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- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 now generally available alongside System Center 2025 1 week ago:
Or some sports games. Madden 2025 is almost entirely obsolete by January 2025.
- Comment on Why is Boimler so pale even though he grew up on a vineyard? 4 weeks ago:
SPF-1701
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 5 weeks ago:
Tencent and Guillemot combined are considering a buyout of other shareholders. Most of that is Guillemot, with Tencent increasing their share very slightly from 9.2% to 10%.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
If we’re gaming the whole scenario out, I imagine it would go something like this.
None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence, but say he loses the election, and the more serious trials are heating up. At that point, he knows he’s toast. 2028 is too late to run a fourth time; he’s got no more hail marys, so he dismisses his detail completely, retreats to Florida, and sneaks away to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night.
He’s got a private jet, so getting out of the country shouldn’t be a huge problem. But I think you’re right that he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered. At that point, getting away from the secret service would be much more difficult.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
Security is a privilege, not a mandate. Nixon dropped his in 1985.
Becoming a fugitive from justice would count as voluntarily giving up lots of privileges, the very least of which would be a publicly funded security detail.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
You want to feel really old?
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
I keep wanting to think I’m an RPG kind of gamer, but in reality, all my favorites were from the SNES.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 month ago:
Nintendo patents video game inventory system.
Not the onion.
(Not a patent lawyer, and I’m sure it’s more complicated than that, but come on)
- Comment on You can name a dildo company Tupperware with infringing trademark 1 month ago:
You can try. Trademark is generally industry specific.
But you can bet every Tupperware lawyer would be opposing your mark. You better have lots of money to spend years in court. Even when you’re in the right, you can still lose.
- Comment on Krillin 1 month ago:
Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 1 month ago:
The idea is that it gives moderate republicans a path to voting for her.
Without the endorsements, they would feel like they’re betraying their principles and their party to vote D. With them, they can make a choice: Lots of rank and file voters will stick with Trump, but if a few party leaders, recently respected within the party, can vote for Harris, maybe that isn’t such a betrayal after all.
Will it change the vote by 5-10%? Basically zero chance of that. But if it swings a few thousand voters in some strategic areas, it can make a difference. It’s not a strategy aimed at very many people, but those votes on the margins matter.
- Comment on We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. 2 months ago:
Old, but still mostly relevant:
- Comment on Dukat/Damar 2024 2 months ago:
idk, the Combs/Combs ticket is promising to give Combs a cabinet position and Combs at chief justice. Seems pretty strong.
- Comment on How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news? 2 months ago:
Not a scientist by any means, but this article (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767421/) says men have a 3:1 difference in the rate of Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Another: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920596/
There is compelling evidence from behavioral genetic research that heritable influences are of importance in the development of antisocial behavior; approximately 50% of the total variance in antisocial behavior is explained by genetic influences. Yet, there is also evidence of a large environmental effect, both shared and non-shared environmental influences have been found to explain the remaining half of the variance.
Obviously I don’t mean to suggest that everyone with ASPD is a serial killer, it presents in a number of ways, but it’s hard to imagine a serial killer without some sort of disregard for the value of life. This is probably one of many factors that tilt the scale toward violence being much more associated with men.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster games 20% off through this weekend 2 months ago:
Square 🤝 Nintendo
Charging 2-3x too much for games you already bought. - Comment on Did... did Adin Ross give Trump the CyberTruck him and his idiot friends shot up? 2 months ago:
Not that I expect a room temperature IQ between the lot of these characters, but somebody, somewhere along the line may have told them this is likely an illegal campaign donation, and the whole story is a pure bullshit publicly stunt. There’s approximately a zero percent chance Trump and his team accepted the “gift” for any longer than it takes to get a few pictures. He’s already forgotten about them, just like every other weirdo that lines up to kiss his ass.
- Comment on Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool? 3 months ago:
Depends what you were expecting. Cold coffee and warm soda are the same temperature.
- Comment on Fess Up or Call Out 3 months ago:
I was at a friend’s house playing Utopia: The Creation of a Nation on SNES.
He warned me not to save my game, but I blanked and did anyway. Apparently there was only one save slot, so I overwrote all his previous work. There’s not really anything to fess up to here, since he was sitting right there giving me the most what the fuck look a teenager can give. But for the record, I’m still sorry 30 years later, Rick.
He followed up a few days later, having continued my game, and the aliens absolutely fucked up my (our) colony almost immediately the save point. I didn’t even give him a good mid-starting point to begin from.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
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They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.
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The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.
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The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.
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- Comment on How many views does a Netflix show need to have to be considered a success? 4 months ago:
They recently started releasing viewing data for all shows in six months intervals.
…netflix.com/…/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engageme…
That sounds like the report for the first half of 2023, but also has a link to the second half.
Their exact criteria will probably change depending on a number of factors, but one could look up figures for a cancelled show to get some idea of what isn’t good enough.
- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 4 months ago:
A Tribble as the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
- Comment on Help! Help! I'm being assimilated! 4 months ago:
Janeway: What makes you think she is a Borg?
Seven: Well, she turned me into a drone!
Janeway: A drone?
Seven: I got better.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 4 months ago:
The first is on GOG as well, for only a few cents more.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 4 months ago:
I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.
Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven’t thought about it since.
- Comment on Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer 4 months ago:
But why pay all those programmers when all they had to do from the beginning was a simple
#include “ai.h”
- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 4 months ago:
People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.
So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.
Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.
- Comment on a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave? 5 months ago:
Santa himself has been described as a “jolly old elf.”
I’m no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.
- Comment on The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products. 5 months ago:
Showerthoughts from 1972.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 6 months ago:
Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
This is my experience as well. People don’t hate vegans specifically, they hate evangelists generally.
