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Some partners have always gotten the 50/50 split treatment, 70% share is only for the special minority that make the most money for Twitch. Recently it's been driving people off the platform and onto YouTube as the rev split is 70/30 by default there.

Oh my god, it's fugly.

It works.

Asus was not the first. I grabbed a Zotac 3080 for around 900 dollars just over a week ago.

At last now there is a valid reason to call it JIF - to honour the guy's memory.

It makes me wonder, why open source printer firmwares aren't as popular as OpenWRT on routers or Rockbox on MP3 players?

I feel like 2022 will be the year that I die of popcorn poisoning.

It's a quirky nugget, I mostly got it for the fun of confusing people at work and on public transport.

Hard to tell. It's godawful compared to my Canon R6, but it doesn't produce a total blurry mess so I can't call it completely useless.

There are options. I got this one, it was released in 2021 Unihertz makes them.

I am highly intrigued.

A sad story I keep telling people about rockstar... I once talked my friends into buying GTA 5 to play some online races together, and everything was brilliant until the day Discord rolled out their in-game overlay, at which point all my friends were banned from playing the game over the span of one day for using an unrecognised overlay. I was the only one left because I despised 3rd party overlays and turned it off right after reading release notes for that update. All ban appeals were rejected by a robot, we never got to talk to a living person, their accounts remain banned to this day. I still feel guilty for making them spend money on that piece of crap. Now, look at how they treated the modding community prior to the release of the remastered trilogy, and look at what they ended up releasing. Why in the world is anyone even thinking about buying GTA 6? Are you mad?

Good.

The game has enough words hardcoded into it to last until 2026.

In a somewhat surprising move, New York Times announced their acquisition of Wordle, everyone's favourite word-guessing game. For those living under the rock, for the past several months Wordle captured minds and hearts of millions of players worldwide. The game offers a simple challenge - a player is given six attempts to guess a five letter word which rotates daily. After a guess is made the game highlights letters that are present in the actual word - yellow letters are present in the word albeit in a different spot, green letters are present in the word in the same exact spot, and grey letters are not a part of the target word. Using those clues, players make subsequent guesses until they find the right word or run out of guesses for the day. After completing the daily challenge, the player is offered to share the game results as a grid of coloured squares representing their string of guesses. Besides the obvious fun challenge, the game offered just one more reason to message one's friends, family, and loved ones every day. Of course, all nice things come to an end at some point, and New York Times had to jump on Wordle's status of a cultural phenomenon, spending an undisclosed low-seven figure sum to purchase the game. Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has made a comment on the acquisition in his Twitter post linked below. If it is any consolation, Josh worked closely with NYT to make sure the transition goes smoothly, and every player's progress is retained. Additionally, New York Times claims that for the time being the game will remain free to play for existing and new players, and there will be no changes done to the gameplay. Quotes For players who are hell-bent on having unrestricted access to the original Wordle experience, I may interest you in hello wordl - a free Wordle clone that lets you guess an infinite amount of words alongside the daily challenge, and offers difficulty settings on top of that. Alternatively, you can save the Wordle page locally as Web Page (Complete), and it will work just as good on your local computer even without an internet connection. My thoughts I don't see it as a particularly bad thing. There is a solid chance NYT is not actually going to ruin Wordle, and even if they do - remember that all things are highly temporary nowadays. There is no telling how long Wordle could ride the wave of success and popularity before people's short attention span would force them to completely forget it and turn to something new and exciting. Keeping that in mind, I think Josh's move to pass it onto someone else and get some good money for it is pretty pragmatic and not at all unethical. Sources https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/whats-a-five-letter-word-for-acquire-nyt-buys-wordle-for-low-7-figures/ https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/ https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ https://hellowordl.net/