Piracy is now fully justified

That’s not a problem for you.

For those on the ground however…

It looks like someone dropped a very heavy cone.

Well yeah, it has become a way to leverage as much money as possible out of people because they’re controlling something people need to not die.

Your fake farmer toughness wouldn’t last a day working in an artificially-lit, soul sucking office cubicle for someone else’s profit!

Ha! Gotcha farmers!

Now if you’ll excuse me I need to cry.

They “love” AI mode. Just like everyone “loved” Google+.

I wonder if Alphabet’s investors realise when they’re being lied to like that.

"And then I’ll plaster my face all over the place, see;

I’m going to win the human race, see;

I’m going to make the world a better place…

For me."

Just like brass, as it is worked and repeatedly stressed over time, the human body becomes hard and brittle.

The cost is parenthood is probably one of the biggest obstacles to having a higher fertility rate in most industrialized countries.

You want more babies? Stop hoarding all the money with the other 15 richest people in the country. Pay your fair share of taxes so the people looking to start building families get the support they need and their children have access to an affordable quality education. Also give everyone a fair pay.

100% Microslop.

They expect layoffs. They’re just going to blame AI for it.

Bambu used to only remotely disable your printer if you didn’t connect it to their servers. Then they sent a legal team to harass you if you tried to circumvent this restriction.

Now they remotely burn your house down.

The “modern” XCOM games cheaped out on their game mechanic budget.

The game Phoenix Point made by a much smaller studio with fewer resources came up with a vastly superior way to tackle hit probability. In that game you can free aim using a reticle made of two concentric circles. The outer circle represents where your shot(s) have a 100% chance falling inside of. The inner circle represents where 50% of your shots have a chance of being inside. The more accurate weapons have smaller circles. Then when you shoot the game simulates the path of your shots and any character or environmental object that gets in the way will be taken into account. If you fire a burst or shoot a shotgun, you’re not bound to only 100% hitting or 100% missing. You can have a partial number of rounds or pellets hit the target, while others might miss, be blocked, or even hit another enemy or ally if they were sharing that cone of probability.

This makes the whole thing feel far more real than the shitty dice roll system XCOM relies on that just feels cheap and simplistic in comparison especially for a game of that price. Too bad that overall Phoenix Point had difficulty curve issues and the story was not every interesting to me at least.

If they ever make a new XCOM game I really hope they make that mechanic more like Phoenix Point’s. And also lose the arbitrary turn limits that they’ve introduced in XCOM2 because they force a reckless game style that I absolutely hate in those types of games.

YouTube is fine by me. I don’t care that they track my activity there because they use it to recommend videos and I usually only go there when I have time to waste, which actually makes sense. My YouTube account is its own thing that I don’t use for anything else too. On top of that I use ad blockers so they can’t even make money off of me. If anything, I cost them money by using YouTube.

The guy missed the opportunity to moonwalk while dragging the robot out

I recently completely finished completely decoupling my life from Google. My GMail account isn’t used for anything of importance anymore. People really should take a moment and think about what would be the consequences if Google suddenly mistakenly deleted their account like that. A lot of people’s entire lives are connected to their GMail account.

Wait for billionaire Zuck to make a quick phone call to Trump followed by a “donation” and the EPA will say that there is nothing wrong with the water.

They have a big rubber stamp that says “DENIED” for that. And for most claims too.

Become complacent, make a sub-par product, prioritize Corporate decisions over user experience, do nothing to fix what the users criticize, abuse your control over the OS to double down and try to force it down your user’s throats through increasingly intrusive ways, fail to understand why people hate you. That’s the Microslop way. Its corporate culture, size and dominating position in the market prevents it from making a good product. Large companies like that should be broken up. They are too large for their own, or anyone else’s good.

Seriously, I am forced to use Teams and OneDrive for work and my productivity is constantly held back by the complete lack of basic quality of life features that most FOSS applications made for free by volunteers would have.

France will jail their political leaders if they do something crooked. It’s like “nobody is above the law” means something there or something.