[–] 51 points 1 day ago (1 child)

I don't share many of the same criticisms of HumbleBundle as most, and have been a happy subscriber for a long time.

But wow this shit is unacceptable. Straight up removed 2FA without any notification, allow passwords changes without any security. Insane. I will be cancelling my subscription for the first time in over a decade, this is truly inexcusable security fuck up.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    That is a hell of an assertion. We have an extremely small sample size of written word from that time period. Do you really believe that children only ever said "father" in their tongues of that day? You think babies went right from incoherent babble to "pater" in ancient Greek?

    Even among the written samples we have, your assertion just doesn't hold up.

    "Dad" and "dada" have variants in dozens of languages stretching back to ancient languages, including ancient Greek (tata), Latin (tata), and Sanskrit (tatah).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    Then we quickly realized the direction the movie was going as far as vocabulary. That we were getting a classic tale told using modern vocabulary. I’ve seen that in other movies and it’s not a dealbreaker for me. But that modern vocabulary combined with just badly written dialogue did not sit well with me.

    I'm not going to try to convince you to like the Odyssey, but you may want to revisit your reasons and biases for disliking it. Ever heard of the "Tiffany Problem" or "Tiffany Effect"? I think you're experiencing it in regards to the dialogue here.

    "Dad" is recorded in writing as early as the 1500s, and some linguists believe it predates that. There's nothing "modern" about the word.

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  • [–] 70 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    Trump is a symptom, not the root cause. USA still has a looot of work to do. I think it will take a generation to undo any harm. Most Canadians I know continue to avoid shopping US for the foreseeable future. Hell, I'm not holding my breath that Trump is even gone in 2029, considering he just appointed modern day Goebbels as his Chief of Staff.

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    The canceled movie spinoff is getting a new lease of life as Playable Archive, released today for free on Steam.

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    But fans quickly noticed art inconsistencies that some alleged were evidence of low quality AI use. In one image, a samurai’s face was replaced with a metallic texture that struggled to distinguish between the face and helmet. Fans also pointed out inconsistencies on the new storyboard cutscenes.

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