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  1. Mist

    Chat GPT AI

  2. Mist

    Suicide Squad... the next "Arkham" game

    You might be confused, SR4 was good. Not the recent game.
  3. Mist

    Suicide Squad... the next "Arkham" game

    This looks like Saints Row 4 but a looter shooter? IDK, tentatively in?
  4. Mist

    Enshrouded

    I have been addicted to Double Jumping ever since Shadow over Mystara.
  5. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Wow what the fuck lol. But yeah a 12th gen CPU is still more than fine.
  6. Mist

    Lex Fridman podcast

    The guy is clearly both autistic and English is not his first language, and he gets 4+ hour long interviews with people who don't give interviews to other people. Cut him some slack.
  7. Mist

    Hot Ones

    Apparently, we're all supposed to watch this and fall hopelessly in love with Sydney Sweeney.
  8. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Do you have onboard GPU? Remove the GPU card and see if the computer is still acting funny on onboard?
  9. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    You undervolting anything? That's what usually causes crashes under low load but stable under high load. Possibly BIOS is doing some kind of ECO thing and doing it's own undervolting?
  10. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  11. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Not sure how you took any of what I said as an endorsement of DEI. Not-scapegoating something is not the same as an endorsement. But whatever, that's the world we live in. No one can have a nuanced take on anything anymore, and then people wonder how we all got so dumb.
  12. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    VCs have to manage enormous amounts of risk to stay afloat, and investing in people who remind you of yourself is always seen as psychologically less risky. This is just how human biases work. "People who remind you of yourself" can mean a lot of things, but it can definitely lead to racially...
  13. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    oh shit i was supposed to sell before earnings that wasn't i
  14. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    What? When was this question even asked? This was about how tech startups (apps) are funded and how it's nothing like how video games are funded. Anyway, I'll just leave this here: But yeah, it's definitely the white guys being denied opportunities in this economy of ours. That's why your...
  15. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    My point is just that it costs a lot of money to scale something like Instagram, where it generally costs inverse money (costs go down the more copies you sell) to sell more copies of an indie game that doesn't require any centralized server infrastructure. So, again, apples to oranges.
  16. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Every single one of these companies fired less than half the # of people they hired during the pandemic. Usually around a third, oddly consistent throughout the entire industry. Also, most of them are still hiring. This is just a backlog of normal stack-rank turnover that was put off because...
  17. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    We're not even talking about the same thing. You're comparing a small business loan for a few $K to a top tech company being able to get <2% loans for $billions to defensively hire anything that looked like talent to starve competitors, which is a thing they did the entire time loan money was...
  18. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Scaling Instagram or Snapchat is infinitely more complex, and expensive, than selling more copies of an indie game (which Steam just handles for you, taking their cut, a cut which generally shrinks the more copies they sell, so you actually get inverse scaling costs.) It's even considerably...
  19. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Indie gaming (Lethal Company/Palworld) and tech startups (Uber) have nothing in common, both in distribution and in funding. This is an apples/oranges comparison.
  20. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Because the top dogs had infinite low-interest, nearly free money from the fed to monopolize talent. This is the real reason for a decade of inflated headcounts at top tech companies - they were actively trying to starve startups and mid-tiers of talent.
  21. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Thanks for agreeing with me, that was my entire fucking point! But yes, it actually did change the makeup of the top 20%. HR filters are bad, and recruiters are the laziest fucking people in corporate America. I've literally met one corporate recruiter I would consider a smart person in the...
  22. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    No, the point is that most people at a company are borderline useless, or at least interchangeable. But if you just keep hiring from the same cluster of people who are all related to the useless people you already have, you will never accidentally find better people outside of that cluster...
  23. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    The pareto rule pre-dates the internet by quite a lot. Many highly influential business texts have been published on the topic, going back nearly a century. Heck, Scott Adams wrote and entire Dilbert book about this, ironically.
  24. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle 80% of people in any given organization are interchangeable at best, or plain worthless. This was just as true before DEI as it was after. 99.9% of complaints about DEI are coming from mediocre white guys who are just mad that more...
  25. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It's more about getting through the hiring filters. Before the big DEI push, companies were less willing to take risks or expend effort to go looking at top candidates outside of a very narrow profile. Better to just hire someone's kid, cousin, or friend, who just happened to be another...
  26. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Microsoft went from a dying behemoth to reclaim the throne of the industry, and the NASDAQ, after swapping out Balmer for Nadella. So, there's at least one diversity hire that worked. Microsoft's huge growth came during the same period as their diversity push. One could say the same for much...
  27. Mist

    Horizon 2: Forbidden West

    Time to play this gay game again in OLED Ultrawide.
  28. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah, totally, because nobody has ever worked at a tech company or office job where 40% of the white dudes were pointless wastes of chairs. Incompetence is truly colorblind. Very similar books were written about GE, AT&T, and a bunch of banks. Some even became movies. There are definitely...
  29. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah that was the joke, thanks.
  30. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    You could say this about any tech company larger than like 250 people. As someone who works for a major Microsoft partner, I promise there's plenty of woefully underqualified white guys at Microsoft. 40-60% of people working any big company are just chair-fillers, barely good at one job. That...
  31. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  32. Mist

    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    This game interests me not even slightly, but I wish these devs a very all the fucking money and I hope they break the games industry.
  33. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    What? CoD is the most profitable franchise in the world. WoW still prints money, mostly due to mounts. Also, King is part of that company, so all the Candy Crush games. ABK is an absolute juggernaut, despite being retarded. I think people are missing how many games and franchises are under...
  34. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Yeah good call, survival games don't make money. Oh wait.
  35. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Anyway, this sucks:
  36. Mist

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Pretty sure every one of your facts are wrong here. Please cite any of your sources.
  37. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Weren't banks doing this in some form or another for like 15 years?
  38. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    "Food fraud" and pesticide use? Am I supposed to care? It just needs to taste good and not be dry as shit. Ya'll sound like hippies now.
  39. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics