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- Comment on Too soon? 11 hours ago:
Yeah that’s double legs debby. Notoriously has two left feet.
- Comment on Too soon? 11 hours ago:
At the same time, lawyers also fight the phenomenon because if your product name becomes the concept itself it loses all trademark enforcement. There’s a chart posted on this site somewhere that shows words losing trademark status because of court rulings, but I guess I didn’t save it. The term is “genericized trademark”.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 day ago:
This is the broadest stroke I can make of it:
Conservatives decisions are based on instincts and lower brain functions like fear and hatred.
Liberals decisions are based on marginal benefit and rational decision making based on a combination of large and small scale unbiased data and historical outcomes.
There are tons of outliers and vocal minorities that break the rule.
- Comment on Hey Daddy ( Daddy's Home ) - Usher ( Speed up + Reverb + Underwater ) TikTok Version 1 day ago:
It literally is Sped up, though. You can’t say it’s not that.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 2 days ago:
It feels like people do it so commonly while making such weak arguments that it might be a bot trying to parse the prior comment. Feels like it doesn’t have use in any other circuimstance.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 2 days ago:
Valve has also published 8 games in 10 years. They did acquire Campo Santo studios between 2016 and 2018 which lead to the deployment of Valley of the Gods because Valve put the studio’s members on other projects including Steam, Dota Underlords, and Half Life: Alyx.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 2 days ago:
I’m sorry. You’re right. Feel free to eat my ass.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 2 days ago:
Not every large game company acts this way.
I’d like you to name a large game company that hasn’t done this, I’m not aware of a single one.
This is also not what he did at all - he didn’t restructure the studios after buying them, he closed them and laid off their employees.
Incorrect, employees are being moved to different studios. I’m unaware how many, if any, are being laid off. For example, Roundhouse is being assigned to Zenimax who run Elder Scrolls Online which is admittedly actually a pretty cool game.
He’s a known liar (just a year ago he claimed Arkane will continue to polish Redfall, now Arkane Austin has closed before giving people DLC they already paid for)
A corporate hack who is in touch with what gamers want is still better than some other out of touch corporate shill, as the state of gaming exemplifies every single day. On the subject of Redfall, it’s no surprise that studio got shut down after the incredible failures at launch, they clearly were never qualified to work on the title anyways, and that’s hardly Phil Spencer’s fault.
Why are we quoting each other? I remember the comment before yours. I made it. Idiot.
- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 2 days ago:
Idk, Kotaku isn’t exactly a good source for ethics in this industry. They list something that every single large game company does: buy studios, move talent around, close the old studios. They also talk about how he claims to champion preservation and emulation, something we all agree with.
I vote he stays.
- Comment on Internet comments 2 days ago:
If that were in the starship troopers novel from 1959 it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 2 days ago:
It’s probably 2x2PT or something. There are standards for board widths.
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 2 days ago:
If I was younger I’d call him an antisocial psycopath, but tbh we could probably use less people and more dinosaurs…
Only issue is that it has to remain indiscriminate, and maybe move him around the globe a bit.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
What they really hate is being guilt tripped into changing their dietary habits.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
Well the guy who made GotR to get saints row working died a few years back and AFAIK the game is effectively nonfunctional for the majority of people who buy it. Those people paid for a product that they cannot use. They could go emulate the game for free and it would run better.
Plus, the owners of the title have a functioning PC version sold elsewhere than Steam. They could easily remedy this if Steam took away their listing.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
They don’t even say sorry. They did not use the words Sorry, Mistake, Problem, or Fault. They say the approximation of “We see you’re absolutely outraged. We’ve decided to change our decisions. We are always improving.”
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
AFAIK the game is still banned in countries where you can’t get a PSN account and also it still ships with a rootkit, so…
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
I wish they’d remove some of the PS2 to PC ports on their store that don’t actually run anymore. Prince of Persia, Saints Row 2, etc.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
The lack of humility in their statement makes me think they haven’t learned anything.
- Comment on It's a trap! 5 days ago:
Peroxide and dead mouth flesh.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 5 days ago:
Over the course of 2 weeks, yes.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 5 days ago:
Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 5 days ago:
Technically, LD50 specifies a time of death within 2 weeks of the consumption. I don’t expect that would matter for most of this list, but there you go.
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 days ago:
Honestly the visual representation of the atom is just a simplified artist’s rendition. It’s more acceptable to treat the atom’s components as charge fields filled with very high energy contained by nuclear forces. That said, the planets with molten cores and the sun also have their own electromagnetic fields so maybe the concept isn’t so far off.
- Comment on youth risky 6 days ago:
TBF it wasn’t Sodium Chloride salt, it was Arsenic Trioxide.
- Comment on kissies 1 week ago:
In case anybody is wondering the actual reason, it’s because many quadrupedal mammals bathe by licking themselves and each other, particular between parents and offspring, so a dog licking you is just the dog’s instinctual response to close physical contact with family members. Some hypothesize that dogs enjoy being pet because it emulates the sensation of their mother licking them. Some animals are somewhat incapable of cleaning themselves at a young age and that leads to problems with early separation, such as Lions who in captivity are often paired with a dog who serves as a surrogate mother for cleaning them.
- Comment on kissies 1 week ago:
If anything, being grossed out is rational and being enamored by it is an emotional response.
- Comment on Morish Morals 1 week ago:
Everything is slightly misshapen, and the caption gives a lot of hints.
- Comment on Morish Morals 1 week ago:
It took me a while to figure out it’s all rocks.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 1 week ago:
Take-Two still receives the proceeds from the sales, depending on employment contracts probably pays royalties to the devs. Also, it’s their intellectual property so there could be consequences for leaking the source code.
- Comment on Tell me what it smells like in the comments! 1 week ago:
The musk of a small child’s room with an oaky menthol finish.