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So uh, should I sell my META before earnings? I wish we had like a 'quick poll' option.

SELL EVERYTHING EVEN YOUR DOG

Yeah, nope. The entire cyberpunk genre is about how all these mods are experimental hacking on the fringes of society, though in these works, society itself is fundamentally fringing and therefore the fringe is becoming the mainstream. The assumption that it's all well-tested and fully...

I'm just saying, sci-fi has been filled with all of this for a long time. Anti-capitalism or at least highly-skeptical-of-capitalism has been a recurring theme in sci-fi for over 100 years, but really all the way back to proto-sci-fi hundreds of years earlier. As for race, body modification...

First worry should definitely be people who want to rape your kids. Second should be kids being pressured into sending private pictures of themselves, which is really bad, but still not as bad as #1. Third should be kids viewing hardcore porn, but by 14 you can already assume they've seen all...

Why do people constantly find it weird that symbolic political statements exist in art and then freak out over it like it's some new phenomenon that only started happening in [current year]? It's such a truly weird complaint, particularly in sci-fi, an artform that's been inherently super...

I mean, this has been one of the central themes of this entire genre of "industrial space horror" forever, from Aliens through Doom to Dead Space. "Evil Space Corporations" are also in Borderlands and Red Faction was just Bolsheviks in Space. Are you just offended by the utter lack of subtext...

lol. IRC was definitely filled with creepy dudes who wanted to rape me, even back then. I would say the thing that's scary about mobile internet is that the camera is right there, integrated into every app on the device. If I had a kid I would open up and physically break the camera...

I had PPP dialup with raw access to the Web, Usenet, IRC and a unix shell account when I was 12, when NCSA Mosiac was the only web browser and Netscape Navigator not quite released yet. My parents had literally no fucking idea what I was doing on the personal phone line they installed for me...

For the same reason people were just complaining about the other big tech companies. In a market where everyone is stealing and selling your data, being inherently privacy focused is a niche. It should be subscription-based, even if the subscription is cheap. That would make it way harder for...

The effect is that way less people have med-pens, and I'm not sure that's all that great gameplay wise. They really just need to go back to the BC2 design, where there's no prone, melee kills are fast and lethal, and out of combat healing is pretty fast. BC2 had the best pacing and almost...

This is the same as the "why do you need encryption if you have nothing to hide from the government?" argument. aka a bad one.

Think about it this way. Once you give your kid internet access, there are only two outcomes. Either: Your kid is smart enough to evade whatever restrictions you place on their internet usage, making them pointless. Or They're not, and you now have to admit you have a stupid kid.

Well not everything. RIP INTC

They've already gone through Chapter 11 once and became property of their creditors.

Also I think they're going to ruin the premium branding on either and end up hurting themselves.

This is exactly what human bullshitters do.

Avaya was supposed to file Chapter 11 weeks ago, so the fact that they haven't is an odd signal, which could mean they might be able to dodge it somehow. This would be Chapter 11 2: Electric Boogaloo technically, since they already did it once in 2017.

This is the thing that people are worried will steal their jobs:

Right but that's not what's going on here. It's just a sign acknowledging the existence of an all-gender bathroom in space, when all bathrooms in space so far have always been all-gender bathrooms. You "feel" that it's feeding into some kind of delusion, but it's actually just a statement of...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/showtime-paramount-plus-merge-new-name.html

Yeah, I had a really fucked up math education in high school because I transferred to a private school for junior high then back to public high school. The private school was on a very different math curriculum than the public school, integrated math vs the standard Algebra 1, 2, Geometry...

Post tits I mean trades. jk

Did you buy the bottom twice? lol

On some level, I think you're right, but did you somehow miss many years of people throwing Facebook under the bus for all of this? I think the big difference is that for as shitty as these tech companies are, they created the product that is giving them the profits. Zuckerberg, for all his...

That a tiny percentage of the population suffering from some mental illness might feel better for a split second is a very stupid reason to put something in a game. But being upset that a tiny percentage of the population suffering from some mental illness might feel a split second of relief is...

Trying to make a big deal out of it is also retarded.

You realize every real bathroom that's ever really been in space has been an all gender bathroom right?

Yeah but I really like that gif and one of my favorite South Park moments. I also grew up in Section 8 housing so I'm trash.

Anecdotal but every single residential contractor I know is booked solid, not with new construction, but with major additions and renovations, so the fact that new single-family homes are down isn't really hurting any of the local contractors. They are actually hurting more from not being able...

Strong doubt. Being fucking awful has never gotten a broadcast network show cancelled except for maybe Cop Rock or Viva Laughlin which were both awful AND musicals and therefore somehow double-stuff awful.

Record profits across most companies outside of tech. Record low unemployment. Record tax revenues. As long as people in the bottom 2 quartiles of income earners remain employed, and construction/trades employment stays high, everything else should work itself out (not saying it won't be bump...

Yeah, that's my thinking. Someone(s) on the board got wind of all this, looked at the quarterly earnings and said "why are you trying to kill our only cash cow division we have, on the eve of a massive branding boon?" (the decent-enough looking movie.)

I'm more talking about management and management consultants who would be pushing changes at this level. I don't think the board is getting into the finer points of the OGL, it's so fucking esoteric.

That's not how suits think though, they never admit mistakes. They'll double down, push on, and when it turns out to be a disaster, they'll go be suits somewhere else and someone new will have to pick up the pieces.

I would like to imagine the people at WotC told the suits at Hasbro "hey we're the only part of your company still making money so don't fuck with us, or force us to fuck with our partners and customers." That's probably not how it actually went, but I'd like to imagine it that way.

Probably. Hedge funds expecting next week to have a >50% chance of being less good than this week and just taking their ball and going home now? Regression to the mean is the most powerful force in the universe.