This imploded so quickly I'm impressed

Wikipedia is one of the most impressive collective creations of the modern world. One day corrupt politicians will ruin it. They're one of the organizations I donate to every year in my futile hope they preserve it as long as possible. Articles like this just reinforces the need to vote for people who aren't actually cartoon villains. May not vote for SC but we do for who appoints them.

If Ted Cruz sees his shadow in Cancun there will 6 be weeks without power in Texas.

I love when this happens and they present no alternative. Choosing a losing option instead of accepting an imperfect effort. Try to improve it? No surely not. Throw it all away. If a social program helps someone I deem unworthy of aid it must be removed.

How small of a person.

Bets on it being a big map with not much to do in it?

Instead of offering anything to be a better platform they are burning money on the platform in hopes they can pay their way to dominance by paid exclusivivity and giving away games. One of those isn't bad for users. Now consider what Epic offers beyond being able to buy and download a game. Nothing. Epic is only a storefront and they've had years to work on this at this point. Steam has gained dominance and maintains it in no small part due to all the additional features available to everyone. Do you use the steam workshop for any of your games? Have you used the steam community forums to troubleshoot a problem? Do you use big picture mode for a more console like experience? Do you customize your controller settings with the pretty expansive controller support built into steam? The overlay? How about the custom profiles and badges and trading cards? Epic is only a storefront. That's it. That's all that's on offer. So they supplement it with bribing devs to be exclusive to their store and giving away games to try and attract users.

This is the sort of thing that keeps your hobby alive with the next generation. Very cool

I mean if your looking to date a high schooler this is probably a factor you'd consider. No one cares about your phone, at most just that you have one to be able to contact you.

It sucks because while the award has lost 'prestige' by becoming too much of a marketing gimmick it still obviously means a great deal to the teams that win. Maybe I'm too jaded on the topic but I can't watch these kind of events anymore. Unaffiliated celebrities, shitty ad slots, can't even hear the people your watching for talk for any length of time. For the viewers it's kinda a shitty thing to watch live. Catch the highlights as they make their rounds on social media.

Sponsor block says it's skipped about 18hrs since I started using it. No way I'm going to stop using it when I have a choice.

Yeah this is one of those games you play for what it is now because chances are it's about as finished as it will ever be.

Big "I pledged it" energy here.

I'm a souls hater. They are just slow and boring games.

Discord is really bad for preservation of information. I can still find forum posts from 10 years ago on a given topic all over, but discord links seem to expire and break all the damn time and it's hard to search through. It sucks that discord has become the defacto choice for user community space.

I blocked this website on my news feed because of this article. It's opinion piece written by an asshat.

Maybe I'm miss remembering but weren't they restoring stuff users deleted during the API protest?

it's referring to people freaking out theres some lead in the material of water bottles being sold. from the Stanley website tldr is not an issue unless the cup is damaged. It's not limited to their cups and many other brands do the exact same thing.

Diablo 4 isn't that good of a game and not even close to the best arpg. I admittedly got hosed on buying it at launch and am not giving them more money. Why would I spend over 150$ total to get the equivalent of 1 mediocre game assuming they fix all the bs. Definitely regret the purchase at this point, and if a fixed version is going to be locked behind absurdly priced dlc in the future I feel like I got scammed twice.

I'm conflicted on a lot of this. At the end of the day it seems like these LLMs are simulating human behavior to an extent - exposure to content and generating similar content from that. Could Sarah Silverman be sued by comedians who influenced her comedy style and routines? generally no. I do understand the risk with letting these 'AI' run rampant to displace a huge portion of the creative space which is bad but where should the line be drawn? Is it only the fact they were trained material they dont own people are challenging? What recourse will they have when a LLM is trained on wholly owned IP?

Corn looks like a sludge still thawing out.