…are you seriously complaining like this about the use of the word ‘apopleptic’? It was one word, dude, let it go.

EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

…Italians?

There’s an easy solution to that.

Seed something yourself.

Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn’t already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.

'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn’t already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.

with no ads

For now.

Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.

I even tried to migrate mine, and it failed. After deleting my Mojang account.

Tech support made a token attempt to help me and then gave up. So much for my capes, I guess…

It’s the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.

It’s a charm against boredom.

If you don’t bring the book, you’ll be sitting around bored wishing you’d brought it with you.

If you do bring it, you’ll never have time to read it.

Currently my Steam Deck is fulfilling that purpose.

I read recently of a variation of this. You play the game by intending to play it; you win when you forget you’re playing the game.

Thus, when you remember the game exists, you realize that you won!

It’s a two-fold curse - first, every single program these days isn’t a stand-alone program, it’s a glorified web browser. Hand-in-hand with that is the fact that, in order for these webpages-disguised-as-programs to behave in the way you normally expect a modern UI to act, it has to have five layers of javascript frameworks, each adding its own pile of cruft to the slagheap that is modern app design. It’s horrendous and I hate it.

There’s often a lot of fun cheats you can use - bitwise operators, etc - if your numbers are small powers of two.

Also it’s easier to organize memory, if you’re doing funky memory management tricks, if the memory you’re allocating fits nicely into the blocks available to you which are always in powers of two.

They’re not necessarily great reasons if you’re using a language with sufficient abstraction, but it’s still easier in most instances to use powers of two anyways if you’re getting into the guts of things.

The more progressive candidates win local elections, the more what constitutes “the Democratic party” changes.

New York City’s primaries just proved that this isn’t the case.

Except in this analogy, the cliff option includes a rider that they will genocide even harder.

Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese the company that nearly turned Moppet Video arcade machines into lost media, by destroying the cabinets for a tax writeoff?

I don’t know if you’ve been watching the current political climate in the USA, but ‘anywhere from fuckall to the bare minimum’ is drastically, ridiculously, absurdly better than what the GOP is doing when they are in power - and when first-past-the-post is the only voting method, and elections are as tight as they are, you can whinge all you want about the morality of voting for someone who doesn’t actually represent your interests, but not voting blue helps the GOP win.

The system is broken, yes, but harm reduction is the name of the game when it’s the only choice you are given.

Save the moralizing for primaries and local races. We’ve seen what happens when people withhold their vote, and what happens is fascism.

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The critical part of ‘vote blue no matter who’ is the voting part. That’s the game plan short-term when it’s election season.

That does not preclude criticizing the incumbents. Or even the candidates. But no matter how you feel about them, you vote for them to stave off misery, and encourage everyone around you to do the same.

Not voting for them sends a message, but it’s the wrong message - and that message is that the populace prefers the GOP. Stop fascism in its tracks and vote blue. Fight for actual progress by doing what you can to forward actual progressive candidates and policies. Like NYC is doing right now.

It boggles my mind how people seem to be incapable of wrapping their head around that concept, and instead continue to insist that we shouldn’t be voting for DNC candidates because — uh - it’ll make things better??? Somehow??? At this point, the willful ignorance is starting to smack of sealioning.

This person allegedly murdered two politicians, and is not facing terrorism charges.

Luigi allegedly murdered one CEO - not even a politician - and is being charged with terrorism.

This doesn’t add up.

There’s the whole argument right there.