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His actions are definitely of someone who is strongly connected to reality. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams (Of particular note: the "Predictions from a stable genius" wh…

I hope only financial ruin for everyone involved in a crypto mining operation using fossil fuel. For fuck's sake, the world is burning.

From the about page: "Q: Why is nothing from the Windows XP source code leak added? A: Even though Microsoft has only taken down a few Windows modifications, they will most definit…

Only $10 a month to rack up dozens of license violations? What a deal.

A Hitman-esque stealth hacking game with real VMs running real software would be cool to see.

Agreed that Chess is mostly about memorization, even at a high level - opening theory has only gotten deeper with the invention of computer analysis. If you're looking for a game t…

It's not exactly the same, but in Japan a few capsule net cafes opened up that sound similar to what you're talking about: https://youtu.be/HkNzjvueJm8

Tesla also fired a union organizer (while tweeting about how they are free to join a union) [0], banned a journalist from buying a Tesla[1], threatened to sue another journalist[2]…

Retro forums that focus on specific systems (eg, C64 development, NES development, DOS development...) tend to be pretty good as they draw people who are interested in developing f…

What exactly makes you comment as if woman gaining equality means men have lost something? Surely, in an even society, this is a good headline, unless you're pining for more patria…

How is this supposed to disrupt Nvidia? Those marketing stats from those slides are really poor. Only 90 fps (what an arbitrary target?) on Fortnite, GTA 5, Rocket League, and Valo…

And then in 2040, people will rediscover gradients and for a while they will be overused. It's just design trends.

This coming less than a month after they killed their (actually useful) VR browser - Firefox Reality - is rather depressing.

MS did this with the Xbox 360. Developers just stopped updating their games.

The problem is that reading is, in a lot of games, pointless. When it shows you an arrow pointing you to wherever to go next, why bother reading quest text? Also, frankly, possibly…

As you dive deeper into Unity, you realize more and more flaws. They promise the world, but only deliver marketable features rather than improving what they've got. The UI Framewor…

'We're committed to an open web - that's why we're teaming up with Disney, the company that locks all their content behind DRM.'

Good news, Sony already patented it. [0] [0] https://fortune.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terr...

There's a big difference between 'having this content on your platform,' and 'paying $100m for exclusive rights.'

What? Even a junior dev could clone Wordle in a day, maybe add a week for polishing the animations and such.

I saw the changes to WoW being described as reeling back from 'the line' because their company culture is so warped they have no idea where 'the line' lies anymore.

People so desperately want a way to objectively rank themselves against each other that they'll believe IQ is a good way to measure intelligence because their ego needs it to be tr…