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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the people who are about to win the console wars once Microsoft throws in the towel with Xbox.

  PC gaming hopefully about to have a third golden age soon! 🤞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh fuck 😨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck, I forgot that’s what you’re supposed to say!

  FSM, please forgive me for my apostasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh fuck 😨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Al’dente 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨commitment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is little risk of you consuming a 15lb pizza in one sitting.

  Silence, mortal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s fine if people believe in ghosts and spiritual stuff. My wife believes in ghosts, genuinely and fervently. I don’t really care to battle her on this because regardless of what she believes and what I believe we ultimately end up doing the same thing in the end - nothing. I think it’s a bit childish, but it’s no more or less unreasonable than faith in a god or a higher power and people will fight you over that.

  I think the delineating factor is how much belief in ghosts or the supernatural play into your decision making and your worldview.

  If a person believes ghosts are real, but never really act on that belief, it’s harmless.

  if a person believes ghosts are real and alter their behavior in meaningful ways as a result, it’s maladaptive.

  For example, say you hear a creaking noise in the middle of the night that startles you awake. Person A, Person B and Person C each check to ensure there’s no intruder in the house and determine that all the doors and windows are still locked and there are no signs of forced entry.

  Person A comes to the conclusion that it was just the sound of the wood joists expanding or contracting as the temperature fluctuates and goes back to bed.

  Person B comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost and therefore their house must be haunted, and so they call an emergency priest to come exorcise the house with holy water and they stay up all night clutching charms and wards to fend off spirits.

  Person C comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost, says a quick (10 second) prayer for protection/guidance for the lost spirit and then goes back to sleep.

  You can see how Person A and Person C have conflicting views about the origin of the sound, one which relates to scientific explanations for real phenomena and the other that delves into spirituality and faith to explain it. Regardless, they are both able to resume their normal behaviors (sleeping) afterward, while Person B shares the same view of the origin of the sound as person C, but their view is extremely disruptive and illogical. Their belief in ghosts requires them to take extreme measures to feel protected against them, but there is no evidence that anything bad would have happened as a result if they had chosen to do nothing instead. Nor would there have been a guarantee that something bad would not have happened anyway if they did all of the “proper” things to remain safe from ghosts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The script is mysterious and important.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither does The Matrix, but it’s still firmly planted in the realm of science fiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iceberg gang stay frosty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because the AI will look at everything with cold logic and rationality and come to the conclusion that even though the best chance of survival is for everyone to keep their fingers off the button, all it takes is for one actor to do it for the whole system of mutually assured destruction to collapse into nuclear armageddon, in which case the best chance of survival is to be the first one to launch your nukes and take out all your enemies capabilities to retaliate.

  A human being who isn’t psychotic can clearly see that the resulting survival and new world order would not be particularly a pleasant one to live in. The AI doesn’t care about its own comfort, though, so it will see this as the best outcome that minimizes variables.

  This is why AI should never be allowed to make decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quality shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What could possibly be more important than the patient?

  Why, the shareholders of course, silly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic news! Not because I actually give a shit about sticking with Discord after getting slapped in the face with this insulting age verification nonsense, but because Discord has basically no competition and 6 months will be plenty of time for a real contender to emerge in time for them to shoot themselves in the foot again.

  I don’t think Discord actually appreciates how much market share is going to slip away from them in the next 6 months. They were probably better off going through with their clandestine spying plan now while some people might be complacent enough to just comply and provide their ID to get handed over to the fucking Feds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political leaning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Insanity Wolf became a political pundit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps if you are an extremely, laughably bad fit at your job, in like a “Fox assigned to guard henhouse” sort of way.

  The Trump administration and competency are like water and oil, soon to be separated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would this not be grounds for a massive class action lawsuit? FSD was marketed as a feature when the cars were sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put it on polymarket or something, I want to make some money off of such stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Republican Primary having a normal one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Shario Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?

  Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in movies tv shows books etc at court they make it seem like swearing on the bible prevents you from lieing? If my family or I was in danger I would lie my ass off to get out of it..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It obviously doesn’t, and people do lie in court all the time in both fiction and reality. The bible, or whatever they happen to use as a stand-in, is just ceremonial for the oath of sworn testimony. The real threat that keeps people from lying is not hellfire and damnation, it’s perjury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As evidenced by the dozens of times Trump’s star was vandalized, no matter how you deface or destroy it, they’ll just replace it with a new one.

  I don’t think there’s any way to get it removed officially other than petitioning the people who manage the walk of fame, and they are all in the same club that the folks who have stars on the sidewalk are in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does get tiresome going to steam threads and seeing the same copy pasted “don’t ruin the game with woke shit” post up voted to the top.

  There’s a pencil thin line between farming clown emoji and overt bigotry getting pumped to the top of the reviews section by bad faith actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is quite tame compared to what American Nazis got in the 30s and 40s.

  Remember, when you beat them bad enough they’ll have more time to think about the error of their ways while confined to a hospital bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the narrative the other day was drug cartels were swarming the airport with drones and that’s why they had to shut it down.

  Was that a total fabrication to cover for this obvious false positive?

  Also answers my question for “How come nobody has drone bombed you-know-who yet?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord walks back age verification fears for most users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they haven’t walked anything back, they’re just adding in a motherfucking clanker as a middleman. What could go wrong?

  Big corporations have absolutely laid waste to the internet. There’s nothing left unspoiled at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.

  We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.

  An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences.

  It doesn’t seem to have deterred you at all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Slack for work and I kinda hate it. I can’t really explain why. Something about it offends my senses on a subconscious level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used it in over a decade so I’m not surprised it has new features. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Discord does a lot of things that no one other program can also do. There are certainly better programs out there for voice chat, for text chat, for screen sharing, etc. but none of those programs that do it better can do all the other stuff.

  If Discord dies, you would need like two or three other apps to replace all of the features you’ve lost.

  For people who only use Discord for voice, it’s easy to say “Let’s just got back to using TeamSpeak or Ventrillo”, but if you also used Discord to stream your games to your friends, you now need to find another alternative for that since TS and Vent don’t have that function and likely never will.

  It sucks because I think the Discord app is great for what it does. Yes, it creates information silos when everybody uses it for their support/documentation, but before Discord it was Facebook/Twitter and I didn’t use those platforms either. I like that Discord is packed with features and the most basic ones are free to use. Finding an alternative will be tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guilded is dead. Their website redirects to a thank-you page of some sort. I remember trying it out ages ago and I thought it was pretty decent competition for Discord and had a lot of the same features, but ultimately it would have been susceptible to the same kind of fuckery that Discord is giving us right now. These private companies only want to extract value out of their users.