Alaik

@Alaik@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead within 2 years. They also had the balance pretty fucked until about 6 months in. All in all, no one should expect much from the company who makes games “built from the ground up with paid DLC in mind.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No one is asking for ads on their fridge. You are really underestimating the cartel like behavior of business in general now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait a minute… lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be worse because you KNOW he’d then spend the time “managing” the creators/devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nuance. Don’t make the MBA decision maker’s heads explode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because youre overinflated executive and managerial budgets dont justify the fucking price when games like Hollow Knight, Jump Ship, and Stardew Valley are 10x better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About This Account reveals the scale of Twitter’s foreign troll problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck is VPNing to Russia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And then bitcoin before that. I miss sane GPU prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed' as Coup-Plotting Ex-Pres Bolsonaro Arrested⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought Brazil would teach the US a thing about how to deal with corruption but here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something I want to address. Firstly, youre correct. The vast majority of medical students come from VERY privileged backgrounds and it shows. Hell, applications fees can run from 75 to 300+ bucks a pop and the MCAT itself is almost 400 dollars.

  That being said, if youre smart enough to get into med school, you should do it. I grew up about as poor as you could, I graduated early and immediately went into working fulltime. After the dotcom burst I became an EMT then a paramedic and started working 72+ hour weeks to save up for my premed. I was MUCH older than your standard 23 year old med school applicant.

  But even if you have a relatively decent job (65k in a low cost of living area), the finances work out to pull the trigger and get your MD. Without doing any self doxxing, I can say a relatively uncompetitive specialty paid more in one year than I made in 5 years as a medic. I took 2 years for premed, a gap year, 4 in med school and 3 for residency. 10 years total. Which I made back in 2 years and thats not including the pay as a resident which was actually a bit higher than medic pay.

  Your circumstances might prevent you from being a traditional applicant, and AAMCAS needs to work on the financial gatekeeping. You can absolutely swing going to medical school if you have the desire, will, and capability to though. It will be hard as hell though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn. Well you can’t give plasma until youre 16, but I guess being homeless, having sleep for dinner and all of that growing up isn’t poverty because I couldn’t pass for a 16 year old as a child?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will be super fun when only epstein DNC are exposed and so they rat on all the RNC. Im all for the backlash.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude have you not seen what the cultists will swallow? Left wingers would love if democrats and Republicans got cleaned out. Left wingers would be surprised if theyre aren’t some democrats in there.

  Right wingers absolutely would fall for that hook, line, and sinker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU ministers agree customs fee to crack down on parcels from Chinese companies such as Shein and Temu⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So now Europe is doing the tariff thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ill be honest. I never expected to leave windows but here i am doing my homework on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh let’s be real. Every 1%er is worried. Why the fuck do you think Luigi got an 80s action movie perp walk and they’re all building bunkers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not fair… Plenty of Arab, Indian, Chinese, etc billionares who are selfish idiots. Leave ethnicity out of it. No war but class war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to put two versions out: One with an American flag, cross, and an M16 on it and another with a discouraging message to prevent people to vote for the most left candidate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado delenda est⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah no way FL and LA are above sea level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when has foreseeable consequences or even feasibility stopped MBAs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You got a source on that? Depending on the time of night that changes the story a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don’t want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not android or apple. I’ll go to a prepaid flip phone before I give apple a cent. They’re essentially the paragon of greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yall remember how Republicans said no one respected the office of president under Obama?

  I dont recall anyone calling him insults in an official capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cause theyre literally given inflated egos about “how great your business acumen is” when really theyre morally bankrupt parasites who finished (compared to real degrees) coloring books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta stay “lean”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree to start imprisoning people for using their job to affect profit when CEOs start getting jailed for affecting the profit of those laid off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the state but basically they have to prove it was for cause. You being late nonstop and being fired? No UE. You getting fired for “no call no show” when you ha e the phone records to prove you called in and you have no disciplinary record? You’ll get UE.

  I got “fired” once in my life right before a big round of layoffs for the above reason. This was in TX so my UE got denied right out of the gate but when I appealed the company didn’t even bother showing up.

  It was a pretty slam dunk case of them reaching and pulling shit out of their ass so I won the appeal.

  Always appeal, especially in republican states where they default to siding with the companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he needs a winning argument. I think EA needs to justify this kernel level AC, not the other way around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexon-owned game studio enters “indefinite strike” over employee bonuses allegedly being slashed while executive bonuses increased  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As it stands that would functionally outlaw them.

  Which is fucking good.

  Most executive ideas are short term idiocy. The rest of their “good ideas” aren’t because they’re soooo smart only they could have thought of them; its just that everyone else is a better person and not a fucking parasite and wouldn’t consider doing them for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey thats not true. You’d also have to feed them a prompt about how they can space out enacting a fucking idiotic idea over 6 meetings.