A gamer in Brazil sued Microsoft after his Xbox account was hacked and locked, and they told him to create a new account and repurchase his games 🎮
The court ordered Microsoft to restore his original account and pay him $400
It’s insane that they covered his mouth with his first costume & now they’re covering his eyes with his new costume. Such a bizarre choice to do that when you have the perfect actor for the role whose face is so expressive & can capture the character’s insanity.
The USDA has kept raccoon rabies out of the central United States for over 30 years by air-dropping fish-flavored ravioli from helicopters.
Each one is a small packet coated in fishmeal with an oral rabies vaccine inside. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and swallow.
Many animals that consume the bait develop immunity, helping build a protective barrier across populations.
The bait is generally considered safe for pets and tested in many non-target species.
The USDA's Wildlife Services has been running this since 1995. Without the bait program, raccoon rabies very likely would have spread much further west.
A federal program you've probably never heard of is protecting your pets and your kids by feeding wild animals ravioli from a helicopter.
Duke could absolutely be relevant today, but not the Duke we saw in Duke Nukem Forever, which was an alt-universe silly version of Duke that was not like the version of Duke we established in Duke Nukem 3D.
I strongly fear that any revival of Duke will miss the mark in the same way DNF missed the mark, because getting Duke right is actually really difficult. It's far too easy to make him a petty potty humor idiot, a babe brained bore, or a dated macho male moron.
Duke only works teetering a super fine line: He's never humorous on purpose. He's not stupid--he's actually quite brilliant. Duke is raw bravery and he'll do what's needed at any personal cost, and that's still needed in today's world.
DNF lines like "I'd still hit it" do not belong in a Duke Nukem game. And I'm afraid if a new Duke game is made this is exactly the type of Duke we'll get--a cornball, low-brow, idiot version that gets more groans than laughs, and doesn't come close to capturing the magic of Duke 3D.
I'm not sure what current game studio could pull off a new Duke Nukem game properly. Take-Two now owns the IP, so I expect they're giving this some thought. And I wish them luck because it will not be easy assuming they even try!
@csaurageul The problem with both the audience and gaming journalists is that games they like to consider "art" are games that intentionally limit it's mechanics to sell "cinematic spectacle" instead of leaning into interaction and mechanics. Games like Thief, god hand and pathologic ARE art
@_realsteele@lofi_lover0930 does the guy know how difficult it is to design a openeded level with many NPCs with different AI behaviours balanced out in a stealth game where execution of the goal is open ended which allows for all tools to work? That's hard to do in a linear game let alone a open ended one
@sustainuntruth@Chaser_Tech Do you mean the blood raven stance that give you new moves or the other mechanic that allows you to one hit kill one or two enemies with a special move? They're nothing like ripper mode, Ripper mode is basically a rage mode that ups damage and speed but nothing else.