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- Comment on 3 hours ago:
Pre-order bonuses are a garbage anti-customer practice anyway.
- Comment on Help. 19 hours ago:
It’s literally that.
- Comment on Upset about progress 1 week ago:
That’s like saying that advertising has become a “pillar” of society.
Like… yeah, I guess… but that doesn’t change the fact that anyone with a functioning brain fucking hates it.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 1 week ago:
What the actual fuck
- Comment on *must tap* 2 weeks ago:
We’re not exactly sure, but we do know they’re not from impacts.
They occur in a region of the planet called Tombaugh Regio, which has some of the youngest surface features on all of Pluto. The leading theory seems to be that the pits are caused by ice fracturing as the ‘crust’ of the planet is stressed by internal forces.
We still don’t know for sure what’s heating Pluto’s interior, but one of the great discoveries from New Horizons is that Pluto is a very active world — possibly even as active as Earth’s surface. Warm(ish) water in the interior likely behaves similarly to how magma behaves on Earth, leading to activity analogous to plate tectonics and volcanism.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 4 weeks ago:
Evrart may be corrupt, but he’s still a better boss than Corpo trash
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 4 weeks ago:
Mario and Luigi’s lesser known cousin, Pagliacci.
- Comment on Planck units 5 weeks ago:
10^9 Joules is roughly the chemical energy of a full tank of gasoline. The mass-energy of the car (or even just gas itself) would be many, many orders of magnitude higher.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 month ago:
No, we’d rather be lost at sea than have to participate in the broken society that makes people need therapy.
- Comment on Nightmare fuel 1 month ago:
For anyone else who was as curious as I was: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland
- Comment on first person shooter 1 month ago:
Kinda wild that Halo didn’t make the cut… I guess it was only PC shooters?
- Comment on Running monkey 2 months ago:
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers will no longer be playable with others when the company shuts down the servers? 2 months ago:
And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.
In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 months ago:
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn’t drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
- Comment on one you pop you can't stop 3 months ago:
My scientific hypothesis is that you can caption this image when literally anything and it will still be funny enough to upvote.
- Comment on Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman [1:17:57] 3 months ago:
I watched about half of it (which is all I could make time for since I have a ‘useless’ job of my own that limits my time). Maybe that wasn’t enough to understand the point, and if that’s true then my bad for posting a reactionary reply. Oops.
But, if the first half is a representative slice of the whole video, then I don’t think my response is unreasonable. To summarize, the guest runs a non-profit that aims to pay Ivy League grads who have high-prestige “bullshit” jobs to switch careers and go work for NGOs, charitable organizations, etc. (I’m actually a bit confused about this point because he says he wants to pay them, but also acknowledges multiple times that they’ll be taking a pay cut? Maybe he clears that up in the last half, I didn’t know.)
I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. I do have a soul-sucking bullshit job that I only keep because it pays my bills and allows me to support the people who depend on me. I suspect the vast, vast majority of people who interact with this content will either be in the same boat as me, or will be people of even less privilege. In either case, we’re the ones who are gonna be served this video, but we’re not the ones who would ever benefit from this plan. Do you wanna bribe Harvard grads to quit their job at McKinsey and go work for Habitat for Humanity instead? Cool. Great. But the millions of us who don’t have fancy diplomas and six-figure jobs — the people this content is served to — get to continue slaving away and dying inside a little more each day while the most privileged people in our society get to be taken care of while also being given the moral highground? Forgive me, but I don’t really see what problem this is solving. This feels like a vanity project to make rich tech bros and layers feel better about themselves while the system remains fundamentally broken and the same toxic incentives that created this corporate hellscape remain just as toxic and just as incentivizing as ever.
- Comment on Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman [1:17:57] 3 months ago:
Cool, yeah. While I’m at it, I can get rid of my useless house and stop eating all this useless food. Thank God I don’t have any useless kids — that’ll save me a ton of trouble having to get rid of them too.
- Comment on TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles 3 months ago:
Fingers crossed that Rift gets a similar revival… the game whose initial success paid for Defiance in the first place
- Comment on Getting your wish 3 months ago:
Stockton Rush?
More like Stockton Crushed
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
Escape will make me God
Other than the setting, this was the only reference to the original trilogy that I spotted, and man… the way it’s used here is just so disconnected from what made that line iconic and cool. I was cautiously optimistic before, but the media blitz they did today has completely killed any hope I had for the Marathon IP.
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
Dancing through the wreckage of a beloved Bungie IP, Durandal was
laughingfuming. - Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 4 months ago:
Hades 2 is only console exclusive to the Switch 2; it’s also releasing on Steam.
- Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 4 months ago:
I suspect that Nintendo is offering them more than enough money for exclusivity to make it no longer ‘questionable’ for Supergiant, at least from a financial perspective.
- Comment on Special K 4 months ago:
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 4 months ago:
Shouldn’t you be laughing?
- Comment on FREE HIM! 4 months ago:
No Mister Hedgehog, I expect you to die!
- Comment on Roblox CEO tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 4 months ago:
Yes, and lawmakers should also do away with all safety regulations! Workers can simply quit jobs that they feel are unsafe!
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 5 months ago:
Amorpho what now?
- Comment on Which Web Browser Should You Use? 5 months ago:
which should web you browser use