Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Imagine how much better early Trek would have been without Shatner Shatnering up everything.

Just watch the documentary “The Captains” to see why.

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Once I’ve delivered them as torrents to the people of earth, I’m going out to find a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

The first thing I do when I have an FTL ship is flying out about a hundred light years and grabbing these important pieces of culture

Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

I was a teenager who wanted to be a 1337 haxxor so I found out what warez were, and then wanted to play a bunch of games for free.

This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they’re hooked you can do whatever you want because they can’t leave.

Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.

Also because of this, they are only pumping cash into big titles that are good bets for return, so nobody wants to spend money on a gamble.

Sounds a lot like the movie industry

I remember those days. Except back then you had the added challenge of finding space for it on your 1.2GB hard drive

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

You can tell a good developer/sysadmin by the length of their beard. If they don’t have to shave to get a job that means they’re 1337

Not that much effort. I trim about every two weeks. My GF puts on makeup every day.

Beards are way easier than makeup

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

And 9% of the rest would just be griefing them

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

I don’t know about the others, but Roblox and Minecraft have environments that are designed for infinite replayability. It’s like being amazed that kids are still playing with Lincoln Logs or Legos.

Exactly! Ads are designed to force you to engage with them. Even noticing the ad at all is engaging with it, and they’ve got teams of psychologists figuring out how to make that second of engagement influence you.

People who dismiss the influence of advertisements seem to forget that companies wouldn’t spend a combined $615 billion globally every year on something that people can just “choose” not to engage with.

I probably wouldn’t play as much Civ VI if it weren’t for the expansions or monthly challenges. Does that mean I’m playing an eight year-old game?