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@antumbral

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few things more american than seeing a generous, vague policy and deciding the right thing to do is make everyone involved regret being nice to you
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Man walks enormous steer into Texas Petco to test their "all leashed pets are welcome" policy 😂
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classic atlus: if you buy the p3 reload soundtrack on steam it's an exe file
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5 years
software as a service babey
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Adobe is deactivating all accounts in Venezuela
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Meanwhile client software just randomly hangs for multiple seconds and we're all used to it. You could fit 5 backdoors into Discord or Visual Studio startup and nobody would notice
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Plans to literally "hack the planet" foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated. The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory.
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Let's fucking go. Burn the industry to the ground you can do it
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3 years
This chart is a work of art. I hope multiple people got paid well to make it and I hope they get hit by a bus
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2 years
Your pissing level is insufficient, 47. You will have to go... outside
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3 years
Removing "LGBTQ" and "Female Protagonist" in favor of "Anime" and "Adult Only" is one of the Valviest things they've ever done
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The Female Protagonist and LGBTQ+ sections were axed in the public release of Steam Categories. Before / After with highlighted changes
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I'm begging you, someone in Xbox marketing, anyone, please stop doing this. No one can understand you. No one should even understand you because you make no sense
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even better: the exe appears to be a custom music player made in unreal and it pauses when you alt-tab
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2 years
Someone tagged literally every person with access to the Unreal Engine github repo in a spam PR and it's generating so many emails per comment (upwards of 380k) that the notification emails are like 15 minutes behind
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ah cool Infinite Seinfeld or whatever was developed seriously by true believers who think it's the future of entertainment instead of as a hilariously bad/weird thing
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<extremely grazing my cattle on public lands and staging an armed uprising when someone asks me to pay for it> lmao check out my pet
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2 months
very funny bit to do after an acquisition
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Give Us $1 Or ‘The Onion’ Disappears Forever
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4 years
The people who run Twitter have completely lost their fucking minds
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4 years
#Twitter is testing automatic translations for tweets, meaning that they will force all tweets to be displayed in the #language set by the user. (Which is, in my frankest opinion, both invasive and unnecessary): #xl8 #MT #t9n #translation #socialmedia
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@TwitterComms y'all realize nobody wants this right
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This is only true because the Chrome team in particular has decided to make it true. Old websites used to work until you decided it was okay to repeatedly break things that worked for a decade because you think everything can be rewritten or abandoned like a Google product
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4 years
Cygames gave away the equivalent of like $1500 USD in gacha pulls last month and still made bank because it turns out one way to get people to spend unholy amounts of money is to give them stuff for free
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@inertmaterials Here’s Cygames revenue for the month of December and January. Belial being released on the last day of December slightly affected the month as well
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@sumas__ They keep testing the dog about right turns on red but dogs can't see red
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4 years
yes the pact is called "crunch"
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5 years
Let's check the timeline... okay
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6 months
the lucifer grid check is even funnier in the context of other game genres. all-time game design moment
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Is Shen Woo in KOFXV yet?
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Well excuse the fuck outta me. #GBVSR
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7 years
When you're helping a new player through high-level content #グラブル
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3 years
Some people's brains are operating on levels of capitalist rot that were never before considered possible
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2 years
Really funny that one of the kf founder's idols is Lowtax. Don't give up buddy, there's more of the Lowtax story left to imitate!
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8 years
Performing actions that people dislike will decrease their affinity for you.
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4 years
I can't believe people at Riot thought "pretend to be a shitty virus scanner and block apps randomly" was the correct answer instead of "disable playing the game until you reboot" Like holy shit is this a video game or an enterprise asset control system
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<cygames> it's summer have free 10-pulls every day also some of you will win sushi <cygames> we banned 1500 people, here's a free 10-pull <cygames> it's saturday fellas here's a 10-pull <cygames> i just got engaged here's a 10-pull and an invitation
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2 years
good lord these are bad numbers
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5 years
I created a helpful guide to unlocking the new 5* Eternals skin in Granblue Fantasy. Hopefully this will clear up any confusion and help people understand the simple process for getting it. The guide is slightly long so you'll have to zoom in. #グラブル
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2 years
The people responsible for this policy should rot in hell
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3 years
The longer you look at it the more things you find wrong with it
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5 years
"poorly done" is an interesting way to describe "someone took an ancient win32 hackjob port of a PS1 game and not only ported it to new consoles but did a bunch of hacks on it to swap in new models/textures and do a bunch of other stuff"
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2 years
@bethesda yes very professional airing all your business on reddit and twitter. maybe treat your freelancers properly next time
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8 years
Am I doing this right
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2 years
Always cyberbully brands
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL
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2 years
It's mildly depressing that the latest CPUs and GPUs are designed to just devour unnecessary amounts of power in order to reach slightly higher clocks and performance, when they perform great at much lower power targets. Shitting on the environment and power bills for numbers
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Katelyn Gadd
3 years
If you were wondering how Machine Translation is going, Google Translate now translates the japanese word for "older sister" to the romanization of the *korean* word for older sister, instead of the english term "older sister"
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More "anti-circumvention" horseshit. Big rightsholders won't stop until general-purpose computers are illegal and we're only allowed to own neutered iphones and game consoles
@stephentotilo
Stephen Totilo
4 months
NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.
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5 years
what the fuck
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4 years
The hilarious part is that the internet archive operates like an actual library - not piracy - and is legally recognized as one in California. It also has had an exemption from certain copyright laws for over a decade (from the US Library of Congress)
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what a cop holy shit
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It really is just infuriating that it turns out in retrospect more than one Google employee intentionally sabotaged the JavaScript spec process in order to support the company's agenda of shoving untrusted advertiser content+scripts into end users' browsers
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7 years
There's literally an is_nazi flag.
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2 years
47, I have distressing news. You're never going to believe this.
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2 years
🐯🐲 by @Zy___9 🙏 #アークナイツ #明日方舟
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7 years
Idea: Since Twitter automatically blocks nazis in Germany, write an autoblocker service that runs in Germany and checks accounts
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4 years
Username lawlessness is one part of the Discord experience that Slack and Teams will never be able to match
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7 years
Silicon valley was a mistake
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More brilliant design from the minds behind Go
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Google always had really lax access control on internal documents, bugs, mailing lists etc which at this point is very useful as a way to provide an excuse for firing any and every union organizer Yes, you had access to read that document, but were you AUTHORIZED? You were not
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Latest update: Someone (the same person?) realized that GitHub lets any user upload images into issue comments and descriptions, so there's another one of these now with goatse in it. Good thing you can unsubscribe from notifications without viewing an issue or PR (you can't)
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2 years
Very cool and normal that Google appears to have rolled out a new image compression algorithm without proper testing and inflicted massive damage on people's photo libraries Hopefully they still have the old files!
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@YitziLitt china has probably the only regulatory agency on the planet that is taking the harm inflicted by gacha and gambling games seriously. though there are uh, other problems,
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Wow, of *course* the story of the spider-man proposal easter egg turned into harassment mobs going after the girl and now they're having to argue the exact history of their previous relationship in public through interviews w/non-games news outlets Fuck gamers
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@NYTLiz I'm sure she'll forgive you even though you've yet to prove you deserve it
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something of note about the middle one is that the motions are more exaggerated, which would improve legibility a lot when playing at low-res (like 480p/720p) or on a small screen. these artistic choices often are informed by technical constraints
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Really interesting look into the differences of mocap across games and differences through generations. Plus, this doubles as a good reference! Source: Unknown (we'd love to know!) #agorastudio #framebyframe #animation #animator #reference #resource #mocap #gamedev
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Engineers at big tech companies deciding whether turning off location tracking should actually turn off location tracking
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The 90s are back baby
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This is the Grea of Good Vibes. Retweet and good vibes will come to you
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Pretty ghoulish to see a software security researcher reported a "bug" against Firefox that was actually an impediment to an exploit they were working on, and didn't disclose the exploit even though fixing the bug would've put users at risk! Very cool!
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@DrWallkick @eevee @No_Justice_MTG No way you could convince a normal human to leave a pizza oven behind
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I love software for Developers. Yes, punish them
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fun, we're upgrading from "ML researchers harvest artists' work uncompensated" to "ML researchers harvest artists' work uncompensated, then the hand it to random strangers and tell them it's original and they can sell it"
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Simon Willison
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Did not expect this: "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview."
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Another fucking start-up deciding "who needs non-Latin characters in usernames? People who don't matter, that's who". Cool and normal
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"New volumetric lighting" <me> oh cool <me> <me> oh. nevermind
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"Millennials don't read books" sure buddy, I'm playing Nier and Arknights and Girls' Frontline right now and those are all like 50% text, 30% repetitive gameplay, and 20% gay headcanon
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"hey my machine keeps bluescreening" <me> ok, turn on driver verifier and then send me the .dmp file "ok here it is" <me> oh cool it's @riotgames Vanguard rootkit failing driver validation even though you're not playing league or valorant
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Katelyn Gadd
4 years
the consolidation continues. soon all franchises will be owned by one company and that company will refuse to sell media to you unless you live in New York
@Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll
4 years
We are excited to join our peers at Sony and Funimation. There are many questions we can’t answer yet, but we’re excited by the prospect of this combination.
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This rules because the rideshare companies either have to admit they can afford to pay drivers a living wage and aren't doing it, or they have to admit they're fundamentally unsustainable and pull out of NYC
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Steven Greenhouse
6 years
Breaking: In a big win for Uber and Lyft drivers, the New York City Council voted today to establish a $17.22-an-hour minimum wage after expenses ($26.51 per hour gross) for app-based drivers.
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4 years
Not included: fascists
@nickmartin
Nick Martin
4 years
1. NEW: Facebook announced today it is cracking down on three types of groups: - QAnon - Militias - Anti-fascists The company says the goal is to limit the reach of groups that have “demonstrated significant risks to public safety.” A thread. 👇👇👇
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@TroyG04120421 When one dude sets government agendas and has veto powers it is pretty reasonable to pin the effects of policy and law changes on the fact that he was elected
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In the end this is why web apps are a mistake: you've put yourself at the mercy of a single easily distracted vendor who does not care about you.
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3 years
As if we didn't know already, Apple's legal counsel now making it blatant that they think "offensive" or sexual content should not exist in any app store. Do they think it should exist at all? History suggests perhaps not
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Adi Robertson (@[email protected])
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“Now that you know that there are offensive and sexualized apps on … do you plan to do anything about that?” lawyer asks Allison.
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Apple's legal team is 100% all-in on "people shouldn't be able to look at pornography on a computer", apparently them going after Itch on the "it has pornography" basis was not a fluke and aligns with their official stance
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Adi Robertson (@[email protected])
3 years
Mickens says yes — you could have a system where Apple would have full control over which third-party stores’ apps can be installed, or one where Apple has no say at all. There’s a “variety of different approaches” to locking down content like pornography.
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Djeeta's character intros in GBVS have some chaotic wlw energy mixed in. The Katalina one is something else
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talk about missing the fucking point
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Google promises ethical principles to guide development of military AI
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@RowanKaiser my fave is this stuff where they forget that the lies they use to sell people on the scam are lies and not true
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The abstract ideal libertarians get horny about aside, Capitalism as it exists now is a completely failed system (from )
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realized that html has the perfect tool for API documentation: the <ruby> tag
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@headfallsoff damn movies really are directed like video games now. how society has degraded
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@tef_ebooks Q: Why doesn't golang have generics? A: Google only hires one type of employee
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At some point this country is going to have to come to terms with the fact that evangelical Christianity has become a death cult
@AmarAmarasingam
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To laugh or cry or rage. That is the question.
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Is it any surprise that the browser vendor without a long term support channel is also the one that constantly breaks websites by pushing poorly-tested changes to "stable" and deciding it's okay to break standards compliant code as long as it doesn't impact their services?
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Katelyn Gadd
4 years
Conveniently this does not address the scenario of "the author is inactive but thousands of people consult their docs every day". I bet they don't care and will delete all those docs anyway. Anyone who ever used Google Docs for something important was a fool
@jotamide
Jota🇵🇸
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Starting June 1st, 2021 Google will delete docs from 2-yr inactive accounts. I hope the owners of frame data spreadsheets, character primers, and other fighting game tech are responsible enough to back up this info in other websites or wikis. Source:
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@GamersNexus "We've been monitoring your YouTube channel and have concerns"
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Good job, Valve
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The idea that a US university owes some foreign white supremacist the right to run a for-profit hate speech tour on campus is absurd.
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Katelyn Gadd
5 years
How can you think this is a rebrand when every single one of them so far has had "Xbox" at the beginning just like the new one? Is this just the work of consultants operating in a clean room, firewalled off from any knowledge of what an "xbox" is and what video games are?
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@hachx0 yeah it's a huge ongoing liability to have on your balance sheets especially since the cn government has the ability to go after you if they feel like it even if you 'declared bankruptcy'
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@Enichan @TristanPEJ @teioh it's completely real and iirc was for some sort of sob story about how obama was going to take all your money
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@OhPoorPup "debuff" yeah fuckin right it's called minmaxing
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Cool let's just bake the massive fucking dumb-ass mistake that is fork() into the next 20 years of application development, what could go wrong. We already decided to keep null pointers and make them worse, so why not bring fork along
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Weird how Elon Musk is frequently hailed as a genius when his products tend to seem like they were designed by an idiot
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