there be beefs between instances? Will there be doomed romances of two peoples meeting from different places of the fediverse?
In SNW S01E09, what happened to the initial Gorn on the Peregrine?
In “All Those Who Wander”, we see the Enterprise away team visit the crashed Peregrine, find frozen and/or mutilated bodies of the crew outside and inside, two survivors inside, and a log from the captain explaining that they’d picked up three castaways, one of whom (an Orion) killed himself with a plasma grenade to...
Bash not sourcing .profile automatically in Debian 11
So, in order to avoid typing “flatpak run”, every time I need to run a flatpak program from the terminal, to have gui programs installed using nix appear in my applications menu(rofi, in this case), and to avoid typing the entire path to my .local/bin, I had added the following lines to my .profile:...
Armored Core 6 - Chapter 2 Final Boss
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/1505920...
Liability for AI damages?
When the idea of self-driving cars first started becoming mainstream, I remember a lot of debate about liability. If an accident occurs, who would be at fault? I think a lot of those questions are still unanswered....
Cows seem sorta like oversized goats that are too heavy to climb anymore.
Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?
Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading....
[Meta] This community usually has 1 or 2 posts a day, but the last one is from 3 days ago. Is something happening?
The traveling cat chronicles vs The cat who saved books
I’m heavily debating which of the two, I should purchase....