vanontom

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope enough teams can band together and file jointly, combined with decent fundraising and fair lawyers. Fuck these Unity execs and their ilk, apparently they need to be humiliated. Maybe others will think twice about whether their strategy of enshittification and rampage of greed is worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creators of Slay the Spire will migrate their next game to a new engine if Unity doesn't completely revert their changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The exact same thing was said about Reddit execs like Huffman. They never cared enough to compromise. We’ll see if the Unity execs are similarly terrible people, whose greed will destroy the company. Seems like the trend these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to love the WU app, it was beautiful and accurate. A few years ago I started noticing more and more puzzling changes, before I realized IBM had purchased them. They ruined an incredible app. Seems like they just outsourced development to lowest international bidder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk's Name is Now Mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this referring to firmware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk's Name is Now Mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bought exclusively WD storage for many years. Mostly because I’ve never had a failure, and hadn’t read anything terrible about reliability. Well, all that changed this year.

  My newest portable drive (Passport Ultra USB-C 2TB) has only 30 hours (40 power cycles) on it, and is clicking/chirping and abnormally slow while writing anything. Probably dying, at least it warned me. It will need to be replaced, at my cost (just out if warranty of course). Combined with SanDisk failures, and complete silence from WD… I’m done with them.

  I’m moving to Samsung. I’ve already bought a replacement (T7 Shield SSD 2TB), and also an M2 NVME (980 Pro with Heatsink) for PC OS refresh later. Hoping to move almost all the things to Samsung SSDs in coming years, outside of 1-2 large Seagate HDDs for NAS. Bye WD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brands suspend advertising on X after ads appear alongside Nazi content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold on, maybe I’ve figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!

  4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.)
  5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Republicans like Abbott went on Fox News and blamed windmills for the storm outage. The party is very different than they were when these projects started, when economics mattered. Texas politics may still accidentally allow a select few progressive things to happen, but the builders and owners must be extremely “friendly” and perfectly thread the needle. Oil and gas owns this state, including the windmills, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who back into parking spots: Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  raises hand

  I actually like cars. (They’re… “cool”. I play Forza sometimes, lol.) But the reality is they’re fucking expensive to maintain, along with insurance and taxes and fuel. And very much not fun to drive under normal circumstances, next to removeds and idiots. And terrible for the environment, at absurd US numbers at least.

  I’d rather save thousands of dollars and have public transit or easily maintained bike. But bikes are not viable when planet is trying to kill us (Texas is 100-110 °F for 2 months straight now).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maher completely lost focus after T**** was kicked out of the White House. Last I checked, he was obsessed with GOP culture war nonsense (woke, gen z, etc). Spends valuable time on show whining about personal problems (like his mansion’s solar panels). Increasingly out of touch, or unable to care about important issues. Needs to be liked more than ever (esp. certain celebs, see Musk interview). Extremely sensitive about his age.