Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
Right wing extremists try to destroy weather radar site. Why? Because conspiracy lies (stop calling them theories) are amazingly persuasive to people who want to believe lies and who ache for violence. wired.com/story/texas-floods-c…
@BartVerheggen Mij benieuwen over hoeveel jaar deze samenzweringstheorieën ook in Nederland voet aan de grond krijgen. Jullie mogen wel oppassen bij het KNMI.
As was said about a different post by someone else: They will believe in weather modification that can produce thunder storms before they believe that climate change is real and man made.
Relator rejeitou emendas de 3 senadores da oposição; tema é uma das principais bandeiras defendidas pelo ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro (PL) O senador Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), relator do projeto do novo Código Eleitoral, rejeitou emendas que defendiam …
“Entro il 2030, il 70% del territorio siciliano rischia di trasformarsi in deserto. C’è un’emergenza climatica che porta la regione ad avvicinarsi più alle caratteristiche subsahariane che al resto dell’Italia.
Indian Creek Island (Miami) – Brutta sorpresa per il miliardario Jeff Bezos al suo ritorno negli Stati Uniti dopo il tanto discusso matrimonio a Venezia.Non solo il fondatore di Amazon ha dovuto constatare che Trump è ancora presidente degli USA, il che lo costringerà a continuare a fingersi sostenitore del tycoon per palese paraculaggine, ma […]
Milano – Dopo giorni di temperature africane che hanno trasformato la Pianura Padana in una gigantesca bistecchiera a cielo aperto, la redazione di Libero si è riunita in seduta straordinaria per individuare un colpevole che non fosse il cambiamento climatico, la CO2 o l’industria dei carburanti fossili. “Ci abbiamo pensato bene” – ha dichiarato un […]
Milano – Dopo giorni di temperature africane che hanno trasformato la Pianura Padana in una gigantesca bistecchiera a cielo aperto, la redazione di Libero si è riunita in seduta straordinaria per individuare un colpevole che non fosse il cambiamento …
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Ficaro (LO) – In una società allo sbando, dove ormai contano solo lo spritz, la pizza contemporanea e i follower, le coppie hanno finalmente iniziato a scommettere sul futuro: figlie femmine come chiave per la ricchezza da raggiungere con OnlyFans!“I…
Kao the Kangaroo—at first it seems like a mere 2nd tier 3D mascot title. But looks can be deceiving.
The character design feels familiar. Bright colors. Boxing gloves. Animal protagonist with a loose sense of physics. It scans like a knockoff. Something you’d find bundled on a demo disc or misfiled next to Gex.
But it’s not American. Or Japanese. It’s Polish.
The first Kao came out in 2000. PC and Dreamcast. Not exactly prime real estate. PlayStation dominated the scene. Nintendo had its own thing going. Dreamcast was already dying. PC—especially in Eastern Europe—was where Kao found space to breathe.
And in Poland, he didn’t just breathe. He became a mascot.
There’s a different kind of ambition in Kao. It’s not trying to conquer. It’s trying to belong. Made by Tate Multimedia, a Warsaw studio with no real track record, the game feels like it was built with sheer willpower. The camera barely cooperates. The controls lag. The punches only register if you’re hugging the enemy.
But somehow it hangs together.
The levels are uneven. Some feel like filler. Others snap into focus—little moments of rhythm and flow that almost trick you into thinking this game is better than it is. Snowboarding down a mountain. Skipping across platforms. Kao hopping in place, excited you made it.
You can feel the energy behind it. The cheer. The sense that this was built by people who wanted to prove something.
Years later, I found Kao the Kangaroo on GBA. Bargain bin. I bought it without thinking. Played it. Different game entirely. 2D side-scroller. Same kangaroo. Same gloves. Same slightly off feeling that I couldn’t shake.
It wasn’t until I played the original PC version that I understood what I’d stumbled into.
Kao isn’t just another mascot. He’s a national project. Poland’s entry into a genre mostly defined by outside voices. The kangaroo is global, but the heart is regional. There’s no irony. No marketing playbook. Just a cartoon marsupial and some developers trying their best.
Tate kept at it. Round 2 in 2003. Mystery of the Volcano in 2005. A PSP version. A trilogy re-release. Most of it stayed in Europe. Outside Poland, Kao was barely a footnote.
Then Steam brought it back.
Round 2 got re-released in 2019. It sold better than expected. People remembered. Hashtags appeared. #BringKaoBack. Tate paid attention.
And in 2022, Kao came back.
The reboot is smoother. Faster. Cleaner. The awkward edges have been sanded down. Some fans miss the quirks. Others are just glad he’s still around.
So am I.
I’m 43 now. Canadian. Still think about Kao from time to time. The way he punches with too much commitment. The way he skips after a win. The way he keeps showing up—even when nobody asked.
There are plenty of mascot platformers. Most try too hard to be cool. Kao just tries.
The Ensemble Q plays:
LIGETI: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet.
Paul DEAN: Concerto for Cello and Wind Quintet.
BRAHMS arr. Breuer: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38.
William BARTON: Journey to the Edge of the Horizon.
Recorded 12 October 202...
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland meldet Tote nach Drohnenangriff in Kursk ++
Russland hat nach einem ukrainischen Angriff drei Tote in der Region Kursk gemeldet. Die USA erwägen einem Medienbericht zufolge die Lieferung eines weiteren Patriot-Systems.
@cascadepine yes I would say the same and add that those are cool nonetheless as they can hover like a pro 😀 I find it fascinating what you can discover from nature.
Coluccini a Barsotti: “Dimettetevi tutti” L'ex sindaco punta il dito contro l'attuale amministrazione: "Sul dissesto il centro sinistra ha sempre fatto quadrato, al di là di chi viene condannato, per il bene di Massarosa dimettetevi"
Look who's back! (I think this is the 3rd or 4th email he's sent, all without giving an actual return email for me to reply). Every time, he uses the same "GLFB" construction... RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4k…
AG hosts second roundtable to discuss the impacts of Trump’s disruptive tariffs on front-line industries LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today hosted business leaders for a roundtable conversation to discuss the impacts of Preside…
Every screenshot of macOS 26 looks like a bad macOS GTK theme.
Like, in so many places the apps or toolkit weren’t even changed but the new styling has changed spacing, breaking alignment and making it look super amateur—exactly the same symptoms as applying a GTK stylesheet that tries to “theme” apps that were never designed to be themed.
Yep, that'll happen when you break app devs' assumptions about GUI layout. That's why Windows has 5 different toolkits built in: compatibility with old apps.
GUI layout is hard. Making the GUI adapt to a wide variety of themes with different spacings, font sizes, and so on is nightmare mode.
Java Swing is one of the few toolkits that even tries to do that, and it has serious enough shortcomings that most apps (like the JetBrains IDEs) use a hard-coded theme instead.
Nah, there’s more, just with a lower profile and fully on board with Rudyard Kipling’s observation that, “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”
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