And if you haven’t used it in a while, we recently made a blog post giving a rundown of the changes leading up to our most recent major release.

Robot clearly never watched the ending of Fallout 3 about letting the humans do it instead.

That’s neat. Until a representation of something on a blockchain has any legal meaning regarding authenticity, ownership, or anything else, and until the overwhelming majority usage of NFTs isn’t as a scam, NFTs remain a pathetic and comically stupid class of speculative asset constituting a pyramid scheme that also happens to destroy the environment.

Whether something is open-source or not is dependent on what license if any its creator chooses to put it under. a) This comment confuses me more than anything, and b) if you want to make a better Flappy Bird game, you’ll probably have a better shot forking one of the existing clones than waiting for whatever steaming, uninspired pile of shit comes out of Belfort’s wallet.

• NFTs are objectively a scam, and unsurprisingly, 1208 – these developers – proudly and prominently display Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort on their homepage.
• They just say “open-source” without stating a license, and coming from people willing to put a pyramid scheme in their no-effort mobile game, that sends up red flags for openwashing.
• If it is open-source, that isn’t god’s gift to mankind or anything. There are plenty of existing open-source Flappy Bird clones that mimic it – as best I can tell – one-to-one because Flappy Bird isn’t a complex game. And I’m somehow doubting a game designed to hawk shitty-ass NFTs has a lot of detail put into it either.

So going off the chalice in the movie, the distro that will save you from judgment is the plainest one – the one with the least bloat? That tracks.

Yeah, right? Like curry is extremely yummy. “Oh no, there might be curry made in the kitchen – maybe possibly I don’t know; that’s the only Indian food I know because I’m willfully ignorant to other cultures – made with the use of soothing, aromatic herbs instead of the lingering, day-old stench of the shittiest, greasiest, soggiest, most pathetic fast food hamberders in the world.”

The Biden administration probably had to wash the smell of Trump’s greasy McDonald’s shits out of the Oval Office.

Seriously, this isn’t even something I would stoop to to min/max my earnings in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. Executives who come up with shit like this should never be legally allowed in a C-suite position again.

They’d rather haaaave

Is there such a community here? Maybe you could start one.

This sounds like “I want developers’ lives to be a living hell if they ever decide to overhaul their UI.”

Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.

I blame both, much in the same way that I’d blame a quack doctor and parents bringing their kids to the quack doctor.

13 words per minute isn’t impressive

Worse than that, it’s abysmal. That would’ve been a failing grade back when I had a few months of mandatory typing classes back in 6th grade. 40 WPM was an A, and arguably that was overly generous due to factors like 1) most students weren’t nearly as exposed to the keyboard in their daily lives as they are today, 2) the testmakers probably didn’t fully grasp how important the Internet would become, 3) the test intentionally obscured the keyboard so you had to go by feel, and 4) because of (2), the class was very short despite taking you from knowing no typing to using all the English-language keys. (I just barely passed it IIRC in the 45-ish WPM range.)

On a whim, I decided to pull up a typing test – something I haven’t done in probably 5 years – and tried to see how I could do by simulating the speed of hunt-and-peck. I really tried to make it excruciatingly slow, and it still came out to just under 20 WPM. Next, I tried to see what I could do if I only had my left hand, and it was 35 WPM with 97% accuracy. If you chopped off one of my hands, I could still type 2.7x faster than the average kid in that school’s fourth grade could – bearing in mind that that’s the average, meaning as long as the data is roughly normal, about half of the students fall below even that.

That’s completely insane in a world where this iPad generation almost assuredly has tons of exposure to the QWERTY keyboard layout. It’s just inexcusable, it’s absolutely not the kids’ fault as them doubling their average typing speed after actually being taught to type shows that, and it totally tracks that it’s in Oklahoma.

Haha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.

Parents killing reaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.

I made that point short to be pithy, but what I actually take issue with in there being so many streaming services is that:

• Upfront transparency for what shows and movies are actually there, let alone in what state, is often incredibly limited. This isn’t inherent to there being multiple services, but when I haven’t found one whose experience isn’t profoundly shitty, I’m counting it against them.
• Even if you accurately assess which subscriptions you need at first, that can collapse at any time because shows are treated as playing cards, and you often need to put ongoing effort beyond just paying money into maintaining that list. (I often watch shows over months or years instead of binging them, and this is super shitty under a streaming service.)
• Even if you have all those subscriptions and maintain them well, there’s no place to centrally view their content, something which cable TV – for what a piece of shit it was – shockingly made easier than streaming. If I purchase half my games from Steam and half from GOG, I can still access what I buy from a shared location: my desktop. If I purchase a bunch of discs from multiple different vendors, it’s all centralized on my DVD rack. The UI is consistent (and even slightly quicker to access). This isn’t massive, but it’s still objectively a point against them.
• Unlike the PC gaming landscape where games are often available across multiple stores, streaming services are becoming increasingly exclusivity-focused, and this happens because there’s such an oligopoly in the TV and film industry, and basically every member of that oligopoly now runs a streaming service.

I don’t think the point should be that there should be one streaming service to rule them all, but that in their current state, they represent an objectively substantial downgrade to piracy even taking away costs.

The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.

Suspicions immediately confirmed that the principal is a complete fucking dipshit who just wants to chase whatever trends sound futuristic. What an awful person for putting kids through this garbage.

Okay, the one at 0:28 is definitely just an Earthbound enemy.

Yup, if you present me a side-by-side of the free one and the paid one when the free one is better even disregarding costs, I’m pirating 100% of the time.

• “Oh, you’ll only have access to this as long as our servers remain online or as long as we keep renewing the license.”
• “Sorry, your device needs to phone home to use this.”
• “Don’t you love ads in your paid product?”
• “You’ll need to juggle several different services if you want what you can otherwise get for free on a central hub.”
• “Yes, you can only use this on one or two devices at a time thanks to DRM.”
• “Fuck you, you’ll need an account with us to use this even though you bought it without that account somewhere else.”
• “This thing’s only ongoing cost on our end is version updates you totally need and want, so it’ll be an indefinite subscription (which we’ll make a pain in the ass to cancel).”
• “This game runs noticeably worse because of the shitty DRM we shoehorned in.”
• “You’re saying you don’t like being spied on for ad targeting?”
• “You can only get this bundled with a bunch of other bullshit you don’t want and would never pay for individually.”
• “Our UI that you’re forced to interact with to use this is fucking garbage.”
• “We don’t sell this anymore; ask Scalper4478 on eBay.”
• “We use the money that you pay us to lobby against your rights as a consumer.”
• “We somehow lack QoL features that the free version has.”