Tag: Jessica Jones

• Epic Games
  • Thimbleweed Park
    • 2017
    • A haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt-out pillow factory, a dead body pixelating under the bridge, toilets that run on vacuum tubes… you’ve never visited a place like this before.
    • In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

• After being with the company for 16 years, and leading it for 13 of them, he’s moving on to spend more time with family and friends
• The reins will be passed to Doug Bowser, the current head of sales and marketing, who has been working with Reggie for the past four years
  • They’re already leaning into the memes, with Bowser posting a photo thanking everyone for the warm welcome that has plushes of Mario and Luigi tied up together on a shelf
• Reggie’s posted a heart-felt goodbye on the Nintendo of America Twitter account, thanking fans for their never-ending support and passion

• Apparently they had some innocuous videos flagged, and according to YouTube they were reviewed and given strikes for sexual content, specifically involving minors
  • This process even had one user’s GMail account completely disabled, leaving them unable to contact YouTube through normal means
• Once the channels got in touch with YouTube to argue their case though, they were reinstated before the end of the day, saying that the YouTubers were taken down mistakenly
• The root of the mistake seems to be the titles of the videos, referring to combat power as CP
  • It’s a common term in the Pokemon Go community, but it’s also unfortunately used as shorthand for child pornography
• In the end it’s good that YouTube is making these kinds of efforts, but considering Google’s pockets I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a human to look at cases once they’ve been flagged for review

• The app will delivery courtesy reminders whenever 10 or more people are playing in the same location
• They’ll also work with public parks to remind users of a location’s hours and make the associated stops inaccessible when closed, open a complaints reporting site, and grant removals for Pokestops within 40m of a single-family property
• The named plaintiffs are also getting $1000 each, while the lawyers are requesting over $8M in fees and expenses

• Folding phones are finally here, and they’re absurdly expensive and unnecessary!
  • Samsung has announced the Galaxy Fold, launching April 26th and starting at $1980 USD
  • It strikes me as the worst of both worlds- when unfolded it looks like a typical Android tablet, which have generally been lacking, and when folded it’s a really thick phone with gigantic bezels (seems like almost a full inch each on the top and bottom)
  • It feels like this is basically a folding tablet, with the exterior screen kind of tacked on to make it also a phone
  • If nothing else it will bring the foldable display technology some more popularity and inspire others to innovate further with the tech
• They announced the new Galaxy S10 with an interesting ultrasonic fingerprint scanner hidden behind the somewhat excessive 6.7” edge-to-edge display
• It’s also 5G ready, which is jumping the gun a bit because the networks sure aren’t
• Samsung also announced Galaxy Buds, an Airpods competitor that can wirelessly charge from the S10 using PowerShare, and a fancy new batch of smartwatches to complete their matching set

• The root of the investigation is whether Facebook violated the terms of a 2011 settlement with the FTC, prohibiting Facebook from misrepresenting the privacy or security of user info and requiring consent before overriding privacy settings, after they were found to have “deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.”
• The current investigation started in March of last year, after 87 million users’ info was given to a political consulting firm that did work with the Trump campaign
• • I’d be surprised if they weren’t also taking into account some of the more recent revelations, like making the posts of 14 million users public despite privacy settings set otherwise and giving away private information and photos left and right
• If they fight the fines, which is sounds like they may based on their usual denials and non-statements, they could face a massive privacy lawsuit from the FTC and the US Government

• Among some of the worst offenders tested by the Wall Street Journal are
  • Realtor.com sends info on the listings that a user views, including location, price, and if they’re marked as a favourite
    Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor, the most popular heart-rate app on iOS, sends a user’s heart rate to Facebook immediately after it’s recorded
  • Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker tells Facebook when a user is having their period, or if they’re trying to get pregnant

• Razer is closing down their game store after being open only 10 months
  • They were just reselling Steam and Uplay games, so as long as you make sure to activate your codes before Feb 28 you’ll be safe
  • They’ll also apparently still honour any existing preorders
• Pokemon Go is now allowing players to switch teams, with a couple asterisks
  • It costs 1000 coins (earnable in gyms or by spending money), and can only be done once per year
• The Netflix/Marvel partnership is officially over, with no more seasons of The Punisher and Jessica Jones, the last two Marvel series being made on the platform, being produced
  • The third season of Jessica Jones will still air sometime this year, but that’ll be the end
  • Time will tell if the eventual Marvel streaming service will continue the existing Netflix stories, or if they’ll need to reboot things
• The final pieces of Shovel Knight, initially set to release on April 9th, have been delayed by “several months”
  • Originally revealed with a 2018 launch date, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Shovel Knight Showdown, and the physical release of Treasure Trove have all been pushed back to an unspecified date this year, along with the associated amiibo three-pack

• It’s an urban fantasy series that feels like a blend of The Dresden Files and American Gods, creating a world with people, monsters, gods, and goddesses from a wide array of mythologies and pantheons
• It all comes together really well and sucks you in, with the books feeding in to eachother pretty directly
• Including novellas I’ve devoured 17 books in the last three weeks, and I can’t wait to read the last few and see how it ends

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War veteran trys to radicalize a young man to assassinate key members of the government. (Movie)

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