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Picture it: the year is 1985, the place is Würzburg, Bavaria, and you've just taken delivery of your brand-new E28 BMW M5. You shift the manual gearbox into third, wind up that glorious inline-six through the rev range and—uh-oh. What's this? Flashing blue lights in the rearview mirror, only they're rapidly receding into the distance. This is Germany, though, not Hazzard County, and running from the law is verboten. It takes quite a while for the cops to show up.Today's pick from Bring a Trailer—which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos—is a 1979 Volkswagen Beetle police car that is up for sale until Thursday, December 14. Yes, you heard that right: a 45-hp Beetle wearing a police officer's uniform. Tremble in your boots, you denizens of the Teutonic criminal This polizei-kaefer entered service in 1978 and operated as an actual cop car all the way until 1986. By that point, it almost surely was the mount you got assigned if you screwed up a big investigation or perhaps ran over the police commissioner's dog. As it was a genuine police service unit, all the expected accessories are present. It has a flashing blue light, that distinctive two-tone European police siren, and a PA system with which to plead, "Pull over! Please! Wait up!" There's also a period-correct Telefunken police radio. After many years in storage, this car was found by comedian Jerry Seinfeld and imported into the U.S. It appeared on an episode of his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee show and was later featured on Jay Leno's Garage and Spike Feresten's Car Matchmaker.The interior shows a little wear and tear such as authentic burn holes from officers smoking on duty, but the exterior was repainted a little over 15 years ago. It can't be registered in California, but it would be a welcome addition to any VW collection anywhere else. This no-reserve auction ends on December 14. Head on over to Bring a Trailer for your chance to have the slowest of patrols. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46075026/1979-vw-beetle-police-car-bring-a-trailer-auction/

The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates are complaining that they were not consulted enough on what amounts to a major overhaul in how disabilities would be defined by the federal government. Disability advocates say the change would artificially reduce their numbers by almost half. At stake are not only whether people with disabilities get vital resources for housing, schools or program benefits but whether people with disabilities are counted accurately in the first place, experts said. Some also question the timing of the change, which comes just as more people are living with new, long-term conditions from the COVID-19 pandemic. Census Bureau officials say the proposed change on its most comprehensive survey of American life will align the U.S. with international standards, allowing comparisons among countries. They also say it will better capture how disabilities occur in the real world, since they rarely fit neatly into stark yes-or-no boxes that don’t account for variations or nuance. The bureau has spent time, money and energy trying to improve counts of racial and ethnic minorities who have been historically undercounted, but the statistical agency seems willing to adapt questions that will shortchange the numbers of people with disabilities, said Scott Landes, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University. “This, in my mind, is illogical,” Landes, who is visually impaired, said in an interview. “There is a piece of me that thinks, ‘How dare you — to think that we don’t count.’ I get offended.” If given final approval, the changes to the American Community Survey questions would be implemented in 2025. The ACS is the most comprehensive survey of American life, covering commuting times, internet access, family life, income, education levels, disabilities and military service, among other topics. The statistical agency was asked to make the change by the National Center for Health Statistics and is accepting public comment on the proposal through Dec. 19. The existing questions ask respondents to answer “yes” or “no” if they have difficulty or “serious difficulty” seeing, even with glasses, or are blind; hearing, or are deaf; concentrating, remembering or making decisions because of a physical, mental or emotional condition; walking or climbing stairs; dressing or bathing; or performing everyday tasks because of a physical, mental or emotional condition. If the answer is ''yes,” they are counted as having a disability. Under the proposed change, respondents would be allowed to answer most of the same questions with four choices: “no difficulty,” “some difficulty,” “a lot of difficulty” and “cannot do at all.” There are tweaks to the language of the questions, and the proposal adds a query on whether respondents have trouble communicating. But the most significant change involves the threshold beyond which people are determined to have a disability. The international standards being considered by the Census Bureau typically define a person as having a disability if they answer “cannot do at all” or “a lot of difficulty” for any task or function. During testing last year by the Census Bureau, the percentage of respondents who were defined as having a disability went from 13.9% using the current questions to 8.1% under the international standards. When the definition was expanded to also include “some difficulty,” it grew to 31.7%. Marlene Sallo said her degenerative spine condition presents difficulties on some days, but overall she is able to function on a daily basis, so she worries that she might not be considered as having a disability with the revised questions. “Right now, it’s not inclusive and it will miss many individuals within my community,” Sallo, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, said last month at a meeting of a Census Bureau advisory committee, of which she is a member. Officials at the Census Bureau and the health statistics agency argue that the change will give officials better information and details about disabilities that can inform how services or resources are provided. Census Bureau officials had two conference calls with disability advocates on the subject this week. “Forcing a dichotomy masks nuance,” Julie Weeks, an official at the National Center for Health Statistics, said during a presentation last month. The terminology surrounding disabilities has evolved in recent years, moving away from labels that imply inferiority and toward more sensitive language that outlines the specific conditions or circumstances in which individuals or groups live. The Associated Press defers whenever possible to the wishes of people or groups in how they choose to be described but uses neutral language that withholds judgment about a person’s condition. Disability advocates said the international standards were formulated without their input. Last month, the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee recommended that the statistical agency not adopt the change until it meets further with disability advocates and researchers. While the proposal may be better for scientific research, the questions, if approved, will be adapted with the needs of agencies and not people with disabilities in mind, Andrew Houtenville, research director at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, told members of the National Advisory Committee at last month’s meeting. “This has taken a lot of people by surprise,” Houtenville said. Some experts believe the current questions don’t adequately account for people with mental health problems, developmental disabilities or chronic health conditions, like those faced by many people living with long COVID. But they say the proposed change isn’t the answer. “Disability is an evolving concept, and there is a new kind of disability we didn’t have five years ago, Long COVID, and we need to be able to account for that and other changes,” said Susan Popkin, co-director of the Disability Equity Policy Initiative at the Urban Institute, who has a chronic autoimmune condition. The proposed change is grating to some advocates since it is occurring at a time when disability has grown to be an identity and a social movement, rather than just a function-based definition of someone’s limitations. For instance, a person with limited hearing may be able to function fully with the help of hearing aids but can still identify as having a disability. “You can be proud of your disability and still not want the pain and symptoms of the conditions that lead to that disability. That is part of a shift in disability as a demographic group,” said Bonnielin Swenor, director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, who has low vision. “There is a shift of view in disability pride and claiming disability identity as part of who we are ... not as a deficit,” Swenor said. https://apnews.com/article/disability-census-covid19-survey-count-backlash-18678c34ca19e66876faf7dcbdab86f5

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The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s authorization of the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears on public land just outside of Yellowstone National Park violated federal law. Meant to accommodate private grazing operations in grizzly habitat, the 2019 grazing authorization would have allowed an unlimited percentage of female grizzlies to be killed in response to livestock conflict, despite the significance of breeding bears to the species’ recovery. The court has now remanded the decision to the agencies in order to fix the legal deficiencies. “We’re hopeful that in reconsidering their flawed analysis, the agencies will spare dozens of female grizzly bears, previously sentenced to death by the Trump administration,” said Andrea Zaccardi, legal director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s carnivore conservation program. “This ruling confirms that federal officials can’t sidestep the law to allow grizzly bears to be killed on public lands to appease the livestock industry.” The court found that among other issues, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to consider limiting the number of female grizzly bears that could be killed, was arbitrary and capricious because killing too many females could jeopardize the grizzly bear po[CENSORED]tion in the project area. The court thankfully acknowledged the importance of protecting female grizzly bears to help their recovery. “Today’s decision is a victory, not only for endangered grizzly bears, but for all wildlife in the Upper Green River Area,” said Megan Backsen, Tenth Circuit attorney for WWP. “The court recognized that the Forest Service cannot ignore its own experts, particularly when those experts warn that a decision will harm those species that depend on intact ecosystems for their very survival.” The grazing program area, approved by the U.S. Forest Service in 2019, encompasses the headwaters of the Green and Gros Ventre rivers and parts of two designated wilderness areas in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The area provides important habitat for Yellowstone grizzly bears who are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, as well as other imperiled fish and wildlife species. The challenged decision authorized the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears over the 10-year life of the reauthorized grazing program. The decision placed no limits on killing female bears or cubs, even though females with cubs live where the proposed killing would have been permitted. The judges also ruled that the Forest Service failed to follow its own Forest Plan requirements regarding wildlife habitat protections for migratory birds. Some 96% of the lands approved for livestock is zoned in the Forest Plan for a wildlife protection emphasis instead. “Throughout this case, the Forest Service has tried to run away from its wildlife habitat commitments made to the public in its Forest Plan,” said Jonathan Ratner, Western Watersheds Project’s Wyoming office director. We are pleased to see that the court understands that the promises made in the Forest Plan are made to the American people and the wildlife that lives on these lands.” John Carter of Yellowstone to Uintas Connection said, “We have collected data within the allotments that shows how much degradation has been caused by livestock. We have provided reports to the Forest Service but they feel they can simply ignore the data. We hope and expect that the Forest Service starts putting its duties to land and the American people ahead of the interests of a few ranchers.” “Before grizzly bears can be recovered and delisted, we need safeguards in place to ensure that the breeding po[CENSORED]tion gets adequate protections from the depredations of the livestock industry,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance Wild Rockies. “We are thrilled that the court sent the agencies back to the drawing board.” The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Western Watersheds Project, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection filed two separate suits on March 31, 2020, challenging the agencies’ decisions. Although the suit was originally filed in the U.S. District Court of Columbia, the lawsuit was later transferred to the U.S. District Court of Wyoming. The U.S. District Court of Wyoming issued a ruling upholding the agencies’ decisions on May 17, 2022. Today’s opinion overturns that decision. https://worldanimalnews.com/victory-court-overturns-federal-authorization-to-kill-72-grizzly-bears-near-yellowstone-national-park/

The Palestine national football team's head coach Makram Daboub takes some comfort – for now at least – that his players stuck in Gaza are safe. The struggle to prepare his squad for the start of the 2026 World Cup qualification games is his secondary priority. Daboub wanted to include Ibrahim Abuimeir, Khaled Al-Nabris, and Ahmed Al-Kayed in a training camp in Jordan ahead of the qualifiers, but they were unable to make it out of Gaza because of the Israel-Hamas war, now in its second month. That is where influential Italian manager Arrigo Sacchi's words come true, that football is "the most important of the least important things in life" and the national team will play against Lebanon next Thursday and Australia on 21 November against a backdrop of Israel's offensive on Gaza. “So far they are fine,” Daboub told The Associated Press. “Many of their relatives have died, however, as a result of the bombing.” Two players from Gaza, Egypt-based Mohamed Saleh and Mahmoud Wadi, are expected to join the Palestinian team in Jordan. “With the death and destruction in Gaza, the players are in a difficult psychological state,” Daboub added. But for Susan Shalabi, the vice-president of the Palestine Football Association, there's no question that the players and the people want the games to go ahead. “This is a people that wants to be heard and seen by the rest of the world, wants to live normally like everyone else, so people care about their national team,” Shalabi told AP. “It represents the yearning to be recognized as a free and sovereign nation.” Palestine had initially been drawn to host Australia to start this round of qualifying, but the game has been shifted to a neutral venue in Kuwait. Preparations have already been interrupted as players were unable to leave to participate in a tournament in Malaysia last month. Now the team is based in Jordan to be sure of being able to travel for games. “We will do our best,” Daboub said. “Football is the most po[CENSORED]r game in the world. It brings people together. We aspire to achieve good results and qualify to show the Palestinian identity and that this is a people who deserve life and love peace.” Israel's national team is heading to a tiny Hungarian village as it prepares to play its remaining home games in the Euro 2024 qualifying tournament amidst safety concerns following a rise in anti-Semitic sentiments. Israel will host “home” games against Switzerland next Wednesday and Romania three days later as it chases a qualifying place in the continental championship, which would be its first since joining the European soccer confederation UEFA in 1994. It has a catch, though. The games will be played in an opulent stadium thought to be the pet project of a well-known football fanatic: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The decision to bring the matches to Felcsut, a village of around 1,900 people where Orbán spent much of his childhood, reflects his deep political affinities with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yacov Hadas-Handelsman, Israel’s ambassador to Hungary, acknowledged that the close relationship between Orbán and Netanyahu has played a role in bringing Israel’s team to Felcsut. “We have a very good combination of personal connections and relations (and) sheer love of sports and football in the Hungarian government,” Hadas-Handelsman told The Associated Press. Even before last month’s Hamas attacks in Israel, the leader of Hungary had long promoted his country as the safest in Europe for Jews. Recently, Orbán has banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the wake of Israel’s bombing in the Gaza Strip and pointed to such protests in some Western European cities as further proof that his government has done a better job combating antisemitism than its Western counterparts. https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/10/orban-hosts-israel-for-euro-2024-qualifiers-as-palestines-world-cup-prep-amidst-war-backdr

Last week, a Palestinian man was sentenced to life imprisonment and also given an additional 20 years behind bars for the rape and murder of Israeli teenager Ori Ansbacher in February 2019 in a Jerusalem forest. But more shocking than the first-degree murder, rape and unlawful killing was the convict's deep-rooted, disturbingly extremist, anti-Semitic ideology. Arafat Irfaiya had pleaded guilty to the charges, over the attack on 19-year-old Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem District Court in June 2020. Irfaiya was smiling when sentenced to a life in prison last week. But it wasn't lack of remorse that was the cause of the smile, it was extreme pride in his act of stabbing a teenager multiple times after raping her. As per a Channel 12 news report, Irfaiya told interrogators that he entered Israel to look for a Jewish victim so he could be a martyr. The transcript of the interview, as released by the police, and recently shared by a Twitter user Adam Albilya, had generated outrage and shock across the country prompting the government to approve a law under which Israel would deduct from tax revenues, it collects on behalf of Palestinians, the amount that the Palestinian Authority pays out every month to Palestinian attackers and their families.Irfaiya, "I made my parents very proud by what I did?" Q: How can murder and rape cause pride? Irfaiya: I didn't just rape someone, I murdered a Jewish woman. You won't be able to understand it because our thinking is different. If you ask anyone if they would be happy to kill a Jew, you will see that I have done everything that Arabs dream of doing. Q: Why didn't you just do it a while ago if you so longed for it? Irfaiya: This is not what Allah planned for me. This murder is the best and most important thing I have done in my life. If she had stayed alive it would have meant that I had failed in what I had planned a failed in the mission, that was the hardest feeling I felt in my life." His mission was to enter Jerusalem through the forest to kill Jews. He continues, "I wanted to kill multiple Jews and not just one, but when I was there I saw that Allah had sent me the Jewish woman I realised that I had to kill her, this was the fate that Allah summoned me." Irfaiya further said that he planned to enter some place to wear a kippa so that they would think he was Jewish and to stab as many Jews as possible to kill them. He also said that if he hadn't met the girl on the way, he would have entered Jerusalem to carry out the attack and murder Jews. He continues, "After I murdered her, I stayed by the body for a while longer, waiting for more Jewish people to come so that I could surprise them and stab them with a knife and kill them." A Hate Crime According to the chargesheet and indictment against Irfaiya, he entered Israel from the West Bank illegally while armed with a knife. He did not plan much of the attack, apart from purchasing a Jewish kippa so he could slip into Israel without drawing attention. On the day of the crime, Ansbacher who was a volunteer at a youth center in the capital, had gone for a walk on the southern edge of Jerusalem where she encountered Irfaiya by chance. Irfaiya decided to kill her because she was Jewish. He attacked Ori with violent cruelty, sexually assaulted her, though she tried to fight him off, but he overpowered her and stabbed her with knife multiple times. Judge Rafi Carmel ruled that Irfaiya pay approximately $72,000 to Ansbacher's family and additional $22,000 to each of her parents and siblings. The Israeli security forces also demolished his home in the West Bank city of Hebron. The Victim Had Written A Poem On Peace In a heart-breaking development after her murder, a poem Ansbacher had written, was found in her notebook. The first line read, "Make your world a world of peace, peace among worlds, peace of the unknown." https://www.ibtimes.co.in/wanted-kill-many-not-just-one-palestinian-enters-israel-craving-jewish-genocide-rapes-856400

A sharp decline in mega-cap tech stocks dragged the broader stock market lower on Wednesday. Alphabet fell 10% after its third-quarter earnings results revealed a marked slowdown in the revenue growth for its Cloud unit. That cloud weakness helped drag Amazon lower by more than 5%. Microsoft was the only mega-cap tech stock in the green, rising about 3% after it reported an impressive earnings beat. The sell-off in stocks was exacerbated by a rise in bond yields on Wednesday, with the 10-year US Treasury yield rebounding about 12 basis points to 4.95%. The sharp rise in yields came after an auction for five-year Treasury notes revealed weak demand from potential buyers. The Treasury department is set to announce auction size increases next week, which could be adding to the anxiety as investors worry about an oversupply of Treasury issuances.Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives elected Mike Johnson to be House Speaker after three weeks of Republican infighting following the motion to vacate Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Now the question is whether Johnson can pass a bill to keep the government open ahead of the mid-November shutdown deadline. "Markets, particularly Treasury markets, needed to see the gears of government reengaged and functioning. Now, all eyes are on November 17 to keep the government open," Harris Financial Group's managing partner Jamie Cox told Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-news-today-tech-plunge-earnings-higher-interest-rates-2023-10

Multiple research reports have been released in recent weeks that identify challenges and opportunities for DevOps, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One key finding from the reports is that COVID-19 has accelerated DevOps' move away from on-premises deployments to the cloud. According to the Codefresh second annual State of DevOps survey released on Aug. 18, due to the pandemic, 58% of DevOps professionals are now planning on moving some infrastructure to the cloud. The Codefresh survey also found budgets for DevOps efforts are on the rise in 2020, with 74% of organizations reporting that they expect DevOps spending to increase this year. With more money allocated to DevOps efforts, there are a few areas that need help. A key promise of DevOps is automation for development, but 67% of the Codefresh survey respondents reported that they spend 25% or more of their time addressing bugs in automated systems. Software Delivery Challenges The 2020 State of Software Delivery Management Report, commissioned by CloudBees, found that one of the challenges organizations face is a lack of information, and that is impacting software development and delivery. Shawn Ahmed, senior vice president and general manager at CloudBees, told ITPro Today that one surprise in the report was that so many (84%) of the respondents found inaccessibility to critical information limits their ability to make decisions. The lack of visibility also is reflected in the finding that more than 50% of the study's respondents couldn't compare the time developers spent dealing with technical debt and bugs to time spent developing new features. Adding further insult to injury, the report found that 65% of organizations were unable to quantify the cost to the organization of a feature delay in development. There are a number of potential reasons why developer visibility is limited, according to Ahmed."It's a confluence of things like available analytics expertise, as well as the time and resources it will invariably take to build insights," Ahmed said. "Data is a hard problem to solve. You have to first access it, then map and model it, connect it to the outcomes you want to see, and make sense of it through context to gain the most pertinent insights." Another path to improving software delivery outcomes, according to the report, is embracing the software delivery management (SDM) model. Sixty-one percent of the survey respondents noted that SDM approaches improved delivery times for software. SDM should not be confused with the concept of software development life cycle (SDLC), according to Ahmed. The SDLC model is about the process of building and delivering software, he said. SDLC is a framework that defines the tasks performed at each step in that process, while SDM is the principle of managing the process. The relationship of SDLC to SDM is akin to the process of traditional manufacturing, Ahmed added. There are those that are involved in the building of a “thing” and those that manage the building of that “thing.” "Now, it’s not that this hasn't been happening all along, but the survey clearly indicates that there is much optimization to gain still, and this is an area where purpose-built SDM software can help teams improve by an order of magnitude," Ahmed said. https://www.itprotoday.com/development-techniques-and-management/overcoming-devops-and-software-delivery-challenges

It might be because it had something of a rocky start, but it sometimes seems like Windows 11 is only just reaching its maturity, what with the continuing march of added features and substantial Windows 11 updates released over the past year. However, those of you who've only recently made the switch may be surprised to learn the release of Windows 12 might not be far away, as soon as June 2024 if recent reports are to be believed. According to Taiwanese financial paper The Commercial Times, Acer CEO Jason Chen and the chairman of PC manufacturer Quanta, Barry Lam, were both present at the Medical Taiwan trade show this week, and they appeared to have plenty to say about what they think computing might look like in the near future. However, there's some information here that's got the rumour mill cranking, and it's related to a potential release date for Windows 12. The article itself opens with the translated line "Microsoft Windows 12 will be launched in June 2024", although there is no given source to backup this claim. However, while there's not a direct quote regarding the potential release from the executives themselves, the paper reports (in regards to Barry Lam), that "he expects that next summer, when Microsoft launches a new generation of Windows operating systems, AI PCs will also be launched one after the other''.Jason Chen meanwhile was described as optimistic about generative AI and the ongoing progress of AI PCs, which are thought to potentially be a primary focus of Windows 12, with some outlets reporting a possibility that some form of baseline readiness may even be a requirement.Details might be scant for now, but we can get some sort of insight into what Windows 12 might look like if we take a closer look at some of the most recent Windows 11 updates for clues as to where Microsoft might be heading. Certainly the recent focus seems to be pointed squarely at AI integration, and while the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant might not have made a particularly big splash upon its debut it's a safe bet to say it's likely to be a glimpse at things to come. Let's not also forget MS Paint's Dall-E AI integration and the introduction of AI based text recognition and redaction features recently added to the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. It seems so far like Microsoft might be going all-in on AI for its future releases, and while the usefulness of these additions to the end user is debatable at this point, it's a clear indicator that whatever the next version of Windows might be, AI integration within the OS is likely going to end up front and centre, whether we like it or not. https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-12-release-date-pegged-to-june-2024-by-taiwanese-financial-paper/

Some time in the 14th century, an English anchoress named Julian of Norwich beheld a series of visions of Christ's passion while mortally ill, after which she miraculously recovered. Eventually, she would write her visions up into the Revelations of Divine Love, a groundbreaking work of mystical theology that would come to be regarded as a classic. Anyway, it's got a sequel now, in the form of "Revelations from Fntastic," an incredibly odd PR statement in a long line of incredibly odd PR statements from the studio behind The Day Before, the zombie survival MMO (and Steam's second most-wishlisted game) that had go into deep freeze after it drew the ire of a calendar app. Although the game's survival (and even existence) has looked questionable at various points over the course of this year, it's set to finally release this Thursday, December 7. Ahead of that, Fntastic has put out a statement aiming to address, well, a whole bunch of vaguely defined groups, from future players to people "who didn't believe in us" to the studio's own business partners.Like a few of Fntastic's other public statements, the whole thing is delivered in a tone more appropriate for people about to face the guillotine. There is a perplexing level of gravitas to the whole thing, which I'll embed in its entirety below, but let me try to give you the gist. Of the statement's six bullet points—each addressed to a different hypothetical reader—the longest by far is the one made out to "a person who didn't believe in us," which begins by saying "We made this game for you, too. We accept any kind of criticism and don't hold a grudge against you."Things continue from there. First up: "Please forgive us for not doing the best marketing and teasers," reads the statement, "We learn something new and improve ourselves every single day." Second, "Please don't accuse us of scamming; that's not true. We didn't take a penny from anyone." Third, "Please don't accuse us of asset flip; that's not true also. Our team worked day and night for five years to make our dream game a reality." The studio goes on to ask that people "don't underestimate our work; it wasn't easy." That line is maybe the most awkward. Fntastic has come under fire before for calling for "volunteer" workers to put work in on The Day Before. While the studio does employ full-time workers (and, strangely, a select few "full-time volunteers" who work on a salaried basis, which doesn't sound very volunteer-like to me), it's not clear how much of that backbreaking work it refers to there has been done by unpaid volunteers. I've reached out to ask Fntastic about that, and I'll update if I hear back. The studio actually addresses those volunteers in this statement. "You have supported us through our darkest nights, and we look forward to sharing the best days ahead with you." If I were a volunteer, I wouldn't mind a share of the revenue, too. That's the meat of it, although I couldn't help but chuckle when the statement addressed streamers and said Fntastic hopes "all the secrecy of The Day Before will help you make a ton of interesting content from the game." That is certainly one way of looking at it. That secrecy won't hold for long, though: The Day Before launches in two days on Steam. It's been a long road. Here's that statement in full. https://www.pcgamer.com/steams-second-most-wishlisted-game-puts-out-bizarre-set-of-revelations-ahead-of-release-please-dont-accuse-us-of-scamming-thats-not-true/

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