u/Undeclared_Aubergine

GOG just announced that Soldiers: Heroes of World War II will be delisted tomorrow at 23:59 CEST. Until then it has an 84% discount. (All-time highest discount was 85%.)

Update: The delisting has shifted, and will now already happen TODAY at European midnight.

Could someone who owns The Chronicles of Amber (Gollancz SF Masterworks series, published 2022) do a typo check for me?

I own The Great Book of Amber (by Avon Eos, 1999, 3rd printing), and whenever I read it, I'm struck by the many typos which it contains. This is not ordinarily something which bothers me a whole lot, but somehow with Zelazny, typos really mar the flow of his prose. (Reportedly the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks volume of The Chronicles of Amber from 2000 has the same.)

Additionally, I find this volume to be a bit too massive to really make for comfortable reading.

So, I'm thinking about buying the 2022 SF Masterworks volumes The Chronicles of Amber and The Second Chronicles of Amber as a replacement. Sadly they're not in stock at local stores, so before I go ahead and order them, I'd really like some confirmation that these particular volumes do not contain the following typos, nor have any other reason to avoid them:

Ch 2, talking with Flora in her library, ~1 page before Ch 3: "it's pleasant to be together with you this way, even if it is only for a sho**><**t time."

Ch 4, talking with Deirdre, ~2.5 pages before Ch 5: "And nevertheless, as you can ><, I did not succeed."

Ch 7, Bleys fighting up the stairs, ~2 pages before Ch 8: "Then he cu**<p>** upward, ripping open the belly of the one behind that one."

Ch 8, talking with Rein in prison, ~4.5 pages before Ch 9: "D**<ie>**rdre and Llewella remain in Rebma."

Thanks in advance!

=> u/RevolutionaryCommand over in r/fantasy has confirmed that these typos are no longer present in the SF Masterworks edition \o/

After supporting the same 12 currencies for years, GOG over the last three weeks has been adding new currencies - and regional pricing for their countries - at a prodigious pace: The Czech koruna on May 15th, The Hungarian forint, Romanian leu and South African rand on May 28th, and today the Turkish lira.

Answering a question about support for the Rupee, the official GOG.com account responded:

> Sooner than you think I hope! ❤️

Falran just posted the latest list of updates on missing content on the GOG forums:

• Two Beasts Or Not To Beast ➞ Unrated Patch DLC added
• City Tales Medieval Era ➞ Lore Book Goodie download fixed
• Army Men Series - all 5 games ➞ regional locks taken off for South Africa and South Korea
• Ash of Gods: Redemption ➞ regional locks taken off for China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
• Gungrave G.O.R.E. - Complete Bundle ➞ edition picker fixed
• Elasto Mania Trilogy Pack ➞ bundle fixed

"Also, together with the developers, we are working on a quite generous list of missing in-game DLCs which we are hoping to add in July. So something to really look forward to!"

I run a website which obviously has a favicon (a favicon.ico in the root, and a .png linked to on all pages with <link rel="icon" href="/img/favicon.png">). Pretty bog standard.

Chromium and Firefox display this favicon normally. All validity checkers I've tried consider both versions of the icon to be valid.

Yet DuckDuckGo search results don't show the icon for search results including my website (they just fall back to the generic ">" icon).

Additionally the DuckDuckGo browser (latest one which visited today was "DuckDuckGo/5 (com.duckduckgo.mobile.android; Android API 34)") requests /favicon.ico twice for each and every single page visit (but never the .png).

The combination of these two things makes me think that my favicon setup is somehow incompatible/unknown as far as DDG is concerned (possibly two completely separate issues). I think this is a bug worth reporting to the DDG team - where I hope that this thread is the right way to do so.

(It's of course possible that one or both of my icons are technically corrupt in some subtle way which doesn't trip up the main browser vendors, or that despite looking at it a dozen times, I still do something wrong with the way I link to the png - if so, I'd be happy to hear details about it so I can fix from my side.)

Example search showing the behaviour: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=gamesieve (it's noticeable that the icon for my site - the top result - shows blank for a second before being replaced by the ">".

Falran just posted a (locked) thread on the forum where they refer to the list of games with missing updates, and state that they "are hoping to get the list of missing updates (and other detected problems) gradually smaller with time." and that "From now on, together with Modryyy and starting tomorrow, we will keep you posted every two weeks about the progress with this."