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- Comment on Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, a great looking game but with pacing issues 2 days ago:
I’ve tried to play it a couple times but it’s just too slow. If it had an option to run at like 150% speed maybe that would help.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 3 days ago:
No one would go if they weren’t getting paid.
I don’t know I’ve met some boot lickers that would work for free.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 days ago:
I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they’ll turn to shit after being bought and sold.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 days ago:
Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 4 days ago:
I can’t imagine what I’d even want the “Ai” to do in the browser.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 5 days ago:
You can turn that one on desktop off, btw
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
Apparently Vanguard has a whole proxy voting system that I left on the defaults!
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
Solidarity doesn’t have to mean they like have a club with a secret handshake. Their goals are aligned, and they tend to work towards those goals, even without explicit coordination. It’s rare to see anyone in the ownership class work against those interests. You don’t see a lot of the owners saying “we should give people more time off” or “we should let the workers have a say”. It’s pretty consistently “we should squeeze people for more money”. It makes the news when ownership is like “We’re going to pay people more”, and it doesn’t make the news when labor is like “i’ll just work a little more off the clock to catch up”.
Contrast with labor, where people are often undermining their interests. Being anti-union, voting against regulations that would protect them from exploitation, giving away labor for free.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
Solidarity doesn’t mean they’re all in love and never squabble. But it does mean that they will prioritize their class’ interests, especially if it’s in conflict with labor.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
I assume rich people often keep enough shares to control who sits on the board, and thus who is the CEO. There’s a lot of people sitting on multiple boards, folks know each other, blah blah blah.
Also many shareholders aren’t really involved. I don’t even know how it works if you own shares through Vanguard or something. I’ve never been asked to vote on company policy.
From what I’ve seen in start-up land, leadership is a lot of in-group bro times. It’s all gut feel. Shouldn’t expect rational, honest, decisions from them.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
The rich have class solidarity. They’re not going to casually fuck each other over like that.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
It was always going to end like this. If you’re surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
I know plenty of adults who are really bad at money and paying bills.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
I feel like the average video game player has really poor media and political literacy, but maybe it’s just the ones who make noise online who fit that profile.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I typically buy music , most often from Bandcamp. I figure $10/mo gets me one or two albums I can keep forever. I tend to be more depth-first with music, where I get really into a band for a little while then move on, so this works for me.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
One of the guys at my old job submitted a PR with tests that basically just mocked everything, tested nothing. Like,
with patch("something.whatever", return_value=True): assert whatever(0) is True assert whatever(1) is True
Except for a few dozen lines, with names that made it look like they were doing useful.
He used AI to generate them, of course. Pretty useless.
- Comment on GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter 1 week ago:
That’s the problem: reality has nothing to do with their views of the world whatsoever
Conservatives exist in a world of emotion. Facts exist to support emotion. If the facts don’t fit the emotion, they are discarded. I don’t know about you but I’d call that stupid. Idiotic. That’s how toddlers are.
We need to stop treating these people like reasonable adults because they are not. You wouldn’t let a toddler hold office. You shouldn’t let a conservative, either. The toddler would do better, because they’re usually not so cruel and often have potential to grow.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
One of the many things that’s infuriating about this is that these people are so profoundly stupid, but they keep getting all the money and power. If there was any justice in the world, people like the decision makers in your stories would be living a very spartan life somewhere, reflecting on how they are so fucking senseless.
And yet people continue to worship these “job creators” and “visionaries”.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
I think two of the somewhat fancier grocery stores I go to have grinders there. The more basic one I usually go to I don’t think does. I don’t drink coffee myself, so I’m not 100% certain.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
If AI is a bubble that pops, all the big talking heads that went on about how it’s the future and we all need to embrace it won’t lose credibility. They’ll mostly just keep their jobs. Not fair. I can be pig headed and wrong and I’ll do it for less than their seven figure compensation
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
Peter Thiel is a monster whose opinions should be discarded.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 week ago:
Without thinking about it too hard, the binding of Isaac. I like how when you unlock the tainted characters, when you flip to that menu the song changes to a different version. It’s the same song, but creepier.
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 1 week ago:
It’s a pun and one of the prominent meanings is “old people like boomers like them”, while the other is “rockets go boom”. You know this.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
I will admit when doing something like buying from an evil corporation that I’m making a trade off. I won’t pretend it’s fine. I try to acknowledge it.
It’s impossible to live in the modern world without participating in exploitation. This phone was probably made in ways that hurt the environment and labor. But I need a phone to participate in modern life. So I got one, and try to hold onto it as long as possible.
I think there’s a big difference between trying, and acknowledging tradeoffs and shortcomings, and just refusing to engage. “But I like it” is refusing to engage. I would respect “I know this milk comes from cruelty to cows, but I don’t care about cows” more. At least it’s honest.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
I imagine most people who are rewilding their lawn are doing so for environmental reasons, which I consider more valid than mere personal preference. If someone was doing so for mere aesthetics, maybe.
With respect to murdering, there is a social contract or a legal “contract” that says you absolutely can’t, so this argument obviously doesn’t work.
That’s kind of the point. The reason why you don’t murder isn’t merely because you like it. There are actual reasons. Personal preference alone is not sufficient to override reasons like social contracts and laws and stuff. So if one side of the argument is “this is good for the environment”, the other side saying “but I like it” should not be compelling.
It is compelling to some people when they consider stuff like the environment non-issues on the same level as personal preferences. Those people are assholes.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
“Oh my god having a lawn isn’t murder you’re being dramatic!” - some small-minded buffoon who doesn’t understand analogies.
So many people seem to really struggle with analogies. Sometimes I think they’re just responding to the emotional content, and not following the reasoning at all
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
One of the things that bothers me more than it should is people responding to actual problems with “but i like it”.
You say something like “a ‘basic’ lawn like that is bad for the environment in many ways, in addition to being labor intensive.”
They respond with something that amounts to, “But I like it.”
That wasn’t the question! If someone likes murder that doesn’t justify it, right? Because if so this conversation would take a very abrupt turn. So we can infer that there must be some other justification. Probably, “I don’t care about other people”, which remains an insufficient justification for murdering a whining selfish prick.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 2 weeks ago:
The damage to trust in the US’ institutions and government is tremendous, and will not likely be repaired in our lifetimes.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a set, so you can have duplicate values. So no, probably not.
Like you have a list and the range of its values is [0 … 1]. You can have a whole lot of 1s, but none of them are the sole biggest value.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
Switched to Linux. Don’t miss windows. Shit like this does not entice me.