Midnitte
@Midnitte@beehaw.org
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives | MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs 37 minutes ago:
I mean, reality does have a liberal bias.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 57 minutes ago:
Budget title is definitely a stretch, but I think that was just poor word choice - the fact that those three games are less than the typical “AAA” price of $60 I think really proves their point that gamers by and large are choosing cheaper games — it’s the industry trying to push premium priced games.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit 7 hours ago:
Billionaires literally want the impossible
- Comment on Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN 7 hours ago:
If your competitor is forced to raise prices 10%, why wouldn’t you raise prices 8/9/10%?
Anyone that’s taken an AP history class knew tariffs don’t work to help the economy — it’s a tax on all of us and only raises all prices.
You might not buy a €600 Xbox when the Switch is €250, but it looks more attractive when the Swich is €470
- Comment on Caption this 10 hours ago:
TIL someone trademarked it.
Really demonstrates how broken our trademark system is.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 1 day ago:
In 2015, 2.1 million people were still using AOL’s dial-up service. That revenue stream has dried up. The number of dial-up users is now “in the low thousands,” according to a person familiar with the matter. - Source (2021)
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 1 day ago:
Imagine losing 10% of your paycheck quarter to quater…
Sort of surprised the reverse of the network effect isn’t as fast - but then I remember there’s still people paying AOL for internet.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 day ago:
Sorry, best we can do is cancel that game from the developers of Critically Acclaimed Game and lay off all of the developers.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 day ago:
Alanah is great - and this isn’t totally surprising. The enshittification will continue until profits improve.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 2 days ago:
Tbf, there’s also been a large online culture against those exact things in games - we live in a post GamerGate society, and there’s a frighteningly large online presence of “antiwoke” people ready to brigade any game they perceive as “woke”.
I mean, all you have to do is watch any new game’s discord, voice chat, or even Steam “curators” - there’s even a dang spreadsheet
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 2 days ago:
Mostly due to the fact that mining bitcoin becomes harder as more and more are found, and the “worth” of that work no longer exceeds the cost in electricity to do so.
In the past, it was basically free money, especially with how volatile it’s value is/was
- Comment on Accessibility in Science 6 days ago:
Richard Stallman, is that you?
- Comment on Classic SMBC: Funding 1 week ago:
This… might just be the only way to get funding now
- Comment on Best case scenario 1 week ago:
Ctd?
The comparative toxicogenomics database?
- Comment on ENHANCE 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is we haven’t had enough Black Fridays yet
- Comment on thicc boie 1 week ago:
What if the entire earth had lasers pointed at the moon and…
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 1 week ago:
Seems like they finally met their match though.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 1 week ago:
This plus Fusion would be amazing.
- Comment on Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! 1 week ago:
We’ve never been very good at this either
- Comment on succession 1 week ago:
You don’t.
Instead, you always have a roving band of chickens following you to eat them.
- Comment on "confiscated" 1 week ago:
He apparently wrote an essay about it
Truly a man ahead of time.
- Comment on Claude gets depressed, calls the FBI and attempts to shut down a vending machine business after being filled with existential dread. 1 week ago:
I wonder what level of writing it performs if you were to remove all of his tweets from the database before building the model…
- Comment on Claude gets depressed, calls the FBI and attempts to shut down a vending machine business after being filled with existential dread. 1 week ago:
Here’s an article about it from Mar 5 for those who don’t want to listen/watch.
Interesting that it could perform better, but regardless enter meltdown status… I wonder if they tested Human+AI…
The fact it entered some conspiracy mode is… maybe that says something about us, lol
- Comment on This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops 2 weeks ago:
Police anytime students protest:
- Comment on women are the devil 2 weeks ago:
PR stunt in space while women are having their rights taken away… ehhhh…
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 weeks ago:
I guess us Americans are out…
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually turtles all the way down.
- Comment on Pens in Space 2 weeks ago:
I guess we are in a way a filtration system that removes oxygen from the air…
- Comment on Pens in Space 2 weeks ago:
Probably not great for eyes or noses or filtration systems either
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Overview Trailer [YouTube, 5:03 min] 2 weeks ago:
It has nothing to do with the original Marathon game its based on, an old single player game.
I wouldn’t entirely say that - it seems like it will be a reboot, so a lot of the same plot or ideas will resurface
