Just for the sake of being fair, Steam does do one thing which is anticompetitive; they require publishers don’t sell their games for less than they do on Steam.

If you think about this for a moment you’ll realise it’s in the publisher’s best interest to agree to this.

One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

Looks like Please, Don’t Touch Anything on steroids

It’s hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they’re at all comparable

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Terrerrerreera 5 eva

Where’s my upstream explicit sync lads

Discharge though. Ew.

I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote.

I wouldn’t want the wrong kind of attention drawn here.

But I think if people have FB accounts that should look for this and report the fuck out of it.

Worth clarifying that the DLC unlocks one skill tree, while the update gave everyone a skill-tree overhaul.

Great episode.

I’m tempted to believe in reality, some kind of “mutually assured destruction” scenario would occur.

If I was to create a simulation, I would add in a recursive condition wherein the detection of another simulation would crash the system.

But the theme the episode really touched on was whether it was right to tell another the truth about reality. Maybe that reality isn’t another layer up, but that God exists, or maybe not.

Assuming you found out we really were in a simulation, what is the right thing to do? Force everyone to learn the truth? Hide your knowledge of it?

If you thought: “I can tell the people who want to know”, you’ve just created a cult.

Personally, I’m convinced we are not in a simulation. But that’s only assuming the level above us is somewhat similar (a universe that started with a big bang and formed stars and planets and evolution etc).

Think of it this way: an advanced society would need to evolve more than us, meaning more filters to pass before achieving this kind of power. This means unlimited power and unlimited processing power.

I fucking hate that I learned what this means a month ago.

Bought myself a ZigBee coordinator and started pairing some devices.

Sweet! That was easy, now all that’s left are the Tuya ceiling fans

Little did I know, what was about to happen would cost me my sanity.

Honestly, just give me a fucking HP printer and ask me to connect it to my computer from the other side of the world.

For the uninitiated, this is a representation of the Survivorship Bias.

Essentially, the red dots represent bullet holes from aircraft which returned from battle.

If you were to ask someone which places should be reinforced with armour, someone who has the Survivorship Bias would say “where the red dots are”, whereas people who know anything about engineering would say “everywhere else!”

It’s like saying: “why are you wearing a helmet? I’ve met hundreds of soldiers and none of them have ever been shot in the head, helmets are a waste of good armour.”

A true fact: Did you know wearing a helmet increases your chances of dying of cancer.

Nano… Pfff…

Requires three dependencies, while Vi requires one. Everyone can see how bloated your system is. You should be embarrassed.

Hey guys, check out this resource beast and laugh! Ha ha ha!

Most people in this thread don’t get it.

You know how some people compete to see who can get Doom to run on the craziest platforms, like a calculator?

Installing Arch with the fewest packages is like that. There’s something oddly satisfying about stripping everything back to the most basic level - to make things work for you within the most constrictive environment you enforce for yourself.

It’s like eating a spicy shellfish dinner and super gluing your asshole closed.

At the risk of sounding critical of your hobby, to argue the imperfections improve the experience sounds somewhat culty.

I understand there is something akin to “character” which you don’t get from something highly polished. I know when things sound too clean it can feel sterile.

I accept vinyl has a collectors value, but anything claims regarding preference come across as either pretentious or deluded (to me, as someone who probably can’t tell the difference).

What made it so good to you?

The atmosphere of oppression?

The depiction of descent into nihilism, then rebellion?

The reflection of a society which pushes those who deviate from the norm, not just aside, but explicitly down?

What did you think about the movie?

How would you score it?

Do you feel it’s under, or over rated?

I think the implication is that it might be porn you would rather not see.

Porn.

What’s the point?