I spent like $2000 playing Star Trek Online. Lockbox keys, lifetime sub, all sorts of ships, items, and boosts. They introduced Mark XIV equipment with a gambling-based crafting system. You could spend dilithium (which you could buy with $) to have a chance to upgrade your equipment.

The straw that broke me? Their shitty customer service. I wanted to gear up an alt and give them the Jem’Hadar battleship with the Jem’hadar attack ship so they could launch the attack ships from it as fighters, which you could do if you had both. Problem was some ships were account bound, and some ships were character bound, and I lost track of which was which. I ended up claiming the box for one of them on the wrong character. Easy fix, right? Well not every MMO is run to the same standard as Blizzard. Craptic absolutely refused to help me. So I cut ties.

It was after that, when I experienceced withdrawal, that I read about gambler’s fallacy and sunken cost fallacy and I really analyzed why it hurt so much to leave behind my addiction. I never went back, because I know that whole game is run like a casino. They do everything they can to hook you in.

That is indeed the definition of anarchy.

Noun. 1. a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems.

Oh come on. This is every experience with linux.

An anarchist not respecting free speech and enforcing rules on a forum is hilarious to me.

It’s actually gone very well. Lots of preorders. I saw videos of people lining up outside gamestop locations this morning.

It’s almost guaranteed to be in the top 10 of best selling consoles.

Stroehmann white bread. It’s super-processed, light and airy plain white bread. The same fluffy cloud bread that my parents used to make PB&J when I was a kid.

I have to use smuckers PB and some orange marmalade though. I can’t stand cheap PB and cheap grape jelly. It was fine when I was a kid, but just isn’t appetizing now.

EAT THE RICH

big badonka-donkadonks

Good now we can develop injectable anti-fat molecules to eliminate obesity. In the future, everyone will be thin and look amazing because we will convert our fat into pure energy.

Scientists get on top of this. Move this theoretical physics into applied science ASAP.

It’s more than that. There are lots of things I want to do that I just can’t do. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort learning to program, and suck at it. I can’t program the things I want to make, and it feels bad that I’m no good at it. I spent months trying to learn to do one thing and while I reached the point I could copy and paste code that would do it, I had no clue why the code did what it did. I wanted to understand why it was so complicated, when what I wanted to do was from my human point of view, so simple. I got frustrated and ended up shelving it, and never went back.

I still get frustrated when I think about it. There is a indie game dev festival where people will get together to code games from scratch in like 24 hours. Manlybadasshero has shown some of their works on his youtube channel. There are people out there who are so good at coding and I’m having this monumental challenge with the basic stuff. It just drives home how dumb you are.

I just don’t see a place for it in the market. Steam is the big daddy DRM store. GOG is the old school DRM-free store. Itch is the small time indie dev store. Epic will never be a general storefront like one of the above. The only reason to use Epic is to play one of their exclusive games, and in that case they’re no different from any company that refuses to multiplat their games. Blizzard selling their games on the Blizzard store or Nintendo selling their games on the Nintendo store. It just comes down to wanting a larger cut of the sales, instead of paying someone else to use their storefront.

Get rid of the wheel and this is the most accurate meme. Windows update is an old man who falls and breaks his hip. Linux is a cripple in a broken wheelchair. 100% true.

Why do people keep altering his picture to make his head smaller? Come on. Everyone who has met him knows his head is much bigger than that. Stop doctoring these photos!

35,000 pounds of $100 bills would be $1,587,573,295 a year. Rich bastard.

It is a disgusting abomination. I support DOGE because I wanted cuts. So what do they do? They save a little money cracking down on social security fraud, and then pass this disgusting behemoth 3.8 trillion dollar budget.

It’s like biden never left office. There’s no fucking way they meet the 2% inflation target after flooding the economy with another 3.8 trillion dollars. We’re right back on track for hyperinflation. The same way that every other failed republic died. You can’t spend your way out of currency debasement. It just accelerates the process.

What they need to do is spend less. Get that budget deal under 1 trillion dollars. They need to cut 3 trillion in spending. They won’t do that because it would mean stuffing less pork into their barrels and pockets. All our representatives are corrupt and they all have friends and pet projects and hands in the cookie jar. So we’re on a train with no brakes, going headfirst into hyperinflation. History repeats.

She looks really young to be the wife of Adolf Hitler. Bathing in the blood of 100 virgins must really keep your skin looking young.

Basically true. Intel can’t compete. Intel is developing a 2nm manufacturing process but AMD is already below that. Intel sells worse technology at a higher price, and basically only exists because of government subsidies. AMD has cornered virtually every market. They have the leading chips for desktop, server, and even game consoles.

But I’m sure Intel can turn it around. They just need to hire a well-known fortune 500 CEO who has the right powerpoint highlighting their commitment to DEI.

I’m not concerned if they are using chats for AI training data. In fact, I expect them to continue improving their chatbots. If they were to sell our chat logs to a third party, and those logs went public, then I expect it would quickly torpedo their platform. Even in that case, my account doesn’t have my real name anywhere. I gave them an incorrect birth date. I haven’t linked any social media to my account. I keep everything set to private. If the logs were to go public, and people could say “Look! This user said all these things!” they still wouldn’t know who I was.

Maybe the FBI or NSA could track me down, but talking sexy things to a chatbot isn’t illegal. In fact, it may very well become more commonplace. Someday we will likely have androids with AI personalities serving us in our homes.

Ethical and emotional minefield? Oh no. It’s evil flirting because it’s with AI, right?

Some services like Crushon do store your chat logs on a server, but you are free to save those logs accessible only to you, or make them public anonymously, or make them public with your user name stamped on them. Even if all my logs were to be stolen, my real name isn’t associated with the account.

Other services like Venice AI don’t store chat logs on a server, and everything is stored in your browser. So it’s even more unlikely that your logs would get stolen. Especially if you delete them after every chat.

Nope. I have never cried over a celebrity or a stranger. It’s strange to see so many people who have. Isn’t that a parasocial connection? The person you cried for never even knew you existed. You’re hurting for no good reason.