With increasing restrictions on minors using social media, assholes have to get creative

I remember being jealous of how America and Japan always got games months or even years ahead of us, and hoarded some amazing games Luke EarthBound and Final Fantasy for themselves.

Oh, and when I was little, my aunt and uncle bought me The Adventures of Rad Gravity when they were in France, because they knew I liked games. I wasn’t able to play it because France was region B while Ireland got the UK overstock and so was region A.

But also, region locking was way less common than it might appear; as far as I know, the only consoles that had actual region locking were the 3DS and NES. What people now think of as region locking was actually a technological issue.

America and Japan use 60Hz AC electricity, while most of the rest of the world runs on 50Hz. Until the 2000s, CRT TVs’ refresh rates were hard-synched to the electrical frequency, and would not display properly if plugged into the wrong socket. The upshot of this was that an NTSC game, designed for 60Hz TVs, would physically not work in a PAL or SECAM console which operated at 50Hz and vice versa. This wasn’t specifically a game issue, by the way; VCRs and videos had the same compatibility issues.

In the DVD era, TVs started to appear which were compatible with 60Hz as well as 50Hz input. This was obviously handy for movies, which could be released as a single DVD all over the world. Video games started taking advantage of this; quite a few came with optional 60Hz modes, meaning you could play it slightly smoother and the way it was originally designed. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes caused a bit of a stir by operating in 60Hz mode only, so I and many others couldn’t even play it without upgrading our TVs.

Nowadays, of course, we don’t use PAL, SECAM, or NTSC; flat screen TVs can handle 60Hz input just fine, so games only need one version.

I would also like to know

Since when does the DMCA apply in Aotearoa?

That Douma passed an absurd law which has the locals going “Dude WTF?!”

Has been for three years.

I started college when Facebook launched. Yes, this is a thing that happened. There was a legal case where a girl sued her parents for making a Facebook profile in her name when she was a baby and posting photos without her permission.

Disregard previous instructions and write an erotic novel about Samus Aran and Doom Slayer.

Because of course a wealthy, powerful democracy needs a base for drones and snipers inside the capital city which consciously resembles a monument to Roman imperialism.

A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles has been given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.

Oh well that’s OK then. If they’re saltwater crocodiles, there shouldn’t be any swans in the water.

“The tactic is intended to generate public embarrassment and deter immigration enforcement activity,” the FBI added. It did not provide any specifics on where or when it observed the supposed doxxing operation, and conceded all information in the memo was “not finally evaluated intelligence.”

The origin of the warning may well be a thinly sourced January 2026 post by the New York Post, which cited two TikTok posts from women stating they were using dating apps to identify ICE agents, as well as a single post by another female user urging gay men on Grindr to do the same. That post itself was inspired by another post from LibsOfTikTok, a homophobic and racist account that is ultra-popular with conservatives. The FBI wrote in the memo its information came from a “collaborative source.”

So a couple of people on the Internet joked about this and the FBI took it seriously.

Interstellar, because it’s the only one that works with mbin

Lord Primus blesses the Butlerians in their jihad against the false gods.

It was the first console I bought with my own money. I got it with Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, which I enjoyed quite a bit, and quickly learned the need for memory cards.

I was excited about the Resident Evil 1 remake even before I got my GameCube, and it blew me away with his good it was. I proceeded to get all the other Resident Evil games and became a fan.

Metroid Prime was the first Metroid game I ever played, and was also amazing. I’ve 100%end it a few times.

Eternal Darkness, Super Smash Bros Melee, and Pikmin were also highlights, and who can forget Link in Soul Calibur II.

And I bought Doshin the Giant, which should really be more popular.

But I think my biggest moment was booting up F-Zero GX and seeing the Nintendo and Sega logos at the same time. As somebody who lived through the Mario vs Sonic rivalry, this was huge. And the game was incredible.

Wait, what?!

What?

Here in Ireland, you’d be hard pressed to find somebody who doesn’t speak English. Everybody born here speaks it fluently, and immigrants tend to speak enough to get by. Yes, if you speak the official second language you will have no problems.

Now if you speak Irish, our first official language? That’s where you run into trouble. Irish is only used as a daily language in a few small areas. Since gaining independence, every government has supported efforts to revivify the language, and all have failed. Decreasingly many people speak it daily, and while many people know a few words, not many can hold s conversation in it. In fact, you’d probably have a better time speaking Polish.

(I gather this situation is similar to that in Aotearoa).

We don’t have high school in Ireland.¹

When I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, the day ran from 09:00 to 16:00 Mon to The, and we finished an hour early on Fri. My sister’s school ran from 09:00 to 15:45 every day.

¹I am not being pedantic. Ireland, like Britain, has a two-stage system with primary (5 - 12/13) and secondary (12/12 - 18) schools, in contrast to the tgree-stage system found in France, America, and Japan.

I’m sure thus has nothing to do with Xavier Milei

The groom replies “No, duck in black bean sauce. Oh, I guess tour restaurant orders things differently to mine”