As he’s gotten older, he doesn’t like jumping so much anymore (though the 3 AM zoomies are still pretty routine), so he climbs quite dramatically onto things. It’s time for those little pet steps.

Also, he’ll be 14 this summer.

He likes to play around the corner where the bathroom door is. He goes crazy when we make tiny scritching noises around the corner! This is his signal that he wants to be unserious for a moment.

Anything fun or interesting going on? Relaxing, doing chores, listening to music, playing games, reading? I wanna hear about it!

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Please, I need your help with $100 to buy diapers and milk for my baby daughter.

https://gofund.me/00439328

Dodi Repacks, the second most prolific and well-known repacker of pirated games behind FitGirl, has broken the hearts of piracy aficionados worldwide today, as Dodi has just announced in a “Roadmap” update on his website that he’s scaling back his piracy operation so he can… get married and become a lawyer? Saul Goodman, is that you?

The Elder Scrolls Arena let you play as a black woman in 1992. Name another game that did that.

Pretty much every game has offered a world where both races and sexes participate equally, and no one really cares (Morrowind’s racism is always made alien and upsetting thematically).

In Morrowind you can’t be a lesbian with Ahnassi (although the guy who wrote The Lusty Argonian Maid is an equal opportunity HR disaster). One of the rare characters Oblivion bothers to spend time on in a faction quest line is very clearly gay. Skyrim everyone is pan.

And a lot of this is just the same in Adventure Construction Set a series Howard explicitly took inspiration from. The game doesn’t really give that much of a shit about what you look like. It’s far more effort to code in racism, when you start with that kind of open world model.

TL;DR: Between May 2025 and May 2026, Waymo’s recall-scope count of autonomous cabs rose from 1,212 vehicles to 3,791 vehicles.

That is more than a 3x increase in the Waymo fleet size in roughly one year, a major acceleration that dwarfs Tesla's faltering Robotaxi rollout.

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Hello !games community 👋

I'm 26, born in 1999 in a small Chinese town. You can call me French Fry Noob – or just Fry.

Let me explain the nickname. In China's Battlefield community, we call new players "French fries." 🍟

Why? Because you're fresh, you get eaten alive out there… but you always come in large numbers. It's a self-deprecating way of saying: "I'm still learning. I'll probably die a lot. But I'm here to have fun."

So yeah – I'm a forever French Fry Noob.

A bit about me

I grew up blowing into Famiclone cartridges, sneaking into arcades, renting PS2 time by the hour, and using a PSP as an MP4 player. Just like many of you – just in a different place.

I don't work in games. I'm just a player.

Recently I wrote a long, personal piece about how my generation in China grew up with games. From the Famiclone era to Steam. It covers the console ban, the grey market, the "Steam tipping point" – and why "piracy" was never the full picture for many Chinese players.

I've shared it with Chinese gamers, and the response was warm.

I'm currently working on an English version. It's a story about why a kid from a small Chinese town ended up buying a physical PS2 copy of Most Wanted years later – just for closure. Not politics. Just games.

I'll post it here in the coming days. I hope you'll give it a read.

A quick note

I'm new to Lemmy. Still figuring out the etiquette. If I do something weird, just tell me – I'll listen and adjust.

Thanks for having me. And if you play Battlefield… I'll try not to trip on your revive.

🍟

– French Fry Noob

The Trump administration on Saturday allowed a sanctions waiver to lapse that had previously allowed countries including India to buy Russian seaborne ​oil after a month-long extension aimed at easing oil supply shortages and ‌high prices due to Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The first time I played Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Black Box Studio was already gone. Disbanded. I wanted to give them my money, but there was no one left to take it.

That hit me hard — missing the chance to pay for a childhood favorite.

See, back in the day in China, most of us played this game as a cracked copy. No other way. No official retail. No Steam. No way to pay even if you wanted to. We were kids with dial-up internet and a dream — and a pirated ISO from a local PC café.

So years later, I thought: maybe a physical PS2 import copy would help. A kind of spiritual closure.

Luckily, I didn't get scammed. Found an old-school seller who knew his stuff. Got it at a fair price. We talked a bit about why I was buying it — he was genuinely happy for me.

Also grabbed a few titles on Steam during sales. Two bucks each on average. Felt good.

I have mixed feelings about this franchise. Part of me still hopes it can rise again. Make something world-changing. Like it once did.