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  • Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

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  • I keep forgetting borderlands 4 even came out. I guess I block most ads, but none of my friends have even talked about it.

  • Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser

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  • I can't imagine what I'd even want the "Ai" to do in the browser.

  • Delusions of a Protocol [On Jay Graber's transphobia and the unfulfilled promises of the AT protocol]

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  • I think it's a riff on an old meme I don't quite remember. But the idea is like,

    • people are doing an innocuous thing
    • something declares that they thus must hate dubiously related thing

    Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says "oh you're playing checkers because you hate chess!?". You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)

    So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.

  • Look at all these people stuck in their metal boxes

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  • There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.

    Also it's not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ... or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.

  • Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

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  • You can turn that one on desktop off, btw

  • Look at all these people stuck in their metal boxes

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  • If only separated bike lanes were more common. I'm really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • Apparently Vanguard has a whole proxy voting system that I left on the defaults!

  • Why do you use what I gave you?!

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  • If you set a minimum vacation time, it's not bad. But most places don't do that, because they know you'll take less time if they say unlimited.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • Solidarity doesn't have to mean they like have a club with a secret handshake. Their goals are aligned, and they tend to work towards those goals, even without explicit coordination. It's rare to see anyone in the ownership class work against those interests. You don't see a lot of the owners saying "we should give people more time off" or "we should let the workers have a say". It's pretty consistently "we should squeeze people for more money". It makes the news when ownership is like "We're going to pay people more", and it doesn't make the news when labor is like "i'll just work a little more off the clock to catch up".

    Contrast with labor, where people are often undermining their interests. Being anti-union, voting against regulations that would protect them from exploitation, giving away labor for free.

  • Incredibly useful

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  • This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It's like... 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can't write it yourself.

    Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • Solidarity doesn't mean they're all in love and never squabble. But it does mean that they will prioritize their class' interests, especially if it's in conflict with labor.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • I assume rich people often keep enough shares to control who sits on the board, and thus who is the CEO. There's a lot of people sitting on multiple boards, folks know each other, blah blah blah.

    Also many shareholders aren't really involved. I don't even know how it works if you own shares through Vanguard or something. I've never been asked to vote on company policy.

    From what I've seen in start-up land, leadership is a lot of in-group bro times. It's all gut feel. Shouldn't expect rational, honest, decisions from them.

  • What JRPGs will you be playing in October? What games did you finish in September?

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  • Does final fantasy tactics advance 2 count? Because I finished that.

    It was pretty okay. The story was thin. The difficulty was low and fell off a cliff after I figured out an easy combo, aside from two optional fights. The shop system was more tedious than fun.

    I'm not mad I played it, but I think it's the weakest in the franchise I've played.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • The rich have class solidarity. They're not going to casually fuck each other over like that.

  • Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?

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  • Nice! I got about two remorts in, but haven't played in a while. It's a pretty solid mud.

    I'll always have a soft spot for Project Bob, which I think shut down. Diablo-style items and a very fast paced combat system. Alas. Time marches on.

  • Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?

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  • 200 is a lot of people for a mud. The only one I know of that's that big is aardwolf. Which do you play?

  • "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations

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  • It was always going to end like this. If you're surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.

  • Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

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  • I know plenty of adults who are really bad at money and paying bills.

  • Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

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  • I feel like the average video game player has really poor media and political literacy, but maybe it's just the ones who make noise online who fit that profile.