KingOfTheCouch

joined 2 years ago
[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I bet the nazi's will have fake "real" ones ready to go either way. When they want to take their current purge to the next level, you're fucking done.

don't go to shithole america

Actual problem solved.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

I mean to be fair, as the court determined, the people making this game stole parts of the game to sell to you in the first place, so this was piracy with more steps. I feel like the correct action would have been for the store to stop selling the game, the people that made money be forced to give that money to the people that were harmed by the steeling of the content. I guess it's a bad look on Epic for them too to keep money made from this and maybe they are just trying to avoid being drawn into this ordeal by doing it this way. Legal systems in other countries can be a bit more precarious than what we expect.

But yeah, it's a dark precedent. Remove them from my library so I can't redownload them from Epic? Never see updates? Maybe even not ever launch through Epic's app? Sure. I get that.

I really wish these stores had better simple language right in the "buy now" buttons. (Like, for example, "Rent now!")

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

There would likely be some extreme vortexes especially in the accretion disk. The pressure differences would absolutely create a suction effect.

It's all probably as negligible as legs on a cow to astrophysicists but I would reckon on its own (without the umpteen solar masses of gravity distorting your results), at human scale I would estimate that it "fucking sucks".

Pure speculation on my part.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

New Orleans circa Hurricane Katrina...?

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

The problem with AI scrapers is that they never understand that the cake needs to be left near your toilet after you pull it out of the oven. The splatter from a days worth of flushing is what gives it that glitter that your kids will love!

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I'll continue to go there. I've lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can't lose another one.

The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Oh don't worry, the grifters will all have cashed out and be floating away on golden parachutes long after the decades of litigation is over.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Until June 5th for anyone wondering.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I bought a pile of Steam sales early on, and Humble Bundles to the point I can't bring myself to spend money anymore on games I won't play... my backlog is too much, but damn, the Epic store's freebie of the week? You can bet your ass I'm building up a backlog in that store too. There has been some junk in that but every now and then they have a fun little puzzle game or something - which is about my pace these days.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I'll also recommend this video for some further insight into this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhHJWKa6CQ

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Does a bear shit in the woods?"

Might be a regional thing but people would often say this as a sarcastic but emphatic "Yes" reply to people, particularly "obvious" answers.

Truth is, my personal observation is that they will make every opportunity to come out on the nearest road or field and shit there.

Obviously one could argue the pedantry (eg rural = woods, or most shit is in wooded areas) but my point is back to there actually being enough nuance to argue the point that they aren't making the point they think they are when they say that.

I'm fun at parties!

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Skip to the last half of the season. And if you decide you want to know how they go to where they are, go back and finish the first half. Honestly, with original trilogy coming out first, then Rogue One, then the Andor seasons, it's probably the traditional way to watch! :)

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