TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

It is a bit of weighing the convenience of Steam dealing with your catalog of games, making them all just a download away, and keeping them outside of Steam and needing to come up with your own currarion method. And if you are buying (licensing it - because apparently nobody actually owns their games) the game outside one of these storefronts, you still have DRM to deal with most likely anyway.

Just have to weigh the pros vs cons.

If a group of people are influenced by whatever, and suddenly write a bunch of negative reviews I would consider that a review bomb if they played 0 hours, or 10k hours. Adding the weird stipulation that it needs to be people that never played it is not a requirement I’ve ever heard. Now is it more likely that the trolls will be people who haven’t played, absolutely, because the low cost (nothing) of doing so while the people that play games are actually gaming.

Review bombing is a coordinated online campaign where a large group of people post a deluge of negative reviews for a product, service, or business, often with the intent to harm its reputation or sales. This tactic is usually employed as a form of protest, coercion, or even just trolling, and is often seen in response to perceived issues with the product or its creators.

• Googles stupid AI

As the only platform that cares about gamers I would say it’s your only choice under Windows also. Unless you pay for boxed versions and then rip/crack them so your not messing with physical media constantly, but then disk space becomes and issue fast.

More or less, but classic case of correlation ≠ causation.

The thing about this meme is those people are either review bombing because “reasons”, or they are all masochists, either way I would disregard them as spam and look for better reviews.

“It obviously needs some tuning, but this is the radical left blowing a small thing out of proportion.”

• Twitter/Musk at some point (probably)

Do remember this is the guy who did 2 full Nazi salutes at an event for his presidential candidate, and America voted Trump in anyway, they give zero fucks about “blatant”. And training his AI on Nazi material is going to make his bot pro-Nazi, not rocket-surgery.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

• Hanlon’s razor

Before and after. Like you said, the occurrence of one unfortunately doesn’t stop humans from carrying out another elsewhere.

I mean this was kinda the plan for Twitter, and for his AI all along. This isn’t a bug, it’s working as expected.

Nice, will need to try this out when I have a sec.

True, and as long as expense ratios are the same or lower than your US index/mutual fund then your only real issue is if the US market rebounds and outperforms your portfolio if you had diversified more.

And the expense ratio’s can vary a lot. For example Fidelity shows the exp. ratio of ($0.08 per $1,000) 0.008% for their Index Equity Fund, where their International Equity Fund has an exp. ratio of ($4.02 per $1,000) 0.402%.

Even small differences in fees can have a huge effect over time. Say you’ve invested $100,000 at a 7% annual return: A fund with a 0.80% expense ratio could eat up $70,000 more of your returns over 30 years than a fund with a 0.40% expense ratio.

Source: How to Invest Your 401(k) and Best 401(k) Investments

Depends on your goals and what you are willing to risk to achieve them. Some people throw paint on priceless art, some people light themselves on fire, some people yell at people on the internet. Any protest is a cost-risk evaluation.

All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can’t “read” anyone over the ether.

I don’t think they need to make their games FOSS to do right by the consumer. If you have an online game and no longer want to support the server part, it would be super cool to share that code, but at the very least companies shouldn’t be trying to shut down community servers. The same goes for the game itself, the source code would be very cool, but not going after people who still want to play the game they’ve chosen to no longer support seems reasonable.

If a company is ending support their ability to enforce copyright should also end, outside of people that are trying to profit off trying to resell the game as their own (which probably doesn’t happen all that much).

By 2035 we could be under water, or all living in a radioactive hellscape. And the argument of paying people to use a free service breaks logic.

This asshole has been trying to tear this country apart for 8+years now. If you “don’t know who Trump is” at this point you’re either too far gone in the cult, or you’re lying to yourself and others so you can sleep at night. Giving people a pass as dumb/oblivious is bullshit and gives these people an out they don’t deserve.

Which is something possible if you knew nothing about him and he had been running for his 1st term. This was his 3rd running, and 8 years of this asshole trying to burn the US to the ground to be run by his 4th Reich.

Joe didn’t fall for anything, he is just realizing he is going down in history as a supporter of a want to be Dictator.

All these left of fascist, but still love some good old fashioned racism and misogyny shitheads, will hopefully leave some room for more progressives on the left, and the Right will continue in just more dysfunction.

Vance has the respect and following of nobody. No way the GOP stand behind Vance fucking a couch if something happens to Trump.

They lack empathy is my point. The person doesn’t understand why the Right fucking everyone over constantly would make people feel bad/sad/depressed. The thought of others doesn’t even occur to them, it’s all about them, how they are the victim.