Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.
Megachurch pastor and former Trump spiritual adviser admits sexual abuse (www.theguardian.com)
More than 200 arrested in Kenya protests over proposed tax hikes in finance bill | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Civil society groups say that despite the arrests, demonstrations and a planned sit-down outside the parliament buildings will continue....
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)
Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.
Sim game Life By You canceled after 3 early access delays (www.polygon.com)
Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy (www.abc.net.au)
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait (www.businessinsider.com)
A PEGI rating for the OG 1996 Resident Evil has me once again preparing to enter the world of survival horror (www.pcgamer.com)
This HMP inmate says a rat gave birth in his pants — but it was no surprise (www.cbc.ca)
Her Majesty’s Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there....
Taking cues from '90s cartoons and ARPG dungeon crawlers [Blud], this vibrant hack and slash, vampire-hunting adventure is out now on Steam. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Drill Keeper seems to have it all with deckbuilding, tower defense and roguelite survival (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Pre-purchase Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven coming on Steam 24 Oct (store.steampowered.com)
METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics TBA on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
KDE Plasma 6.1 released (kde.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17012596...
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
To be fair, I'd try a bacon ice cream (www.bbc.co.uk)
Biden Campaign Ad Calls Attention to Trump’s Felon Status (www.nytimes.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/himMZ
'This kind of growth can’t be sustained’: As inflation rises, payday loans are undermining the Russian economy and threatening a new crisis (meduza.io)
Archived link...
First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down. (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
We live in a sci-fi dystopia.
US blasts ‘aggressive’ China over South China Sea collision with Philippine ship (www.cnn.com)
The United States on Monday condemned China over a collision with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the latest in a series of increasingly fraught confrontations that have raised the potential of a flashpoint for global conflict in the vital waterway....
Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (www.npr.org)
We see you, hard-core NPR readers — just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it’s all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We’ve got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.
China should pay for propping up Putin's war, Nato chief says (www.bbc.com)
Here’s Mr. Stoltenberg’s statement in a video (1 min)...
Let's discuss: Stardew Valley (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
