It’s worth noting that Ad Standards is the industry self-regulatory body. They don’t do anything pro-actively, and nothing they do is legally enforceable. They don’t have the power to issue fines or enforce takedowns and all their recommendations are just that – recommendations. Member organisations tend to abide by the industry rules, but they themselves had a hand in writing those rules. All that really amounts to is the occasional withdrawal of an ad -after- it’s been running long enough to have complaints received and reviewed. In the meantime, the damage is frequently already done. More frequently it’s a case of “we have investigated ourselves and found we’ve done nothing wrong” (note the number of “no breach” decisions in the article). Non-members, OTOH, are under no obligation to do anything at all (the Gotham City ad in the article is still running AFAIK, despite being declared a breach – Gotham City are not a member of Ad Standards). All it really does is acts as a way for people to feel like their complaints are being heard while fundamentally changing nothing.

I finished Tactical Breach Wizards recently, which is weird, because I usually bounce hard off turn based tactical games. I also generally suck at them. That doesn’t stop me trying them every once in a while because I really -want- to get into them. TBW is one of those rare ones that plays more like a puzzle game and I really enjoyed it. I played on easy and found the mechanics very forgiving. Gameplay mostly revolves around setting up combos with each character’s unique skills, allowing for some very satisfying outcomes when everything goes to plan. Writing is top notch; the story is fun, funny, engaging, humorous and touching with some really good character moments. Art style is very much low-poly pastel indie style, but it’s well executed and looks good IMO. Veterans of the genre might find it a little simplistic, and the main campaign is fairly short, but I absolutely loved it.

Made washed flour seitan a couple times recently. It’s cheap, simple and delicious. downside being how fucking long it takes. The thing that really bugs me though, is that it feels incredibly wasteful. Like I can’t help but wonder how much water I’m using or how much bread I could be making instead.

could help the affordable housing crisis

Yeah because private investors owning tons of homes totally isn’t how we got into this mess in the first place.

The first one wasn’t even good.

What do you think of this guy?

The holes we don’t talk about.

This is a running theme in Australia. Most public holidays (aside from xmas and new years IIRC) were arranged to fall on the closest Monday, regardless of the actual date. It’s only changed relatively recently.

Really hard to say. Not officially supported in the standard, but I’m fairly sure I’ve used at least SDHC cards in older laptops. Probably depends on the individual device, reader, firmware, etc. At a guess I’d say linux is more likely to have limit-removing drivers where possible. Android encryption probably doesn’t help tho.

Also who takes their manifesto to McDonald’s?

Anecdotal, but I used to know someone with prosopagnosia (face blindness). They’d frequently identify people from further away than I could, partially due to their gait, whereas I had to wait until I could make out their face.

If you’re on graphene, it’s in Settings -> Accessibility -> Color and motion -> color correction

Some suggestions:

Make use of app timers if your phone has them.
Alternatively, uninstall the apps. Reddit sucks on mobile browser; you’ll naturally use it less.
Set your phone to grayscale if you can. Still perfectly functional but way less appealing to use because no pretty colours.

-Someone- will go down for it. Whether that’s actually the guy or not is another question.

Any number of other people could have been caught up in it.

This was not random violence

Pick one.

Happened in 2017. Twice.

Late Amiga 3D games. You could just tell the vision far exceeded the hardware’s capabilities, but that didn’t stop them from trying. Some really impressive technical tricks and code optimization in that era because you couldn’t just throw more hardware at the problem.

I mean that’s true too, assuming you don’t destroy your air fryer first.

Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don’t try this. That’s a small electric fan-forced oven. There’s a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.

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