Quelle horreur.

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?

Well, I have some good news for you!

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 ».

And so, the global election year continues u_u…

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)

The transitions between these eras will offer the chance to select a fresh civilization, with a range of options determined by your previous choices.

Wait a minute. I feel like I’ve seen that one before…

Oh well, fair enough. Humankind drew heavily on Civ in its design anyway.

“De 1981 à 2010.” C’est plus d’actualité non ? T’en as un plus récent ?

(En plus la grande hausse du deficit public à la fin correspond à la crise de 2008, ce qui n’est donc pas surprenant)

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?

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?

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.

* 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 !)

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).

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)_/¯.

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

).

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.

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.

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.

J’imagine que le premier ministre est debordé et n’a pas le temps de se charger de toute la com’ et que c’est pas son coeur de metier? C’est la même raison que pour les grosses entreprises qui ont un departement relations presse/public.

Culture wise? Probably. Institution wise though…?

Our current republic was founded by de Gaule, and our constitution was written by him as well. The thing, he’s a millitary general, who (much like a good chunk of the French population at the time) held disdain toward parlementarism, due to the lack of stability of the Fourth Republic.

What that means? Our current system has much of the power concentrated in the hands of the gov (see 49.3 and to some extend 47.1 where the PM can just decide to override anu vote on law. It was something taboo, only used a fair few times before Macron, like once in 2014(?) and it ruined the PM (at the time Manuel Vals)'s carrier. Macron used it dozens of times throughout his years as President), leaving the National assembly with little manuveur than the censor motion (dissolves the current gov, but leaves the president in power).

That and Macron preparing to sell our public media and hospital to the private certainly don’t give me mich confidence in that regards if the RN were to win (’ •_•)

From what I understand, he was hoping for :

1. Destroy the incoming alliance between our two Far Rights parties (that worked)
2. That the trad right party would implode (that worked)
3. That the left would self-combust like always (that did NOT happen)

And that he would thus be the ‘only credible choice’ against Far Right. (Note that in the last legislative elections, he was NOT given a majority in the National assembly so that he’d have to negotiate with other parties, which he refused to do anyway, except maybe with the small trad right wing party).

Obviously, that didn’t work out. As other in the French subs have pointed out, he’s an ex-banker. He’s used to making risky bets. But now’s first time where he has to assume the consequence if he looses it.