If it's the same game I'm thinking of (but can't remember the name of), I remember it feeling like a much more shallow version of Katamari. You never realize how important the rolling physics truly are to the Katamari experience until you take them away. It was a pretty neat idea, but just didn't capitalize on it very much.

SCOTUS ruled that the president has immunity for many of his presidential actions and none for personal actions such as going on a murder streak

Right, that's literally the point. All a malfeasant president would need to do is declare that assassinating political rivals is an official presidential action. If the president argues that it's an official act of their office and not of their own personhood, there's little room to hold them accountable for it.

It may seem like an absolutely ridiculous argument, and that's because it is. What constitutes an "official" presidential action was left intentionally un-defined by the court, so that such ridiculous arguments could be treated as legitimate if the immunity is challenged.

Kuhbander’s mom, Jane, posted on social media days after her son was last seen. She claimed that Kuhbander was ‘coerced’ by Anderson and that she was a danger to herself. She also claimed that Kuhbander did not go with her willingly.

Family had said the two were romantically involved but had broken up before they went missing.

For as few details as this article has, they certainly do let you paint a pretty disturbing picture of what happened.

Good. Hopefully we see some similar suits take place over here in the US, as well.

EDIT: Not "good" that they discriminated against him, but good that the tribunal determined it to be discriminatory.

different work ethics

This is a pretty big one that would get overlooked, I think. What we in the west would consider "crunch" conditions are often considered normal, or even bare minimum in some Japanese companies.

This was my thought, as well. It also reminds me a bit of this classic xkcd.

Is it common for Japanese URLs to use non-Latin text like that? I rarely end up on Japanese websites, but I feel like I've always seen romaji domains when I've ended up there.

I'm guessing because he's not selling the ROM, the Patreon only gave you early access. It seems to have now been made available to the public for free.

I feel it! I feel the cosmos!

"If you can't reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive." -Tim Apple, probably

Oohhh, that sounds delicious! My old boss at work was telling me about Brazilian lemonades a while back and I've been meaning to try it at some point.

While it's a series, it's really the only franchise like it, so it kinda is its own genre: Katamari.

Several?

So what's the reason to go to a mall? Crappy food court food?

The last dozen or so times I've been to a mall, the only thing I've spent money on was food. It's hard to justify spending money at the mall when I know I can get just about anything there from an online retailer for a lot cheaper. But I can't get an Orange Julius online. Yet.

Naturally there is always going to be a certain amount of player decline over time, but I have to wonder how much of this could have been saved had Sony not created a PR nightmare for the game with the required PSN account linking.

That said, I'm sure there's going to be a sharp spike in players very soon, as Arrowhead should be releasing a new enemy faction into the game very shortly, which is going to bring a lot of players back again for a while. Hopefully they'll find a way to keep those players interested again.

I do wonder if that's ever actually a legitimate concern for prison staffers, if they get an inmate that is exceptionally agile like this. Like, if a parkour champ gets locked up, do the guards take any additional precautions? Do they grease up all the walls and fences to make them extra hard to climb?

These, and other equally important questions, are what keep me up at night.

These days, it's "mid".

You can't prove there isn't!

"Oh yeah, are you sure about that? Then why does my AirTag say it's already landed on Jupiter, hmm? I'd like to speak to your manager."

Yep, mostly just used to help crowdsource weather reporting like this.

Though I have seen another interesting use-case for the barometer, which is for IP-rated (water-resistant) phones, you can use the barometer to check that your device still has a water-tight seal with an app that measures the pressure as you squeeze the sides of the phone together.