wild how studies keep making the shocking discovery that giving people money in a capitalist society materially helps them, then going "naaaah, we can't do that it's communism lol"

Crimes are legal now

Is "explain that to people" a euphemism for "blowing up" their devices? 🙃

Dad used to get Boot/MaximumPC mag, which always had a demo disk with 6+ decent length demos on it.
I think that's how i got the Fallout Demo (still the best demo I've ever played) and a few great early FPSs

Old magazines could be so cheap because they generally wanted to get in front of as many people as possible so they could charge a *lot* of money for dozens of glossy ads in each issue. Most online journalism subscriptions today are ad free, which is good but changes the economics substantially.

Trying to recall rn drama from... Scorpia and CGW? They wrote a lot of great RPG content, and there was some kind of corporate sounding falling-out.
Was the first time I recall seeing a crack in what was great.

It's the organization where they pick the battles, so they're probably(ideally) better than average at picking their battles 🙃🦅

MCing elves off cliffs or into lava was the reason I finally switched from CoH(😓...where it took a lot more effort to drop nerds off buildings) to WoW.
And it never got old, even when they weren't elves. 😋🙃🌚

And by the way Warner Bros Discovery is still sitting on something like a twenty BILLION dollar debt load left over from the AT&T hand-off, which will have to be passed on somehow to whoever wants it.

“It may take 5-7 business days” why. Why may it. Is your system run by pigeons. are the pigeons stupid

The term AI is so meaningless that I basically sound like a crank whenever anyone mentions “AI” in front of me. There are useful tools! But it’s not the society shifting revolution they keep marketing it as! At least not yet and there needs to be real education on what ML is and what it’s not.