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If corporations are going to act like psychopaths, arrest the upper management and fine the shareholders.

FFS, I mindlessly bought it off Steam to play the new episode and probably have played it longer than the refund threshold now.

Quake looks a fair bit nicer than Dusk :)

That might be a false memory, check the comment linking to consolemods.org below

it's fantastic! the gameplay is paced just perfectly, the puzzles are fun, and the levels are genuinely beautiful to look at. as far as i'm concerned - (with the caveat that the te…

Arcane Dimensions is worth the effort.

No. Even setting ethical considerations aside, AI-generated art is lazy, looks gross, and signals poor taste whilst wasting computing resources. I think it's a perfectly reasonable…

I know some of these words, but I'd like to understand all of it better. Would anyone be so kind as to recommend a good learning resource for LLM design and the math involved?

No, I mean that voicing opinions in specialist spaces is rarely seen as bothersome when they uphold the status quo, but the minute they don't they're "making it political" Edit: ca…

"nice things" you mean upholding the harm of the status quo by not criticizing it

RIP. I don't remember him being right often, but I did love some of his opinion pieces all the same, like when he shouted out MorphOS as the best desktop OS out there.

As if that has ever overcome the American media and political classes' fixation with bipartisanship (which is how the American system inoculates itself against left-wing policy)

I feel like Maine's about to lie down with dogs over this.

It sounds like something Steve Bannon realized in the shower before heading to the Oval Office.

This is an academic point. The US represents one third of the world's military spending because it uses force to further the economic interests of the elite. To work in a "defense"…

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow's Chokepoint Capitalism dedicates a chapter to the mechanisms through which TM enforces a virtual monopoly over live music.

Like glibly synthesizing a reimplementation of NextJS

Revolution!

I feel like this has just accelerated what was the ideal scenario all along: high hardware prices push more people to rent

What kind of situation are we in that we need to didactically state this awfully trite point?

And cheap. You still get pretty drunk.

Norman Finkelstein is a notable example of this.

That's how I moved on to reassigning caps lock to escape on my computers.

The 80s and 90s were fun, with Atari, Commodore, DEC, SGI, Sun, HP, Next, even IBM all going at it. I guess widespread Wintel and internet access, plus Google going for commodity h…