JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 1 week ago:
I doubt it. The Saudi-Arabian monarchy doesn’t invest in things because they want to make money. They do it for power, image, and influence in the world. They just threw a lot of money into the E-sports world cup in Riyadh. I think they’re buying what’s needed to make Saudi-Arabia a gaming hub. They’re doing the same thing with sports and racing and all sorts of entertainment. For that reason, I doubt they’ll strip EA for parts. All of the competitive games that EA makes will suddenly have tons of prize money and developer-backing for competition and E-sports. And the final big event will always be in SA.
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 1 week ago:
Co-op/freelance > small business > large single-owner business > publicly traded business > private equity business.
The hordes of faceless shareholders is mostly regular people’s retirement accounts. It’s still a net-negative for society, but now it’s not even helping someone retire comfortably. With Saudi Arabia involved, that means it’s also going to be laundering the image of a monarchy.
A few years ago everyone was talking about how crown prince Bin Salman ordered the brutal execution and dismemberment of a journalist. Now the E-sports world cup is in Riyadh.
- Comment on Real easy 1 week ago:
I think the singer doesn’t count either since that’s someone’s name which could be anything in any language. Also the navy seal is named after the animal. It’s 2 frames. “Seal” the animal and “seal” the keep stuff in/out
- Comment on Real easy 1 week ago:
They’re all seals. The bad part is that this is really only 2 different meanings. The soldier is a navy seal but that’s just named after the animal. The top middle is a seal to keep oil in a machine. The concept of sealing something applies to the the oil seal, the deck sealant, and the wax seal.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 2 weeks ago:
The graphic is urging a patient to actually do the required prep. The prep cleans you out.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
That actually doesn’t matter. The stats are per Capita.
- Comment on Shh 2 weeks ago:
No they wouldn’t. Banning straws is politically expedient, not effective policy. Straws are a tiny drop in the bucket of plastic waste. But they’re visible, largely optional, and have alternatives. It’s easy to make them look bad so a politician can look big by banning them. Your average person can feel like they’re making a difference by buying a reusable straw. The industrial scale plastic waste that happens out of sight is allowed to continue because nobody cares about actually doing anything. Everyone wants to feel like they’re doing something.
- Comment on To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience' 1 month ago:
If it’s not a solid 10 minutes to load a map on my parents e-machines PC, it doesn’t feel like Battlefield.
- Comment on To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience' 1 month ago:
Is that the one with the A10 and cluster bombs?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming out on September 4 1 month ago:
Holy shit it’s happening!
- Comment on 💋 💋 2 months ago:
Shai Haluud
- Comment on League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta 2 months ago:
As a fighting game fan, this one shows promise. The devs are the Cannon brothers. They are the guys that founded Evo, the biggest fighting game event. They also created and freely licensed rollback netcode, the gold standard for fighting game netcode. the core of the game will likely be excellent. The f2p model hasn’t really been done at this level in fighting games. Most games are sold at full price and they sell costumes and characters as dlc. I’m hoping this game will get more people to try fighting games and hopefully it doesn’t become a loot box simulator.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 2 months ago:
“The South will rise again” folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
I have a special syringe for this. I had impacted ear wax a few years ago and I went to urgent care to get it rinsed. Turns out my other ear was also impacted, just not as bad. After the rinse, I could hear in 3D. I felt like I shouldn’t have been allowed to drive home because it felt like I was on acid it was so overwhelming. On the drive home I heard a crappy Honda with a bad exhaust drive by and I was scream-laughing at how visceral it was.
Now I rinse regularly in the shower and don’t get to have free acid trips :(
- Comment on Planck units 2 months ago:
Plank length: usually 10ft for 2x4s. Though, you can get them cut to length.
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
No wonder cows are so fat
- Comment on i'm old graeg 3 months ago:
Fun fact: old Greg now hosts the great British baking show/bake off
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 3 months ago:
The vid I linked to basically said that the game is ok but derivative and not that great. The main point he was making is to point out how the “controversy” around the game doesn’t actually exist. It’s a bunch of made up crap by grifters to make idiots foam at the mouth. And it worked. And now these idiots think Stellar Blade is the next coming of Christ and the bullwark against the woke mind virus games blah blah blah…
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 3 months ago:
- Comment on GeoGuessr Pulls Out of Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia After Fan and Creator Backlash: 'When You Tell Us We’ve Got It Wrong, We Take It Seriously' - IGN 4 months ago:
It has an outsized impact by bringing awareness to this issue. It also could embolden other communities to take a stand against Saudi sportswashing.
- Comment on The Most Popular Window Air Conditioner Has Disappeared from Store Shelves [Aftermath] 4 months ago:
I have 3 of these units since last summer. Should I be cleaning them out? Pardon the ignorance. I’ve never owned a window unit before and I won’t have one after this summer.
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 4 months ago:
I would imagine some sort of heat pump is being used to transfer the heat from the electronics to the radiators.
- Comment on 10 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Director Showed Hollywood The Secret To Reviving A Franchise 4 months ago:
I think Jared Leto is a pretty good casting choice. He’s a self absorbed douche so he barely had to act.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 4 months ago:
I only watched a bit of True Detective season 2 but I could tell it was not going to be nearly as good as the phenomenal first season
- Comment on Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppola said to be against a streaming or disc release 4 months ago:
I loved it and am very bummed it’s going to be harder to watch now.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 months ago:
I know a lot of people didn’t like it, but I loved Megalopolis. It’s so ambitious, has great cinematography, and it’s weird. I thought it was well acted and will be a cult classic in a decade. It is a little weird that the main character is the only person with a superpower (stopping time) and it has almost no impact on the story, but that just adds to the weird appeal for me.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 5 months ago:
You do not understand it correctly.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 5 months ago:
Kei trucks are extremely useful if you’re only ever going to move it around in a city. I wouldn’t want to get on a highway in one of those. To me, this looks like the closest analog to a kei trucks that would still work in the US.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 5 months ago:
They make it sound like not having stamping is helping them by not requiring expensive machines and a factory with a high ceiling. I’m betting they’re outsourcing the stamping. I’m also betting that they won’t ever deliver a truck.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 5 months ago:
Definitely not cast. Some suspension parts are cast but most car frames are made from stamped sheet metal welded/bonded together.