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- Comment on UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain 4 hours ago:
We won’t anyway because of how energy is priced. It’s such a stupid system that even if somebody genuinely wanted to give everyone cheap power they couldn’t, the government would literally force them to charge more.
- Comment on UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain 4 hours ago:
I agree with you about the problems of them wanting to skip safety standards, but you can’t just power the entire country with wind and solar, that doesn’t work because they are unreliable intermittent power supplies. You need something to cover the gaps. So either you have massive batteries that store power, and there are huge problems with that, or you have to build some other power generating system. All the other options are awful and carbon producing.
So we do need nuclear power stations. In the future maybe they would be fusion power stations but for now with the technology we have, nuclear power stations are the only viable.
- Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 5 hours ago:
Yeah but I would have known thwy had released because they would have been advertising or something. I don’t feel like anyone’s spoken about Borderlands since that comment about how it should be $90 or whatever.
- Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 8 hours ago:
I thought steam banned those kind of games.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 11 hours ago:
Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI who has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK government to explore the deployment of advanced AI models in areas including justice, security and education.
Oh good. All sectors that are easily automated and don’t require anything in the way of skill and nuance.
It’s a shame we can’t get an automated government, I think most people would be in favour of that.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 11 hours ago:
They don’t get it at all. Firstly AI is obviously just a bubble, so we shouldn’t be investing in it anyway, but secondly even if it did work the way they’re saying it will, neither this government nor the last, have taken any steps to alleviate the upcoming issues. No talk about improved social safety nets, no guarantees about worker protections, no talk about trial schemes of UBI, they have given us nothing.
They have literally one job, to fix the absolute mess of an economy we now have and they’re not doing anything towards that goal.
- 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' 11 hours ago:
Will probably have an actual galactic empire before this game releases. Assuming they never does release because I’m not convinced that the guy isn’t totally in on the idea that it’s a scam.
- Comment on In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller 11 hours ago:
I have an issue with the idea that Borderlands is dominating gaming news. I didn’t even realise it had launched so I wouldn’t exactly call it popping off the shelf.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 12 hours ago:
I don’t really understand how that improves safety. I guarantee you don’t know how your computer works because no one knows how a computer works.
It’s all too damn complex now.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 1 day ago:
Yeah, we have our own home grown right wing billionaires.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 1 day ago:
See thing is, at some point we’ll want to go there to, and there he’ll be, ruining it with his presence.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 1 day ago:
Didn’t Charlie Kirk get taken out because he wasn’t right-wing enough? I thought the shooter was part of some nazi cult
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 1 day ago:
You fuckers need to be the first against the wall once this is all done.
If the right to get their way, they will be. Doing something about extremism on the far right is simply a matter of self-preservation.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 1 day ago:
Why can’t you see us just be womanising philanderers like we all expect, rather than being interested in little kids.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 1 day ago:
Jesus everyone at that event was just a massive twat. It’s a shame we couldn’t have arranged gas explosion or something.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 days ago:
People need to be compensated for their work, that may end up being an awful lot and probably in excess of what they need, but that’s how it has to work. Any other system would just disincentivize people from putting in the effort, in fact it would force them not to because they would have to do something else in order to earn enough money to live. The precise opposite of your desired outcome would happen, the rich would produce endless amounts of content just to more money, and all the smaller artists would have to go and get a job in Costco or something.
The only way your idea would work is if we completely change the economic system and got rid of money. Which I’m all in favour of but I suspect is probably outside of the scope of copyright law.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 days ago:
That isn’t the problem.
Copyright law does run out after a while it’s not immediately upon the holders death but after their death there’s a grace period and then the copyright runs out.
The problem is the likes of Disney get special treatment. Their patents should have run out long before any of us were born and yet they didn’t.
The problem isn’t the system itself, the problem is the abuse of the system.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
But ot does work with foliage though.
Maybe they think they can do a better job, but it definitely does work with plants. It didn’t used to, when it first came out it was limited to just static objects, and it didn’t work on terrain at first which I was thought was a weird restriction, but it works on pretty much everything now.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
Well you can do that but then it isn’t going to run on a steam deck, whether or not you as a developer think that’s a problem depends on what hardware you are targeting.
But you’ve still got the problem of file size. I’ve noticed that if the asset is really big you actually run into streaming issues when loading it in. It looks fantastic, but you probably don’t want your rock to take 10 seconds to load in. If you go look at the matrix demo you’ll see they have a lot of asset reuse because of that.
Nanite isn’t magic it’s neither going to enable you to just throw in 16k resolution textures and just not worry about it there’s always going to be a trade-off. But it’s insane to say that it isn’t a useful feature or that you should never use it.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
Just because it can load in high quality assets doesn’t mean that everything has to be 4 billion polygons. You use it sparingly for where it will make the most impact. That doesn’t mean that a mountain in the background that you’ll never get near has to be of the same quality.
I don’t think that’s really the engines fault.
- Comment on Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says 4 days ago:
If you actually read the article though that’s not exactly what happened. It’s just saying it’s about football makes for a better headline.
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 days ago:
It’s certainly doesn’t help that AA has a religious component. I think that turns a lot of people off of it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 days ago:
And that still leaves 6 hours to, er, “spend with the kids”.
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 days ago:
Well that’s why it’s called the hierarchy of needs. Not every need has to be met equally, and you have to meet all earlier needs before you can meet later needs.
E.g. if you’re currently starving to death then you probably aren’t that much bothered about achieving self-actualization, but if you have all your base needs met you’re not going to just sit around you’re going to find something to do, you’re going to be compelled to find something to do.
But if you think about it sex is a pretty important need because if people weren’t driven to it there wouldn’t be anyone to ask the question. Any species that’s not that much bothered about sex died out millennia ago, or become a panda.
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 days ago:
I refuse to believe anybody actually reads the Bible. It’s not really laid out in such a way as to be readable, it’s just a bunch of events that ostensibly happened that you’re supposed to gleam some sort of lesson from. It’s really boring actually.
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 4 days ago:
Just don’t do it while near step cliffs, it can make them very slippery
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 days ago:
Well what is the saying, free market for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 days ago:
Well he’s right.
Until the invention of video games no one ever killed anyone ever. Then pong came along, and it was mass murder every other day.
- Comment on observes your slit 4 days ago:
Its like punching a hole in folded paper to explain a wormhole. Hollywood science movies have a lot to answer for.
- Comment on observes your slit 4 days ago:
But other then that, totally scientifically accurate.