Can we please not do that shit?

It was almost certainly Dave Philipps and Matthew Cole's 20250905 NYT article about a failed 2019 attempt by SEAL Team 6 to bug Best Leader when they unwisely chose to blow a random fishing vessel out of the water. Unsurprisingly, that wasn't a great way to stay hidden during what was supposed to be the most covert of ops.

It tells us an awfully lot of us hate this world so much we're willing to burn our precious little PTO to indulge our escapist fantasies. Not crime specifically, just anything other than the soul-killing 9-to-5 we get to grind for 40+ years or until we're too broken to keep feeding the machine.

To your secondary point - At least until things get bad enough we're willing to take the "torches and pitchforks" approach, the idea of changing society is a joke. The government absolutely does not represent us or care about our interests (I'm American, but it really doesn't matter which government we're talking about). The oligarchy considers us nothing more than livestock to be managed, and the delusion of "peaceful" protest is the greatest trick they ever pulled on us.

Even here, where we theoretically have voices with global reach - Let's not delude ourselves, we're merely shouting into the void and occasionally one or two fellow void-dwellers will shout back, but that's as far as any of this really matters.

It's not "just a game", it's the closest to they'll ever get to living in a world where they don't piss away half their waking adult lives to enrich some asshole who doesn't even need that third solid gold limo. Bread and circuses indeed!

This is the third thread I've seen today where people claimed not to know what "GTA" stands for.

Please tell us about your last 20 years living under a rock, star? My ancient gran knows what GTA is and has never played a game more hardcore than Candy Crush. Hell, even the mainstream media makes a point of blaming some random social dysfunction on GTA every couple of years. What's your secret? I want in!

The secret is to phrase questions in a way the fanboys can't interpret as disloyalty to the mothership. If you ask "How do I disable this utterly insane default setting/feature", you're getting tarred and feathered. If you instead ask "boo hoo, $feature isn't working, how do I reenable it", you'll get a dozen responses telling you the exact settings you want, and 95% of the time you can just reverse the "enable" logic to disable it.

Oddly enough, the same trick works against pretty much any fandom, though there aren't many use cases for it in non-technical fandoms.

That's an argument for better moderation, not shutting down folks doing free tech support for one of the largest companies on the planet. A company literally can't buy that kind of grass-roots support; failing to even recognize its value is a sign that better days are not ahead.

As for Apple itself - Any time a real support call starts with "let's do a factory reset", I won't be replacing the reason I need support with a replacement from the same company. Their community forum is - was - the one palliating factor making iDevices viable in the real world.

The mid-range is 800 to 1000 and the top end of a gamer card is pushing 1800 dollars.

This is all because AI slop and crypto.

Woke sjwdei feminists did not come for your games. Finance Bros who want to replace you at work did.

I agree with you in spirit, but we need to live in this world - Why tear down a bunch of fossil fuel power plants still in their prime just to replace them with a technology that's still rapidly getting better?

Climate change won't be fixed by a revolution, more like a critical mass. If, when the current gen comes up for closure/retrofitting/replacement, the same capacity can be replaced (including baseload) with renewables for less money... It will be. What we can do in the meantime is make sure there's sufficient demand for continued improvement of renewable technology and reducing the cost of manufacturing. And if we "accidentally" move to a decentralized grid in the process because we've all paved our roofs with enough solar to meet our needs, aww, won't be crying for NextEra / Duke/ Xcel / ConEd / etc.

Large-scale emissions can be measured from orbit. Whether or not they're lying about the details, they can't lie about the overall total.

There's a bigger problem here, though - The US will never, regardless of whether the evil or useless side of the aisle is in charge, accept China's lead on any matter of real significance. If China becomes the world's (political) leader in renewables, you can bet the farm the US will double-down on fossil fuels.

We have ODD at a global scale.

There is, but we're the hos.

"Quick, go burn a quarter terabyte preloading this... Then do it again when we issue a critical day-1 patch because you prebuying idiots just keep falling for the same trick over and over and over."

You can basically kiss any release bigger than the smallest Indies goodbye for the next year or so. This is an extinction level event for any other games and it's probably why wolverine kind of stuck because it probably was rushed out in time to avoid going up against GTA 6.

Also who knew the guys that made Blood Money for the Amiga did other games?

Why John Kerry? Wasn't there somebody else you could have mined for a quote?

The left wing needs to bring back the green New deal and they need to openly State and Hammer home that it is not any woke/DEI/PC/sjw infused bullshit. It's a jobs program and nothing else.

The green New deal was really taking off and then that batch of house members called the squad did a preamble bill, which is a bullshit build it means absolutely nothing, stuffed full of that nonsense and everybody immediately dismissed it. Anyone who was sjw type or minority just looked at it and decided that it wasn't going to happen because those promises always get broken and everybody else just rolled their eyes.

I understand that the left wing needs to cater to their base and their base like any base is kind of fucking stupid. People who follow politics enough to be called a base are not nearly cynical enough.

But the left wing needs to learn how the dog whistle to their base so they don't turn off regular voters on the center. It's harder for the left wing because the right wing is always there controlling the media so that it's tough to get a dog whistle past to them but it's a skill and you need to learn it.

Meanwhile the left wing needs to stop the sjw nonsense because it turns off voters even if their base does like it. Again dog whistles.

They don't need that not with the way copyright works. Nintendo makes a lot of money off of their IPs so it makes sense that they would hire someone to organize and maintain all that. I mean they're big release right now is a remake of a nearly 30 year old game. And it's a straight remake from what I can tell it's not like how Capcom remakes resident evil games and they're just new games.

It's one of the huge competitive advantages that Nintendo has always had over Sega. They have been able to do a lot more with their back catalog.

This will just kick it up to 11. You get shitloads of low effort content on various forms because forums that are targeted by bots have minimum up vote requirements so people show up at places like the retro game forums and post crap like hey does everybody remember game x!

As soon as you tie any sort of monetary or political benefit to people hanging out on the internet everything just goes to shit.

The core idea is a strong point Reddit has been known for, even among people who don't directly use it - Real humans have real discussions about products.

Problem, is, advertisers do not want real humans having real discussions, they want 100% astroturf - Which is exactly what Reddit is not known for. I therefore see this going three possible ways - One, they intentionally bias the AI toward only positive reviews; two, this quietly dies a few months from now; or three, Reddit starts aggressively banning the few human users remaining for being advertiser-hostile. All of which make this service useless at best, or more likely this will be just one more minor degradation of everything that once made Reddit great.

tl;dr: I actually don't hate the idea, but I'm completely confident the implementation will be a disaster from every possible angle.

There are less places for kids to play. It's a bit of a nuisance in my neighborhood because there is a lack of nearby parks with the assumption that while you can drive to the park right? So the kids playing the Street cuz of course they do but we're all expected to drive so you're constantly having to watch out for kids.

There's a meme that asks why kids don't play outside anymore and then there's a picture of the outside...