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- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 days ago:
I’m happy that the people who built tools of terror (that are of particular significance to me) are getting fucked. I’m not happy which way/fashion they’re getting fucked. We’re on the same page here.
I’m not gonna write paragraphs about the nature of oppression and theory of state building, I don’t think that’s gonna help anyone. Simply stating my feelings about one particular oppressor. I don’t even know if they’re gonna be dethroned. But I do know the people of that country (and those of perpetrating ones) have infinitely more power over their future than my words on here. And actions support neither side.
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 days ago:
That’s not how it works.
How what works? My feelings about the situation?
- Comment on Ok so it's that second time of the week to post this hit classic 2 days ago:
I’m glad that at least one oppressor gets to the “find out” part. I’m sad it’s not mainly the people they’ve been oppressing that are doing it.
Let’s hope that changes when it’s the others’ turn.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it’ll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Pirates keep winning
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 2 weeks ago:
wow you’re such an empath
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 weeks ago:
The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather stay exactly the same tbh
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 4 weeks ago:
the same way they were 10-15 years ago
So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 5 weeks ago:
I use it because it’s free and tolerable when modded (on pc at least), and a lot of my favorite artists drop there. I get to check new releases, and if something isn’t there I’ll check other platforms. I will never pay for spotify on principle though.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 1 month ago:
Can’t help someone who doesn’t want tho get better. We’ve seen this happen to him several times.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
Exactly, that’s how it works in my country. I think the PCs are connected to a local server that then matches the results to your id and email.
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 1 month ago:
Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can’t believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
Reminds me of car startups (in the US) taking off one wheel, turning them into moto/autocycles, so they wouldn’t have to go through expensive car certification processes
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 1 month ago:
Sweeney is also offering a “peace proposal” from Epic: “If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.”
Pretty sure this has a 0% chance of working.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 1 month ago:
Exactly, it’s an awful treadmill. EA as a whole was at nearly 60% profit last year. Coupled with layoffs, it seems they’re trying to keep that infinite spend as potential as possible lol
I just hope something good comes out of recent ex-rspn teams.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 1 month ago:
Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.
They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 1 month ago:
Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
From what I’ve seen it has a lil sidebar that let’s you limit the resources available to it. Also a load of shortcuts to giveaways and storefronts. It’s also hideous, as all gamer stuff should be.
Honestly it gives me more “lowspec” vibes, than “gaming”, and there are far better ways to browse on low spec machines.
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 1 month ago:
“Better” ads most likely, aka more personalized.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 2 months ago:
Go into the search bar and type “technology”. You will see many of them.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 2 months ago:
more like very sad
- Comment on Day 270 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 months ago:
Mute the poster?
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 2 months ago:
I’m a visual learner btw
- Comment on Roommates 2 months ago:
afaik Vine didn’t even share revenue with creators, how’d they make money? (If I read that right)
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 2 months ago:
is dual booting not an option for you?
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 2 months ago:
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 2 months ago:
From what I understand their minimum wages aren’t bad, it’s the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren’t - there’s a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I’d say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 2 months ago:
probably a holdover from the sata days, or simply because it’s nice to show the number doubling into tens of thousands
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
why not? plenty of them run android, do they maintain a blacklist of sorts?