If a company ever puts ads in my group chats I will jump in a volcano

The incentive structure just doesn't seem designed well. It creates a zero sum game. When downloading you can either:

1. Not seed to 100%. This damages your ratio

2. Seed to exactly 100%. In terms of ratio maintenance across all seeders this option makes the most sense

3. Seed past 100%. You build up your own ratio but deny other downloaders from reaching 100% which hurts their ratio. They must spend longer seeding the torrent to reach 100%, which further decreases the likelihood of subsequent downloaders from reaching 100% when seeding

When you seed past 100%, you essentially have to rely on bad actors to create more upload work for good actors. If there are no bad actors then seeding past 100% is to the detriment of other good actors, who you want to protect because you also rely on them for system health. And private trackers aim to minimize the number of bad actors.

I think the insinuation of the gigantic brain is that it's not

I'm the CEO of ExxonMobil but thanks anyway

Feels weird to make Grampa into Trump and then have him talk to Burns

The number of bad takes in this thread has convinced me that Lemmy may really succeed

Melee players thriving

I am disappointed in myself that I immediately recognize this is jerma

Optimization is the natural path of all things commercial. When the Internet was young it was more experimental as a whole and that was fun for people. Computing is still experimental but the experimentation isn't obvious as it was back then. Unfortunately that means adventure finding you across your computer screen doesn't happen as often. You either need to look for it around the fringes or look beyond the monitor.

The original DiWhy, at least for bread

It is impossible to know whether there is a higher power. I believe that the existence of the universe fundamentally violates causality to begin with, since everything must have a beginning. Thus anything is on the table.

All human conceptions of religion and spirituality are almost certainly wrong though.

Infinity for Android is subscription only as of August 31st so it's time to pull the plug for me!

Interest over much how it's picking up steam in relation to the alien site. Pleasantly surprised!

This is it for me. It seems like the whole site is an example of "the left can't meme" with content populated by activists and sysadmins

Thus even though I also dislike Reddit I haven't really been coming here either

This is good!

Ensiferum (older is better)

Finntroll

Equilibrium

Alestorm

Wintersun (borderline?)

Do you think this occurs equally across all big budget games?

That's smart!

I'm excited for how much it looks like they're mixing up the existing characters!