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- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 hours ago:
So based and repelled bro. You’re for sure postmaxxing. Absolutely mewing on the haters. more dunks than a 90s kangaroo. You sure told those bitches.
Anyway to be serious for a moment: “the internet is full of wreckers so why even bother” is a fucking wrecker argument. You are the problem. Do you see?
- Comment on One more internet meme 1 day ago:
It’s a haiku:
It’s not DNS There’s no WAY it’s DNS …it was DNS.
- Comment on One more internet meme 1 day ago:
Quad9 for life
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 3 days ago:
If he has any offspring or family, even those that disavowed what he was and did but couldn’t stop him, his DNA has privacy implications for them.
That’s why shit like 23andme is extra bad. All it takes is like one relative per couple branches and they could probably build a copy of anyone’s DNA.
Now there’s a database that psychos can use to “purification research”. But surely nothing will go wrong guys, that’s just science fiction.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
You didn’t present one piece of evidence that $600 is a losing price point for the base model (and you even stated that explicitly). All you’ve done is shown that Apple is known for their outrageous markups; something we all can see with our own eyes.
Given they’re greedy enough to markup storage and ram so much; I’m willing to bet they won’t bother with techniques like “loss leaders”. I bet the margins are just extremely tight but that profit is above zero.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
The cheapest mini ain’t a loss leader if no one buys it
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
The US Air Force built the Condor Cluster out of 1,760 PS3s in 2010 which I believe saw some actual use. So more than just publicity stunting.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
Why would anyone who’s in the market for a by-itself motherboard ever want something you can get as a modular piece as a built-in to another expensive piece?
Besides, if you want everything soldered on you can just buy a laptop motherboard.
Or a Mac
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
…and you got one.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
What did Sony do to Palworld?
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
I don’t believe they need to erase it from history in order to do that
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
As a Mac owner when I was young, Bungie was my great saving grace for gaming. Loved Marathon even though it ran like shit.
Seeing it turned into that absolute trash and then discovering they didn’t even use AI but straight up stole artwork for it was the final nail in the coffin. Bungie is dead.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
I remember owning a Sony Powershot digital camera around the time when that tech first become consumer priced (around 2000 or so) and they had proprietary memory cards. I think it even had a custom USB cable with one end that wasn’t like anything else and one end regular USB
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
The only reason you think Sony isn’t as bad as Nintendo is because they have better PR (and Nintendo is as bad as you think they are)
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
You’ve never owned Chrono Trigger.
Sorry, another way in which the world was a lie.
But as the other person replying said, with physical media they’d have to break into your house; probably not happening without them wining some kind of devastating lawsuit against you.
Anyway the point we’re all making by pointing out this seemingly pedantic distinction is that digital media is sold in the same way physical was (just, without the need to transport a physical object to provide access to the media); this is what allows media companies to now take advantage. Whether it’s losing all your “owned” movies when the PS3 store shut down, or your games being “stolen” when Ubisoft shuts down the license server, etc.
Laws haven’t caught up because this transition happened gradually and without such poor practices; and now through regulatory capture will largely be ignored.
It’s a class war and they’re winning, even though they have no idea what the consequences will be as long as they get to live in opulence and control for now.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
You always have. Physical copies are sold as a license to use the product but not copy it (in some jurisdictions this is limited to “copy with intent to distribute”). This is also true of movies, music, and other media. This has been true since physical media has been available.
Under our current laws, “owning” a piece of media means control of the copyright; seems pedantic when the common terminology for having a piece of physical media is “owning”; but the point is that they would never sell you ownership; they would have to sell you a non-revocable license.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
I’m not sure why you are downvoted, this is 100% correct.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
In case you weren’t away, we’ve never had digital ownership. All software has been licensed since the dawn of software, including physical media you’ve bought
Are you using a product that is no longer sold because you have the physical media? If the rights holder decides to go after you to compel you to stop or even try to collect damages, they fucking can.
They historically haven’t because it’s a terrible PR move and they might not have a chance in court due to the physical nature of the transaction; but you’ve never “owned” software in the same way you’ve never owned a movie or music. The sale has always been a license and a physical copy.
The problem has always been the pesky physical copy, which couldn’t be revoked. Since we’ve moved to digital, boomers don’t recognize that this is theft in the digital world they’d never stand for in the real world, and the elite take advantage.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 days ago:
The Men Who Rent Their Throats
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 6 days ago:
I mean, that’s why people still have a hard time believing it
- Comment on DEI4All 1 week ago:
That was our mistake, Thinking they were all trolls for 30 years of internet, and calling them such. They started to believe it.
- Comment on I fuckin paid for those 1 week ago:
Oh I’m sorry bitch didn’t know there was a shot clock on these Jalapeño poppers, don’t mean you get a free throw
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
The Pinkertons are real and still exist today. They got hired to harassed some YouTuber that had unreleased Magic the Gathering cards
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually awesome. It’s pretty pure athleticism, so the sport is there. Every wrestler has their own style and personality, and it even comes through when the match lasts 10 seconds. The ring is made from hardened clay and the hay bales that make up the ring are stuffed with gravel - the risk is real and the consequence of losing is pain. These guys are sometimes 400lbs of muscle (and yeah with a ton of body fat on top of it, weight is momentum and momentum is everything) who train constantly and have honed their skills for almost a lifetime to work up the ranks to even be in Grand Sumo in the first place. These dudes go out there to perform for the gods and they go as hard as they can.
It seems silly because people can’t get past “hue hue naked and fat” and they made a trope out of it but it’s just about everything that makes competition “pure” distilled down into a single sport. It’s hard not to pop off after a good top division match, I’m always yelling at the TV.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
Oh fuck is there a sumo community I should be a part of? November basho is so close, how far will Aonishki go? Is Hosh really back? What happened to Takeyasu’s hot streak from a few tournaments back? Is Ura still the love of my life? Will Kotoeiho ever make it back to Makuuchi??
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
Birds won’t visit a feeder you haven’t hung.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
You know, we say that but Reddit had and has more snark and sarcasm than even this place and they seem to have all the communities.
Just start a community, and if people show up to your little pod of Facebook Marketplace reposting enjoyers and shit on your parade, show them the fucking door.
Yeah I hate Facebook and Google and I wouldn’t willingly participate in those; but there is plenty of AI related shit in my All feed here that I just ignore because, while I fucking hate the religion created around generative AI those people aren’t bothering me.
Now Nazi’s on the other hand I will gladly chase the fuck outta here. But you can, as a moderator, just delete the snark from your new community. The software just lets you do it.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 2 weeks ago:
Gee, what a perfect opportunity we’ve stumbled across
- Comment on You can tell that's a real person at least. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been seeing a lot of AI bots with “Bunny” or a variant in their name lately; u sure bout that bro?
- Comment on fucking French 3 weeks ago:
In a combat situation, with other explosions and shit going on around you, it’s easier to feel two pops instead of three or whatever than to notice your bolt locked after three pops.
It’s designed for war, it’s not a toy for the range.