old

Entrenched

Serving their corporate masters

Playing power games to keep their jobs

Losing so the republicans win

“Old” is a symptom of being good at the above, not the actual problem.

Yeah, it would have to be. A normal shit would be ok, but if you had some violent diarrhea you’d have to be on your knees or something, otherwise your ankles are gonna get it in the spatter zone.

Strongly worded words and slightly raised voices that won’t even rustle the leaves in a potted plant.

Can’t even lay flat to sleep or rest. That would be a non-starter for me.

Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.

This. If someone’s been here tor years and been a contributer I don’t think the 2-post limit should apply.

Yes. We know. Otherwise they wouldn’t be such ridiculous hypocrites.

Absolutely. There‘s even a joke that “There are no Englishmen in London” because there are so many foreigners and British people of different ethnicities.

But they wouldn’t be at this gathering.

How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?

Terminator said AI would destroy humanity. We just didn‘t know it would be with hoarding of natural and manufactured resources to fuel an idiocracy. No pitched and desperate war for the survival of humanity, just a necrosis eating us alive for the quarterly report.

They‘ll just make it with secret phone-home spying and backdoors.

E: what‘s this? All these folks either saying the US does it or skipping past all the phone-home spyware China includes in devices? Guess that means cheaper spying hardware is ok then?

Probably killing climate change effects research.

I saw Rivian’s new vehicles at the L.A. Auto show, along with several other manufacturer’s hybrid and EV cars. The Rivians were nice cars. The next two years will hopefully see a lot more options, and most importantly, affordable options if the sticker prices I saw are to be beleived.

It’s the shading that matches the ambient lighting. You could physically shade a real thing like this with effort but it would only look right in aligned lighting.

Because printers generally just worked and buying OEM expensive refills was a temporary discomfort that, if it bothered you enough, you could work around by getting third party refills and save some money.

But since they’ve started locking down printers to reject refilled cartridges and third party cartridges it’s come to a head and people are looking for alternatives.

3D and CNC are entirely different animals, for multiple reasons. There were pretty much zero hobbyist devices and the available ones were so far out of reach that nobody could afford them except prototyping labs or manufacturers. The hobbyists did most of the legwork making 3D printers and home CNC work before manufacturers decided it was worth getting into the technology. Nobody needed really needed them like paper printers were needed for everything from school work to everyday business.

I’ll second this. I might follow a subject, but I far prefer discussion of multiple facets of a subject with multiple people rather than following one person. I’m almost never a “fan” of an individual to the point of wanting to hear about or see what they do next. The hivemind tends to be far worse in a fandom than it does a more open forum.

You shall own nothing.

Far easier to rehash a known moneymaker than to take a risk come up with something original. Some people might point at the multiple tens of thousands of games on Steam as evidence there are people making new games that are original, but if you compare the relaitive few that take off vs the popular franchises’ success it’s pretty obvious that rehashing works. Plenty of new games languish and never really get anywhere.

My friend, let me tell you about this thing called “Pre-order.”

There are plenty of “gotta have it first” people out there. Doesn’t matter if it’s a new phone, game, see a movie on opening day, whatever. Plenty of gamers want to be in Alpha and Beta tests (which FML they do nothing but bitch about as being unplayable) and shell out money for skins and early upgrades or level up packs. Vloggers and tiktokkers too or whatever who want to pull in the views as they play the new games.

These are the people the studios cater to. Not the patient gamers who wait for the product to go on sale 90 days down the road after the initial rush is over.

So as long as the people in the first paragraph exist that’s what the studios will charge.

Went from Operation Paperclip to Operation Dumpsterfire.