In fairness, humans do this too. Ever share a meal where someone has already eaten? People find it extremely off-putting. It’s to the point where pacing your eating to someone else will make them like you more
In fairness, humans do this too. Ever share a meal where someone has already eaten? People find it extremely off-putting. It’s to the point where pacing your eating to someone else will make them like you more
It’s more like saying “the Heisenberg exploded, hydrogen blimps won’t work”
The Heisenberg exploded because of ruptured bladders and structural cables snapping, among other things. Hydrogen blimps could work - technologically they’re still very feasible
But they’re too risky to half ass, and their biggest proponents have shown themselves to be incompetent in the face of the engineering challenges involved
It’s not just shit technology - it’s about execution. If no one can demonstrate good execution, we have nothing. Better ideas have been killed for less… This whole concept is riddled with unsolved problems - it’s not feasible with the players on the board
This is too important to fuck around.
Not really… This isn’t people being empowered, this is people being chewed up and spit out
I think there’s a few core reasons
Some people would act like him if given the opportunity, so they identify with him or think he’d give them opportunities
Some people just feel isolated and know the world is getting worse but not why, so they latch onto the guy giving easy answers and simple solutions
And some people are just drawn to the idea of fascism or authoritarianism, even if they don’t realize what that entails
I’d put the self loathing in the first camp - many of them get through life through projection. They think everyone is like them
their fortunes
I think the term for that is “the economy”
Ok, let’s be real here. A charger can last a decade even if the charging speed slows…a cord will not outlast a phone. If it does, there’s a serious issue
They can definitely misfire, but humans are more likely to misfire
When the adrenaline is pumping, it’s real easy to squeeze slightly harder… That’s why your finger shouldn’t be on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot
You want to tell me your gun shot two rounds instead of one? I can believe that. You want to tell me a cold gun, with a round in the chamber for more than 5 seconds, suddenly decided to override the required mechanical safety because you waved it around?
It does help that “actually they haven’t destroyed a single work of art” is a pretty good entry point to explain how protests are just a way of displaying group outrage
Civil rights were won by relentlessly challenging the courts, exhausting the public so much it blew back on the government administration, and with the armed black Panthers present as an implicit threat - “if you decide to throw out the law, so will we”
Fun fact, we did have a 20 year start on COVID. This was bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu… Scientists have been saying this was coming forever
This was basically as prepared as we could get. There were protocols in place for everything
I’m not sure customers are falling for it - this is why voting with your wallet doesn’t work. People rage against games that launch in an unfinished state, particularly when they’re full price. Steam reviews often incorporate price point - statements like “don’t buy this at full price” or “this might have been worth it at $20, but this is not a $70 game” come up a lot
Sales for AAA games are way down, we just saw the biggest failure in gaming history. Casual reading of steam reviews show people clearly have different expectations based on price, Twitter sometimes explodes with anger at specific moves (like Helldivers requiring PSN) and they back off (temporarily), but they always go back to the bullshit
The feedback mechanism of “voting with your wallet” doesn’t communicate this message. Metrics show purchases, refunds, and active users… That’s what fits on a spreadsheet. They see a game failing, but that doesn’t mean they’ve understood why
AAA studios don’t want to understand what makes a game succeed or fail - they just want a formula to min-max ROI. They want strong numbers at launch, but they also want to minimize production costs, and they treat costs (like developers) as line items - they learn the wrong lessons, because they aren’t concerned with the creative part of game design. They want to be the next Madden or assassin’s creed, they want to figure out how to get players to pay $70 + micro transactions (or better yet a subscription too), but they also want their employees to be interchangeable cogs they can push to burn out then replace
AAA gaming is dying from this, but it’s an oligarchy at this point - large corporations are unable to understand nuance or truly innovate - these are things people do when they have autonomy. They don’t do team building or R&D anymore - that’s a gamble that sometimes pays off big, but not in a quarter or two. They aquire then kill off what made the team work in the first place - any individual can tell you that’s a recipe for failure, but by nature they keep the decision making far removed from the people actually doing the work
But then someone will see a spreadsheet and calculate the “missed” revenue, and whoever made that decision either gets replaced or given strict orders next time
Even if they manage to dig their heels in, it will come up again and again. It looks like a money shaped hole, and so organizationally they’ll keep coming back to it
It is a great way to make games, many indie games do this. A team can do this, but a corporation can’t - subtlety doesn’t fit on a spreadsheet
Yeah… That’s not going to work, because it turns out people will in fact pay a premium for green choices
Which sounds great, except it’s a lot cheaper to lie and misdirect than to be green
And you have to be real, companies will do anything before producing less. Like plastics - the companies making them won’t make less plastic just because we stop using straws - they’ll pivot. They’ll make them cheaper, ship them further, or cut back the straws to make more disposable cups - the only way they’re cutting back on plastic is if the same processes and machinery can make a biodegradable version, if the government forces them, or if they shut down in whole or in part
It depends on the bottle, but they’re also more work to recycle than make new ones. Even with us running low on usable sand - there’s companies turning glass back into sand at this point
The upside is you can sterilize and reuse them, and if you make them a little thicker they’re pretty strong
Sure, you can do that. It’s obviously on you to figure out how you want to do it, but that’s exactly what no DRM means
And I don’t mean it’s technically possible, you can backup the game files through steam and put them on a flash drive, and there you go
What is that in human units? I know 30C is balmy and 20C is pretty crisp…
Morality is definitely relative, there’s just some common overlaps
Sometimes the answer is just the same no matter what (coherent) moral framework you examine it through… Sometimes it’s just that simple
The aluminum ones have a plastic liner, and aluminum is cheap to make - recycling is incomparable to reuse, and a world away from reduce
For all we know, they’re literally just passing massive checks in a circle to one another to say “yes, it says right here in our bank records that we spent a combined $100,000,000”, meanwhile only 25% actually goes into the production, and they pocket the rest.
That would be illegal and easily discovered
But you could pay $10M to hire another company to do the sound mixing. They might spend $500k to do the work. You might also be the owner of that company, and the money ends up back in your pocket…And that’s not embezzlement or a kickback, because that’s what it’s called when poor people do it
Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this “bug” in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears… Then started crying about it when their balances updated
Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack
The fediverse is just a barnacle on the larger Internet at this point. It has to become more - we need to make our own web