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Nintendo doesn't credit composers on new Nintendo Music app
  • Oh wow. That's even worse than Falcom's policy regarding composers. Are they really that afraid their staff will get poached? Or are they being so cheap that they just don't want them to get the raises that accompany the rise in fame?

  • Guillaume Dubois, le directeur général d’Euronews, « révoqué »
  • Pour le remplacer, Pedro Vargas David, président d’Alpac, un mystérieux fonds d’investissement portugais actionnaire d’Euronews, mais aussi président du conseil d’administration de la chaîne, a choisi le journaliste allemand Claus Strunz, âgé de 58 ans. Après vingt-six ans passés au sein du groupe de médias Axel Springer – où M. Strunz a notamment été vice-président chargé de la télévision et de la vidéo, mais aussi rédacteur en chef du tabloïd Bild et de son édition dominicale Bild am Sonntag – celui-ci a été nommé directeur général et directeur de l’information d’Euronews.

    Yep, on y est ! Remplacer un journaliste par le Cyril Hanouna allemand, qu'est-ce qui pourrais mal se passer ?

    Oh wait.

    Le Monde et ses partenaires [...] avaient révélé que des entités proches du premier ministre hongrois, Viktor Orban, avaient été, dans le plus grand secret, très largement impliquées dans l’acquisition de la chaîne d’information paneuropéenne.

    Aussi, une présentation PowerPoint du fonds Szechenyi, classée « strictement confidentielle », mentionnait explicitement que l’un des objectifs du rachat d’Euronews, qualifié de « septième marque la plus influente sur les politiques de l’UE », est « d’atténuer les biais de gauche dans le journalisme ».

  • Macron lures British nuclear start-up to Paris
  • As a french man, I wholeheartedly approve of the bond villain style Macron picture they gave as headline. It's very appropriate for what he's doing nowadays (even though, in this precise article case, he really didn't do much tbh)

  • Cat distribution
  • A collar or other physical appariments wouldn't stop you from abducting it either. Where I come from and (I assume) in many parts of the world, cats have an electronic chip in their neck with basic info about the owner and how to contact them, which would be discovered when you bring them to the vet.

    But I think that's more of a cultural thing. Personally, I consider not letting your cat roam free in the neighbourhood (if you have the ability to let them) unjust and borderline animal abuse, close to how I would consider it if you kept your dog inside all the time.

    Finally, taking a cat home out of, what, pettiness(?) sounds like a terrible idea, because beyond any notion of ethics, dealing witha cat you keep away from their territory and the people they know would be both a psycological and financial perspective. If you want to be hurtful to someone, there are easier and cheaper ways to do it than to abduct their pets.

    So no, as a pet owner, abduction is really not anywhere near being a concern for me. Getting run over though? That IS a concern, particularly when cats panic. However, cats have far better hearring than we do and can hear cars from a mile away (esp when they're familiar with them).

  • The French far left has lessons for how to defeat the far right
  • Huh. A tribune by Sophie Binet (general secretary of the CGT, one of the biggest French trade union, and major player in the june elections as well as the protests last year) in the Guardian?

    Certainly wasn't on my bingo card today.

  • Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
  • Thank you for the link! It helped putting things into proper nuance and context (indcluding throwing away that ridiculous notion that the 'Steam Store' and the 'Steam Gaming Platform' are two completly different things in different markets).

    However, reading the whole thing, it sounds to me like while the court dismissed some of the claims (1 to 4 and 7 apparently), they agreed that Wolfire and the other plaitiffs had the right to 'plausibly allege unlawful conduct' about the 'Most-favored-nations restraints' (the part where Steam forces publishers to set prices on all stores without steam keys being involved) without mentioning anything more on the subject.

    I'm not americain so I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but that means the ruling isn't over and it'll go into an appeal court, right?

  • Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
  • Um, I've read the complaint from top to bottom and it claims way more than just 'Valve wouldn't give them keys to resell' if they're not at the same price as on steam. It also claims Valve puts a 'Price Veto' clause which allows them to delist games from Steam if the publisher gives bigger sales on other platforms, even if they do not using steam keys, which does sound super uncompetitive to me.

    Although I'll agree the evidence listed in the complaint seem a bit on the light side. Do you know if the trial happened yet? And if so, do you know where I can find what resolution they reached?

  • [Politique] 23/08/24 - Lucie Castets veut rétablir l'"exit tax", un mécanisme controversé
  • Je suis loin d'être expert sur le sujet, mais de ce que j'avais lu précédement sur l'exit tax, c'etait surtout pour taxer les actions qui pourraient être revendu à l'étrangé à taux plus faible lorsqu'elles passent la frontière, plutôt que le foncier (qui lui ne peut pas vraiment bouger).

    Sans doute que si cette loi venait à être rediscuté, il est fort probable que le sujet reviendra sur la table et sera probablement exclu de ce qui est décrit comme capital dans cette loi.

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  • * au niveau des politiques (comme bien précisé dans l'article). Au niveau des citoyens, la France est le pays avec le plus de signatures pour la petition pour taxer les riches (d'ailleurs si vous avez pas encore voté, allez y !)

  • What learning resources would you recommend to a beginner?
  • Like the others said, starting with physical drawing is probably the best way to go, as digital drawing is heavily based on technics made for using a pen and paper.

    However, before you go and buy an expansive course that may not be right for you or an expansive professinal software suite that may be far above what you need, you should check out David Revoy's Krita tutorials, especially the ones for beginners in the categories that interest you (text and videos, greatly helped me getting started).

  • La Commission européenne prend ses distances après la mise en garde de Thierry Breton à Elon Musk
  • Autant je suis pas d'accord avec sa réaction, autant je pense que c'est plutôt une histoire de posture et de timing. En condamnant X maintenant, aux yeux des Républicains américains (non pas que j'en ai grand chose à foutre de leur opinion), ils accuseraient l'Europe d'ingérence dans leurs élections et de favoriser les Démocrates (ainsi que toutes les conspirations du monde probablement en nous metant sur un pied d'égalité avec les russes).

    Cela tenderais encore plus les relations UE-ÉU que j'imagine von der Leyen veut conserver à tout prix, même à travers le sacrifice de nos valeurs (une opinion que partage malheuresement une bonne partie des pays de l'UE à l'exception de la France). Pas que cela ne changera grand chose au final, si l'on considère à quel point Trump deteste l'Europe, et que eux interfèrent allègrement dans nos élections mais bon, l'espoir, même vain, fait vivre ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

  • NIS America says Trails and Ys RPG fans won't have to wait so long for future English releases: 'We want to bring that timeline down'
  • Which one are you talking about then? The only one I'd heard of so far is the 'Are you a boy or a girl' being translated into 'what are your pronouns'. And in this precise case, it makes perfect sense (the literal translation being super rude and doesn't make quite as much sense compared to the localized one, especially in this context

    Spoiler

    since the person being asked is trans, though he's hiding it

    ).

    Not that it would be the first time a poor translation came out from NISA, but it seems they've paying close attention since Ys 8. All the 'mistranslations' brought up this far are either virtue signaling, or just the classical differences between translation and localization (the latter of which is part of what made the series famous in the first place).

    I'm not saying it's not true, but everything I've seen thus far only made me skeptical of those claims.

  • Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)
  • The only downside is that it's not really supported anywhere at all yet. But I do hope it becomes a real thing some day.

    AFAIK there's a lot of talk about making GNU Taler the basis for the 'digital Euro' which is curently being debated at the EU Parliement.

  • NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing"
  • I feel like that's just a very loud minority among those who play games. As you've so stated, the majority of people who play these games either do not care for politics in video games, and another subset prefer it that way.

    If even the greediest of companies in the video game industry keep doing that, that means they've analyzed the market and having politics in video games might have between no to a positive impact on sales.

  • Performance Review [Mr. Lovenstein]
  • Yeah, but the new guy's gonna be cheaper than the one with experience!

    I mean, think about the next quarter benefits! Stop searching for stuff like 'reliability' or 'long term'. That doesn't mean anything to the shareholders who'll jump ship the next month.

    (It's definitely an hyperbole, but it does raise a good point over hyper short-termism leading to mass layoffs for 'profitability'. The sick days are just the excuse needed to part the employes that will support their hyper toxic management structures from the ones who aren't 'team players')

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