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Advice needed on buying a personal boat
  • OK, so a boat is sort of like an exercise bike, it seems like a great idea until you get it and then it stands in the corner unused for years until you finally admit to yourself it was not a good idea. Except with a boat, just sitting around, it's going to be more expensive than you think.

  • Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam, and acts like it's no big deal: 'Happens every day homie'
  • He told his friend about the game. I don't think he would have done so if he copied or felt he had "stolen" anything. If he remade the game with this own code and assets then he put a lot of work into it and he can be proud of that (and telling his friend shows that he was). Comparing the game, i do think the clone is better made / more polished. So he really like the game and made a better version of it. I don't think that's a bad thing. IP has to be respected (can't just copy assets or code) but if that's the case then anything goes and that's a good thing, it gives us better games.

    Think PalWorld, for example, Nintendo, one of the most copyright abusing companies in the world, doesn't sue them and it's arguably a better game than anything Nintendo has come up with recently (no new / modern / good / 3D Pokemon games).

  • Valve Let Team Fortress 2 Rot And They Should Feel Bad About It - Aftermath
  • TF2 is no longer making a lot money for valve. Veteran players have all theirs special hats/cosmetics and no new player wants to invest time and money in a game so riddled with cheating bots. They could easily handle the situation. Detecting obvious cheating bots isn't hard but valve doesn't even try. Yes, there are community servers, like Uncle Danes, that are good at handling bots, but it's also a big burden for them to constantly ban/remove cheating bots.

    Valve is testing server side AI cheat detection in CS2. Let's hope that they will bring that to TF2 valve servers. Maybe don't VAC ban players being detected (AI is buggy), just remove them when detected and maybe disallow them from joining valve servers for a week.

  • Presidents Who Gamble With Nuclear Armageddon
  • Yea, we if we had just given NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan everything they ever wanted we would not have had a World War 2! No nuclear weapons would have been developed and used!!! Total win for world peace!!!

    Sure, the whole genocide thing would have continued unimpeded and US, France, UK etc would have just ceased to be but hey, no war! So, like, totally worth it??? /s

    I guess this is a russian influence peddling web site because I cannot imagine anybody that that has any grasp of history and reality can really believe that giving into russian dictator bullying would make the world a less dangerous place. Same for China.

  • Uncanny Valley
  • It would be a evolutionary benefit to fear / avoid any person that is behaving strangely in certain distinct ways. Could be a dangerous transmittable disease, i.e. rabies etc.

  • ‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated]
  • Basically all service providers in the EU will be forced to change their terms of service that all users will have to agree to in order to continue using the service. You will simply get an "updated terms service" notification with a link and one big "OK" button and nothing else. If you follow the link to the terms of service, somewhere deep down (like page 276 of 389) it will says "I agree to be monitored". You now have the choice to uninstall the app or to click "OK". It's basically everything. Obviously Google, Outlook, Yahoo etc and all the Chat apps (Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp) etc. So "Consent" is not really optional if you want to use any internet service, they can just pretend that it is so that can go on an uncontrolled unwarranted spying rampage against everyone and of course for everything.

  • A Federal TikTok Ban is a 'Misguided Detour' from Doing What’s Needed to Protect People’s Privacy and Safeguard National Security
  • China chill? The legitimate concern is that China is controlling the way certain messages are pushed ("the algorithms") to control topics that they have an interest in. I.e. pushing misinformation to drive support for Trump or Biden, as an example. That is not free speech or privacy, that is malicious interference and the the fear of the US doing this is the sole reason China has already banned similar US apps in China. That is also the reason they would rather be banned than to "give up the algorithms" (they certainly won't allow anyone to see how they push misinformation).

  • VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it
  • You get used to it. It helps to have a good graphics card so that the frame rate is high enough. I am sad many good games don't support VR. I.e. Start Citizen, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. Yes, there are mods for it, but it should be supported natively (if mods can do it, why can't the developer?). It is just so much more immersive to be able to look around naturally and see stereoscopic.

  • NSFW
    How do you tell your significant other you want to have sex?
  • Married. A look, even indirect, is enough for her to know exactly what I think about. It's scary when she asks me if I'm hungry before I realized that I was (must have been passingly looking over to the kitchen/snacks without even realizing it). If i look at her boobs for 2 seconds she knows, even while looking in another direction/at a phone. It's kind of scary. I guess I am really obvious without knowing it. I do sometimes wonder if she can read my mind.

  • Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
  • There are also many organizations that wish they has some local backups after their cloud service providers lost all their data. Lesson to learn: Backup properly with offline storage. Tape in a safe, maybe even off-site, etc.

  • Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
  • I don't know what you're talking about, I just upgraded my Debian from 11 to 12 with just "apt upgrade" and it didn't even find anything for the following full-upgrade... seems upgrade will do all now? I should have probably read the upgrade guide ( https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html ) but it just worked, as usual.

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