It’s not just games, it’s TV and movies too.

Cramming sex into everything made sense when we weren’t constantly 5 seconds away from being able to see pretty much any kind of porn someone could imagine.

Now tho, that stuff isn’t a reason to watch a show. If you just cared about that, you’d watch the clip online

Ding also apparently wants NetEase to focus on games like the multiplayer mobile game Eggy Party

Oh great, another remake…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OSfbPJFa4

All just ammo for the appeal.

The shooter calmly walked away, and Luigi was arrested calmly in a McDonald’s.

At no stage was there some crazy escape or shootout where something like this would be warranted in court, and things like this have been argued to have influenced potential jury members in past cases.

Like, it’s one straw on a giant pile of better examples so far, but it all adds up. They’re gonna OJ this shit and go so hard it ends in a mistrial or something crazy.

Especially since the trial is going to be a media circus and Trump won’t be able to keep his nose out of it, it’ll kill him that he won’t be the main attraction.

The thing is, support for Luigi crosses party lines. It might be what causes a maga fracture if everything falls right.

Our legal system just cares how much money you have for lawyers.

Rather than playing on a high-end PC, I spent most of my time with KCD2 using medium settings on a mainstream build, complete with a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU and RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 Super graphics card. Even with the older and/or mid-range components, frame-times remained solid when targeting 60fps.

I have no idea what they’re doing if a 4070 super only got 60fps on medium… I was getting 50-70s on 4k ultra with quality upscaling and no frame gen

Or why it’s “older and/or mid-range”.

Like, you can’t buy a 5000 series if you wanted to, a 4070 super is better than what most gamers are using today

The author is aware that there’s a big bias where reviewers have the best rigs, but they’re drastically out of touch with what most people are really using

Although Gabby Petito’s parents gave permission for her voice to be recreated in the American Murder: Gabby Petito series currently streaming on Netflix, her mother tells The Independent that a fake version of her daughter’s voice was “weird.”

She agreed to it for $ and now regrets it.

I’d have sympathy if they didn’t give permission, but if your the type of person to cash on in your daughters murder after the media circus has died down, I got zero.

The cause of Sophie’s APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

So fucking stupid…

Kid grew up on a quiet farm in the countryside, then she moved to London and probably 100+ student plus lectures.

It’s not that noise cancelling headphones prevented her from developing normally, she developed in an environment like what we evolved to handle.

Then she got thrown into a cacophony of sound that is one of the planets largest/busiest cities…

And they act like she is the problem and not noise pollution?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00642-5

Noise pollution is fucking a lot of us up, and people who grew up with it are used to it, but that doesn’t stop the negative consequences of it. Someone that never had to deal with it is obviously going to have what looks like a sudden onset of a condition, but the person is fine.

The environment is the problem.

To clarify this is about someone identifying a vulnerability and getting $10k from Google for it

There’s quite a few jobs that aren’t union eligible

Yep, I’m not bargaining unit, so it sucks more than most. And there’s really not many of us

But I still have a shit ton of protections anyways.

there are federal workers that do get fired for doing a bad job.

I’ve fired federal workers, it’s just a year long hassle and giving them every plausible opportunity to improve first.

Even Republican appointed judges are turning against trump policies.

Not everything gets to the supreme court.

Nah, after probation it’s pretty much impossible.

There needs to be like a year of documentation that the employee is just not doing their job.

Because of the union.

That’s why there’s this big push to resign, every tool they have to reduce the federal workforce begins with the word “voluntary”. Probate employees and contracts have reason to be nervous tho.

Even closing USAID, it stops the work they’re doing, but they’re all gonna get huge severance checks or settlements if it really closes. It’s not like the private sector where it’s individuals fighting a billion dollar corparion. It’s multiple unions that are individually some of the largest in the country whose only reason for existence is knowing an incredibly confusing system of decades of regulations…

Versus a couple teenager and college drop out techbros with zero idea what they’re doing.

Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they’re not excluded.

Apparently 40k (out of all feds) are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don’t match normal retirement numbers.

So it’s a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who’s retiring trusts it.

Most agencies can’t even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.

If studios gets a tax break, taxpayers are paying for the movie.

Release it for free with no copywriter protections for merchandise and suddenly this whole practice goes away.

Not just because of bugs either, pretty sure that shit is like $60 on steam.

When a console exclusive ports to PC, it resets the clock…

Nothing new about it…

Movies are made in Cali because the first studios didn’t want to pay Edison for his stolen patents on equipment…

So they moved to the opposite end of the country where it was mostly unenforceable, and it didn’t take long till intellectual property was a big concern for them.

Everyone’s disappointed with the 5000 series…

They’re giving up on improving rasterazation and focusing on “ai cores” because they’re using gpus to pay for the research into AI.

“Real” core count is going down on the 5000 series.

It’s not what gamers want, but they’re counting on people just buying the newest before asking if newer is really better. It’s why they’re already cutting 4000 series production, they just won’t give people the option.

I think everything under 4070 super is already discontinued

It’s coming, Pelosi sold her shares like a month ago.

It’s going to crash, if not for the reasons she sold for, as more and more people hear she sold, they’re going to sell because they’ll assume she has insider knowledge due to her office.

Which is why politicians (and spouses) shouldn’t be able to directly invest into individual companies.

Even if they aren’t doing anything wrong, people will follow them and do what they do. Only a truly ignorant person would believe it doesn’t have an effect on other people.

A big part is they just shove it down peoples throats without them asking for it.

Like, it would be bad enough if it was just destroying the planet when people wanted it, but they’re burning all those fossil fuels for zero reason except to show investors that AI can do anything remotely useful.

Does it?

I always liked the idea that Starfleet is the “relief valve” for humanity. It takes the people desperate for adventure, who wouldn’t be complacent even in a post scarcity world, and fling them as far away from Earth as humanely possible so they don’t change the government.

Which, even if Earth is a Utopia, it shows that on a deep institutional level the one world government has no issues with manipulating their citizens and makes me question how much of Earth is really a post scarcity Utopia in the first place.

As many shows Trek has, they just don’t really touch on what life is like back on Earth except rich officers come from giant farms/plantations that still have a bunch of field hands… Which doesn’t really jive with the story we’re told.

Id love to see something about what Earth is really like for people.

Like, what the Expanse did where they go back to Earth and I think everyone had “enough” but that included a large group of homeless drug addicts that lived in squalor somehow.