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- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 8 hours ago:
Comment: The intent is to highlight the stupidity of the tariffs.
Your Reply: I don’t get it (as in, “I don’t get the intent… I don’t understand why tariffs are bad”)
Me: Explaining why tariffs are bad.
Your Reply: Nobody asked why tariffs are bad.
Me: <not sure if stupid, asshole, troll, or all three>
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 19 hours ago:
People dislike having to educate the same basic lessons over and over again, when it is very easy to search why tariffs are bad. It is not a community where people are going to spoonfeed you information that you didn’t even directly ask for.
The simple answer is because we live in a global economy and you can’t possible make everything that needs to be made in a single country. The more complex answer can be found by reading articles about it. Take this one, which was the first hit I found on a web search:
The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 1 week ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 1 week ago:
What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.
Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.
- Comment on Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on "Vibes" 1 week ago:
To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.
I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.
The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.
But, that’s not how this works.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you play on PC, use mods. Trust me… just use the damn mods. Life’s too short to be banging your head against the wall over and over again.
Returnal can be fun, worth playing, and has a great story to piece together. But it has some of the most git-gud toxic bullshit design choices I’ve ever seen from developers. Find a level of mod usage that gives you enough difficulty that you’re comfortable with.
Also, as an FPS player, I do not understand how anybody could play this game on controller. I ditched that shit about 30 minutes into it and immediately raised my skill level threefold with the mouse.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes, item bloat is very real. Binding of Isaac had too much of it, but at least Edmund started buffing bad items a bit more with the DLCs and patches.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
Most popular system RAM is 16GB, and VRAM is 8GB.
Wow! Powerful specs!
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.
It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
As a big fan of elite games: I am really glad star citizen “exists” to contrast Elite Dangerous and has led to some truly amazing games in the genre.
Elite Dangerous has its faults, but goddamn, did it pull something epic and historical with a ten-years-in-the-making final event.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
Right. Never pre-order games. Ever.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
They may have been the first, but the sheer amount of failed disaster projects on Kickstarter, Paetron, wherever is staggering.
Some of them end up being “successful” failures, just stringing their patrons along on hopes and dreams and donations until the well dries up. Star Citizen is definitely the most successful venture of its sort, but only because it’s the highest profile with a bunch of known talent in the mix.
- Comment on The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 4 weeks ago:
My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”
How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?
How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?
Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.
- Comment on We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them 1 month ago:
This article is basically just bemoaning that AAA develops for the lowest common denominator, which I can understand as a gripe, but it’s a very old gripe.
And an easy one to fix: Don’t fucking buy AAA games!
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
No, you didn’t. You were literally arguing for a binary choice.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Shit like this was possible before AI. Companies have been deceiving other people since civilization.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Doesn’t really matter. Fraud is still fraud.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Sounds like a great way to make people aware to not play this game.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
There’s a reason you don’t do both.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
I don’t think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 1 month ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 months ago:
So, use and support open-source AI models.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 2 months ago:
Supreme Court: What’s precedent again?
