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- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 10 hours ago:
At this point I think you may not even understand what a NDA is.
Are you under the impression if someone doesn’t want to talk about a topic, they just “sign a NDA” and don’t have to talk about it?
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 10 hours ago:
but sometimes government officials have to perform official duties that require confidentiality.
If by “sometimes” you mean “they’ll make you sign a NDA to tell you 8 hours before everyone else it’s Taco Tuesday”…
Yeah, that’s pretty close
NDAs aren’t rare at all, and I wish it was surprising no one on Lemmy seems to have actual governmental experience.
- Comment on Last woman to be hanged in the UK pardoned 70 years on— Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon following the Deputy Prime Minister’s advice 2 days ago:
One thing rightwingers always ignore when they get mad about women being able to initiate a divorce, is that without that peaceful option, we had a shit ton more widows…
Some got caught and tried for murder, but you’d have to be very ignorant to think most weren’t getting away with it thru less obvious means.
Back someone in a corner long enough, and they’re gonna take the only option they have. That’s human nature.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Bruh it’s literally how tech advances…
When resources (compute power) is cheap, there’s huge leaps in tech. When resources are scarce, the fat gets trimmed.
It’s not optimism, it’s pattern recognition.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 5 days ago:
Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games
What?!
You think before Steam people could resell and loan PC games like console?!
Why just make shit up? You know Steam ain’t that old and people remember pre-Steam…
Right?
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 5 days ago:
Fucking obviously…
Did people really just figure out their hate for discs was the hate for resellers and rentals?
Fucking hell man, next you’re gonna tell us they sell consoles at a lost to trap consumers in their ecosystem of expensive games and not out of the goodness of their heart.
If you just fucking realized this, it’s better than not.
But it doesn’t mean you should be listened to, because everyone that actually cares enough to string two thoughts together figured this out fucking years/decades ago.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 week ago:
They’re gonna learn all the wrong lessons from bg3 and copy it
The lesson should be to let studios do what they’re good at. They need to find a good studio they trust, give them BG4, and trust them to make a good game even if fundamentally different than bg3 or bg2.
It’s the antithesis of COD or Madden that release carbon copies every year, give people a new game with a familiar setting
- Comment on Rockstar Games could strike before GTA 6 launches over unionization 1 week ago:
The smart move would be to do it immediately after release date drops.
Give them an hour or two to grab all the headlines, then announce a strike and overwrite all the headlines and steal all the buzz.
Tie any eventual delay to that initial delay caused by their treatment of employees.
With how slow these games come out, this is a once in a decade opportunity, possibly once in a generation.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 week ago:
To be fair, bg3 is more Divinity Souls 3 than BG3…
They just slapped some BG paint on top of it.
Trying to find a studio that can make a sequel to that isn’t going to work out well. They need to make the tough call of finding another studio that will take the franchise and make a good game how they know how to make a good game.
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 2 weeks ago:
Clark is insanely talented.
She is…
It’s just she’s not the best in the league. She probably will be eventually, but she was treated like she was already as soon as she declared for the draft.
Like, the “W” in WNBA isn’t even relevant here, that kind of dynamic is going to breed jealous thru no fault of her own. Especially considering how much money is in sports and how likely it was that owners just needed any star to generate hype for the league.
If that was the reason, then all the suspect calls and drama makes more sense.
Look at the people who own pro sports teams and the shit they pull off
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 2 weeks ago:
That’s different stuff…
In fact, the only way they’re connected is they kind of support each other.
The WNBA as an organization is insanely jealous of Clark, because she became a star for no real reason. Shes talented, but she’s not the most talented. And in every other aspect, it’s the same.
She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and the vast majority resent her for it.
That paints a huge target on her back, even for officials if they’ve been around a decade. However it also makes the league insanely competitive. Even when she’s not on the court, everyone is chasing that level of recognition now that is seems possible.
It’s great for the league, but it’s still crazy it’s happening. It’s not even like in men’s sports where a top athlete is feared or respected like Larry Byrd, they just fucking hate her because she’s successful.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Same thing man.
You could have asked why I think it’s obvious the single player will just be a hamstring multiplayer, and I’d have explained it.
Would’ve been so easy
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
You could have asked me to fill in the missing steps you’re having trouble filling in…
That would have resulted in you gaining understanding about this specifically, and how people use logic and critical thinking in general.
That’s crazy man, instead you did that, and now I’ll never see an actual question you ask me.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
I was going to buy it in ~5 years on PC for the single player campaign…
But if they’re describing it as a “single player experience” it’s going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
It sounds like a minor difference, but it means the entire “experience” is just reskinned multiplayer and will push people there so they spend money.
This one will likely be bad
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 2 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you’re just blatantly lying, or don’t understand what most of the words mean …
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 2 weeks ago:
And OP choose to highlight that without context
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 2 weeks ago:
So is OP…
They quoted the shit stain saying the cops told him he was high profile.
- Comment on Trump Ordered ‘American Flag Blue’ for the Reflecting Pool. It’s Green Again. 3 weeks ago:
It’s completely normal for this to happen after any shutdown, because all the little places with water grows it, then when you fill it back up it quickly spreads till they dial in the chemicals.
The problem here is they fucked up the color so it’ll always look shitty.
And whoever is maintaining it now won’t be able to get the algae under control.
It highlights how relatively normal speed bumps keep causing massive issues.
- Comment on Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry 4 weeks ago:
Dude got a diplomatic passport from his home country and still wasn’t allowed in.
It’s not just a ref, dude is supposed to be the best referee in all of Africa
- Comment on Wembanyama, Spurs stun Knicks at MSG to revive Finals hopes 4 weeks ago:
Yep, all that shit is part of home court advantage.
Everything is pretty much the same. trump basically took away home court advantage. For the Spurs it was already going to be weird
- Comment on Wembanyama, Spurs stun Knicks at MSG to revive Finals hopes 4 weeks ago:
I think
NYC is undefeated
Is nowhere as near a compelling story for a champion team than:
NYC is undefeated (unless trump is there, because he always fucks it up)
Just put 100% of the blame on him, and everytime a Knicks fan brings it up, everyone can shit talk trump.
Like that university that made everyone swear not to forgive a guy for centuries until everyone forgot the reason and kept doing it anyways. Or when a manager trades a major talent and fans curse their name for decades.
It would be funny, but it would piss him off so fucking much for something he wants wrapped up in is associated with the single loss. He didn’t go because he liked the Knicks, he went to be associated with winners.
But even winners lose when trump supports them
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 4 weeks ago:
Well, yeah…
But you cheated, you used critical thinking. These days that’s like Shaq bragging to toddlers that he can dunk and they can’t.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 4 weeks ago:
Then Sony jacked up the price of PlayStation Plus and announced that they’re no longer supporting PC with single player games. I have zero faith in Sony to make the right decisions anymore.
Which is why what they’re doing is so dumb
They think people will rush out and buy ps5s for exclusives, after people just sold theirs. Hell, I gave mine away to my niece. I’m not going to buy another or a ps6 knowing that at any moment exclusives won’t be exclusive again.
The flip flop just showed people it can change. And if they don’t sell enough consoles, they will switch again. And people still won’t buy them at full price.
- Comment on C.I.A. Officer Found With Gold Bars Said to Have Created Fake Spy Program 4 weeks ago:
Called it when news broke:
The U.S. officials who said that Mr. Rush had created a fake “special access program” did not provide details of the program, or explain how Mr. Rush used it to take government money. The Washington Post reported earlier on Mr. Rush’s use of the fake program.
It was some Snowfall shit. The CIA gave him the gold to funnel to someone off the book, and he just kept some of it. We won’t ever know if this was a skin or if a program costing 100x as much doing some real evil shit was running.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
Who will defend the millionaire neponnephews in West Hollywood mansions?!
He’s the real socialist!!!
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
The swastika is ackshullay an old Indian symbol…
The Young Turks committed multiple genocides, claiming you named it after a different organization named after the originals isn’t the slam dunk you think it is, especially considering how recent the fucking Armenian genocide is
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
Anyway, the UK is picking and choosing which
foreignersgenocide deniers get to advocate which issues on UK soil in order to foment complicity with a current and ongoing genocide, and apparently you’re in favor of that so you can fuck right off.I think the difference, is you believe in “good genocide deniers”…
And I think anyone that would deny any genocide is a piece of shit.
Like, if Hasan is “at odds” with his uncles denial of genocide, why is he doing events and travelling with him?
It just doesn’t make logical sense, plenty of people write off closer family for denying genocide without making genocide such a central part of their identy as Hasan.
Some genocides are huge deals to him, some aren’t.
Anyone like that can’t be trusted, they’re not really against genocide as a concept.
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
You’re effectively muting discussion
No, I’m saying we shouldnt listen to a family of millionaires who made their money denying genocide on how bad genocide is…
Finding someone who agrees no genocide is valid, isn’t a tall order.
And speaking out against genocide denial, is never a bad thing
I’m not just going to ignore it because your favorite streamer does it buddy
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
And Cenk still won’t change the name of his media organization from the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide he spent most of his life denying…
Even know, he just admits the Aremenian genocide could be considered a genocide. But refusing to change the name of his company.
I don’t know how or why genocide deniers are ever considered “the good guys”.
Loads of conflicts is two groups of assholes fighting.
But there are podcasters out there who don’t support any genocide too…
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
It’s still weird everyone ignores Cenk named his organization after the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide…
Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I (1914–18). Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide. The Turkish government has resisted calls to recognize it as such, contending that, although atrocities took place, there was no official policy of extermination implemented against the Armenian people as a group.
www.britannica.com/event/Armenian-Genocide
Or that the only reason Hasan has a platform is he’s a nepo nephew…