IMO a “simple browser” of this sort should display literally only the content in the HTML file itself. It shouldn’t even view CSS stored in a separate local CSS file, let alone reach out to the web to download more content.

doesn’t mean that it should be used without consideration for its generally accepted meaning

This is my point. You are deciding that your “accepted meaning” must be the “generally” accepted meaning. That’s prescriptivist. I understood what was meant, because my understanding of the word comfortably allows for this. And since dictionaries generally aim to describe real-world usage (usually listing “archaic” or “rare” where appropriate, which most dictionaries will do with alternative definitions of rape—see attached image), I feel pretty comfortable in asserting that your attempts to prescribe a more limited definition are wrong. Especially given this was seemingly an attempted execution—in a country with rule of law, it would very likely be tried as attempted murder.

To be clear: at no point did I make any reference to rape or the definition thereof. I was only referring to how you and others were using lynch.

We all know the connotations of these terms

Do we? Because I didn’t have any issue with the word as used. To me, a lynching is a violent, usually race/ethnicity-based mob attack on a person. And this pretty well fits the bill.

You’re the one doing linguistic prescriptivism here. The only difference is that what you’re prescribing isn’t what’s in the dictionary, it’s what’s in your own head.

Except that in the context “lynched” is being used in this case, even with a strict “death only” definition, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that “attempted lynching” would have been appropriate. Given that context, and the fact that actually “death only” is not the definition of lynched, can you not see how crying about definitions looks an awful lot like downplaying the severity of this crime? Like when zionists cry about being accused of genocide?

He also used the word “triggered” in the Reddit comments in the way right wingers are wont to do, and then tried to play the “I’m not American, I don’t understand how that word looks to you” card. Never mind that plenty of non-Americans know perfectly well how that looks.

No, it’s far more likely he picked up that word and knew exactly how it was used because he’s been hanging out in far right spaces.

It’s an in joke referencing some stuff he did in a previous season. I don’t think there’s any specific connection to Facebook.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

Here’s an article from last year. It’s Australian, but I think it likely that car brands have the same or similar privacy policies wherever you go.

In short: Tesla and Korean brands are the worst. Japanese brands apart from Mazda are the best for privacy.

I’m not aware of any allegations relating to Age of Mythology or any of the Forgotten Empires–lead Age games. It would strike me as unlikely, given the nature of these games as remasters of ancient code by a group formed initially as modders for AoE2.

A different situation from aoe4, which was developed primarily by Relic, which is a much more conventional game development company, and was developed from scratch.

I’m very nervous about the game’s future, given the AoE3 remake was just officially mothballed last week and AoM has fewer active players on Steam.

But for the game in its current state, I’d say that yes, it’s really, really good. It made a fair few changes from the old version, nearly all of which are excellent improvements. They said their goal was to make this game the game you remember playing through nostalgia goggles, rather than being strictly faithful to the original, and I think they did that really well. You can build bigger armies and reuse god powers. Better quality of life features, etc.

The Chinese expansion releases next month, and they’ve committed to at least one more expansion after that (by preselling the Premium Edition with the first 2 expansions). Aztects or something else from the Americas is likely. If it turns out those expansions are going to be cheap and rushed and crap just to meet their contractual obligations, that’s really unfortunate. I really hope that won’t happen. But in the worst case…the game with what they’ve released already is really good.

Feel free to head over to !aom@lemm.ee if you want to discuss more.

From what I’ve seen, that doesn’t seem to be true. The Definitive Edition seems to have been extremely successful and most of the pros and fans did indeed convert over to it.

Hopefully there’ll be a good modding community that the community of aoe3 fans can coalesce around to continue patching it, like WoL did pre-DE.

I should say, this is when I play ranked games at a slightly-above-average Elo. RTS games have a reputation for trending to go much longer at very low Elos because players aren’t good at doing aggressive strategies. I dunno how much this would apply in AoM though, compared to AoE2 (which is my main source for this point) because defensive buildings are much stronger in AoE2 than AoM.

fwiw in my experience, most Age of Mythology: Retold games last about 10–15 minutes. So you could usually get 2 games in if you’ve got half an hour free.

There’s an enormous Battle for Middle Earth overhaul mod that released last year.

There’s also an entirely unrelated fan attempt to remake BFME2 which I’m personally convinced is never going to see the light of day.

Since 3 DE came out in 2020, they’ve already released 4 noteworthy DLC (plus some cosmetics):

• United States civ
• Mexican civ
• Ethiopians and Hausa civs
• Italian and Maltese civs

So this would have been the 5th expansion since the release of DE.

It’s never been my personal favourite in the franchise, but it’s still a game I have a lot of fondness for, and seeing it shunted off to the side is kinda sad.

They’ll come out soon and say this is an accident. And nobody will believe them. But nobody will change their behaviour anyway.

The term repatriation is not in any way exclusive to POWs. It was, for example, used extensively during COVID when talking about voluntary repatriation of expats to their home countries.

Oh, so they have. I dunno what that means precisely. I think I saw they stopped selling the old AoE3 version, but last I checked AoM EE and AoE2HD were still for sale, but deliberately greyed out and renamed to make it clearer that they’re the old versions. Not sure if they’re still for sale or not as of now.

I don’t play a lot of big budget games where this kind of thing tends to happen. Probably the worst experience I’ve had has been thanks to confusion caused by multiple remasters.

Age of Empires 2 released in 1999 with an expansion in 2000. It was rereleased in 2013 as the HD Edition on Steam.

Then it was rereleased again as the Definitive Edition in 2019.

And I have seen people get confused and buy the HD version when they meant to get DE. Not quite the same as the OP because it’s not caused by malicious anti-consumer bullshit. But that’s the closest I’ve been.