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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Sweeney Is Still Crying About Steam AI Disclosures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point he has whined about it so much that everyone’s going to know the game uses AI, even if they don’t disclose it. He would have genuinely being better off shutting up about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Sweeney Is Still Crying About Steam AI Disclosures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean to be honest every engine is going to be like that now at least partly.

  I do kind of hope valve update their AI policy at some point to actually clarify what the label means. Both open source and closed source engines are vulnerable to AI code so unless you also build the engine your game might include AI code without your knowledge. So who’s responsibility is it at that point to check the little box in the store to say this game includes code made by AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  GB news violates Ofcom on a daily basis, but they just don’t bother to enforce their own rules.

  For example they’re not really supposed to be calling themselves a news organization unless they conform to editorial standards. Yeah they call themselves a news channel all the time and Ofcom just sit there.

  If I were Labour I’d be hauling them in front of a select committee. The bias and ridiculous double standards are blatant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of scope on YouTube for content creators. The bigger reason that stuff like that fails is that typically people leaning left tend to be younger and more tech savvy. Whereas people leaning right wing tend to be older and stuck in their ways and so they need content on traditional broadcast television, or they don’t watch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potholes, bus fares and headphone dodgers: will Burnham’s strategy of ‘everyday fixes’ succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exploitative parking fines are actually a big problem for people on limited income. I’m actually very pleased that it’s been clamped down on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bombshells from the undercover sting operation which plunged Reform into crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a surprising number of exconservative voters who are fed up of notorious but won’t vote for labour all the lid Dems who saw Reform as a new right wing party. I’ve got to say those people are clearly idiots, because reform were always very obviously dodgy, but then again they were previously conservative voters.

  I suspect they’ll go back to the Conservatives now. Kemi is been as useless and clueless as ever, but for some reason they’re happy with it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s clearly white and gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why it’s usually a good idea to have someone capable of reading the language proofread the design before manufacturing.

  Years ago we had a piece of equipment delivered from China and a section in the setup manual was entitled “Warning Do Not Ever in Water” we think it meant that the product is not waterproof, but really it could have been anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No politik here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m concerned about that alphabet in the background. It doesn’t seem spell anything, as there is no spaces it appears just to be nonsense. Yet for some reason they’re holding it up as if it’s relevant to the image. I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’ve got tins and baked beans so I’m going to survive the apocalypse I guess.

  Stupid advice, what exactly is the average person supposed to do, most people are living paycheck to paycheck as it is and they don’t have the extra cash sitting around to stockpile just in case the world happens to end on their watch. Wouldn’t it be a far better idea to just prevent such a situation from happening in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's 26 + 6 in Cyrillic?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically Scotland colonized England.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why it’s a digital game.

  Are people worried they’re going to run out of downloads? If I don’t pre-order the game I can still get it day one if I want to. It’s not even as if the deluxe edition has to be pre-ordered, you can just get that the day releases well.

  There’s no reason to pre-order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We couldn’t possibly use these button things. They are secret arcane technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which bits on, who can say. Perhaps none of it is on, perhaps resistive touch screen controls are a bad idea on the surface that might get wet. Who can say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be reality sooner than you think⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a flight time of about 12 seconds, of course it’s never getting made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the eight jobs they would have brought would have really helped the local economy.

  Data centres on not big employers, they require very specialist skills which are unlikely to be available in the local population and they don’t need many of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about what can’t be powered by renewables it’s that everything can’t be powered by renewables all of the time.

  The big advantage of nuclear power is that it works 24/7, it doesn’t produce pollution, it’s wasted by product is something that can be dealt with and doesn’t have any environmental impacts, and it’s well understood technology that has worked for nearly 100 years now and we’ll still be reliable into the future. It gives us a nice stable based work from.

  People are so scared of nuclear power because they don’t understand it, and so the Greens have taken the stands that there against it too. Not only does that risk our energy security but it’s pandering to ignorance something no party should be doing let of all the greens that are supposed to be progressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t decide whether or not you actually believe that or you’re just being pseudo intellectual for the bit.

  In nature animals have territories but it’s extremely common for those two shift and flow with the seasons.

  But also animals don’t have internal plumbing or electricity yet we have those things, so I don’t really see why “what animals do” as being particularly relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does he always do this.

  I agree with what he says up to a point, but then he always says something else and I’m like, no I don’t agree with that bit, that bit is stupid.

  It’s like every time.

  It just seems to be the green parties MO, it’s like the stupid argument around nuclear power stations, with the green saying you can power everything with renewables, no you can’t, of course you can’t, stop saying that, it gives ammunition to the opposition when you say stupid things like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is owning your own video games to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I download all my N64 cartridges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t have been a scalper back then of course.

  I also cannot believe it’s been eight months since I wrote that post, something doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. Wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family pays tribute to 'warm and engaging' man killed in tiger attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t seem to gel with your dismissive comments above

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see any point in a remake of red Dead 2 it’s fine. You have to wait a while for a remake to be popular all the reason gonna be enough visual difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do find it really odds that they’re not releasing GTA online 2 or whatever they end up calling it at the same time as the GTA 6 release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll have the latest and greatest DRM. Turn around time for those to be cracked is months to years.

  Anyway everybody knows that the best version of GTA is the one they release on PC the console one isn’t even going to run at 60 so it’s basically on playable even if it was interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family pays tribute to 'warm and engaging' man killed in tiger attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you one of those idiots that spend most of their time trying to insist that mental health issues don’t exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police officer sacked for stealing 40p carrier bags⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they want people who follow orders. Stealing bags from Sainsbury’s it’s hardly the crime with the century or even the crime of the last 10 minutes but it’s still theft and you can’t have police officers committing crimes no matter how petty.

  Arresting journalists on the orders of commanding officers though that’s fine well it’s not fine but it’s a different sort of problem. Problems need to be addressed but the police will only care about the first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Cleese urges St Andrews students not to elect Q Manivannan as rector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand what he is trying to say I’m just unclear about what point he’s trying to make. I don’t think any one was under the impression that you have to look the part in order to commit the crime so I’m not really sure why he’s bringing it up.

  Also I’m confused what the “it a spectrum” comment is about, is he perhaps trying to conflate stalking with rape? If so I don’t think that’s a helpful thing to be doing. It’s very useful when a crime has a very explicit very limited definition and then other crimes that may or may not be related to it can have their own definitions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it will have a huge impact. It’s not as if we’re at the beginning of the console generation most people will already have a PlayStation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get a fairly good gaming PC for a thousand dollars why would I pay $900 for a games console that’s basically worse in every way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want the actual answer it’s because you can’t. There is very little voltage going through those cables, and there is no data line at all.

  If you wanted to recharge your phone through a cable like that it would take about 10 years.

  You can get high quality armoured recharge cables, they’re not even all that expensive, you just don’t get them in the box. Apple don’t even give you a charger these days, so is it really all that hard to believe that they would give you the cheapest version of the cable?