TaiCrunch

@TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you mean. There’s definitely been a lot of marketing overreach with the franchise. But there’s something about Final Fantasy that makes it a money-printing machine. Maybe it’s the long legacy, nostalgia, or the fact that they’ve been with it since the beginning, but FF marketing campaigns have (almost) always been wildly successful in a way that Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, or even Dragon Quest (in the US) can’t live up to. Just look at Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros, and even that Louis Vuitton promo with Lightning.

  Not that I’m trying to sell you on this set. I get that a lot of people don’t like Universes Beyond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FIN is the best-selling MtG set of all time and there hasn’t even been a prerelease event yet. Blowing up the budget is plenty justified in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.

  We also kept having to explain that just because there’s some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn’t mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn’t some “the government” conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that’s good old capitalism, baby!)

  AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it’s not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that’s how it’s supposed to work.

  AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of “every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge” is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they’re a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.

  All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way that kid with the hot mom felt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather see Chrono Break revived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here is how ad agencies are working hard to make sure you see ads in ChatGPT responses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.

  Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status Over Alleged 'Propaganda'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now’s the time to host your own mirror: github.com/pirate/wikipedia-mirror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi checking out another CEO in my feed ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a good old USB stick!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they’re ✨ sophisticated ✨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.

  Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she’s finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get that Musky Grindset going⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More like 1M an inch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pikachu Becomes Viral Symbol of Resistance During Anti-Erdoğan Protest In Turkey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  StarFox, but it’s a couple of rogue F-22 pilots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Computer infrastructure is the front lines now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t even need a warhead. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) just threw the probe itself at an asteroid hard enough to affect its orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll be fine being part of the “base package.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case you needed more proof that AI is a bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he kept it consistent with males

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? We had a family game night last night with the purchased digital edition of Until Dawn just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think so, too. So I’m glad it doesn’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic–rural areas–the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.

  But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that “woke” stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They gave it away on almost every platform when it came out, but I still haven’t gotten around to it.