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Comment GOG is for poaching more than launching (Score 1) 47

And like I said I don't see anyone talking about GOG.

How much of that is related to GOG's reputation for being selective about what games and genres they accept? I get the impression that GOG is a bit more "curated" than some other PC game stores. The curators don't really want visual novels (a style of menu-driven adventure game). And apart from new releases by CD Projekt (which owned GOG before the end of 2025), I suspect that GOG seeks to poach "catalog" games that have already been successful on the competing store Steam as opposed to having a game at day one.

Sources include GOG forums (thread; thread)

Comment They'd serve different purposes. (Score 2) 11

A balloon is not static, it moves with the atmospheric system it is in. Ergo, it tells you how that system evolves. A drone cannot do this.

A drone can stay put, relative to the ground, telling you how a location's atmosphere evolves. A balloon cannot do this.

These are solving completely different types of problem.

You could, of course, construct a hybrid, as balloons are traditionally single-shot. If a balloon carries the measurement gear and a drone capable of carrying that same gear PLUS a deflated balloon, then you can have something that operates as a balloon until it reaches some pre-set location, whereupon the balloon's gas is released and the drone flies the ensemble to a collection point.

Comment Re:As opposed to human slop (Score 1) 77

You have to offend more than one person to get (and stay) modded down in /. , even if you believe you're posting the truth

That's not quite true. You only need to offend one person to get modded down. However, if you also provide value, then you will probably not stay modded down. My karma has only been anywhere other than right up against the kap a couple of times in the last... uh, long time.

Comment Re: Copyright (Score 1) 117

I suspect because you're always such an asshole

Pot kettle black, fucker. You never use a nice word where a rude one will do. I answer rudeness with rudeness and I won't apologize for that, people who are dicks deserve dickery.

Right now things aren't at the point where someone can create a viable software product that, for example, an big-bucks "enterprise" would pay for.

Have you seen the garbage big-bucks "enterprises" will pay for? I thought you said you were experienced. If you only know code and not anything about business maybe you should calm down and take a breath here.

Comment Re: As opposed to human slop (Score 1) 77

I mean have you seen the shit they didn't ban people for?

I mean have you seen the thing where Zuckerfuck called people who trusted him enough to give him their personal info for facebook "dumb fucks"? You should expect Facebook to intentionally not ban the worst people, if you are familiar with what a piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg is.

Comment Re: Gemini answers are shit (Score 1) 81

Did you mean: converged?

No. It literally wrote it "coverged". Now that I'm at my desktop I can just write it.

Also, the correct word is COVERED so even if it did write "converged" that would have been incorrect. But it didn't. Instead it wrote something that isn't even a word. That is the level to which Google has fallen.

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