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- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 6 hours ago:
You…
You think they care?
They want people streaming games to phones/TVs and paying by the hour.
Not subsidizing console sales anymore will make cloud gaming seem more attractive, and that’s where the most money is at
- Comment on Hackney pub’s child‑free rule sparks debate online 11 hours ago:
Lol
The pub has also decided to ban dogs after 18:00 on Fridays and Saturdays - a move staff say has prompted more pushback than the child‑free policy.
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 11 hours ago:
I used to love Borderlands…
Then they locked characters behind expensive DLC. So I started waiting for the “everything” editions, but then it made sense to just wait for big sales…
And eventually not caring about the franchise.
Its like Crusader Kings or Sims. It’s better than annual releases that don’t really change, but the DLC structure turns people away from the entire game. Even if you wait for a sale, all the “new” DLC stays expensive.
So people put off buying anything till they just don’t care.
- Comment on Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites 1 day ago:
James Acaster:
That’s why the British Museum is so busy, no British people ever go in there, it’s just people from abroad looking at their own stuff…
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 2 days ago:
They gave all the big subs to corporate overloads well over a decade ago.
The general “tech” subs had mods bought off long ago for general shit
$200 to nuke a topic is nothing to these companies, but an insane amount of motivation to unpaid mods.
It doesn’t take long till the motivation from bribes pushes out anyone without that motivation, and that’s not even getting into how small the circle of mods really is due to years of “add backs”.
Like, at this point we should all accept that real life conspiracies don’t have to involve James Bond. It can be a bunch of idiots doing incredibly transparent and ineffective shit.
- Comment on What are some interesting and fun things to do while you are doing cannabis? 4 days ago:
You’re talking about doing an activity to enhance the drug.
Pick an activity you enjoy and can safely enhance with the drug.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 4 days ago:
Most kids still pay for the shitty standard cafeteria lunch tray…
Sometimes in later in like highschool they’re given more options. But it’s pretty much comes down to capitalism.
The vast amount of parents won’t pack a lunch and will never even see the quality of food.
What’s fucked up is healthy food is actually insanely cheap at that scale and dependable need. We’d spend just as much feeding kids a healthy high protein/fiber low sugar/fat meal as we do giving them ultra processed garbage.
There just would be profit margins for contracting companies if we did that
Likeost things in America, no system is designed to be the best or most efficient at anything other than making money. Anything that doesn’t make money, the wealthy are constantly trying to privatize.
That’s the whole “late stage capitalism” thing people always say.
- Comment on How are you supposed to pronounce "Macklemore"? 4 days ago:
Mac-L-more
So if you mean “el” like “el tigre chino”, then that’s correct. “L” just eliminates confusion.
I have no strong feelings about him as an artist
He makes super up ear and stupid music 99% of the time, but he’s got a lot more artistic credibility than most.
Can’t remember if he was wealthy before music, or was just unsigned and smart about his money. But dude will at least stand by his principles even when it costs him money.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 6 days ago:
They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.
They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.
When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.
But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.
They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 6 days ago:
Really small things are really good at surviving anything involving gravity.
But it’s not a 0-75 acceleration either. They’d be sucked out and fine a second later. The danger would be getting pulled around the car due to its aerodynamics, putting it directly in front of the next windshield in traffic.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 1 week ago:
The excuse for places that don’t have it is often:
If voters could recall politicians, they’d recall politicians!
Which is enough when politicians are the only ones who can change it.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
, I don’t think it can hurt any more than a calculator hurts your ability to do math.
Because using AI atrophies the part of your brain that handles critical thinking…
The more you use it, the less you notice how you can’t do things without it.
If AI worked, that would be normal. The problem is it’s just good at conning people into believing it.
That’s why you can’t realize if it ever takes off and people start using it, they’re going to make it shittier and more expensive.
But again, the people already relying on AI have lost the critical thinking to see that coming. It’s like a bus driver closing their eyes because a bridge is closed. The bridge is still closed, they didn’t solve any problems. They just don’t see it coming now.
What you’re doing is asking all the passengers why they’re still screaming if all they need to do is close their eyes…
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
It’s burning the environment down, destroying the shambles of the global economy, and being constantly shoved down everyone’s throats even though it’s only impressive to people who don’t understand it
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
It’s worse…
People are saying it’s AI slop filter, and he won’t shut the fuck up that the slop isn’t a filter, it’s a main ingredient.
When enabled it fundamentally changes how it works.
Developers will be stuck with the default version we’ve seen, or have to devote a shit ton of money to do twice the work for the people who use this, and they won’t see the other version.
Like, this shit is going to get worse and worse the more people understand it.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
Not really,
Nvidia just calls everything DLSS…
Like, it’s basically an anthology label at this point. If they think it’s a good idea, they call.it DLSS #
For example DLSS 4 was frame generation, nothing to do with super sampling.
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 1 week ago:
Happy to help!
The more informed people the better these days.
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 1 week ago:
Organized crime, fraud, petty thieves, etc, they all have thing to lose.
What?!
You get into that, because you don’t have anything to lose
Like, that’s the entire situation we’re avoiding in the first place.
The amount of people who “love that lifestyle” are statistically insignificant and likely couldn’t do anything on their own.
You did remind me about an old rap song tho:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh-_ZiEu5A
Even people that “love that lifestyle” love it because they don’t have anything else. And idiots see it and think the people in that lifestyle wouldn’t do anything to get to the suburbs.
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 1 week ago:
Nah.
Like I get what you’re saying, and everyone should be able to live how they want as long as it’s not hurting anyone else…
But historically you’re wrong. And while I understand you’re trying to be an ally, you’re just repeating rightwing propaganda about how different “lifestyles” are mental illnesses and people who desire a different lifestyle needs help.
Like, if you were correct, the data would back it up.
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 1 week ago:
The root cause of gun violence and really all crime is people feeling they have nothing to lose.
Give people something to lose, and they won’t throw it away.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s a thing.
Was always a gimmicky part of speaker software back in the day.
Like, a page in setting was a picture of a generic room and you can drag and drop an icon for the picture to change how 3d sound was displayed.
So you could likely find something like that and co-opt it for headphones.
Search for something like “3d audio setup” or “positioning software”.
That being said, this isn’t a problem with how you’re processing sound. It’s more likely an inner ear thing, but it’s impossible to say if it’s a “problem” or just weird variation. So anything you do with the headphones is just going to compensate for it, not actually solve it.
It’s probably also weird watching TV or a screen from an angle either, fixing the inner ear thing would likely solve a lot of stuff for you, especially if you consider yourself clumsy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OP gave some surface level details that are pretty much all existing tropes…
If someone read it and said they didn’t like it, the issue probably wasn’t any of the things OP said.
But writing is a skill, you don’t start out good at it, you get good by doing it a lot. Every author’s first stories suck
- Comment on Max Blumenthal: How FBI & Israel Got Trump to Attack 2 weeks ago:
More shocking still is the fact that the F.B.I. has manufactured a series of assassination plots, successfully convincing Trump that Iran was hunting him on U.S. soil with highly sophisticated teams of hitmen.
The man accused of leading the most significant of these operations, Asif Merchant, is currently on trial in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court. After the U.S. granted him a visa despite his presence on a terror watch list, Merchant was in the constant company of an F.B.I. confidential informant who ultimately steered the contrived plot to its conclusion. He never stood a chance of realizing his plans, and did not appear serious about doing so.
They gave a known terrorist a VISA just so they could frame him and take credit for stopping an assassination that only the FBI was planning…
Even if they don’t intentionally let an attack happen, one is going to happen because of dumb shit like this.
It’s like firefighters who spend their free time dumping gas cans in abandoned buildings, they might not have lit a match on but they’re not on the long list of people who didn’t start the fire.
- Comment on In the English dub of American Dad’s «Aw Rats, a Pool Party!» episode, Avery says he doesn’t speak Spanish. What does he say in the Spanish version? 2 weeks ago:
And it would be 100% funnier too, and still on brand for Bullock to say he can’t speak the language he’s currently speaking.
- Comment on Women’s brains lose nearly 5% of their gray matter on average during pregnancy 3 weeks ago:
Volume doesn’t matter, it’s surface area.
And shrinking may actually increase the surface area.
What’s going on with memory, is likely different and would have more to do with staying more present in the “now”. Babies are fickle, it’s hard to plan ahead, and better to have a constant idea how the baby is doing
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 3 weeks ago:
They already don’t make money off gas
Their profits are the stuff in the store, the excuse people have for overpaying is that they’re already there.
We’ll see a lot close, and the ones that remain grow to be basic conscience stores.
They’ll still have the gas pumps, because it’s expensive to remove them. But new builds will likely just be parking lots instead of pumps.
The old stations would be what people have to rely on.
As such the ones on the outskirts would be the ones that close first.
Last gas stations will be in downtown areas where getting rid of 60 year old pumps wouldn’t gain anymore parking than people parking at the pumps.
- Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor | If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iran’s senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said. 3 weeks ago:
This is a huge warning about how much the Overton window can move…
Abdolreza Davari, a politician close to Mojtaba Khamenei, said in public statements and in interviews with The New York Times that if Mr. Khamenei did succeed his father, he could emerge as a figure in the style of the Saudi Arabian leader Mohammed bin Salman.
“He is extremely progressive and will move to sideline the hard-liners,” Mr. Davari said in a text message before the war. “See his appointment as a shedding of skin.”
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 3 weeks ago:
Try “random start” mods.
Instead of taking you thru the opening scenes of a big RPG like Skyrim, it just punts you to some random area so you can immediately start messing around
A lot of games have big scripted events the first couple hours, being able to skip those helps it from feeling repetitive, because that’s the stuff you’ve done ever playthrough you’ve ever started.
- Comment on US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges 3 weeks ago:
Like, it would be the ultimate insult to God giving man dominion over the earth to purposefully engineer a situation so bad he has to destroy it.
Their logic:
By setting conditions that humans can control, God’s plan was for mankind to fufil the conditions.
To work against them, could even be seen to be defying God’s will.
You have to remember that all of these old idiots expect it to happen in their lifetime, like every other generation of old idiots. And they’re all 70+ and if the rapture comes they don’t technically die, they get called up to heaven.
Like, it’s not even on a conscious level, this is their last ticket to avoid facing their inevitable personal deaths, and if millions of us die and the planet gets nuked, well, that’s Armageddon.
Instead of hitting the brakes like world leaders in their 40s with a life ahead of them, they’re all gonna Laverne and Shirley us off a cliff.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 3 weeks ago:
Jokes on them, I was wasting my money on xbox’s subscription service at the time and didn’t have to buy it…
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 3 weeks ago:
it would have to be some serious quality of life changes to make me shell out for it again.
Eh, I first bought it 20 years ago, and have bought it a couple times since on different platforms.
If it’s $30 bucks I’m buying it regardless. Maybe not right at first, but eventually I will.
That’s also why I don’t think any game shouldnt be able to run “maxxed out” on release. A great game people are still gonna want to run it a decade later. It doesn’t hurt anyone if the dial turns to 11 if 10 is the same setting it’s always been.
So make games that in a decade still look decent on settings no one could enable all at once on release. It doesn’t change the quality on release, just gives it legs to look good longer.