Doesn't mean it's not music. But that means you made the music using the software. So all those cool Sega Genesis chiptunes that were composed back in the day and even some today or c64 sid chip music is absolutely music. Same with Amiga mod tracker files. Just like painting a picture with deluxe paint.

With AI slop you're not doing it you're letting the software do all the work. It's got no soul. When you listen to it there's always something a little off a little wrong. That's because it's a mishmash of 100 ideas haphazardly thrown together instead of the careful effort of an actual human mind.

It's like that ice cream that isn't ice cream. The frozen dairy dessert garbage. I buy it by accident every now and then because they try to hide the fact that it's not ice cream. You taste it and it's sweet it has kind of the right flavor and you pretty quickly realize something's wrong. It's artificial and fake. Like eating plastic. Even when I don't know what I bought as soon as I get it home and have a bite I quickly figure out I screwed up and take the shit back.

On the other hand I guess if I was 12 I wouldn't care because sugar is sugar. And maybe kids raised on the worst garbage imaginable will be so used to it. But I don't think so. You grow out of lunchables. As an adult I tried one and they are God awful. The kids love them.

You really think a market where you can perform an infinite amount of research before making a prediction is more gambling than buying a package that has a completely random chance of containing something of value??

Yeah that is quite different from sites where the majority of betting is on sporting, which no amount of research will turn it from a bet into an investment. Like, if its not primarily that sort of thing, then sure.

Btw I'm refering to Kalshi which has sports betting as 80% of its "volume". Polymarket is around 40%

I'm sure someone will create a "prediction market" where what you say is true, however this lawsuit isn't about these , its about Kalshi which is primarily (based on useage) a sports betting site, and Polymarket where sports betting is around half its useage.

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.

Wait what? You don't understand how the PlayStation abandoning physical media relates to another competing game retail service that gives you true ownership of the games you buy.

Yeah you might have to abandon the PlayStation platform. If you want to own your games you don't get to own a PlayStation anymore. You buy a PC and if you really really really want to own it for sure I suppose you're also going to have to buy games that run under Linux using proton which is valve's translation software for running Windows games on Linux.

But that's about being able to play them. At the very least if you buy the games on GOG you own them. The data is yours. You are stuck backing them up yourself if GOG goes away

But at the end of the day for the 15% of people that care there are perfectly good options for owning games still. Maybe not all the games because some companies just aren't willing to sell you their games they're only going to let you rent them.

And like I said I don't see anyone talking about GOG. So all these articles are just bullshit content farms generating outrage for clicks. Because if they actually cared they'd be talking about alternatives.

Yes. And also and.

But bsky is an echo chamber and feceboot is not, and I want both things.

Twitter is too much of a cesspool to care that I got banned for saying mean things about Leon

You mean people confused by multiple mouse buttons who can't figure out how to configure Safari?

Up 3% today, aka yesterday's tomorrow.

This is why I don't trade stocks, I don't know shit either, but you sure can't take most people's advice

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, but there's usually some troll squatting atop the problem preventing it from being resolved.

You forgot to throw in a "back in my day".

This is why young people hate us old farts. Things have changed from when we were Young and we refused to acknowledge that and blame young people for the problems we caused them. And when they become maladapted because of all the dumb shit we dumped on them we get even angrier that they didn't turn out the way we wanted them to. Which is especially fucking hilarious because it was our job to raise them.

Meanwhile you completely misunderstood my comment. Or you didn't read it.

I literally said people are interacting despite distance. They're using social media to do that. That's because there isn't enough time in the day for them to interact physically. With long hours of homework you can't spend an hour on a bus going to hang out with a friend after school. That's just not in the cards.

You put kids into a situation where they're doing something unhealthy, having all their social interactions through the internet on algorithm-driven social media websites, and then you got angry at them that they're in the situation you put them in. And when anyone suggests fixing that with walkable cities you have a hissy fit because you love cars and walkable cities and cars don't mix.

You're not going to give up your car and you're not going to give up your Sweet suburban home with its ginormous backyard and personal pool, at least you're not going to give it up until it's taken away from you because suburbs aren't sustainable due to population density not being large enough to support the government funded services you want... So you're not going to give any of that up so the very least you could do is get the fuck out of the way and let the kids have their maladjusted social relationships rather than having no social relationships whatsoever.

This is why I hate old people. When you get to a certain age you just don't want to face reality anymore you want to bury your head in the past.

In America taking away social media from your kids would be pretty fucked up. At least assuming you can't either taxi cab them around town, buy them a car and get them a license or pay for a shitload of taxi rides

That's because the suburbs have basically spread us out to such a ridiculous degree that kids don't have a lot of opportunities to socialize. And no school doesn't really count you get maybe a half hour for lunch.

Hell people have been talking about how suburbs isolate people for ages. And it's only gotten worse. Back when my kid was in high school they were a good 40 minutes away from their closest Friend by bus. By car it was something like 10 minutes but like most places my city's bus system sucks balls. And when you have two or three hours of homework a night minimum sometimes as much as four or five that's just not going to cut it.

I suspect it was less of a problem for us old farts because not only were a lot of us in denser living conditions but even if we weren't we didn't have the crazy amounts of homework that modern kids get. Admittedly it's been years since my kids have been in high school but as far as I know that hasn't changed and kids still get multiple hours of homework a night despite all research showing that doing that's very counterproductive... More of the puritanical bullshit you just can't shake from our shitty culture.

So pretty much the only place your kids get to socialize unless you are very well off or they are very lucky is going to be on social media.

We could of course do away with the suburbs and make walkable cities but the car companies are worth tens of billions of dollars so there sure is shit not going to let us do that even if you could convince old people who are hung up on cars to do it

I suspect that old people are just going to keep grinding their kids into dust. Honestly I think most of us didn't want to have the little shits anyway. Men want sex and women want babies.

Although I would like to see the breakdown between actual game purchases and buying DLC it's still clear people are mostly buying games online and downloading them.

As for ownership gog.com is right there. I have not seen a single person mentioned gog. So honestly I think that all this talk of doing away with physical games isn't coming from a groundswell of opposition to the idea but it's just the usual content Mills looking for something they can shovel into our eyeballs. This is something it's easy to get outraged to buy and outrage sells.

It actually kind of pisses me off because I really like the fact that I own the games I buy on gog. And this was a good opportunity for them to get a bunch of press so that I could buy more games there because more games would get put there.

But that's not what the internet is for anymore. It's not there to be useful it's there to make you outraged because outrage drives engagement and engagement drives profit. So instead of a useful conversation about a digital service that allows you to own your games free and clear we get more worthless articles like this that were probably written by AI...

I hate this timeline

The thing is, Google is winning. Almost every browser is just a Chrome skin now. Firefox continues its slow spiral into irrelevance.

Funnily enough Firefox recently did the same thing. Integrated AI into the browser, and used AI to find bugs in the code. Shame they couldn't use AI to refactor the code into something that might actually gain some traction. There's a reason why every other browser is a Chrome skin.