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- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 1 week ago:
You can believe what you want, but there’s absolutely no way you would be correct. Any large company sponsoring a cyber attack, if caught, would be nailed to the wall and made an example of. The extreme risks are simply not worth the comparatively small reward of reducing a tiny fraction of piracy.
A more realistic and reasonable avenue would have been to sponsor the companies going after IA for copyright infringement as a result of them loaning out unlimited digital copies of books without DRM.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 week ago:
Then drag and I are in agreement :)
I saw drag clarification that drag comment was just about milk and not politics or economics. Myself and others had a different interpretation, which is where things were misunderstood.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 week ago:
Understandable. I hope drag has a good day and glass of ethical milk.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 week ago:
If drag does not support China, drag is probably not a tankie. If drag calls drag communist and consider Russia and North Korea communist-lead countries, drag is wrong, however.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 week ago:
So, Drag thinks countries that believe their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland are communist?
That’s imperialism, buddy.
Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 week ago:
The constant cheerleading of brutally-repressive regimes that don’t have any values in common with actual socialists or communists just because they oppose the US and its allies.
This is my main issue with tankies. Yeah, late-stage capitalism sucks and exploits the layman to enrich the rich further—I take no issue with that. It’s the knob-slobbering of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un that makes no sense. Modern-day Russia, China, and North Korea have about as much in common with communism as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.
- Comment on Maybe Even More Than 5 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Oh, that is great. I have fond (painful) memories of I Wanna be the Guy, and this seems right up my nostalgia alley.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Pick Quest Master. The developer is extremely active and responsive to community feedback and requests. There’s even weekly content updates.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Quest Master. Mario Maker meets Zelda dungeons, done well. It deserves way more attention than it’s currently getting, and it’s pretty fun with huge potential despite being early access.
- Comment on Looks like it was a ... boobie trap 1 month ago:
Those “fans” sound like creeps with a fetish.
- Comment on Oh sweet, my old Empire Earth box! 3 months ago:
With powered hubs and balanced tree topology, you can split a single root controller into 4^5^ endpoints. Your motherboard being able to support that many devices and the shared bandwidth might be a problem, but it’s theoretically possible to survive off of a single USB port.
- Comment on Stay Mad 3 months ago:
It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win.
It’s not in their interests to let a progressive win. Just like their counterpart, the DNC takes a shit ton of
briberydonations fromcorporationslobbyists. Bringing in a progressive who would reform the system or push back against pro-corporate policies is biting the hands that feed them. - Comment on Stay Mad 3 months ago:
I’m mad that Biden and the Democratic leadership seems to have put their own interests above the interest of the
partypeople.The interests of the party is the interests of the rich :)
- Comment on Stay Mad 3 months ago:
The system is set up in a way that the only viable options are between two evils, unfortunately. Under a FTPT system where the only good options are minority parties that won’t win a single seat in their districts, you’re left with the choice of voting for the lesser evil, or voting for your morals but increasing the risk of the greater evil winning.
It’s a no-win situation.
- Comment on Stay Mad 3 months ago:
The Democrat party is just as corrupt and bought out by corporations as the Republicans are, but at least they aren’t trying to get the country to circle the drain as quickly.
- Comment on Whales 3 months ago:
Hmmm, let’s see:
- Can’t even spell “can” correctly. (dumb)
- Bad attitude towards animals. (mean spirited)
- Paid for premium. (desperate)
Yeah, I don’t see women lining up around the block for this catch of a human being.
- Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed 3 months ago:
Name and shame, please.
- Comment on Cats 3 months ago:
Try playing around with GLSL shaders! They’re a fun application of linear algebra and have a satisfyingly quick feedback time.
- Comment on Cats 3 months ago:
Hard disagree. Linear algebra can make pretty shapes and colors from a bunch of vertices, while calculus can make you want to quit school and become a plumber.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset 4 months ago:
Only if you don’t buy the Season 1 Vault-Tec Access Pass for $49.99. Imagine not doing that and then not ever being able to get your Overpowered Armor at pass level 5. You would absolutely be ruining it for yourself by not investing into the seasonal passes.
- Comment on These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too. 4 months ago:
Yeah… I think you might be an optimist. It was not the positive outcome you appeared to have taken away from it.
- Comment on The Chilling Reason You May Never See the New Trump Movie 4 months ago:
From his friend Vlad. Great guy. Amazing, truly. So very smart. He knows how to run a country so well. Unlike our current president.
- Comment on math checks out 4 months ago:
During a leap year. Where Squirrel Appreciation Day falls on a Sunday.
- Comment on These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too. 4 months ago:
I put “Messages will arrive in three to five business days” in my bio, and that solved the problem nicely. Now, I simply don’t get matches at all 😎
- Comment on Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. 4 months ago:
I think they’re missing “optional conversion therapy” on the activity list.
- Comment on [US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options? 4 months ago:
I do feel discouraged that it’s the healthcare system that’s holding back my business opportunity. Shouldn’t be like that.
Your business opportunity isn’t an opportunity for competitors’ shareholders; you’re more valuable to them being exploited for labor, and decades of “socialism is communism” governments and corporate lobbying have made it as difficult as possible to enter the market without being funded by and beholden to investment firms.
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 4 months ago:
- Comment on What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how? 4 months ago:
Unless the GPU is an Arc, compatibility between the motherboard and GPU shouldn’t affect much more than the maximum performance you can squeeze out of the GPU. As a protocol, PCIe is backwards compatible.
If your RAM is seated as 1 and 2, make it 1 and 3 or 2 and 4.
Never assume. RTFM when trying to use dual channel memory.
- Comment on The One Thing Voters Remember About Trump 5 months ago:
“He couldn’t be bought.”
Riiiiiiight, and I’m Bill Gates.