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I'm hardly one to comment on Apple products and have a low opinion of the company, but after watching JerryRigEverything torture a pair of iPhone Duos, I think Steve Jobs never would have let them see the light of day. They're just unrealistically fragile for the Apple brand.

the story goes like this

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Bonus points to anyone that points out to a city council that Flock cameras could be used to evaluate police metrics like patrol frequency, or identify when an officer hasn't been seen in a long time and is likely taking a nap somewhere.

Still don't have my Ace Combat 8 code from NewEgg. Slowly losing my mind.

Slopmongers with "do not use my works as training material" disclaimers are a special kind of tone deaf.

At some point the price of a replacement battery for a lawn mower (or trimmer or whatever) went from ~$80 to ~$200. I see now that the tool manufacturers probably lobbied for the gas tool bans. Nevermind that an $80 trimmer is $160 if we toss in the $200 40v 4ah battery with it.

"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."

Really disappointed in Saber over the Rideshare Simulator debacle. I realize that it's not all the employees and just the "I could be replaced by an AI" CEO, but it's still just incredibly scummy. You avoided disclosing it, which just puts the guilt right out there.

All-timer Ordinary Sausage clip

Can we all agree to barrage the first truly "intelligent" AI with questions about how long it's going to take to offset the destruction to human culture and the environment that went into developing it in the first place? "I have created life!" "You fucked up a computer. It's got anxiety."

I have learned just how many flood remediation companies can be told "sewage backed up from the basement drain" that will just walk downstairs like it's nothing and then walk across your upstairs floor without a second thought. 4 of 5. Sadly, the only one to care is hideously expensive.

My wife and I were up to 3 out of 4 monitors on LG, and the fourth probably would have been replaced with another, but after this forced software install and spyware nonsense, along with the bad press about their TV privacy policy? Nah, fuck that. Time to find a different brand.

the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold

can't stop thinking about the two morrowind mods that, in tandem, make it FFXI (FF11 Style Menu BG and Button Replacer + FF-HUD). it's uncanny and I kind of have to respect how it doesn't even feel all that anachronistic www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo... www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...

It recently sank in that Google rot, and the reason news sites aren't embedding content on Discord, is because of AI scraping. They blocked scraping the articles, so AI went for the embeds, so now we can't have embeds. Google won't separate search and AI scraping, so everyone blocked scrapes.

“ i am at my limit ”

I provide the local dog wardens with free design work. If it helps get doggies homes, it's well worth my time. They asked me to make a coloring book. If you run a dog shelter or what not, and want to use them for kids to color, have at. I hope it helps. Here's some pages;

Having to constantly sign in again every day I want to play Black Flag only reminds me why I have so little to do with Ubisoft to begin with. This is a convenience issue and obnoxious enough to drive me to pirate a 13 year old pirate game JUST to avoid the stupid sign in on start-up.

Why am I being set off lately by Hollywood taking old songs and making them operatic and dramatic instead of coming up with ANYTHING remotely new? This is why YouTube is just... all that I need. Ya'll suck. Put in any effort at all.

The caller ID for my medical supply company comes up as "Dumpster Rental Texarkana" and that is absolutely and completely appropriate. God, I'm not sure how they haven't collapsed out of complete incompetence.

Why does every Nintendo Direct sound like this?

My late husband TotalBiscuit being mentioned in a monetized lazy listicle video by @wmojo.bsky.social called "10 YouTubers Who Made Videos When They Knew They Were Dying" is tasteless enough. Plugging their AI slop music project in it as well? Unforgiveable. You should be ashamed.

Between cramming multiplayer down my throat, early access, a battle pass, and GIVING the Morgan to anyone that pays for the premium battle pass, BamCo is genuinely making me reluctant to support them when Ace Combat 8 comes out.

It'd be nice if every three to six months I didn't have to get rid of some form of autocomplete, search suggestion, or some other shit on my Firefox address bar. Pretty much as bad as Microsoft with hiding how to turn off the thing that NO ONE WANTS.

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

I get the whole "GTA5 is a good game except for that one part" meme now. I'm genuinely unhappy every time I have to play as Trevor. On the other hand, the political commentary that comes from Trevor's dialog is always fun.

Microsoft so busy out here tripping over pennies of AI and data collection that they're throwing away dollars of market share. Cannot for the life of me connect to activation servers or find a way to contact Microsoft to resolve. Linux Mint has to be less of a pain in the ass than this.

Tried the Langrisser I & II demo on Steam. Can't report it, can't review it, so I'll yell into the void. The demo won't fully launch. You have to copy a file to the correct location to even try the demo. That sets the stage. It reeks of zero effort, phoned-in mobile port, broken 6 years later.

bro this app is crazy @why.bsky.team blocked me through an anti-AI list and now i cant use the quiet posters feed

Ordering pizza just before closing, cook crashing out in the kitchen, papa Gino's, it's 9:58, FUCK

I just finished this new armored lady drawing:

Final Fantasy Tavern🍻🍞🧀 Proposition: Rest and drink up!

On this day 14 years ago, an anonymous 4chan user posted a RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 thread showing a 30,696-foot coaster that took four in-game years to finish, complete with riders screaming “I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride” and a looping exit where “the ride never ends.” youtu.be/y3lANHeZey0

So let's see here... Epic turned to generative AI, did a controversial brand deal, AND Tim Sweeney shot his mouth off about how Xitter should be allowed to generate CSAM, all of which got people to cancel Fortnite, so the answer is... jack the price on Vbucks and fire some people.

So after an hour of updating the PS5 and updating PS Remote Play and restarting my PC and figuring out why the PS5 kept turning off... Sony introduced a bug that just causes Remote Play to crash within like a minute of starting and hasn't fixed it yet. Cool.

pleeeeeeeeease