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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Jan 26, 2023, 10:24
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Jan 26, 2023, 10:24
Jan 26, 2023, 10:24
 
WaltSee wrote on Jan 26, 2023, 09:58:
I think Musk is a really decent guy, actually, who has done and is doing a lot of good in the world.

What a joke you are. You know we can read your post history, right?
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Nov 17, 2022, 12:17
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Re: Morning Metaverse Nov 17, 2022, 12:17
Nov 17, 2022, 12:17
 
Dreagon wrote on Nov 17, 2022, 09:53:
So Musk does the decent thing by letting them know what's coming, and giving them the opportunity to get out with their severance packages intact. I've got no problem with this.

Twitter employees have now been told that those that clicked "Don't Agree" on the "Be Hardcore" form, have in fact submitted their resignation and will therefore not be eligible for severance. Unlikely to stand up in court, but a clear signal that there is nothing about what Musk is doing which is a "decent thing".
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Nov 16, 2022, 14:35
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Re: Morning Metaverse Nov 16, 2022, 14:35
Nov 16, 2022, 14:35
 
Beamer wrote on Nov 16, 2022, 14:32:
Who is going to do that? Who is going to do more work for the same or less money and be happy about it?

This is the key. Elon is making staying one of the worst possible options available to his remaining work force, which itself has a whole lot of other options. He really doesn't seem to understand who has the power here.
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Nov 16, 2022, 14:33
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Re: Morning Metaverse Nov 16, 2022, 14:33
Nov 16, 2022, 14:33
 
The Half Elf wrote on Nov 16, 2022, 12:49:
The people that stay are going to be the hard working/dedicated people.

Unlikely. Elon has given an ultimatum: A) take an effective 50% pay cut (by doubling your hours) for a venture that is liable to go bankrupt within the year (Musk's words at a recent all hands) with no vision or plan for what perpetual crunch is meant to achieve, or B) take 3 months severance and walk. The only people that are going to stay are visa holders sponsored by Twitter, or people with such severe competence/performance issues that they can't get employment elsewhere. Competent experienced software engineers do not lack for other options. I fully expect this ploy to result in mass resignation. Were it me, I would take the severance and walk, and start responding to the dozen or so recruiter emails that hit my inbox every day.
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Re: Sunday Metaverse
Nov 7, 2022, 10:31
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Re: Sunday Metaverse Nov 7, 2022, 10:31
Nov 7, 2022, 10:31
 
Schkorpio wrote on Nov 7, 2022, 02:25:
Impersonator accounts aren't welcome on any platform.

If these are impersonator accounts, then The Onion is a clandestine disinformation op.
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Re: Game Crossovers
Oct 31, 2022, 12:03
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Re: Game Crossovers Oct 31, 2022, 12:03
Oct 31, 2022, 12:03
 
Quinn wrote on Oct 31, 2022, 12:01:
Not "especially" but yeah, such people who lack any form of nuance on the matter are idiots too. Especially people who lack nuance or the intelligence to understand nuance period.

Imagine basing your identity on liking genre fiction written for man children who don't read actual grown-up literature and then thinking nuance is one of your personal strengths.
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Re: Game Crossovers
Oct 31, 2022, 08:51
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Re: Game Crossovers Oct 31, 2022, 08:51
Oct 31, 2022, 08:51
 
Quinn wrote on Oct 30, 2022, 12:07:
Too many fucking idiots on this earth.

Especially anyone who thinks genre fiction is an immutable sacred text.
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Re: Evening Metaverse
Oct 21, 2022, 12:31
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Re: Evening Metaverse Oct 21, 2022, 12:31
Oct 21, 2022, 12:31
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 21, 2022, 09:53:
WaltSee wrote on Oct 21, 2022, 09:18:
Censorship and suppression of speech is about as American as Beijing or Moscow.
Are you guys ever going to learn that censorship is something the government does?

You don't understand: for right-wingers, censorship is right-wingers being confronted with social disapproval for their views. When a right-wing government uses the power of the state to silence and harm their cultural enemies, that is liberty. The in-group (the right) does what they can and the out group (the center and the left) suffers what the must. The contemporary Populist right is the Melian Dialogue made manifest.
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Re: Evening Tech Bits
Oct 13, 2022, 10:58
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Re: Evening Tech Bits Oct 13, 2022, 10:58
Oct 13, 2022, 10:58
 
I seem to fall under the category of people whose sensory integration is ill-suited to VR. I can tolerate using VR, but only that: tolerate. It's uncomfortable, I feel slight nausea, and I sweat profusely: those are not the makings of an experience I want to actively seek out! Oh, and when I played through Half-Life: Alyx, there was one instance where there was a sudden loss of frame rate fluidity for maybe two seconds, which was enough to make me feel as though I had just done multiple underwater somersaults, and led to me barfing. After that, I was still willing to finish HL:A, it is a Half-Life game after all, but then I put away my headset and never used it again.
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Re: OotB: Warning
Oct 12, 2022, 16:09
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Re: OotB: Warning Oct 12, 2022, 16:09
Oct 12, 2022, 16:09
 
Yeah, it's particularly easy to overestimate your latent swimming ability if you haven't been in the water for a few years. Swimming is physically demanding, yes, but more than that, your body and psychology need time to reacclimate to having your face submerged and keeping your breathing relaxed. If you get out into the water without having worked on that first, you will immediately feel out of breath and even if you don't start to panic, your muscles will start blowing through your anaerobic capacity, and after about 30 seconds or so you are going to feel deeply fatigued quickly verging towards total exhaustion. If you're realizing all of this at about the time you're reaching a panicked, drowning swimmer, then there are about to be two panicked, drowning swimmers.
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Re: ItB: Blunt message
Oct 7, 2022, 10:27
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Re: ItB: Blunt message Oct 7, 2022, 10:27
Oct 7, 2022, 10:27
 
Dang, Rob Smith passing away is a surprising bummer to me. I hadn't thought about the guy in years, but immediately prior to going to PC Gamer (US) he was at PC Accelerator (as Executive Editor iirc), which had its run when I was in middle school, placing me squarely in its target audience. I always felt like the personalities and individual voices of the editors at PCXL came across much more strongly than the typical periodical; indeed much of the humor content was fictionalized accounts of their various misadventures in the office and around San Francisco. I still remember some of his pieces too, like his glowing review for Quake 3: Arena. Too bad about his passing; he can't have been that old (mid 50s?).
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Re: Quoteworthy
Sep 22, 2022, 21:44
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Re: Quoteworthy Sep 22, 2022, 21:44
Sep 22, 2022, 21:44
 
If you go by the timeline of the original game, the character of Sam Fisher would be in his late 60s to early 70s by now. After all, he was the veteran being called out of retirement 20 years ago!
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Re: Phantom Fury Announced
Sep 16, 2022, 23:32
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Re: Phantom Fury Announced Sep 16, 2022, 23:32
Sep 16, 2022, 23:32
 
RogueSix wrote on Sep 16, 2022, 21:17:
Yes, shocking, because the developer is apparently too stupid or too lazy to mention that it is a retro shooter. It's not even coming out on last gen consoles but is a fully next gen title. How is anyone supposed to know that this is intentionally retro from their marketing?

I mean it's a sequel to one of the games that kicked off the retro/boomer shooter wave and was announced at Realms Deep, a retro/boomer shooter virtual convention. If it's surprising that this is an intentional homage to what is now retro shooter design then it's unlikely you're paying enough attention to the indie shooter space to even be part of the audience.
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Re: Phantom Fury Announced
Sep 16, 2022, 20:53
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Re: Phantom Fury Announced Sep 16, 2022, 20:53
Sep 16, 2022, 20:53
 
RogueSix wrote on Sep 16, 2022, 20:46:
Oh look, it's 2004 again!

Seriously, this looks like it would have made a decent HL2 clone back in 2004/2005 but who the hell do they think they can impress with this in 2023?

Shocking that a retro shooter would evoke the shooter design of two decades ago. Just as “galling” as something like Cyber Shadow having 8-bit pixel art. /s
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Re: Quoteworthy
Aug 26, 2022, 17:49
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Re: Quoteworthy Aug 26, 2022, 17:49
Aug 26, 2022, 17:49
 
LordSteev wrote on Aug 26, 2022, 17:37:
I'm not sure you're getting the context of what I'm arguing. I'm a bottom-up, tax the rich to help the poor Democrat. I don't view people with student loans as the bottom. Hard luck is getting good grades through high school and then not going to college because you can't afford it. Those are the people who have to feel screwed by this.

If someone from the bottom goes to trade school to become, say, an electrician, how do you think he pays for it? Is your contention that anyone with a trained skill is too fancy and too far up the socioeconomic ladder to justify receiving debt relief?
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Re: Quoteworthy
Aug 26, 2022, 15:22
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Re: Quoteworthy Aug 26, 2022, 15:22
Aug 26, 2022, 15:22
 
Just wanted to chime in and remind folks that education loans cover both traditional 4 year liberal arts educations, and trade schools, and technical colleges, and 2 year community colleges. The median American at this point has “Some Post-Secondary” as their educational attainment, and in most cases that’s going to involve some sort of educational loan. If you’re angry because you envision the loan forgiveness as bailing out a dilettante 25 year old who majored in drama, you are frankly out of touch with who tends to carry educational debt in this society. Imagine a 35 year old hair dresser in an interest trap for loans for cosmetology school, or a 40 year old long haul truck driver who retrained at age 30 to go to trucking school, and you’ll be much closer to the mark.
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Re: ItB: Good lord!
Aug 23, 2022, 22:33
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Re: ItB: Good lord! Aug 23, 2022, 22:33
Aug 23, 2022, 22:33
 
It’s all set in the Second Age which Tolkien wrote almost nothing about, aside from laying out some themes and a handful of key events. This means the screenwriters
have a pretty free hand to do whatever. Given the quality of screenwriting in streaming service genre series, I am
not filled with confidence.
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs
Aug 23, 2022, 22:27
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs Aug 23, 2022, 22:27
Aug 23, 2022, 22:27
 
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 23, 2022, 13:50:
RedEye9 wrote on Aug 23, 2022, 12:32:
I don’t get the Musk worship. Especially if you only half ass follow the story. But whatever.

The story of how he wanted to buy it, the info he was given wasn't correct, wanted more info, wanted to back out of the deal, Twitter suing him to finish the purchase instead of just taking the 1 billion for not buying it, and now a whistle blower?
Did I miss anything in my "half-assed" attempt at following the story?

It's not Musk worship, but I don't have a hard-on of hate for him either like people here/
He's just a guy, and yet many people on this site go at him like he ran over your pet and pissed in your computer cases.

You forgot about the part where he signed a binding purchase agreement. That’s kind of a key detail.
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Re: Spider-Man Remastered Reviews
Aug 10, 2022, 23:45
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Re: Spider-Man Remastered Reviews Aug 10, 2022, 23:45
Aug 10, 2022, 23:45
 
Darks wrote on Aug 10, 2022, 19:23:
People who are not really qualified to do that job or are not fans of the game.


A fan seems like the very last person you would want reviewing something.
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 22:33
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 22:33
Aug 7, 2022, 22:33
 
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 20:42:
Love or hate Musk, he's a pretty smart guy

On what evidence do you base this? He's clearly rich and he's clearly famous and he's clearly thin-skinned, but if he's ever said anything intelligent, he's good at hiding it.
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