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If your position is correct, you will not need to fabricate or exaggerate to defend it. If I catch you doing that, I will forever think of you as a bleating sheep with a signal booster where your brain should be. End of rant.

Cosigned. A longstanding pet peeve of mine is when people make weak dogshit arguments and then reject any critique with "Who cares, why are you coming after me, are you on their side??" Like, if you're fine with making shit up to win an argument, why bother? Just scream the loudest and say you won.

Finished Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky Bros.), the novel that inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. Good read, well paced and punchy. As far as I know, it's also the first novel I've read that was written in the Soviet Union, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for others.

It's such a good feeling to report a thirst trap bot and instantly see it switch to "page not found". Such a tasty bit of payback. Yeah they probably automate it so it's barely an inconvenience, but I like the idea that their run ends when they stumble across me, like they lost Victim Minesweeper.

Every time I see "minors DNI" in a bio, I feel I'm missing something. You had so many issues with this that it had to go front and center on your profile? Are you beset by devious minors every time you log on? Or is it like... a court ordered thing?

You ever notice the Medieval font for Discord handles is a pretty reliable tell for white supremacists? A shocking percentage of the time, their profiles will have other red flags like 88 or smug Pepe or transphobic ranting. The new generation of dickheads don't know how to hide their power level.

In 2006, a retired AT&T technician walked into the @eff.org office and helped expose the NSA’s “Big Brother machine,” launching a years-long lawsuit against AT&T over mass surveillance.

Finished reading The Jakarta Method, and now I know a bunch of really disturbing things about American intervention and CIA-backed genocides that they did NOT teach us in school!

Hey what ever happened with the Gamestop guys? Did the hedgies go bankrupt and the oppressed Gamers get exalted as the new monied lords of society? Are they all in Lambos like they predicted? I haven't been paying attention because I'm full of FUD and NGMI.

Me in 2016: "I'm a progressive but these feminists I see online are kinda grating... maybe I'll watch Shoe, she's totally not just vigorously pandering to my demographic by mocking other women" Me in 2026: "Chanty Binx was right and the SJWs didn't go far enough" I wonder what 2036 will bring?

Babe wake up, Local 58 posted again and it's about AI

When my Discord Nitro finally runs out, the biggest thing I'm gonna miss is reacting to things with the Steve Rambo "mMMmm" emoji

Got my library downloaded and converted for Kobo with help from this tutorial, and now I have all my books in digital hardcopy (EPUB) forever. Much better! No more buying from the Kindle store either. They've made it clear that they're untrustworthy, on top of all Amazon's other sins.

Please, sir, my flabbers. It's ... well, they're gasted, sir.

Amazon's little Kindle support ending stunt is finally ending my very long run of using a 4th-gen Kindle. I've already ordered my Kobo and will be converting my library over. Fuck Amazon, fuck Jeff Bezos, they can eat shit. Let me read in peace.

I know it’s been said, but how the fuck am I supposed to focus on work today when the president is doing a whole ass villain monologue about the war crimes he intends to do tonight?

Sometimes I realize I've started hiccupping, so I choose to stop. I can do this with 100% consistency. Learned it from Gavin of Slow Mo Guys/Rooster Teeth, who can also inexplicably stop his own hiccups. I have no idea how it works.

'60s Batman is well known for his witty repartee

Well well well, if it isn't, etc.

Sometimes I click through to someone's Instagram page and Instagram serves me the pixelated, nonfunctional mess reserved for "user with ad blocker and no account" and I'm like "haha fair enough" and close the tab. Never caved. I'll give up access to strangers' selfies to stay clear of old Zucc.

Yeah I now avoid buttons with an animated rainbow outline, fill, or 4-pointed star like puddles on the sidewalk

Tired: me Wired: also me

i'm continually mystified why otherwise smart people keep publishing llm-assisted essays. the bla IS the bla; it's not foo, it's bar. look this shit just sucks to read, pls stop this

You ever read a history book when you were younger and go "Wow, it says they went to war for a really stupid reason, I can't believe that actually happened"? You ever go "I'm glad today's leaders would never be that reckless"? Me too! And then the US attacked Iraq and Iran both in my lifetime.

harry potter is the easiest case of being unable to separate the art from the artist that we have and obviously you should not be giving jk rowling your money or your eyeballs there is a vast quantity of entertainment out there where your money won’t go directly to hurting your trans friends

They raised Vbucks recently and I guess $20 peak skins isn't enough... When I worked at Valve, I owned Valve. It was my company. I worked hard and cared about what we did and the teams I worked with It's how I work I do not understand how any dev can have loyalty left for a company like Epic.

Junior dev: "Oh, the number came out right in the end but it's reversed in direction. I'll just multiply it by -1 as the final step!" Senior dev: "I'm going to stepwise debug this until I know why it's flipped, so unintended behavior won't bite us later." Not a dev: "I'll have Claude adjust it."

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

My uncle-est take is you should let marginalized people, folks with more skin in the game than you, have their crashouts in peace.

Monitoring the monitoring the situation situation

This is *absolutely* not a serious problem compared to everything else going on in the world, but- Damn I really wish there were still spam cans of 5.45x39 at a reasonable price. Buying US-made stuff for like 70 cpr is bonkers.

You can now knock down trees while driving in your tank, if you're a madman! See what's new for GHPC! WATCH: youtu.be/c5jasxiEaRM #Tanks #tanksim #GunnerHEATPC

making video games

Tragically, I have needed to use an obscure spare part from my various technology castoff bins. This is a terrible setback for my plan to get rid of the junk in my various technology castoff bins.

It's become very clear to me that the only "existential threat" of AI is in letting the ghouls in charge of AI companies put their shitty product in control of societal systems. There will not be a rogue AI agent killing humans. Humans will do it to each other and then deflect responsibility to AI.

Have learned Bluesky is a social media site (derogatory) where a bunch of maladjusted (complimentary) communist (complimentary) trans women (complimentary) post absolutely unhinged nonsense (complimentary) that lands among the liberal leaning audience (derogatory) on the Discover feed (derogatory).

The final sentence of this remains as prescient as ever:

You got it, boss! We'll stick to 'em like Jet's pizza sticks to that stupid waxed cardboard layer at the bottom of the box.

And on top of these excellent points: we have a long string of very recent, painful examples of men who had some impropriety revealed right before their election, got elected anyway, and then proved to be terrible in power. This is not the time to go to bat playing devil's advocate for the accused.

Today is a phenomenal day to be a longtime Digital Foundry doubter

no photoshop jokes or qts, i just think nobody involved in making dlss5 should ever see heaven

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

the nerds were always right there is a god damn micro$$$oft conspiracy to make the computer suck

Not one shred of exaggeration - I've seen probably two dozen playthroughs of Expedition 33 since completing it, and it still hits. Brings me to literal tears. What a game.

Senate dems have a chance to do THE FUNNIEST THING tomorrow

Gen-AI stuff is seriously making me think we may never have a cultural grasp on objective reality again. I just saw people analyzing a marketing screenshot from an unreleased game, but they first upscaled it 8x. They then microanalyzed all the cool details. Details that DO NOT EXIST in the original!

omg thank god I have so many problems… using consoles???!!! there is simply… not enough AI in my services???!!!