Sony had like 10 subscription/ live service games in the pipe when Concord flopped. All canceled now.

Evey games developer want’s a fortnite but they can’t understand that multiple games designed to maximize player investment and dominate their time can’t coexist.

The idea that post-war economic boom provided a middle class lifestyle for the “average” American is such a pernicious myth it can only be called a lie.

The government largess that made that lifestyle possible for the few (Interstate Highway system, Government housing loan guarantees, and GI Bill) not only excluded POC and women from this bounty, but actively worked to put more burdens and barriers against the poor.

The “hoods” were red-lined to exclude them from the loans. They were divided, isolated, and polluted by the same highways that allowed whites to flee to the new suburbs. The black GIs did enroll in college, but only those collages who accepted black students; separate and equal.

The idea of free-speech-absolutism relies on a top-down model which only examines how a government or platform should regulate speech, while completely ignoring how free a space is depends as much on who participates as who controls.

Free speech is also dependent on the twin stupidities that a “market places of ideas” will produce good ideas, or that debate could possibly settle the most trivial issue.

The only reason to honor Bob Lee is because he’s responsible for more dead slavers than any three Union generals.

The AI that sets your health insurance policy is going to be way deadlier than the one that has a gun.

Firearms don’t protect the right from from State violence, wtf are guns going to do for the left?

The term “reactionary nihilism” is an oxymoron.

The popular definition of nihilism is a bad person who rejects my values. Or a bad person who secretly holds values in opposition to their public persona. “Nihilist” in journalistic circles means “double-atheist”, to their readers it just means “wicked”.

its going to be frustrating to people familiar with the philosophy, but it was way too cool of a word to stay esoteric and academic. The solution is to find a new word for the philosophy; accept the loss of the word to popular culture. (which is a good and natural process)

It amuses me that something so modern as video games already has the problem of fading into oblivion. Maybe that’s why it’s so compelling, because the foundations are still in living memory?

Anyway in the museum, a disk that cannot be read is an artifact just as the plane that cannot fly.

Fonzi and “Grease” greaser stereotypes that were popular at the time

Isn’t it funny how we look back to 80s as nostalgia, but so much of that was recycled 50s nostalgia. Has anyone ever lived through and authentic era?

DEI is a conservative concept: have your corporate masters both decide how anti-racism can justify it’s existence (good for business) and how it should be implemented (top down corpo scolding).

It’s not a social issue, it’s a marketing campaign. And we shouldn’t feel obligated to defend something so hideous and trivial just because it aggravates the reactionary.

This is crazy in it’s lack of sophistication. Reads more like a criminal scam to get grandma’s credit card than an intelligence op to destabilize Western Europe.

I suppose all the talented “hackers” were more valuable at the front.

the preferred nomenclature is “come back with a warrant”.

That thing about being anti-bacterial is true. By simply being a barrier that microbes (and dirt, and water) can’t penetrate. For short term wound treatment, petroleum jelly is an excellent barrier for an open wound that’s not bleeding. Bandages inundated with it can keep a wound clean in the roughest conditions.

I’m no Luddite, but the idea of a “bread machine” has always seemed wrong to me. A machine half the size of R2D2, that’s half mixer, half oven. And they “recommend” bespoke flours and mixes that demand obscene markups. All to produce mediocre loves.

Anyone can do better with basic equipment and cheap supplies. But not everyone will do better and that’s fine. It’s just that you could get bakery fresh delivered for like a year before you’d approach the upfront cost of those monstrosities.

IDK if we should be calling something that requires so much training and dexterity an “accessibility device”.

With the expense of the hardware, the learning curve for the user, and the friction of wearing all that stuff, this is going to have to solve a compelling problem to be useful. Especially when “good enough” solutions are everywhere and free.

Good news everyone!

The militant centrist symbol is Jon Stewart wearing a Che Guevara hat. The T-shirt is only available in extra medium.

You can’t make yourself sleep. You can make yourself get up. Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

Oh and you should stop drinking liquids a couple of hours before bed. Unless your a man over 50, in that case if you want to sleep through the night you’ll have to avoid any fluids after Tuesday.

This statement outlines this developer’s sociopolitical agenda.

Barbaric Islamic conservatives. In the modern Western Christian State where I live, you have to wait until the bride is 12.