I know I’m gonna get flamed for this, but I kinda agree.

I paid $60 for games back when a bottle of coke in a vending machine was 25 cents. Now I regularly see sodas in vending machines at $1.50 but games are still $60? Don’t get me wrong I’m grateful, but when you have a 0% price increase over a period of time where inflation increases by 150%+ everywhere else, it’s hardly surprising the companies are looking for new ways to monetize.

Yeah. I write software for a living and I use open source stuff extensively. I contribute sometimes to open source projects, but not everything can be open source or I’ll be back to flipping burgers.

Yeah, anything with Ray tracing will have player reflections. You usually don’t see them because they’re faking ray tracing by baking the light bounces when the scene first loads

Was doing my masters degree. We’re all talking about some book several people had read. We ask one guy if he’s read it and he says “I don’t like… read books” with the emphasis on those last two words just dripping with condescension. Like read the statement with the subtext of “if I caught my kid reading a book I’d disown him and call him a queer”.

Really inexplicable take in a room full of literally only masters students

What do you do?

Someone said “the reddit comments are here” in a lemmy comment section. Everyone can just upvote this because it’s all that will be said

A competitor could literally buy one copy, make a script that spins up 1000 vms a minute and downloads your game over and over on “new devices” and put you out of business

Every desktop app that’s available on multiple platforms is basically written in it.

Climate change isn’t really an existential threat. To be a filter it has to kill all humans and even the bleakest models don’t predict that.

Also for it to be a Great Filter it has to be something that ALL civilizations do to kill themselves. Seems unlikely that all civs wou ld even have analogs to gossil fuels in quantities sufficient to do this kind of damage. And the idea that zero of them actually course-correct when they notice it seems equally implausible

Are you suggesting we just let Putin take over Europe Nazi-style or is this comment unrelated to the article?

Cringe. Recently learned that “the youths” have basically morphed the phrase into just meaning “anything bad”. Like, that word was so useful though to specifically mean “something that someone does which flies in the face of social norms to which they are oblivious, but which makes onlookers uncomfortable”. That word condensed a damn paragraph and I want it back

The term for this is “the euphemism treadmill”. Basically every word we have for someone being unintelligent was at one point a medical term and for 100s or 1000s of years human beings have been making the same lame joke with whatever the current word is. We can get mad at people for doing it, but history shows it’s guaranteed to happen anyway.