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- Comment on Girl Scouts are ramping up their tactics 1 day ago:
FPV cookie delivery when?
- Comment on Copper 5 days ago:
This is after 1.18, Diamonds are most commonly found at Y=-54 now.
- Comment on Born in the USA reminder 1 week ago:
Again, depends on region. Given prior electoral results from 2016 and 2024 though, I think it’s fair to say more veterans from W. Virginia voted for Trump than veterans from Washington state.
I don’t think it’s honest to compare military service to welfare though - the occupational hazards aside, you sign away most of your freedom of movement and independence while in active duty (whereas welfare is designed to assist people who are struggling in the active moment rather than having them sign away their autonomy for years to decades).
- Comment on Born in the USA reminder 1 week ago:
It’s largely regional, so to be honest the statistic is more valid when looking at things from a local level rather than a national level.
West Virginia would be in a much worse state for their populace compared to Seattle, for instance.
- Comment on Born in the USA reminder 1 week ago:
The VA is supposed to, but like Medicare/Medicaid, is hampered in its ability to be distributed to all those who need it.
There’s a reason “not service related” has become an in-joke among active/former servicemembers, sadly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Who puts an 8x scope on an Itheca pump action?
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
You establish your own piracy hoard because there’s no point in playing along anymore.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Steam’s system has the binary flag, and then gives space for developers to explain in their own words how AI generated code was used in the process, (IE: Arc Raiders mentioning its use for physics simulations, COD giving a more generic “used throughout development” line). There will be plenty of people who will see “AI content included” and will stop reading the store page after that, and that is their decision. For people who read the explanation, they can get a better idea of what kind of usage they are dealing with, and decide if it’s still worth buying the game.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Company accused of putting sawdust in their baked goods furious at ingredient labelling standards; more at 11.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 2 weeks ago:
Not a word, but a phrase:
“Doesn’t suite my taste, but not a bad product.”
or
“Not for me, but fine for others.”
- Comment on Why is it almost every cease fire or deal made in the Middle East everyone adds a little fuck you to the Kurds? Just like the MoU screwed them. As far back as I think Nixon was fucking over them. 3 weeks ago:
The lines drawn by the agreement hardened into borders, but the actual control of the territories by Britain and France never came into actual effect due to the decolonization after WWII (and in the post-WWI era).
So in a sense, yes, the Sykes-Picot agreement did not come into effect as intended, but the lines those men drew did, and their consequences persist to the present.
This does not exonerate the various atrocities and actions committed by the various parties involved since then, of course. Lines on a map will be difficult to modify in the modern era no matter who drew them.
- Comment on Why is it almost every cease fire or deal made in the Middle East everyone adds a little fuck you to the Kurds? Just like the MoU screwed them. As far back as I think Nixon was fucking over them. 3 weeks ago:
Technically you could go all the way back to the Sykes-Picot agreement never giving them a defined state and thus shattering them across multiple borders only relevant to long dead empires. Things really only keep getting worse because as history as marched on, the nation-states in each of the countries that the Kurds reside within have political- or resource-based incentives to not allow the Kurds to form a genuine independent state combining their existing communities (and resolving the conflict they have with their respective “home countries”).
From a logical standpoint, it should be simple to allocate a state to right a historical wrong inflicted by an Englishman and Frenchman who didn’t consult any of the residing population, but it’s more valuable to the current nations presently involved in the middle east to keep them around to be exploited as pawns or scapegoats. Just dangle the carrot on the stick that is Kurdish autonomy/independence every few years or so.
As an individual not analyzing the circumstances from the nations’ perspective however, this is fucking horrible diplomacy and I do not blame the Kurdish people at all for being distrustful of anyone who worked with them in the past.
- Comment on WOMEN. 4 weeks ago:
Thank goodness online adaptations allow people to play without having to consider the identity of their opponent (because I don’t mind who I play against).
- Comment on Ответьте на мой призыв 4 weeks ago:
opatchki
- Comment on Good morning! 4 weeks ago:
bottle 'o 'otter
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 5 weeks ago:
Inca Cola for life! I was stunned when it tasted the same when I visited.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 5 weeks ago:
Scotland
- Comment on DEMIMAN 5 weeks ago:
KABEWM!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
… Can’t tell if slop or you’re just using the same color pallette used by slop comics…
- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 1 month ago:
The funny thing is I think we are in the same situation except now the free distribution of games on the internet means the supply side issues are even less relevant to the game industry. The losers might end up being consoles again.
- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 1 month ago:
One of the reasons the 1983 crash was so harsh was because brick and mortar distribution and producing expensive cartridges made self-publishing and indie development much more difficult. Hell, the Commodore 64 never had any problems throughout the crash because games were distributed on tape and floppy disk, and hobbyists could easily create new games much cheaper than console counterparts.
I would argue we have the same echoes here. The winners will be the indie PC and mobile devs alongside digital distribution platforms like Steam (Valve) and GOG where anyone with talent and ambition can enter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I like riding on a train/trolley :3
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 month ago:
There’s your problem, pally.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 month ago:
Essentially, when browsers started to initially implement toggles to block third party cookies more than a decade ago, advertisers in response pressured website hosts to mark their cookies as “essential/required” (AKA forced cookies). You will not get the same revenue as a website host if you do not play ball with this, and some go even a step further by routing/disguising their cookies through trusted domains (google, amazon, etc…) to mask the “true source” , in an attempt to mitigate detection from basic browser filters.
Ublock Origin and the like are pretty good at catching most of them through crowdsourced lists though.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 month ago:
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 month ago:
Emulation’s gonna bring them here anyway XD
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 1 month ago:
Nah, I ended up an engineering nerd. You’d be surprised.
Athletic + husky is the outcome of quitting team sports but keeping the diet XD
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 2 months ago:
That would be stripped out by the cracking team before release. The scene doesn’t forget to test things, you know (also many countries where cracked games are hosted/more prevalent are places where foreign copyright law doesn’t matter much).
- Comment on Wall TV 2 months ago:
He’s got that supportive spirit, that counts :)