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Another Report Confirms That Criminal Behavior Keeps ‘Dropping as a Percentage of Overall Crypto Activity’
14.6.2022
Global politicians’ claims that crypto is the criminal world’s currency of choice may be wide of the mark, another report reitarates.
The findings were detailed in an annual report by the American blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace, which was bought up last year by the payments giant...
Colombia Takes First Steps Toward Regulating Cryptocurrency Exchanges
9.6.2022
The Congress of Colombia has approved a bill that regulates the behavior of cryptocurrency exchanges in the country in its first discussion, taking the first steps to bring clarity to this issue. One of the creators of the bill, Mauricio Toro, a representative of the Green Party, stated that this...
Stray Won’t Show You The Cat’s Butthole (Probably)
8.6.2022
If there’s a cat in your house, how does it typically walk around? With its tail pointed straight up, probably—y’know, like any normal cat. But the feline protagonist of Stray is a bit more modest: He primarily keeps his tail down, at least based on gameplay footage viewed during a hands-off...
Gearbox Boss Randy Pitchford Buys Hollywood's Magic Castle
13.4.2022
Gearbox co-founder/CEO/magician Randy Pitchford has bought The Magic Castle, an iconic Hollywood property that’s both home to The Academy of Magical Arts (AMA) and has also been the subject of serious allegations of a “variety of abuses, including sexual assault, sexual harassment...
Call Of Duty Cheat Caught Hacking While Trying To Show He Wasn't Hacking
31.3.2022
In a recent tournament match, a Call of Duty: Vanguard player was accused of cheating. In an attempt to clear his name, the player shared off-screen footage of his gameplay, in which you could clearly see...that he was cheating.Read more
No Motion Isn’t Always prefers-reduced-motion
8.2.2022
There is a code snippet that I see all the time when the media query prefers-reduced-motion is talked about. Here it is:
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
transition-duration: 0.01ms...
The Problem With Critical Role’s Latest Campaign
8.2.2022
In early fall, the hugely successful Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” series Critical Role announced plans for their third campaign, set in the fictionalized world of Marquet. While the campaign would draw inspiration from real-life SWANA [Southwest Asian/North African] cultures, the group...
As US Inflation Skyrockets White House Blames Monopolies, Economist Calls for Price Controls
3.1.2022
U.S. inflation is red hot and a number of analysts and economists are predicting America will face further economic issues as politicians and the Biden administration blame corporations. This perspective on rising inflation has led finance authors like Isabella Weber to believe that price controls...
The surprising behavior of !important in CSS custom property values
17.12.2021
Huh! I did not realize that CSS custom properties had their own resolution behavior for how !important works in their values. Uh, despite writing a guide about them. 😬 But hey it’s now updated.
Stefan Judis documents it clearly. …
Analysts say Bitcoin’s behavior at $47.5K mirrors the pre-breakout 2017 market
9.12.2021
Bitcoin price succumbed to another wave of selling, but analysts say the current market structure at $47,500 mirrors the early bull-market from 2017
Riot Games Sues Scammers Offering Folks Fake Jobs At The Studio
9.12.2021
A nasty scam has become more popular over the last few months. People desperate for work at popular game studios like Riot and Rockstar Games get an email from a recruiter asking them to apply. They do and eventually get the job only to realize it’s all fake, usually after losing money to...
Australian Video Games Industry Is Getting Its Own Union
7.12.2021
Game Workers Unite Australia, a body that had previously been an advisory and support organisation, announced today that early next year it will be transitioning to becoming a full-blown union.Read more
Bitcoin whales move fresh coins to exchanges in repeat of behavior before $42K BTC price dip
6.12.2021
Large-volume trader moves point to concerns that a fresh Bitcoin price dip could still occur
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon Is Suing the SEC
25.10.2021
Do Kwon, co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, the company that backs the Terra blockchain ecosystem, is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kwon, who was served a subpoena while appearing at Messari’s Mainnet conference as a presenter, states this behavior was against...
Bonsly Will Die If It Doesn't Cry Enough
11.9.2021
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Bonsly!Read more
SEC Showing Sketchy Behavior: Coinbase CEO
8.9.2021
Hundreds of thousands of people who hold crypto have been reaping windfalls on assets for the last several years. It is a win-win situation for those who want to lend their funds and make a tidy profit and many crypto companies have offered these facilities for a few years now. One of the major...
Boyfriend Dungeon's Great Story Wouldn't Work Without Its Most Controversial Character
2.9.2021
Boyfriend Dungeon is an isometric action RPG mixed with a dating sim. Both of its halves are about rejection. Shocking, I know, that a dating sim would also happen to include a lot of rejection. The difference is that Boyfriend Dungeon makes navigating the complexities of rejection its A-plot...
Please, Free Me From The Bad Takes About China’s Gaming Restrictions
1.9.2021
Whenever any kind of news about China hits the internet, I brace myself for oversimplifications by English-language writers and commentators. But in a country with roughly 720 million gamers (roughly twice the U.S. population), the context behind the recent gaming restrictions placed on Chinese...
Tiny Library Is Like WarioWare For RPGs
31.8.2021
Tiny Library is an upcoming collection of role-playing games (the tabletop kind) that takes everything you know about them and strips them back until they’re as small, simple and experimental as they can be.Read more
Pokémon Go's Reddit Goes Dark In Protest Against Site Inaction
30.8.2021
Pokémon Go creators Niantic recently proved slow in addressing widespread fears about the game forcing players into close proximity with other humans amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, in a ripple from that, the game’s Reddit sub, r/pokemongo, has switched itself to ‘private’, in response to what...