A Gen-X gamer who loaded his first games into his computer using a cassette tape player. A retired software dev expressing opinions on the state of gaming, tech, and humanity. All posts/comments/content by me are licensed by [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0].
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors."This doesn't just constrain Democrats. It applies to all officeholders, including you. You took an oath to the Constitution not to Donald Trump.
The common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth. We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.
This is something for all of us to remember, as we use social media and watch the news, that our opinions can be affected, manipulated, shaped, based on what we are shown, and what were not shown.
Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents. It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually. This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
Quake vibes.
How so?
SCOTUS should toss the Fourth Circuit’s made-up ‘material contribution’ test that stretches contributory liability and pressures ISPs to cut off whole households from the internet on mere accusations of copyright infringement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Brightline West is betting it can build the first true high-speed rail line in the U.S. But the company says costs are rising, despite its best efforts to keep them down.
#StarTrek #Enterprise #DavidMattingly
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Considering that population always increases and never decreases, and the population drives cars more than anything else, I can't see how it would be wise to convert more car lanes over to bicycle lanes. We will need more car lanes as time goes on.
We can walk and chew gum, right? #CharlieKirk is not enough to distract us from #EpsteinFiles
RRRN statement after ICE showed up on Westminster near Eastman Museum yesterday:
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j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 Anna Maria island, Gulf of Mexico
KDE, you're coming from Windows, especially so if you're a gamer, as KDE is what Steam is using for their handheld, and seems to support gaming better.
From the article (www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...) ... "The official told NPR that Hanks will still get the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, and did not state why the formalities had been abandoned."
Lets see the Jeffrey Epstein files.
And, they blocked me. Oh no! Anyway.
Still waiting for that apology for your Ageism comments.
I'm talking about it so that it doesn't get ignored, which is what my 2nd comment was about. Can't help it if you don't understand that. For others who are reading this, please don't let this obfuscate the original point being made. Game Companies not making enough content to max their profits.
I said it before. You misunderstood. That's on you.
Like you're ever going to admit to the truth of what you're doing.
This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.
Why senior developers never write "clever" code. Clever code is hard to read. Hard to debug. Impossible to maintain. Your goal isn't to look smart. It's to write simple, boring code that just works. #Buildinpublic
You are not writing code just for yourself, but for the whole dev team to read. If you have a problem with that, talk to your dev hiring manager.
From the link: "THIS IS A BOOKMOJO PROMOTION - Helping You Find Your Next Favorite Read." Most of not all that I saw was more about romance targeted at female readers than general Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Not that that's bad, but just a different focus than what is being described, based on the OP comment.
Nice subtle attempt at Ageism that you got going there. Redirects the narrative in a certain direction, in an attempt to invalidate others opinions on the matter.
You've missed my point, which is that bad disrespectful game designs by game companies should be talked about when discussing this subject. Everything else being discussed is a red herring, an attempt to obfuscate the real meaning of the term, to manage the narrative positively for game companies.
1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social the growing—and possibly unprecedented—lower court revolt against the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
To artficially pad a game, instead of creating more real content, which takes away from company profits (have to pay the devs more for the extra content they're creating) is disrespecting their customers, disrespecting their recreational time.
"Respect your time" is used to describe a company who designs their game to fit their metrics padding 'time to kill' to slow down the player, vs designing the game to be fun and challenge the player, regardless of how much dev time is needed to create a game with enough hours to be worth the price.
AI company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B to settle a lawsuit with book authors 📚 • Accused of training Claude on thousands of pirated books • Payout equals $3K per book • The largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history
The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”
Privacy Badger is now available on another mobile browser—Microsoft Edge for Android! Stop companies from spying on you while you browse the web on your phone. privacybadger.org/
Maybe they're just getting thrown away, as they're viewed by YouTube as invalid/false (manipulated) views?
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I like it a lot too, though the pacing of it is a little slow for me, and I'm a gen-xer saying that.
Honestly, it's a lot better if you can binge watch it.
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Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When people say that a portal to an enchanted magical world doesn't exist. Me: Cuts open a cabbage 🧙🏼♀️🔮
Fifty-one years ago today.
Nixon has got to be doing cartwheels in his coffin right now, seeing what Trump gets away with.
I would pay real money to have Congress pass a law that states that any AI generated content that's posted online be marked as such, regardless if it's an article, a post, a comment, a tweet, etc.
Democracy is only as good as the people who vote in it. We all should make sure we stay educated and well knowledged on candidates and their positions. And actually get off the couch and vote as well.
Paywalled (and I donate to EFF, but not Wired).
Sometimes tech feels like a gilded cage—and you're not holding the key. You can't just go off the grid, but you can fight back. EFF is taking on data brokers, surveillance, and government censorship. Join us and fight back: eff.org/vv
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Loginblocked.
Convenient. Obviously the sections Trump wants to ignore.
Why is the religious left so quiet? I know they exist, but I never hear from them.
The day after the IRS said it would let churches endorse candidates, Fort Worth-based Mercy Culture Church posted on social media that it was “time for the church to get loud!” "We don’t endorse parties — we stand for the Kingdom!” the post read. W/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org
Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sSq... When I see corporations do crap like this it really makes me dislike Capitalism. There's enough money on the table to enable the "win-win" scenario, but they always choose the "win-lose" scenario instead.
No Nation on this Earth should kill civilians to destroy their enemies No Nation on this Earth should starve out a population from their land just to take the land for themselves The rules of engagement are VERY clear on this matter. Any forces that don't follow these rules are enemies of Humanity
Seems like my YouTube comments keep getting removed so going to log them here too for posterity sake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Ws... My video comment will appear as a reply to this, as I'm going over the character limit.
"You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you."
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We absolutely should not become numb to this
FYI, the person I replied to has blocked me, so I cannot see any response to my reply from them.
"... the author shares her journey of being taken to Heaven, where she encountered Jesus, three women, and the angels that surrounded God's throne." You're going to have to explain how this matches the subject being discussed.
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I've been blocked, so I can't respond to whatever was said to the above comment.
No, I just don't respond to an astroturfing strawmanning 'gotcha' non-point, versus a discussion of the overall subject. To anyone else who is reading this, just take a look at that video, and even read up on the PDF afterwards. That'll give you a good understanding of what's going on.
"And there's the YouTube video you watched (instead of reading the filing yourself)" What makes you think I didn't read the PDF? In case you're just an astroturfer, you really should stop, you're not doing them any favors.
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Well, everyone else can read it for themselves, and decide what it says and doesn't.
The legal filing that came out today explains it all, and is definitely worth a read.
Check out the legal filing that came out today, that's public. There's YouTube videos talking about it.
There is plenty of proof out there that disproves this opinion. It looks like they had a viable product ready for early access. Most likely early access was delayed to prevent the payout of the $250 million, per the previous contractual agreement.
EFF helped take down a bogus podcasting patent with the public’s help. If the PERA or PREVAIL bills pass, that fight wouldn’t be possible today.
Having to use a tape recorder audio to load a program into our computer
From the article... "The Albion Online devs want to talk with you for about four hours. I love you, but I’m not watching four hours to find out what they wanted to say:" I loved how you guys worded this, was a good read! And yeah, four hours just screams for a TLDR version.
Costs money to institutionalize people. /s
Wow. If that Bloomberg article is correct, then 250 million must be the reason for delaying early access, and not because of more/new content. Very scummy, if true.
From the update... "Now that Subnautica 2 is coming out in 2026, we’ll be able to add more biomes, more vehicle upgrades, additional tools, expand on our story, and include more creatures to discover." I don't see why that added stuff would not be possible if you had done an earlier early access.
Speak for yourself.
US President Donald Trump was impressed by Liberian President Joseph Boakai's language skills during an African summit at the White House. Boakai was speaking in English — his country's official language reut.rs/3Id5O8i
The part of the article that was replaced by an ellipses because of Bluesky character text limit... "group, responding to questions from Reuters, denied"
From the article... The aid group ... denied that it had submitted a proposal and said the slides "are not a GHF document." GHF said it had studied "a range of theoretical options to safely deliver aid in Gaza," but that it "is not planning for or implementing Humanitarian Transit Areas (HTAs)."
Please allow people to resize the web page when viewing on their phones. Otherwise, each line of text runs off the right side of the phone and is unreadable. This happens for people who enable accessibility features on their phones and have fonts sized a little larger than normal. Thanks.
Won't lie, I was a little worried about that steer's eye being scratched/hurt. Sweet video, otherwise.
Websites that do not let you resize the page, or images on the page, suck like a vacuum cleaner set to high.
It's interesting how people gravitate towards the largest town square gathering of people, regardless of where that is.
"We" has taken quite a hit lately. Now it's "Us" or "Them".
At the very beginning of the video when he lunges at that water spray, I think that's what he's considering as play.
You should have someone make one for you with those new resin printers.
Don't get me wrong, I love Extra History videos, but I gotta ask, what does this have to do with game development? Also, a Nebula link (in addition to the YouTube link) would be nice too.
Do better. On multiple levels.
Please don't mix politics and astronomy. It detracts from the astronomy story.
Thanks for the explanation, but I was asking more from the angle of the age range. It's very specific. I would imagine any new laws protecting minors would be less than 18 all-inclusive, not an explicit sub-range.