Got it, thanks. I couldn’t imagine this being a reason enough for someone not to subscribe to Apple TV. I don’t even know which services I subscribe to support Airplay to my TV but then again I know people swear by chromecasting things.

So the issue is that Apple TV is available but it doesn’t support Google’s Airplay equivalent?

Obviously it’s not possible to block everything but subjectively speaking it blocked quite a good deal. While taking cytisine tablets all that nicotine does is make you nauseous and even if it does anything it’s not enough to offset massive adverse effects of smoking that you’re suddenly feeling. This effectively stops you from being able to enjoy nicotine at all.

I meant that you won’t be getting anything out of that nicotine while taking pills.

It’s just something that tickles the same receptor so you don’t miss nicotine until you’re past the psychological addiction.

You definitely miss it but you can’t relapse unless you stop taking pills. You decrease the dose and number of cigs to zero over a period of month and hope that it’s enough to overcome most severe withdrawal symptoms.

Nicotine receptor agonists work and they helped me quit smoking but you still need plenty of willpower. Removing friction might or might not work but cost wasn’t a big part of consideration once I decided to quit.

Apple TV is available for pretty much every major TV platform. Chromecast has been abandoned by Google so why would Apple support it?

Oh, great, more exclusives to cement Sony dominance.

Lynch didn’t go anywhere beyond rushing to the end of part 2 and contributed to the problem where everyone thinks Dune is “Paul and his cool mom Jessica defeat bad yucky guys” story.

Villeneuve might have botched part 2 by making it too much of a Hollywood flick while also refusing to do any sort of exposition beyond dialogue in a true Villeneuve fashion. Based on interviews he seems to be one of the few people that understand that this story is not finished without Messiah.

Not going to defend the show though. It’s another production where I have no idea who the target audience is. People who like Dune and Kardashians?

That source code is available and the game is maintained on all major platforms including ARM Mac native.

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

https://github.com/JimmieKJ/unrealTournament (public mirror)

https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

no longer accessible inside Russia

Fuck Apple for not exiting Russia but the title makes it sound like they removed those globally.

This looks like either a bug in the platform or people with Premium Lite. The article made no attempt at investigating this because all they did was to reprint complaints from anonymous people on Reddit. Customer support offering boilerplate reply about why someone is seeing ads sounds like par for the course here because it’s all either LLM chatbots or people in third world countries who couldn’t care less.

Most of the games in AA that I played have been reworked to remove monetisation while their regular App Store versions offer freemium model only.

If you own an iPhone just get Apple Arcade through Apple One, it’s really worth it if you game on your phone. No predatory monetisation, regular self-contained games, plenty of high quality titles.

My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.

I understand that half of the world is currently healing psychological trauma from the US election results but Atlus has been commenting on politics in their games for much longer.

Amazon did very well with The Expanse and Fallout, they could pull this off.

I was mostly talking about Phantom Liberty part - it is much more interesting and better executed than anything in the base game.

I played it at release on PS4 and then with Phantom Liberty on XSX. It was awful game with a great story then. Today it’s a pretty good game with one of the greatest stories in this medium. It’s often brought up as a comeback story for CDPR but lack of polish still rears its head in places. For example clothing pieces still have rarity label based on how much defensive stat it gave prior to patch 2.0 (which detached armour rating from the clothes).

It was the only last gen console to run Cyberpunk 2077 with a stable framerate. First party exclusives made good use of it too.