Pfft. I’ve been a brain in a jar producing my own reality for over 37 years. I’d be demanding my own accolades if any of you actually existed.

Ribbit strange, innit?

So you’re saying they designed it stupidly for no reason? Gosh.

I knew you’d retort with this exact example, because you’re predictable.

No, I actually don’t have the means to save everyone starving in Africa, or even a few. I don’t have supply chain access, influence over foreign governments, or anything to directly aid anyone internationally. So I can give to charities, and do, but government corruption in poor nations ensures that the reach of those donations is limited and the cycle of poverty is ever perpetuated in order to maintain their existing power dynamics.

I also fully support foreign aid and am happy to pay my taxes to contribute to that.

I also am not wealthy. I’m not poor, but I have a hard cap on how much I can give to others before I’m hurting myself and my dependents, and that amount is nothing more than enough to keep a few people limping along for a little longer.

A billion-dollar company can reduce the cost of their absurdly priced medicines that would save millions, and still make insane profits. They just might not maintain perpetual growth.

I believe if you have the means to save someone and willfully withhold it, you’re culpable for murder.

Pharmaceutical companies aren’t going bankrupt if they can’t charge thousands of dollars for a single dose. Common medications that are manufactured and sold in bulk subsidize the cost of medicines for rare conditions. They also enjoy patent benefits other industries don’t get specifically to recouperate R&D costs.

Governments also can and do negotiate for lower drug costs, which is why medication is cheaper in Canada than the US.

Oh, and don’t forget all the public funding pharmaceutical companies already get. Governments dumped tons of money into developing the covid vaccines and the companies made insane profits off of it.

If someone dies because the medicine needed to save them is “too expensive,” both the corporate executives who set the price and the government cheapskates who won’t adequately fund healthcare should be guilty of murder. Change my mind.

First I’ve heard of it. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Even for personal use, I’ve tried various alternatives to Photoshop over the years like Gimp and Krita and they just can’t compete. Photoshop is just ridiculously powerful, so it sucks even more that the company that owns it is so shitty.

You can still save locally even if you’re using the Creative Cloud software. I stuck with CS6 for a long time because I hate software subscriptions, but eventually bit the bullet to get access to the new features and a UI that actually scales to my monitor. It’s been mostly fine, but I’d still prefer to just own the software I use.

It was probably the best lineup they’ve had since the 360 days. Doom, Fable, Perfect Dark and South of Midnight are all the ones on my list.

Could have done without the huge CoD bookends, though. People in the room said a noticeable number of people started to leave during that part.

The Martian nipple.

The only time I ever got screen burn was because of this wallpaper.

Anything by Tool carries really well if you need to battle noisy neighbours.

It’s a solution looking for a problem. As someone in the comments of the article pointed out, Microsoft spent a lot of money investing in OpenAI and now they’re desperately trying to find a way to justify it.

And welcome to the jams

I’m down for Monkey Souls.

Libertarian thinks he can subsist without utilizing any public infrastructure.

When I was a kid my family had a boxer with very similar eyes. Maybe there’s some of that in there.

I never figured out parrying in Dark Souls or Bloodborne, so I spent the first few hours of Sekiro cheesing enemies by sprinting around them and taking pot shots. This worked up until the Blazing Bull before I got stuck.

I restarted the game, making a point of trying to parry the easier enemies. When I actually tried, I found the timing to be a lot more forgiving than the other games and you can even spam it a bit because the animation is so fast. Once I figured that out, I finally started playing the game correctly and ended up defeating every boss and mini boss.

By “meaningful growth driver,” they mean it’ll give Andrew Wilson a boner that makes him ugly cry.