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    Animal Crossing mod uses AI to orchestrate anti-Tom Nook villager revolt

    This is actually a fairly common practice if you're ever doing things in the randomizer communities for console games. To make the randomizer you have to know memory addresses in the program data; to make a tracker or multiworld randomizer you have to know the memory addresses in RAM. Tools...
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    YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs

    Apparently no one noticed the war going on between Youtube and uBlock Origins during the last two weeks? On some days Youtube was updating their adblocker detection script multiple times a day, and so uBlock Origin was updating their Quick Fixes list multiple times a day in response.
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    GitHub’s push to make 2FA mandatory kicks off March 13

    Question: Which non-Github specific Git client supports 2FA? Last I checked, even when I'm checking in code using a certificate (which is inherently 2FA because it requires something I have (the cert) and something I know (the password to said cert)), Github still required that I somehow enter...
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    ChatGPT has investors drooling, but can it bring home the bacon?

    You mention that ChatGPT/OpenAI can write working computer code, but that's a lot different from writing working computer code that actually does what you asked it to produce. ChatGPT generated code is explicitly banned from StackOverflow because it doesn't produce the latter.
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    Activision news flurry: Shareholder vote, WarCraft smartphone game tease

    I'm curious as to whether those numbers remained high after the Twitch drop campaign for beta keys ended Wednesday night... i.e. people who weren't watching with an ulterior motive.
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    RIP Bethesda Launcher: Here’s how its nearly full transfer to Steam will work

    There's a certain irony to posting this in an article about games moving to Steam, a launcher that has had support for sending messages to offline people for something like 15 years.
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    Discord CEO backs away from hinted NFT integration after backlash

    If these things were items that existed in multiple games by different studios and could be traded between these games, then maybe they would make sense, assuming they stop using proof-of-work cryptocurrencies to mint said NFTs. You have about the same chance of winning the lottery as all those...
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    Counterfeit PyPI packages with 5,000 downloads installed cryptominers

    Really? Because I think it looks a lot more like Visual Basic!
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    Why Roblox’s definition of “games” is key to the Epic vs. Apple case

    That's funny, because when Epic sued Google, they made claims about things not being on the Google Play store put them at a disadvantage. It's almost like Epic's claims contradict each other.
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    Why lower platform fees don’t lead to lower prices on the Epic Games Store

    Was it though? Last I heard, EA flipped their lid when Valve asked that Mass Effect 2's DLC* be sold through Steam in addition to the Cerberus Network and EA, realizing this would lose them massive amounts of money, refused and built their own storefront instead. *Technically Valve demanded...
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    A Windows Defender vulnerability lurked undetected for 12 years

    I could see this happening, particularly if ye olde nomenclature was used, which refers to RAM as "primary storage" and hard drives as "secondary storage."
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    Hackers are on the hunt for Oracle servers vulnerable to potent exploit

    I've also been out of the Java server space for a while, but last I knew it was becoming more and more common to use a servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty rather than a full on JavaEE server like WebLogic or JBoss/Wildfly. (Side note: I only just now realized how close Tomcat and Jetty looks...
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    Amazon Games kills its ambitious shooter Crucible after only five months

    Not only that, but it's a specific subgenre of FPS that is already saturated with free options like Paladins and Team Fortress 2 that do have these missing features. Not to mention the paid options like Overwatch.
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    Mario’s early levels wear out their welcome in Super Mario Bros. 35

    I haven't played it (don't own a Switch nor do I have the budget for buying one right now), but it sounds like at least half the levels needed to be unlocked from the start.
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    6 board games I’m playing during the pandemic

    I'm disappointed that you haven't played Pandemic during the pandemic.
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    We now have more evidence that Galileo likely never said “And yet it moves”

    Nevertheless.... the turtle moves! (RIP Terry Pratchett)
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    Exploring Epic Games Store’s biggest sale yet: Coupons and Steam comparisons

    Satisfactory's exclusivity deal has already ended... no one is quite sure why it hasn't hit Steam yet, especially since they announced a Steam version back in early March which was right before said exclusivity deal was set to end..
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    Eye-Oss vs Eye-Oh-Ess: Judging the fiercest tech pronunciation debates

    Bear in mind that SQL's predecessor was Sequel, so it makes perfect sense to pronounce them the same way. So... SQL is Sequel's sequel.
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    Exploring Epic Games Store’s biggest sale yet: Coupons and Steam comparisons

    Sales are nice and all, but they still need to add a bunch of features to come anywhere near parity with GOG or Origin. Especially since GOG has been progressively moving things forward with the imminent release of GOG Galaxy 2.0. (Yes, this is a quote from the article, not a comment) You're...
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    How World of Warcraft has evolved with the Internet

    Perhaps a story driven MMO would be more your style? I know Final Fantasy 14 tends to feel like a single player game most of the time... the exception being when you do dungeons and raids.