YurgenJurgensen

It’s pretty simple. ‘West => weird = bad.’

There are no ‘freaks’ flying flags. There are highly polarised groups signalling their in-group identity, each backed by their own billionaires.

I’ve seen a massive uptick in the use of ‘weird’ as an insult (charitably because all the old insults get you shadowbanned on social media, less charitably because conformism is what the mainstream values more than anything), so the author isn’t even pretending to hide their agenda here.

“Fancy autocomplete better at completing documents similar to ones it has seen before” isn’t as headline-worthy.

It’s also one of those things that gets repeated as a ‘myth’ or ‘misconception’ so often that nowadays, the real misconception is that there is a significant population of literate humans who haven’t encountered this topic at least once.

But the Mediterranean is right there. Did you think the Mediterranean drains into some sinkhole in the middle of Africa?

…except when they put East at the top. The compass points go 東南西北, after all.

Don’t bother trying to learn the new shibboleths. By the time the majority has accepted them, they’ll be outdated and the progressives will have moved onto another set. Before ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ we had ‘first world’ and ‘third world’.

There are plenty of games with no difficulty settings at all that are easier than, say, Touhou Kinjoukyou’s easy mode. Elden Ring, for instance. Why is the presence of an ‘easy mode’ even a significant factor here?

It’s interesting how many people with little time still manage to make time to comment on how little time they have in news article comment threads.

I just timed DDR First Mix on the default settings on Boom Boom Dollar (135bpm). You have 2.67 seconds from the arrow first appearing to needing to input a step. 2,667 milliseconds. Reaction time is not your issue. DDR’s arrows actually move extremely slowly.

288TB spread over 24 drives on soft RAIDZ2 over USB?! You did check the projected rebuild time in the event of a disc failure, right?

That’s populist talk, and if the PM wants to play populism, he’s not doing a very good job of it.

When the OSA’s supporters accuse their critics of supporting serial rapists without evidence, accusing them of pretty much anything else without evidence seems like fair game.

They’ve already found a loophole for that: If you gamble with fake money (acquired through real money and a confusing set of currency conversions) and the prizes are jpegs of boat-girls (or horse-girls, as I hear are popular lately) or football players, you can sell to all the children you want.

Because if you don’t, someone else will, and they won’t share your values, and now have access to orders of magnitude more resources than you. We’ve seen how that ends.

With exponential growth and the second law of thermodynamics, there’s no such thing as solving resource scarcity, only delaying it.

Okay, you’re being deliberately obtuse here. More than one party can be at fault.

Also: Having failed to answer a simple question, I conclude that you concede the point and that your position is logically inconsistent. Please continue to post as it only continues to make you look less reasonable.

That’s moving the goalposts. The fact that Mastercard doesn’t even apply their own rules consistently is another, arguably even greater problem that you would probably be better off not mentioning. Stop deflecting and explain why Mastercard lied by omission by claiming they don’t do something that their own rules clearly state that they do. If you can’t do this, you’re not interested in the facts, you’re just whiteknighting for a poor defenseless international megacorporation with veto power over a huge portion of the world’s economy.

That is irrelevant. The payment processors are enforcing Mastercard’s rules, and explicitly state as much. Mastercard don’t need to ‘interact’ with anyone if they have intermediaries willing to do so on their behalf. Mastercard’s own rule 5.12.7 /is/ conflicting news. It states that they have sole discretion, so there is little chance of any partner invoking it against Mastercard’s wishes. Just in a non-interactive way that only ends up with a few turbulent priests getting put to the sword.

It’s really not. They’re saying they didn’t do it themselves, but aren’t ruling out it being done by proxy, which is exactly what Valve are saying happened. Actually, it’s a triple weasel, since they also didn’t evaluate any games, they went off unverified 3rd party reports, and aren’t targeting ‘game creator’ sites, but game distribution sites. It could be a potential quadruple weasel, since they could have not ‘required’ any restrictions, but presented such onerous alternatives that it was a de-facto requirement that still fell short of the strictest definition of the word.

And yet there is still porn on Steam, so clearly this is more than just Stripe.

Then why the weak sauce denial from Mastercard? They could have denied much more than they did, and had every incentive to do so, but chose not to rule out allowing anyone acting on their behalf enforcing rules that they wrote, and chose not to deny taking any action in response to social media campaigns they were certainly aware of and were explicitly named in. They offered no explanation as to why they had rules on their books that, according to their statement, they have no business enforcing.

If the crux of the issue is that everyone has arranged a system where nobody has to take responsibility for anything, none of what you’ve said absolves Mastercard (or Visa) of any guilt.

It sure is. Mainly bootlickers and bookburners though.

The fact that you had to jump to such an extreme misinterpretation of my point to attempt to refute it shows just how right I am. I said ‘any business’, not ‘any number of businesses simultaneously’. Your counterpoint is as ridiculous as saying a man with a loaded gun in a crowded bar isn’t dangerous because he has fewer bullets in his magazine than there are people in the bar. Economic warfare always operates on defeat in detail.

Okay, since you stated it as a fact: Citation needed. Show me Visa’s statement to the effect that they have no agenda, because all of their actions suggest otherwise.

You think that a payment processor having arbitrary power to shut down any business they want anywhere in the world for any reason is a good thing because this time you agree with the reason?

Book burners don’t have any morals, they just want to burn books, and they’ll come for yours sooner or later.

Really, it kind-of is. Governments are supposed to answer to their electorate, while corporations answer to their shareholders. While I’d prefer no censorship, one of these is less likely to turn into a tyrant than the other.

The conclusion there, and here, is that canning tuna ten times faster doesn’t increase productivity by ten times (because the there’s other limiting factors). Or: No software project was ever late because the typing took too long.

Did this 20x increase in productivity come with a 20x increase in salary? Do you clock off at Monday lunchtime and spend the rest of the week playing video games? Did your boss fire nineteen developers and give their jobs to you?

If one of these things isn’t true, you’re either a fool or those productivity increases aren’t real.

Although at that point, your attempts to cut the state will probably resemble a look-up table enumerating every valid board state, which obviously balloons the executable size by a large amount.

DRM getting you out of PC gaming only to switch to gacha and subscription services seems like quitting smoking to free up more money for your heroin habit.

And, fully in line with its themes, the legendary Akiba Mister Doughnut it features shut its doors for the last time last year.