What a great sound, Dwyer can make it weep and you can't beat double drums.

Sadly, jazz lists are still full of content-mill-ass elevator music shitting out inoffensive slop-adjacent goop sprinkled with sequences from jazz standards to make it seem passable.

What a delightful geek, stopping the song to explain the bar's double entendre

I just clicked again and it works for me, try changing content location in PipePipe.

I don't think it's necessarily AI-generated, but having a real live band record tons of instrumental jazz for hours under ten different band names is not much of an improvement. Check out this shit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXa1rZf8gLhyz?pi=u-toj1sUrtQYGb

Genuinely never heard a song described as "bardcore" (whether it's metal like Netherwilds, weird femme folktronica like Kiki Rockwell or guitar-aided storytelling like Ren) that I didn't like and this one is no exception.

It seriously feels like I just lost a friend.

Your friend was bought by EA and all his innard replaced by bunch of cockroaches, just like the dude in Men in Black (1997). If we take corporate personhood seriously, the fucker that died is not the same person who worked on BG2.

Apparently, the album is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEQwq31sT8M

we have no choice

You are working for free moderating an obviously heavily censored shithole. You have several choices, starting with deleting your account.

definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform

You are either paying the subscription or not, your inner states mean nothing to them or us.

that's a hysterical punchline

bigoted reviews posted on games’ Steam pages, which can hugely affect sales for their developers; and Steam curators (self-appointed taste-makers on the platform) directing campaigns against games they perceive to lean left or pursue inclusion.

This fucking shit again. Reviews affect sales? Well, good. You don't get to carefully select a few most-read outlets who'll give you the thumb up. Also, chud curators are "directing" only those who follow them. This argument is about a failing industry that'd like to control what can be said about their products. Make no mistake, Steam's openness in this regard is, for me as a customer at least, added value.

Replacement under warranty is now a heartwarming advert, what a time to build a pc

Translation: it's the same shitty gamebryo they're always using.

The real joke for me is lemmy being so starved of content a meme is cast of the first big spam message and people are irritatedly commenting that they haven't gotten it yet

Fuck you, Ubi. Apart from all your shitty practices, it's a 15-hour game that's 40€ with a 50€ complete edition and cosmetics bullshit. That shit won't fly anymore. I might get it in two years when it's 10€, but only if your kill your launcher as a requirement.

edit: also, it came out a month ago. Learn to suck on the long tail of sales before you sacrifice your employees to Chtulhu, they'll just make their own vaguely middle eastern platformers in Unity or UE and make more money than your shitty company.

Following that logic, pirating software is quite all right, no one is stupid enough to believe someone loses if they make a copy.

“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”

This is less useful than libraries of congress.

Pot protecting users from kettle

in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win

Fuck off with that defeatist shit Mozilla, don't decide for us.