I also doubt it’ll be enough to “blow” the grift. “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. Granted, Altman, Thiel and other scum are already feeling the metaphorical knife edging closer to their throats, because investors are just like loan sharks.

I wonder if Israel counts as the Bene Gesserit, pulling the strings behind house shittrumpen

Anytime it gets dirty, sure. After every use, even when it’s just boiling water for coffee or tea, tho?

They just have different thresholds of “disgusting”

My gf. She mops the floor nearly every week - and it’s always a 3 step thing of heavy cleaner, some other cleaner, then water - cleans the cooktop with water and soap after every use. Dunno if her ADHD has anything to do with that

The game’s not free, unless you pirate it. It’s available on Steam and GOG

• “I don’t remember how to do that thing, I remember the tutorial showed that”
• Go to tutorial
• Relearn
• Load game back to where you were

The alternative is the tutorial being accessible from within the game, like a manual. In no case the solution is “force the tutorial at the beginning of the game”

But such an arrangement could also pose novel governance challenges, given the complications of the U.S. trying to effectively regulate something it partially owns, while also arguably increasing the incentives for a federal bailout.

“We should not take ‘tip money’ but force them to cough up 50% of the equity — to be dispersed to American citizens.” (Steve Bannon)

Couldn’t be a more obvious bailout.

Brazil recently had a similar situation with a bank (Banco Master) that wasn’t being as lucrative as it actually told investors, effectively running a pyramid scheme. Since the owner of said bank, Daniel Vorcaro, easily became friends with high ranking politicians, he easily got state govts and pension funds to buy his shit, which he used to pay some older investors.

The entire shit came crumbling down after a state bank, BRB, who already had a lot of money invested in Master, tried to buy his bank, the local congress denied that, then state governor insisted on the bailout buyout, at which point regulating agencies finally took their time to look into the situation and noticed that, oh no, there was no money there! Shit blew way out of proportion because Vorcaro seemed to be “close friends” with many politicians, all of which used govt agencies and companies to “invest” into the bank.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has discussed the idea with senior Trump administration officials periodically since the president began his second term, said two of the sources

Of course the idea came from Altman, he knows OpenAI is not going to be profitable at fucking all

discussions have centered on having the firms voluntarily cede the shares to the government, the people said. The returns on the investment could then be directed to public purposes, one of the people said, such as distributing a dividend payment to all American households.

Someone explain to me how do you pay dividends when you’re not profitable

I understand that, but a lot of gamers can figure some games out without a forced tutorial. WASD movement, jump with space, crouch with control, sprint with shift, move camera with mouse, shoot/attack with left click, etc. A lot of designers/developers became so desperate with the possibility that their game might be “someone’s first game of that type” that they choose to force everyone to play the tutorial right at the start, even players that finished the game and decided to start again, and leave it at that.

The tutorial as a main menu option fixes both problems.

Hah, neat! Which Linux is that? I got a OrangePi 5 8GB and most ready images like BredOS didn’t play nice with emulators, so I had to contend with orange’s own android port

Also, uh, don’t look now, but I think the feds are onto you

Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored

They’re busy playing the stuff of their young days.

Any game that relies too much on quick reflexes will usually not be good for older people. Easier difficulties can mitigate that somewhat. Turn based games are perfect for all ages, you can take as long as you want to think your stuff through. You don’t need to make these games “for old people”. I also remember seeing a video that talked about a 70yo man who began playing Asheron’s Call (a 1999 MMORPG) with his grandson and really enjoyed the game, to the point he kept playing until it was shutdown for good.^[1]

The industry has spent 40 years chasing the same narrowly defined audience because it was the safest bet, until everyone was chasing it. Imagine if Hollywood only made movies for 18-year-old men. That’s roughly the bet games have been making.

True for big studios, false for indies, who, as always, prove time and time again that you can achieve success with “non standard” formulas, such as Balatro, Stardew Valley, Return of the Obra Dinn, Undertale (some survivorship bias is being applied here, lots of indies, even those that follow “standard formulas” more closely, fail to find success, even with good games)

There is a mismatch between the general investment in tutorials for the first few minutes, relative to where actually the player loss happens,

Make the fucking tutorial OPTIONAL and something you pick as an option in the fucking main menu. This isn’t rocket science.

But that brings you down to other categories that have been growing, like cosy[sic] games, casual games, and retro. And retro has an advantage in that audience in that you don’t need the latest [computer].

There is an important thing to keep in mind here: most casual games are predatory mobile shit. That market has been an absolute cesspool for something like 12 years now, which is almost as long as they existed. Yes, the games are “enjoyable”, because they’ve been finely tuned to be as addictive as possible.

“Give me those 60 year olds who watched Star Trek the original series,” he concludes. “Come on down, play Star Trek Online with me.”

STO? Pass. Unless we can kill this dude:

Haven’t they suffered through life enough?

Getting rid of all the tech bros and CEOs is the first step. That is an actually important step because they’re the ones that spend tons of money on lobbying for laws that are good for them. Laws can be (un)ethical, or abused in unethical ways (see DMCA and patent trolling). Remove the main pushers for unethical computer and IP related laws and you fix a significant part of the problem.

Hey, it’s that scene from Titanic!

But they have cookies!

Guess the younglings didn’t get that training until they got older

Really? I’ve been using it and never had any problem with the resin prints “melting”, getting too brittle/soft or break down in any form from over exposure to it

And with resin prints, specifically, there’s not really much needing to be cleaned up like with FDM printing.

Uh, I think you got it backwards, you have to clean the excess resin of a SLA print, while FDM is ready once it’s fully cooled, sanding optional

Try removing any yellow filters from your screen

For all the things I enjoy about GOG, I really wish they added an “ignore” button to games. Steam has had it for 10+ years now.

Another thing I really wish they added is negative filters to the store search/list, “hide games with the tags”. It’s shopping UX 101

Also, never pee on bleach, that creates a noxious gas that can give severe lung injury depending on how much you end breathing

The setting is by far the weakest point, imo. 300 years in the future and instant communication seems exclusive for ship-to-ship. People on the floor don’t have phones, radios, nothing. The two major faction cities are 300m² blocks in the middle of fucking nowhere. “A big war happened some time ago” - over one of the most stupid reasons about where to settle and that did fuck all, with random settlements around random worlds pledging allegiance to no one anyway.

There’s also the general disregard of npcs to anything going on around them. If you shoot up in the air while the city, people will just stare blankly at you. Same if you use space magic. “Don’t go around showing it off” - pfft.

Not to mention that they managed to make the most boring multiverse in fiction, which is much closer to a groundhog day time-repetition if you look into it.