This has to be a slap suit right? Surely there's no merit to this?

I agree with the sentiment, and I'm sure Valve are one of the better companies to work for, so I'm happy for her...

But Valve aren't small.

They ARE the PC gaming industry. They generate billions in revenue and control something like 75% of the global PC distribution market. I know they keep trying to sell themselves as just a small company, because they're a small internal team, but I really wish they'd snap out of it and scale up a bit to match their market. Especially when talking about their hardware side. I live in New Zealand, and the number of conversations I've had with people who have gone to some pretty extreme lengths to get a hold of Valve hardware is ridiculous. I'm not even talking about the new stuff, I mean the damn Steam Deck. I find it incredibly frustrating to hear people refer to them as a small company. Jolla is a small company. Valve is not.

Anyway, sorry, /rant

Oh yeah, that's Waldo. Sometimes goes by Wally. Good luck finding him though

Am I blind or is that list missing r. r. rattus?

I had a misguided but well meaning friend who tried to reclaim it by putting a sticker on her bass. It was the inverted form to what the nazis used, and had some extra elements to it which should have differentiated it enough to know it was meant as a peace symbol... it was not enough. I don't think a single person that saw that sticker DIDN'T think it was a hate symbol.

Yeah good luck asshole.

PSA to anyone who uploads art online, anywhere. Poison it first. Use the latest version. I'm sorry but you are in an arms race now. Dickhead over here is full of shit, but even if they're not, Nightshade is updated fast.

Ha ha ha, ye this caused a lot of "problems" early on (read: trolled a lot of homophobes) so much so that they updated the UI for that section to include a picture of the doll. I thought they did it deliberately and thought it was hilarious

And then won, and then lost, and then won. That's how an arms race works. And we have the advantage in numbers. There are far more people who don't want their shit scalped than people working for the morons at OpenAI, or Google or Anthropic. And yes, they ARE morons. The battle is only lost when one side gives up. You only lose when you accept defeat.

over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Really? Not because he's a sex offender himself maybe? I'm happy to see an arrest, but fucking really!?

anything on that phone is looong gone. The phone itself is probably long gone. Probably best to stop thinking of them like a police force who keep evidence and stuff. They're the Gestapo.

what did you expect?

I heard he was rushed straight to John Hopkins Landscaping

the world

I know it may feel that way, but I assure you, the rest of the world is watching the US right now like this:

Thoughts and prayers, bitch

They got really mad if you actually called it a VR headset though. It was a "spatial computer" lol

My guess is those new massive screens that they use instead

LED volumes

I said exactly this about Bryan Johnson a little while back. Someone was trying to defend his weirdness by claiming he was just trying to help humanity, and I was like BS. He's trying to help himself. If he ever DOES find a way to significantly extend human life, you can bet your ass that it'll be patented and cost a fucking fortune. Only him and his billionaire cronies will be able to afford it.

2 things.

1. Master locks are the easiest to pick and still the most popular. I don't see you advocating for leaving your bike unlocked because it's inevitable that the bike thieves win.

2. That money is fake and recirculated like the air in an airplane. That's literally what people mean when they talk about the AI bubble. All these companies are incestuous as fuck. Google invests in Nvidia who invests in Anthropic who invests in Microsoft who invest in OpenAI who invest in Nvidia who invest in Google. There's no NEW money coming in. That has ALREADY dried up. They're literally passing money in a circle. That's WHY it's a bubble, and that's how it's already popping.

Personally I think we should watch Oracle. They're by far the most over leveraged. At least publicly. When they fall over, everyone else will follow. The big ones like Microsoft and Google are at least diversified and might survive, but the bubble pop will eventually catch up. OpenAI already spend $1.22 for ever $1 they make, and their expenses grow in lock step with their demand. Sam Altman's plan to make it all profitable is to build AGI and ask it to figure it out for him because, and I cannot stress this enough, he. is. a. moron.

Your defeatist attitude is what they want because the more people that believe that, the longer the bubble is sustained.

Take heart. They are weaker than you realise. They are not infallible, their armor is paper.

I'm drunk and apologize for my flowery language.

Happy Friday, the fight is winnable.

I love you all.

content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor

I'm assuming they don't mean a suggestive camera pan, but actually something problematic on screen, in which case, I totally support the ban. Devs were given the opportunity to change it, and they said no. Ban away imho. The fact that this is considered controversial is pretty disturbing to me.