I first played it on UltraHLE back in the day, and after getting to the very end of the game, the gates that let you get down the tower bugged out and wouldn’t open. Everything had worked great up to that point. Fortunately I was able to find a cheat that let me get past them and finish the game anyhow.

Using racism in a critical way is still racist

Might have to try this…

Ironically, the use of the wording “the personalization trap” in the article makes me think Gemini likely assisted in the writing. Gemini loves calling things traps.

Considering back then they had asbestos, lead, etc, we’re still a lot better off now, I think. A lot of our stuff now is “this increases risk” whreas a lot of stuff then was “this causes literal organ failure”.

True, I have a tungsten cube! It’s a small one, and I have never had an object get lost in the couch more easily. Sinks right to the bottom.

I think it’s worth pointing out also that Reddit moved away from vote-based ranking like 10 years ago. They use an algorithm for ranking as well. The karma scores you see next to posts are not their actual vote tally. The numbers are assigned by algorithm with the votes just being a factor that influences the final number. I hated that change. It was probably the earliest sign for me that things were going in a bad direction.

Something easy you can do for web browsers is just have at least two installed: one that you use for personal info and trustworthy sites, and the other that you use for unknown/sketchy sites.