Godus was a huge disappointment, basically a “what if Populous was a mobile skinner-box clicker with time-gating and micro-transactions?”

Magic Carpet (1994) was a really interesting take on the genre, also by Bullfrog. Imagine the god-sim mechanics of Populous combined with a 3D flight-sim/shooter and you get Magic Carpet.

Their post is specifically about Populous: The Beginning which came out in 1998 and was the first Populous game to use 3D graphics. It has quite different mechanics than the original Populous games, and you can see the DNA of Black & White emerging, with the concept of having a leader character that has an important role in the gameplay.

From the rules:

All posts must be news articles.

From the post:

abcnews.go.com

QED

Just because the post complies with one rule doesn’t mean that it is now exempt from all other rules. I already posted the part of the rules which it violates: “No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.”

I’m not sure where you went wrong, but maybe take a few minutes before coming in so hot next time

What does “coming in so hot” mean? Posting something that you disagree with?

This isn’t gossip, the police department confirmed that it happened.

Do you think that “gossip” means things that aren’t true?

Recent developments about prominent figures are news even if you don’t think it’s newsworthy.

The rules of this community disagree with you.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed.

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You could try VanillaOS 2.0 Beta which is a Debian-based immutable distro, planned for final release later this year.

That’s kind of true, but MacOS and Mac OSX are 2 different things

Then Windows 3.0 and Windows 11 are two different things, so by that metric you can’t include Windows either.

all the way from 1991 to 2024, I think the only other OS that has managed that is Windows

It’s easy to forget about MacOS when it only has 15% desktop market share.

Operating systems that started before 1991 that are still in active development (had a release in the last 12 months):

• Multics (1969-)
• MVS (1974-) via OS/390 (1995-) -> z/OS (2001-)
• VMS (1977) via OpenVMS (1992-)
• BSD (1978-) via 386BSD -> FreeBSD, NetBSD -> OpenBSD
• HP-UX (1982-)
• SunOS (1982-1994) via Solaris (1992-)
• MacOS (1984-)
• AIX (1986-)
• RISC OS (1987-)

Almost made it:

• Minix (1987-2017)
• Genera (1982-2021)
• AmigaOS (1985-2021)
• NeXTSTEP (1987-1997) via GNUStep (1993-2021)
• IBM i (1988-2022)
• SpartaDOS (1988-2022)

but it does make me happy to see articles condemning their moves almost every day

Did you read this article? It’s a pro-Microsoft article published on MSN (Microsoft Network).

He was in the airport, remember. Not in a local market.

I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.

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True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.

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I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can’t afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?

Fuck this guy.

Why not post your blogs to a fediverse platform? Do they need to be on a separate hosted system? You’ll probably get more people reading and engaging with your posts if you are just posting to a Mastodon instance rather than hosting on a separate web platform and hoping that people stumble across it.

Google *had good search. It’s been dogshit for some time now though.

I used Qwant for a few days and then it popped up a modal dialog asking me to turn off my ad-blocker. Never used it again after that.

I’m also going to try using the eSIM to trial Google Fi

You degoogled your phone and then want to route all of your mobile data through Google servers?

Go on then, LTT. Delete your youtube account.

The article links the wrong paper.

The source of the 7% stat is this report from 2024: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/pdfs/mm7309a5-H.pdf

During 2019–2022, melatonin was implicated in 7% of all ED visits for unsupervised medication exposures by infants and young children.

The article said 7% of all emergency visits (with no qualifier). You said 7% of visits by children which sounds more reasonable. The actual statistic is even more specific than that.

During 2019–2022, melatonin was implicated in 7% of all ED visits for unsupervised medication exposures by infants and young children.

- https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/pdfs/mm7309a5-H.pdf

The article links a summary of the wrong CDC report (June 2022) that does not contain this stat. The report that this stat comes from (quoted above) was published in March 2024 by a completely different group of researchers.

And why did the article say the statistic was for 2012-2021 when the quote statistic refers to the period 2019-2022? Because they’ve conflated another statistic from the same report:

The prevalence of melatonin use by U.S. adults quintupled from 0.4% during 1999–2000 to 2.1% during 2017–2018 (1). This rise coincided with a 530% increase in poison center calls for pediatric melatonin exposures during 2012–2021 and a 420% increase in emergency department (ED) visits for unsupervised melatonin ingestion by infants and young children during 2009–2020 (2,3).

It took me about 10 seconds to find the report and verify the stat. It was the first link returned in the search results.

Journalism really is dead.