🚨 California's State Assembly approved a Stop Killing Games bill targeting games that need a server connection to play. Before shutting those servers down, developers would have to give 60 days' notice, then either release a patch that makes the game playable offline or refund players. Only applies to games released after Jan 1, 2027. The Senate still has to approve it.
Stop Killing Games is an international consumer campaign (started in 2024 by YouTuber Ross Scott) pushing to stop publishers from making purchased games unplayable. It's pursued an EU Citizens' Initiative and backs related bills like California's AB 1921.
Evening update: AWS is back online.
I didn’t write a single command or touch a single server.
But I announced “It should be working now” in a confident tone, and everyone reacted like I had personally fixed the cloud.
People thanked me for “getting us back up.”
One person even said, “We don’t know what we’d do without you.”
I nodded like a man who had just negotiated peace between regions us-east-1 and eu-west-3.
I have no idea what Amazon did behind the scenes, but according to this office, I just saved the company.
Already updated my self-evaluation under “Major Accomplishments.”
In 1984, Eddie Murphy told Richard Pryor of his plans to make a musical album. Pryor laughed, betting $100k he wouldn’t do it without jokes. Murphy did, & on the inner sleeve he wrote, “To Richard Pryor, my idol, with whom I have a $100k bet. No, motherf**ker, I didn’t forget.” Pryor never paid up.
In the 1980s, rising anti-Japanese sentiment fueled by trade tensions and xenophobia led to the murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit, Michigan. Chin was a Chinese-American but mistaken for Japanese, so his assailants beat him to death with a baseball bat after his bachelor's party.
Broadway baby Baayork Lee was a child of the stage, whose first role, at age five, was in "The King and I" with Yul Brynner in 1951. Now in her late 70s, she still has all the right moves. But does our Mo Rocca? She tests his dancing skills in this number from “A Chorus Line.”
The Goal, The Call, The Crowd.
Sam Rosen and Dave Maloney call Chris Kreider's game winning hat trick and The Garden Faithful going wild at the watch party.
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THE RANGERS ARE MOVING ON 🗽 #StanleyCup
The @NYRangers complete the sweep and are the first team to advance to the Second Round!
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