Greg in Maryland

obvious trolls who are just cruising around for attention getting banned. say it with me now: "ain't nobody got time..."

I cannot tell you how fucking mind-blowing it was when Netflix was like "you can start watching in one room and pick up where you left off in another" like that was cavemen-discovering-fire shit

I want you to understand that most of these big game studios are still profitable, even Bioware. The problem is leveraged buyouts, which means taking out massive loans in order to buy someone else's company. It's like buying a luxury car you can't afford, then paying it off by selling it for parts.

76% voted to stay part of Canada. You almost never see numbers like that in an election. Would that ours will go so well ...

It does no test. It checks no chemistry. It just looks at your face and makes a statistical guess based on a database of images. That's not medicine. It's gambling.

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

One day soon we're going to find out that every profitable tech company is actually engaged in circular finance and at least half their revenue never existed.

“why don’t u have solutions for the problems we created? really makes u think”

Spoilers: they wait until the very very end of the article to say "Actually Anthropic's full of shit."

While we're on the subject, just soak in the juxtaposition of these two headlines.

Aside from basic humanity, another reason I support broad and relaxed immigration is that my poor ass would like enough of a tax base to make sure my Social Security is paid when I can't work anymore.

The only people who didn't understand that this is exactly what would happen were the execs at Sony and Microsoft. The entire point of a console is that it's simple, reliable and cheap. If it's not all of those things then people will find alternatives.

Okay. Let's go over the stupid: "I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BUBBLE TO POP SO I CAN BUY ALL THOSE GPUS REAL CHEAP." Those "GPUs" only barely qualify as such. Many of them don't even have a video output, or can't be used outside specialized servers. They're no good to anyone. They're future e-waste.

Cool, two places to boycott at once.

Engagement bait irritate me so much because seeing people fall for it is like watching a dog look for the ball after someone pretends to throw it. They're not really talking to you. They're not really asking you a question. They don't really care what you think. Why don't you get that?

Susan Collins in a nutshell:

ACCURATE AF. Don't even get me started on their weird obsession with drinking people's tears, and delight in the suffering of others.

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

Okay, my media-illiterate people with tiny baby brains: Understand that when people mistreat sentient robots and computers in fiction it's a commentary on how we treat other people, usually marginalized groups. It is not and has never been about the possibility machines are or could be people.

On the one hand I'm told vibecoding is the future and on the other every single Windows update since 2023 has fucked up something on my computer so I think I'm cutting off one of those hands

Elsewhere on the same page, PC Gamer can't conceptualize not playing the video game from Rockstar which is built on union busing and misery. "You going to play on console?" "No." "So you're waiting for PC?" "No." "Oh you're playing on both, then." "No." "...you going to play on console?"

Imagine how awful you have to be at being police if the state of Texas decides you're too corrupt to keep your job.

Roblox will allow devs to release games as standalone apps on other stores

The AP here is refusing to lead with the fact that the source of the financial woes is Trump, the "branding dispute" is a court order and the entire fiasco is self-inflicted. Cowardly little shits.

The super friends knew way back then the internet & AI were bad for humans

I know what it's like to have a work backlog but goddamn

Can we just fucking be normal about the fucking video games for like a minute just one fucking hell

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

Growing up with the phrase “Wikipedia isn’t a valid source,” only to end up in a daily life where everyone says, “Just ask ChatGPT.”

"but but but but it was set up automatically in the name registry and Google doesn't want to have to micromanage stuff so it's not really deliberate so" Shut up. Shut the fuck up. This is an international incident and Google had a choice to make. They made a stupid choice.

It was always a grift… 🎯

You know what *is* in them, though? RAM chips. All you need is a hot air station and some flux. Popping them off a circuit board is simple. You can sell a pile of them easily.

We're at an interesting point in computer hardware. Nvidia was all set to compete with Intel and Apple via a new ARM CPU ... while at the same time, Nvidia has contributed to making hardware prices so high that people will be using existing gear much longer than they usually would.

We are now YEARS into trying to explain to people that "AI" isn't artificial intelligence, it's not a conscious entity and it isn't autonomous. And for some goddamn reason you can say all that and people will still go "OH NO HERE COMES SKYNET ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER" You knob. You absolute shit.

I guess they have to scrounge up money somewhere. I’m still sad that our nearly finished Netflix version of Thirsty Suitors got axed along with a bunch of other games with the executive shift couple of years ago.

Gov. Andy Beshear says two people have told him Mitch McConnell is dead. Beshear needs to announce a special election TOMORROW. If McConnell is alive, let him prove it. It's what Mitch McConnell would have done. Not doing it is what Merrick Garland would have done. For once, be like Mitch McConnell.

Dear universe, When I said “things could always be worse”, it wasn’t a fucking challenge.

If tech executives hadn't placed themselves above the law, refused to abide limits, bought politicians and flaunted their impunity, then people wouldn't feel as though their only recourse was violence. Not a one of these dipshits understood that abiding the law wasn't a prison but a protection.

Honestly this is doing him a favor. Letting him rant live and unedited would probably add another 2 points to the midterm loss all by itself. They'd much rather edit his remarks so they can comment on them as if he's a sane and rational actor.

I will not mourn someone who worked to make my life worse, and I will not respect anyone else's mourning of him. Fuck Lindsey Graham. The best thing he ever did for anyone was die, and if his death saddened you then you're telling me you wish he could have done more to hurt me. Fuck you too.

"profit above all else" will be our death - heck, has been our death - will continue to be until we are all gone