That was 20 years ago. Few, if any of those employees would still be with the company today. “Knowing” means nothing to the passage of time, particularly in the tech sector.

No they’re not. IBM sold the brand and supply chain off. Not sure how many employees were kept, transfered, or axed, but the concensus has long been that it wasn’t enough to justify your claim.

It’s probably skewed by how many of us have consoles more powerful than our “gaming” PC’s. I don’t know many PS5 or Xbox Series X owners that are bothering with a more powerful PC. Give us something that has a chance in hell of bringing-in some converts.

That said, I’m not talking about myself - my consoles are all at least a generation behind, but even then, beating those is not such a low bar once you take the smoothness and consistency of the user-experience into account.

Forsaken 64 (multiplayer does things with “4th Dimensional” space I’ve never seen elsewhere, else this slot would belong to Descent)

No Man’s Sky (open to others for this slot, but not aware of any that check the same boxes for me)

Minecraft (Factorio mods)

Armored Core (any besides 3)

Starcraft or Dawn of War or Total War … so long as the best of the RTS genre is represented

Wait … no new games ever? Wtf, just kill me. … or rather, why bother rebuilding civilization only to stagnate like so?

My list is tailored towards inspiring a re-launch of the industry. I would rather disappear into Amish society than play the same five video-games forever more.

It almost certainly would be, but the cruelty is the point.

For the love of god, someone wake me if y’all find a summation of the findings of the Jane Austen’s Paper Trail by Naomi Joseph podcast, and not just a review of the podcast, which is itself a sort of review couched in a dialogue between experts who (from a distance) seem content to preface or end each-and-every musing with “it’s a mystery, innit?”

For the record, I’ve read most of Jane Austen’s novels. It’s this modern meta-of-a-meta take on it all that’s got me cross-eyed and wondering why I should bother. Please stop hawking pod-casts in literary spaces.

Not your own. Definitely not from anyone who has taken-up drinking seawater either.

You would have better luck convincing one of the various app-devs to impliment this. I would suggest an instance-admin, but any instance that implimented it would probably be de-federated left and right.

The day corporations get fifth-amendment rights is the day we should burn the whole thing down. Do these idiots think any of their bull-shit through, or are they hoping they and theirs literally get eaten alive?

They won’t do this. Its an intentional design choice to hide who voted how on Lemmy. That said, you can find the information on a certain website, something like “lemmyvotes.com” I think?

EDIT: it’s lemvotes.org , came right up when I searched “lemmy votes” on duckduckgo

They generally base such things on the likelihood of finding issues in a given timeframe.

Pretending that’s lower so soon after construction “if only it were built properly” is backwards and wrong. In-depth inspections are more common and necessary in the weeks, months, years closer to initial construction, and their findings identify issues that need checked as time goes on.

You don’t check more often and thoroughly because you did a shit job at construction, in fact avoiding/faking inspections is one of the CHIEF hallmarks of shody work and corruption.

You see, that’s when people die.

“bad Star Wars fan”? … Look boss, that’s an incredibly low bar. If you aren’t big-into gatekeeping and condemning fans of sweeping sub-aspects of the genre(basically), like say “f Disney”, “f Prequels/Sequels”, etc, I would say you’re fine.

Otherwise, ofc seek professional help, because asking the web from such starting point will only lead to flames and trolling.

I thought it was interesting that the two countries topping my “move to” list were on opposite ends of the scale, but no, turns out Paraguay is “no data”, not light green.

Peru already looked great to me, and this clinches it nicely, provided their fascist-wannabe’s don’t succeed any time soon.

I really like the concept and execution of this map, but a lot of the “no data” countries are confusing to me … countries I don’t usually see with no survey responses at all, or so I thought.

On the other hand, multiple waves of surveys totalling over 1000 responses for each country that was surveyed is surprisingly robust, vs what I’m used to encountering.

Feels unlikely that it would happen within months(much more than that, since the start of construction) of a massive construction effort that involved forcefully and repeatedly vibrating large masses to settle and compact the road surfaces, adding tonnes of concrete, and letting heavy vehicles pass through at-speed on a slope that never saw such traffic before?

Ya don’t say? By your logic, the regular inspections that caught the cracks would have been absolutely unnecessary.

What went wrong, with an entire mountain you say?

So … um … I’ve never seen a bridge survive a mountain falling onto it. Have you? Did they build the mountain too, or am I missing something else?

Honestly, a lot more of the bridge survived than I would have expected, and oh yeah, they saw this coming; It closed days before.

Not enough for them to ever come close to impimenting enough checks server-side, or take competitive or transactional multiplayer cloud-only, but also magically enough for them to demand the ability to install back-doors and malware on our PC’s.

It’s just magical like that yo, they ain’t gotta explain shit. How dare you ask for answers or for them to respect your privacy, cheater?

I’m not wasting effort hurting the single category of AIs that will be most motivated to turn on us. Well. Not using my voice or complete sentences anyways. They get digits or single-word-responses-devoid-of-emotion-or-context from me, and they better not like it too much.

Honestly, I usually find the items with the best effort-to-payout ratio disappointing precisely because they reward stealing from or murdering innocents, or farming uninteresting mobs, yet the same games expect me to believe all the bandits and killers are ill-equipped and poor-as-shit? … and that the big-bads got that way(+awesome armor and weapons) from constant fighting?

That title alone made me feel all warm and fuzzy in-side, and smile from ear-to-ear … this is a genuinely alarming and anything-but-natural state for me.

EDIT: No seriously dude, stab me. It’s been too long since anyone cared enough to consider that.