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mindbleach ,

“Their fix” is based on whatever dosage they’re already used to. There’s not some fixed upper bound that everyone achieves after their first cigarette.

Making cigarettes less addictive would make new addicts less addicted.

mindbleach ,

A little bit of everything all of the time.

mindbleach ,

If not for internet security concerns, I would daily Windows 7 until they stopped making x86 chips altogether. Microsoft finally got everything right. Briefly.

mindbleach ,

It was a low-bullshit implementation. Windows 7 felt like an update to 2000 - as if ME, XP, and Vista never happened. None of that Fisher-Price interface. They had it on lock!

And then they spat out an OS for tablets.

mindbleach ,

Sports movie.

mindbleach ,

It is kinda weird they haven’t made the Teletubbies decision to stop making new episodes once they have enough to loop. Once they have, what, three hundred? Then they can fill twelve hours per day from Halloween until Christmas. Shift those by a few movies every year and people will catch a whole different set based on when they watch TV.

mindbleach ,

I wonder if you could film two at the same time…

mindbleach ,

Mister Sandman, sand me a sand

Man womans woman at man then the man man

mindbleach ,

The striped death.

mindbleach ,

It’s simpler than that, and worse.

You are beneath them.

In their worldview, there is The Hierarchy,™ and everybody’s role is to do as they’re told by people above them. There is no other force in their moral universe. Nothing else decides what is real.

People stuck in this mindset are vicious when they have so few opportunities to be the boot instead of the face. It’s identifying with the aggressor.

mindbleach ,

I don’t mind their market position. I do mind them taking an entire third of revenue, straight off the top. That’s bullshit enough when console manufacturers do it - and they claim that’s to subsidize the hardware platform that they built and control.

mindbleach , (edited )

“Increases sales” just underlines that they have a monopoly.

No shit you sell more by dealing with a monopoly. They’re the biggest store. That’s what happens when you’re a monopoly.

And I don’t remember saying one word about Epic.

mindbleach ,

Epic fucking up isn’t relevant.

Valve making as much from Microsoft Windows / your-own-PC games as Sony makes from Sony-branded Sony-made Sony Playstation hardware is a damning reflection of an industry-wide problem.

mindbleach ,

“They could take more and still control the market” is a confession, not a counterargument.

And it directly contradicts saying they need that much money, in order to… “provide value.” An aggressive hand-wave that ignores how Sony and Microsoft take the same cut for platforms they own and control completely.

This 30% off-the-top is a de facto standard that’s basically just left over from when Nintendo had 90% market share and had to physically manufacture cartridges months in advance. I don’t care what Valve says they’re providing - they did not do half as much per game as the people who made the fucking game. They don’t deserve a third of their money.

mindbleach ,

I got a binder full of PC CD-ROMs that says “bullshit.”

Valve has contributed to the PC gaming market. But they got there by shoving their middleman service into a game everyone bought anyway, at a store, because Steam did not exist. It sucked. It sucks a lot less now, in part because they take an entire fucking third of every sale, and if you think all those sales could only possibly happen by taking that much money from them, you’re not even listening to yourself.

mindbleach ,

Free being the only other option.

An entire third, or zero. Other numbers don’t exist. Valve obviously needs every cent they take, to do the bare minimum you smugly rub in my face, as though I’ve never even heard of their service. All that value just goes right back to the game-makers! Aaand all the hardware research and development they do for themselves but nevermind that.

And I guess GOG is a clear counterexample of your own point but uhhhhhh smokebomb!

mindbleach , (edited )

Valve’s cut should be less than a third.

Do you need a diagram?

You know they’re not hurting. They enjoy immense profit, at the expense of people who still make games. All excuses are tired nonsense. The cut isn’t why Epic sucks. It’s not why GOG has less market share. Steam barged its way into relevance on the back of Half-Life 2, and was the first digital game store anyone bothered to use.

They’ll have a de-facto monopoly next year because they had a de-facto monopoly last year. That’s all it takes. That’s the entire fucking reason we have laws about monopolies. They can do whatever the hell they want to publishers, and there’s fuck-all consumers can do about it.

mindbleach ,

We can ban this.

We can make this flatly illegal.

mindbleach ,

For anyone struggling to follow this:

Dbrand makes stickers. These are edited scans of the inside of a laptop. Casetify has pretty brazenly copied that edited version. They swapped it around in a way that doesn’t even make sense, as the fans vents would be… in the middle of the bottom?

mindbleach ,

By international law, they have to play Darude’s “Sandstorm.”

Even close air support.

mindbleach ,

Turning the Brit’s own standard of having officers walk instead of run into something like the end of Planet Terror.

mindbleach ,

Ominous hummmmmmm.

mindbleach ,

Does anyone hear a popcorn machine?

mindbleach ,

And “communism has never been tried” is such a stupid word game.

They tried to try. What happened, fellas? How’d it go?

mindbleach , (edited )

In the US, that’s almost a red flag. (The other kind of red flag. I’m beginning to see the problem here.)

If you encounter primly-dressed members of some Family Liberty Choice For America Council, run screaming in the opposite direction.

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mindbleach ,

New items can’t be “on sale.” It is that simple. The price is the price.

mindbleach ,

Drone-struck.

Which rhymes with the other description.

mindbleach ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHqqZr7HOw

mindbleach ,

They’re the same picture.

mindbleach ,

Accelerationism is human sacrifice. It only works if it does damage… and most of the time, it only does damage.

mindbleach ,

… the goal is not what makes it acceleration.

mindbleach ,

For fuck’s sake. You want bad things to happen… so good things happen, later. Bad shit happening is the part that’s objectionable. Saying ‘but I want good things’ isn’t fucking relevant to why someone’s hassling you about this!

The bad shit you want to happen first is the only part that’s real!

mindbleach ,

I actually like the chaoticness

mindbleach ,

Do you have object permanence?

mindbleach ,

Reality is a team sport, to some people. Claims are not evaluated. They’re simply accepted or rejected based on interpersonal trust.

They think you’re the same way. They think that’s all there is.

mindbleach ,

My desktop background used to be solid black with faint grey text reading “Yes, the monitor works.”

mindbleach ,

Once helped a nice old lady troubleshooter her computer. Everything was yellow. Checked monitor settings three times. Checked Windows for f.lux. Checked Windows video settings. Reverted drivers. Updated drivers.

Jiggled the cable.

mindbleach ,

Two hard problems.

mindbleach ,

Ships launch other craft.

Otherwise it’s a boat.

mindbleach ,

Remembered the Elmer Fudd, though.

mindbleach ,

The meta-analysis on Lobsters is also an interesting read.

Oh thank god, Lobsters is the name of the website. I was not prepared for a rabbit-hole where crustaceans were somehow relevant to a dead-end Intel ISA. I already know too much about MCS-51 because of VHS.

mindbleach ,

The same! It’s the “CPU” in the View-Master Interactive Vision. They shipped with a poorly-labeled AMD-manufactured chip that could only be an 8051 or compatible, based on its pinouts. There’s also a 9918-ish video chip, like the ColecoVision, MSX1, or TI-99/4A. The only other big chip is some kind of gate array. I’m almost certain that chip shoves code into 256 bytes of PRG-RAM for the Harvard-architecture MCU… so that Mickey Mouse can fight ghosts with a shotgun.

mindbleach ,

Reddit was the first forum in ages not to go hog-wild on stupid little animated pictures all over a text-based medium. That peace was betrayed by no less than the Unicode Consortium.

mindbleach ,

Is that better or worse than BREAKING: on every post?

mindbleach ,

There’s woodprints from the Black Death that use labels like a doge post.

“This is dumb” doesn’t mean “this is new.”

mindbleach ,

And a culture of unicode bullshit allowed infinitely more variety.

╭༻​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ༺╮
࿈ “Like this.” ࿈
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mindbleach ,

Old man yells at font.

And trolls.

mindbleach ,

Unicode support is great - and necessary for a lot of stupid emoticons, as well. But even without emoji there’d be dumb shit like post titles in fancy fonts, or… usernames with each letter in a blue rectangle.

That kind of thing becomes an arms race for attention.

Reddit had a ton of problems, but it was a relief getting away from people spamming HTML gimmicks in titles and comments. That is a cultural issue more than a tech issue. The same stupidity is possible even just doing ALL CAPS YELLING. Emojis specifically get namedropped and rejected because of how egregiously they stand out, and the low-effort responses they innately encourage. Like if you had a second keyboard that could only type LOL, ROFL, LMAO, etc.

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