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Tuesday, 8 July 2025
quote [ Companies filed their 2022 tax returns under the new rules in early 2023. And suddenly, R&D wasn’t a full, immediate write-off anymore. The tax benefits of salaries for engineers, product and project managers, data scientists, and even some user experience and marketing staff — all of which had previously reduced taxable income in year one — now had to be spread out over five- or 15-year periods. ]
A good explanation as any adding up to the current layoff waves.
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Friday, 4 July 2025
quote [ [While] these new owners are busy undoing a lot of the goodwill the site originally built up, many of the people who made Adventure Gamers a brilliant place to visit have quietly left the site, building a new destination for adventure games called the Adventure Game Hotspot. This was started by the former Adventure Gamers editor-in-chief Jack Allin back in 2022, and seems to be carrying on the spirit of the website in everything but name. ]
Main link goes to quasi-successor Adventure Game Hotspot. Quote via insightful article on Time Extension. This has been noted in other circles as well and happened rather abrupt.
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Sunday, 29 June 2025
quote [ She (1935) it appears to be a typical 1930s adventure movie but at the same time it is not, it does have something special about it. I felt a total of about 15 minutes of this movie was magical, done with great love and care. The scenography is pretty good during the whole second half. The story is about love with juxtaposing immortality and mortality, so has some vampiric romance elements to it. Of course there are plenty of flaws, as expected from a 90 years old movie. ]
Via Mastodon gamedev movie recommendations. Main link goes to internet archive. Campy film made of a 1887 Gothic novel.
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Monday, 23 June 2025
quote [ "So the analogy works here because you need something that happened before a certain date. Now here the date is more flexible, let's say 2022. But if you're collecting data before 2022 you're fairly confident that it has minimal, if any, contamination from generative AI. Everything before the date is 'safe, fine, clean,' everything after that is 'dirty.'" ]
While similar mass-generated content might exist earlier, the last years of scraping and regurgiating texts by the same softwares might require new, drastic metaphors. (see also)
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Sunday, 22 June 2025
quote [ This is not a joke and I'm sorry everyone. ]
This is sad game news. Learned about it on RPS. If you want to know, why it's so sad, you may read why Hypnospace Outlaw was so great.
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Saturday, 21 June 2025
quote [ Notably, despite widespread public misunderstanding of this issue among the amateur shark enthusiast community, the shark fin soup trade has not been the biggest threat to sharks in more than a decade. ]
Stuff about this movie popping up everywhere due to 50th anniversary .. this article has some more infos on nautical conservation efforts.
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Friday, 20 June 2025
quote [ Women shouldn’t have to be perfect victims in order for us to recognise that they’ve been treated very badly. ]
Bit dorky interview but good thinking material on celebrity media.
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Saturday, 14 June 2025
quote [ Many are submitted and I choose the ones I think are funny, interesting, and not too similar to ones recently submitted, and not so extreme that I think it's breaking the law publishing them, or it will encourage a spate of murders. ]
Long-running project of a website-less Google form confessional which is not exactly screaming into the void but keeping your privacy.
Quite British. Quote via FAQ. There's also a live show (thumb).
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Thursday, 12 June 2025
quote [ The great thing about mathematicians is all they really care about are numbers ]
Nice little film on the origins of the bit.
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Friday, 6 June 2025
quote [ When a colleague first presented test results at the lab’s weekly meeting, Cevaal said, they seemed too good to be true.
[…] “Ultimately, one big unknown remains. Do you need to eliminate the entire reservoir for success or just the major part? If just 10% of the latent reservoir survives will that be sufficient to seed new infection? Only time will tell. ] So they're applying this mRNA thing as well but needed a trick to make it work. Exciting!
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