Stern
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- Comment on he's all in 8 hours ago:
he’s all in
- Comment on There's still life left in them! 9 hours ago:
Mans thirst trapping
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 day ago:
pi-hole may be what you’re gunning for.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 4 days ago:
Hey now, some of them could have not read it because of a paywall at the time too.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 4 days ago:
Changing your business model costs money and carries some inherent risk, and businesses hate risk. Its why theres so many sequels, spinoffs, and adaptions in theaters. Sure they could fund more Sinners’… but Fast and the Furious 35: Wheelchair Wheelies has a guaranteed audience.
- Comment on 'Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO 5 days ago:
Epstein was a renaissance man of child exploitation.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 days ago:
If they didn’t have fortnite and unreal engine money propping them up it would have closed by now. Hasn’t been profitable since it opened in 2018.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 6 days ago:
IIRC Gog takes 30% but not sure we can count them owing to what they distribute.
The only actual competitor store (i.e. not reselling steam keys) at present is Epic with its 88/12 split after a million in sales, and as far as I know it hasn’t been profitable since it opened in 2018, despite straight up giving away product and buying exclusives to try and build a base, so not really the best argument.
Obligatory LOL if we’re going to note either the EA or Ubisoft stores in this discussion. MS probably falls into that pile too but tbh haven’t looked into them much.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 6 days ago:
Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue.
They take the same cut as Microsft, EA, Nintendo, Google, Apple, Sony, and more. You wanna argue 30% is excessive? I agree, but Steam isn’t an outlier here. At least Steam has enough extra shit they do for devs to make that 30% almost feel worth it.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
I’d believe him more if it was opt in and very clearly let folks know.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
“If you kill a killer the number of killers in the world is unchanged”
“So I should kill multiple killers”
“Hol’ up”
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 2 weeks ago:
Pages can be protected in various ways
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
we attached it to the clock in case you need it to get the time wrong.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 2 weeks ago:
SimpsFar Side did it - Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 2 weeks ago:
I think it was either Manhunt or bully that couldn’t run on modern systems. Could also give Cold Zero or Swat 4 a go, though I might be misremembering timeframes on one or more of these. Oh, and of course the original magic the gathering game from the mid 90s.
- Comment on They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is 2 weeks ago:
Pornography is competitive prostitution like movies are competitive plays.
- Comment on They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is 2 weeks ago:
We could grade them like gymnasts or figure skaters.
- Comment on Been pondering this all morning 2 weeks ago:
They’re clearly mutant bears, as they possess the intellect to have a home with cooking apparati, beds, and speech.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Which is why a civil war won’t happen, it’ll crash the economy globally and the 1% can’t have that, so all of this is moot.
I feel like Donald would mysteriously hang himself and Vance would be full appeasement mode real fast.
That said, we also thought Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine after the 2014 (iirc) treaty and well…
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
Tony Stark is 100% the genius Elon wishes he was. He entered MIT at about 14, and graduated with multiple degrees at 17. While he didn’t invent the arc reactor, he both miniaturized (As part of his origin story, when he created the first suit in a cave with a box of scraps.) and perfected it. If we go by MCU, he wasn’t in charge of Stark Industries for a large chunk of the weapon development days, and after his kidnapping and Iron Man origin story, he had his company stop developing weapons, so now they’re a tech conglomerate that does generic tech conglomerate things I guess.
He’s also not real, so huge grain of salt.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
Apparently I didn’t make it clear before so: If you are defending AI slop I do not respect you as a person, nor do I place any value on your opinion.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
oh no people who like the plagiarism and child porn machine won’t like me. I’m sure it’ll tell them to be very upset about this.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
What good sex does to a guy
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
Third thing: Point out obvious hypocrisy.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 3 weeks ago:
Corpos: Don’t steal our stuff! That’s piracy!
Also corpos: Your stuff? My stuff now.
Bootlickers: Oh my god this shoe polish is delicious.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 4 weeks ago:
Racknerd have explained to me that cancellation of the VPS and a refund are separate processes, and a full refund will be issued.
Figured as much. No shot a chargeback would end well for them in that situation.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 weeks ago:
Again, R’s aren’t scared of Vance, they absolutely believe Trump can throw down a “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” on Truth social. That translates to shit getting pushed back on a lot more for Vance.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 5 weeks ago:
I need the money to buy chai tea
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 weeks ago:
Cult leaders need charisma and couchfucker ain’t got it. He might end out pres in that hypothetical but he wouldn’t have the implied maga threat behind him Trump does so I think he’d get a lot less of the agenda pushed.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 1 month ago:
December 19th. Got a lot of folks really mad, for obvious reasons.