It’s never aliens. But until NASA comes out and says it, its always aliens.

You didn’t answer the question.

How on earth would what I said imply that Al Jazeera knew that October 7th was going to happen lol. There’s been threats of war between the two for decades.

I’m sure al Jazeera would have said the US has been trying to prevent an Israeli-Palestine war before the conflict happened. We can see what happened with that.

I think “great” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

He got turned into Wallace. The titular character.

Valve is probably ignoring TF2 so that fans switch to deadlock which is tf2-overwatch-dota2 adjacent.

Someone pointed out in another thread that it would make a lot of sense that this attack was for clout/reputation on the darkweb as a high profile advertisement for their DDOS business.

I would bet it’s more like “gaming has expanded to a larger market”. Gamers who were willing to fiddle with computers and online gaming, hell, up till the late 2000s are probably also the same type of people who are willing to be patient and fiddle with a complex game and learn where the fun is. Now playing a game is easy as 1,2,3 no matter where you get it, I’m not talking down on anyone, and I don’t care if that’s where the AAA trend is going, just that when the access gets easier the group expands to more and more casual audiences.

Also, console games have always been way more “casual” as those markets expand gamers kind of defacto have a larger preference for casual games.

And do you eat that spaghetti out of a bool?

This is kind of true. But the leadership often answers to the board of directors, which have often been shareholders that buy into control of the company after it goes public. At this point, you have shareholders who own no personal stake in a company. Often their only goal is to make a profit, sometimes they’re “serial entrepreneurs” who make their millions getting on boards and “flipping” the company to make a huge profit in a short amount of time.

So it’s kind of management, but it’s also management brought on by the presence of public investment in a company.

Combine this with the fact that the law has come down more than once on the side of choosing options that make the company money over maintaining company policy and you get a really terrible culture of publicly traded companies gouging themselves for short term profit (or even long term profit done in a shitty way.)

Oh, I realize I repeated some of what you said. But you did say “it’s not about shareholders” to be contrarian, then went on to explain (like I did) how it’s actually exactly because of shareholders.

Edit: what the fuck I literally can’t comment on the comment below.

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If I recall, Tron was almost entirely practical effects despite its premise.

It’s not about making good games. It’s about acquiring assets then liquidating them, marking them as a loss.

No Such Thing as a Fish seems like a natural extension for you. It’s a podcast run by the team who writes for QI. It’s funny and informative.

Immutable because the only lists worth iterating over are the ones I define for myself.

It’s a dangerous thing. Because if you talk to some of these legislators they can easily hand over the same excuse about it being their belief as the voters who believe in that. But the scary thing is, as hard as it is to admit, many of them genuinely believe in the thing they vote for.

Maybe in places like the house or congress it’s a skew towards money and power, but it exists especially in local government. It’s easy to completely dehumanize them by saying they’re just paid to do it but the much more real situation is that it’s genuine.

I mean, look at the realme photo, washed out colors, blurrier image. It looks like realme boosted the gain and called it a day.

Many of them are just old and have cognitive dissonance about their own experience as a child. They simply believe that children today have the identical, fantasized experience they think they remember. Not only is what they remember untrue and most likely a collage of half-memories, stories from other people, and propaganda, but they have no incentive to scrutinize their decisions and beliefs because they’ve been in a comfortable insular community for most of their life that rewards them for thinking this way.

I say old but you don’t have to be that old to be brainwashed by a religious community and a comfortable job.