Those nazi Sweds... Golden lion with crowns on blue background is common symbol. Especially when one of our west cities use golden lion on blue background as symbol before nazis were created

I am hesitant to weigh in on discussions about 30+ year old details. I understand enough about memory in general, and mine in particular, to not have great confidence about it. I generally trust Romero’s memory more than mine — I was always a bit jealous of that capability. In broad terms, multiplayer gaming was right up there with 3D gaming in my grand visions of what I wanted to accomplish. The early FPS games were very much “first person Gauntlet”, and Gauntlet had multiplayer. I do clearly remember the first time I got two computers running Doom taking to each other. Moving around on one computer and seeing the character move on the other screen was sublime. And then, of course, I shot the other character. Every shared virtual environment inhabited by young men inevitably hosts deathmatch. I suspect the confusion here may be around the fraction of people that originally bought Doom because of multiplayer. It was almost certainly well under 10%. Maybe under 1%. It wrecked some college networks, but most people didn’t have Ethernet cards or null modem cables. We probably did have some conversations correctly predicting that. Deathmatch was awesome, but most of our players never got to experience it. Even four games later for Quake 3 Arena, being “deathmatch focused” was a huge internal battle, and not at all obviously viable.

Organizationally, Azov is now two army-level groups of forces (Operation Task Forces Azov and Center) with half a dozen corps-level formations. Something like 1/3 of the entire Ukrainian military is currently subordinate to Azov Generals in one shape or another

Archive Of Our Own (AO3), fanfiction website, admits it was hacked and user information has been exposed. kiwifarms.st/threads/fanfict…

Putin is using... *checks notes*... shamans as a weapon.

Costco is selling a $200 Thanksgiving feast with 30 pounds of food to feed eight people The massive turkey dinner is only available for pre-order until November 13

IGN can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3, which its director Scott Chambers calls “absolute carnage":

ABC News failed to mention that Ruslan Knysh is a neo-Nazi ideological officer in the 3rd Army Corps. In June, he attended an anti-LGBT march in Kyiv, where he described "same-sex creatures" as "parasites for Ukraine."

Ashley Williams. The most romanced space racist in the galaxy.

The movies have some of the worst acting and writing to ever be featured in a big budget Hollywood film. Even worse than the original Star Wars trilogy, which is saying something.

Another woke movie, Wildwood, with LGBTQ+ characters, flops horribly. Same sex couples, lesbian and gay couples, two men kissing, with various pronoun talk in the movie. The budget was $100 million, and it only made $15 million globally after 5 days of release. Another one that went woke, and goes broke. Evidently, the stop-motion movie took 16 years to make. What a waste of an art form; all that hand-crafted animation just went into the garbage.

Boy who stabbed girl at school was radicalised online, says father bbc.in/4soXKEa

WOMEN GOT EVERY NET NEW JOB IN AMERICA SINCE DECEMBER 2024 US payrolls grew by 728,000 from December 2024 to September 2026. Women gained 729,000. Men lost 1,000. Health care and social assistance added 1,057,000. Every other industry combined lost 329,000.

Fire Point says they're closing down the "Flamingo" missile project because it's pointless, and it was never meant to be effective; "it was more important as a political statement than as a miracle weapon".

BREAKING: 'Florida's Okaloosa County has announced that the SS United States will be transformed to become the "World's Largest Artificial Reef" on Thursday, November 12, 2026.' The sinking will be livestreamed on thessus.com #ssunitedstates

Entire country drops Social Media ban because it was "too authoritarian" - youtu.be/DKbANE682Nk

I'm gonna spell this out because this issue is deceptively subtle: 1. The Steam client and infrastructure is somewhere between "not that hard" and "trivial". It's a download service attached to a payment processor with a smattering of services on the side. Cloud providers handle all the infrastructure these days. 2. Steam takes 30% of gross revenue; ostensibly for the privilege of using these services, but in reality it is purely to get access to the massive Steam userbase. 3. Steam users love Steam and having their whole library in one place. It works. It's dependable. It has sales and cards and achievements, oh my! 4. PC developers have no option but to distribute through Steam or lose the vast majority of sales. Not releasing on Steam destroys the business model. 5. Therefore, no amount of competition will ever unseat Steam. People post-hoc rationalize this with memes about how gracious Gabe is. And how brilliant their services are. But realistically, no avid Steam user wants other stores to succeed. The mere existence of other stores risks splintering their precious collection. They are "all in" on Steam. Invested. Even if an alternative were objectively better, by whatever metric you care about, it would still be of no interest to Steam users. They would in fact find it to be a problem and a threat to their investment. Competition in this space is not only uninteresting to most Steam users, it's actively denigrated! The CONSEQUENCE of this situation, is that 30% of all gross revenue is siphoned out of the PC games industry into a black hole. It doesn't recirculate into studios. It doesn't pay any bonuses. It doesn't fund any sequels or DLC. This is a particularly insidious tax because it's well hidden. It's a second order effect. Most Steams users don't know, and the few that do never consider the aggregate effect this has on their favorite hobby. It's undeniable that, at this point in history, Valve could EASILY lower the distribution fee while maintaining healthy margins. But they don't have to. Users are locked into Steam and therefore developers are stuck paying 30% of gross revenue to Valve. The irony is that Steam users, the very ones maintaining this unbreakable stalemate, would benefit the most from a better financed game development ecosystem. I don't think this is fixable. It's just sad.