sp3ctr4l
@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What the caw? 1 day ago:
Welp, thats it.
The best image I have ever seen on the internet.
- Comment on We've all been there 1 day ago:
…Does hurling slurs and insults at Elon’s twitter account, right after he accidentally bought it, and thus in all likelihood being directly banned by him personally, count?
Its the actual only thing I’ve ever used Twitter for.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 1 day ago:
Yep. And confused white boy who just straight up admits he is lost?
He very probably is just lost, and thus isn’t looking to start anything.
Mutually beneficial solution to all involved is just… help him get home.
Win win.
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
Seagulls play by rules that are broadly well understood, and clear.
Now… geese …those motherfuckers have no honor.
- Comment on Seagirl 2 days ago:
I have apparently dated … at least 3 seagulls.
- Comment on Correlation implies causation 2 days ago:
You have a particularily hilarious version of oppositional defiance disorder.
- Comment on Correlation implies causation 2 days ago:
Actually there is a proven causal connection:
Infrasound.
Data centers make a lot of that, and that does cause/exacerbate dizziness.
Now, what proportion of increasing dizziness is caused by more data centers?
Impossible to tell from this meagre data set, likely an insubstantial amount… my money would be on long covid + its really fucking hot more often.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
Yeah… Todd and Emil… are gonna have to… actually make something good.
For the first time in a decade.
Right so like Asha’s statement said that no publically announced games have been cancelled.
… Does Elder Scrolls 6 … actually count as publically announced?
Its never had a release date or window, its only ever had one trailer, basically just a panning landscape shot…
Yeah I can enough wiggle room there that Asha can basically be a fascist and just straight up tell Todd and Emil exactly what to do, and threaten to fire them if they don’t.
- Comment on They're not even trying to hide it 3 days ago:
Exterior Government Aviator
I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser
Exterior Government Aviator
I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser
Biology, means nothing to me
Wire up the birds and schizos will flee
Tinfoil hats, do not wash well
With a good enough joke, they will sell
Feathers will fly
Beamed through the sky
Bird brain, magnets
Deniable dragnet
… approximately to tune and cadence of:
- Comment on excuse me? 5 days ago:
No, its not the same.
In the past, the younger generation was broadly more literate and better informed about the world.
Gen Z and Alphas are worse.
In the past, younger generations were not absorbed into digital screens nearly 24/7 that literally program behaviors into them, where those behaviors are finetuned to turn them into mindless consumers or some kind of cult adherent, or gambling addict.
The mass proflieration of for profit social media acts as drugs do, especially so on younger, less developed minds.
Sure, the introduction of TV did something of the same kind, but not to the same extent, or scale.
If you think this is the same, you’re simply unfamiliar with the relevant data and studies.
- Comment on They're not even trying to hide it 5 days ago:
… spread the word?
Ok.
Well…
… don’t you know, about the bird?
Well, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD!
Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW MOW
Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW
Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW
WELL DONT YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE BIRD
WELL EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD
Suuuuuuurrrrrrfiiinnnn Biiiiiiirrrrrrrddddd
- Comment on excuse me? 5 days ago:
Its getting genuienly sad that younger Gen Z and Alphas just literally have no idea how to be people.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Yes.
That… that is what creativity is.
Its not always… sensible, or … broadly liked… but yeah, people things up… is creativity.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I was gonna say, entirely seriously, the family that cooks together, stays together.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 5 days ago:
No no no.
You don’t get how bad this is.
Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,… but this… this is a power play, a naked power play.
It isn’t even about money, because when you do what they just did… the definition of money, property, what a ‘sale’ is… that all changes.
They’re changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.
Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?
This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.
- Comment on Least problematic company ever lol 6 days ago:
Hey I mean…
I think Itch.io at least deserves to be another goofy little goober in the corner.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Lately I’ve been running into the wild thing where… they just cannot fucking understand nested arrays.
Here, we have an array called points, its made of vec2s, vec2 elements can also be accessed as an array or via vec2.x or vec2.y
Alright, now, figure out how to compute the distance from the last point in the points array to the first point.
… and it will give me something like:
points - points
… and then I headdesk and explain to it what i just said.
and it will go oh!
points - points is incorrect!
points - points is the corrected version!
… and then i will tell it those are literally the same thing and cannot possibly be both correct and incorrect simultaneously.
… and then it will either actually crash, or basicslly say ‘yep, sorry, im stupid’… and then crash.
… fucking what? This is what Ford has been using to make all their software with the last year?
God fucking damnit.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 6 days ago:
Aha!
IGN waits 48 hrs to have an opinion, and they go with offensive.
No, that’s hard enough, you fucking shills.
Its criminal. It subverts the entire concept of personal property rights. It is so offensive that to let it stand would be an ongoing affront to quite literally human rights.
If you allow a paradigm to exist, in an increasingly digital world and economy, that your digital goods can be evaporated, at whim, by the seller, after you purchased them, with no refund?
You get cyberpunk dystopia from this. You turn corporations formally into more powerful entities than most states.
The only reason you fucking morons describe this as baffling is because you are their second order PR agency. You’re idiots, its been obvious this was the plan for over a decade… you cannot possibly be surprised by this without being corporate cucks.
You fucking cunts dare to angle yourselves as sharing the same concerns as SKG, as Ross Scott?
Where the fuck were you a decade ago when Ross started talking about this? You’re goddamned media company, you could have signal boosted him this whole fucking time.
Fuck you Luke, you duplicitous bootlicking hack.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Why… why are these nested… owwww my brain.
Oh my god. Its soo bad, it keeps getting worse the more I look at it…
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Man… Sweeney is starting to go from ‘contemptible’ to ‘pitiable’.
That is such a desperate and obviously stupid thing to say that I do actuslly just feel sad for him at this point.
- Comment on Explosive Diarrhea Is Surging Across The US Right Now : ScienceAlert 1 week ago:
At this point, the shitpost comm is going to be able to just actually focus on literal shit related stories.
reality is enshitttifying aughguhah!
- Comment on This phone in the stock room was so filthy someone put a clean grip on it so you wouldn't have to touch it 1 week ago:
Call me!
… on the line, call me call me any time, call me!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m sorry that you haven’t known people with large houses and lots of friends of friends of friends.
You absolutely can throw a house party where you know you’re gonna need to buy a couple hundred cups.
And ideally, you’ll be playing Daft Punk Is Playing At My House at your house.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They can.
Easiest one is… add as much ice as you wsnt, thrn fill up to the first line with say, Jack, then up to the second line with say, Coke.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ahahah… yep, helped plan and host a few such uh, ‘events’, where we employed this extremely legal tactic.
That and ID checking. Still can’t legally serve a minor, even the booze is free.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Toby Keith literally made an ode to the Red Solo Cup.
I remember being drunk, with a red solo cup, singing along to this song, at a frat… more than once.
Yes, its safe to say the red solo cup is an actual cultural phenomenon.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
Currently at ~7% would buy one version or another on day one, about 33% would wait for a sale, ~60% dgaf
- Comment on Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy 1 week ago:
Well… I’ve…
… never licked a spark plug
and I’ve never sniffed a stinkbug
And I’ve never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball
And I’ve never bathed in yogurt
and I don’t look good in leggings
And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall
Don’t know what to tell you… I don’t do anything.
- Comment on Don't tempt me with a good time. 1 week ago:
Questions:
How are we harvesting and refining N2 from the ambient air?
What equipment are we doing this with?
How much does that cost? To acquire, and to run?
How much heat is generated when you pull nitrogen out of the air?
… if you can answer those questions practically and affordably…
Well now … is this nitrogen more valuable as a personal coolant, or as an input for fertilizers or other various specialized industry/tech processes?
- Comment on Anon makes games 1 week ago:
I mean, it really is as simple as you’d think it is.
They’re entitled, vain, and incompetent.
Gigantocorporate structures… do that to themselves and their constituents.
They have a whole other kind of ‘social norms’, just like any particularly culturally different group or economic class of people have noticably different expectations and behavior patterns.
The corporation values ass kissing and gaslighting more than anything else, it takes an extreme and constant, consistent effort inside the company to make that not happen, like pushing a boulder up a hill.
You can place varying degrees of blame on management or devs, on specifically full of themselves and insifferable people…
… but the ultimate reason this happens is because shareholders say line must go up, and the social dynamics that occur in an organization that is rabidly aiming for that goal… produce narcissists that are full of themselves.
Because a mass shakeup, an attempt to reset that via resetting people… well that means downtime, that means ‘a rebuilding year’… but that line needs to keep going up NOW. And firing all your top leadership is a near guaranteed way to tank your stock value.
