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To be honest I’m pretty certain that none of them have actually read the 1984 they dont strike me as being particularly book orientated.

Well this would be a mod not a game so it doesn’t have to be hugely successful.

I think Argentina was already there, but I get your point.

The problem is politicians tend to live in bubbles where they are protected from the consequences of their own actions and often are old and not particularly tech-savvy. So they get pulled in by things like AI and blockchain because they sound like having your cake and eating it.

The AI techbros go to them and promise them the world, they make it sound so great that the philosophers stone would be less attractive. The eagerly lap all this nonsense up and then we get announcements about pre-crime or something.

Star citizen isn’t an example of an open beta that got stretched out. It’s an example of a scam.

A game of similar scope to star citizen is starship simulator, except that isn’t a scam and, oh look, it’s making surprisingly better progress (there still isn’t anything to actually do in it yet but it’s much further along in much shorter period of time). You can tell it isn’t a scam because people aren’t being asked to pay extra to access some more unfinished content.

It’s an interesting game and it has some good ideas, but it’s incredibly janky. I’ve seen single devs develop games in less than a year that have better animations.

But despite it’s rather dated look and it’s clunky controls it does have a very large map and a large play account per map. That’s quite attractive to some people.

Although personally I suspect people are going to come up with a better version of the game in battlefield via portal.

That’s a fairly standard thing.

That’s why if you are ever developing anything you never do it on company computers, it’s always on your own devices and on your own time. Yet time and time again supposedly smart people load up their side project on work computers.

But why sell out? They had a guaranteed hit on their hands why did they need to sell the IP to a publisher and not just any publisher but one with a history of ruining good projects.

Are they?

This is the first I’m hearing about it and also it doesn’t sound very likely, I’ve never heard of anyone working longer than 12 hour days and that’s only in very particular industries.

The problem with ABC news in my experience is they assume their audience are familiar with the geopolitical situation in Asia and of course most westerners aren’t.

Like the whole toilet paper thing during the pandemic. The way they reported it made it sound like it was a global issue rather than an Australia issue. The situation that arose to create that problem simply doesn’t exist in other parts of the world, but because of the way they reported it, they made people think that it was an international problem. Then it actually became an international problem. Now granted, a certain amount of brainlessness has to be considered on the behalf of the people reading this stuff but still, it demonstrates the issue.

The BBC has been run as a business now and it’s absolutely stupid. It was never meant to make a profit that was never really the point. It was supposed to be a public service and a projection of soft power, that seems to have gone out to the window now.

I suspect a lot of the work at the BBC don’t actually agree with this, but management don’t listen to anyone.

I don’t know though papers like the daily mail will rags even back in the 90s. Those people will never journalists.

Space-based solar would generate orders of magnitude more power than we actually have a use for.

I don’t think you’ve got the hang of this social media thing.

Yeah I know. Like I said it’s a stupid name, one only Microsoft would ever come up with.

Calling it visual studio is redundant now because visual studio code doesn’t actually have anything to do with visual studio anymore, it’s just an IDE for a load of different languages, none of which necessarily have anything to do with Microsoft or Visual Studio. Yet it still called VS Code.

At this point the VS effectively doesn’t really stand for anything.

What.

This updated doing exactly what you want it to do, what do you complaining about?

To be fair there isn’t a lot of use for cryptocurrencies for legitimate purposes for 99% of people. Given its niche use case it’s talked about an awful lot.

I’ve been in countries whose economies are so bad that you need 10,000 of the local currency to buy a loaf of bread. Even they don’t use cryptocurrencies, they just deal with it or they use the US dollar unofficially.

They really don’t seem to understand that for most of the world we don’t care about China one way or the other. Much in the same way as I don’t really think about Argentina. It’s out there somewhere, but other than acknowledging its existence I don’t really care.

So they’re not actually checking the review for the language used. So they must be storing a tag with the review as to what language that reviewers steam is set to. I can see problems with this right there, a lot of people will have steam in whatever their desired language is, say German, but will post reviews in English. It seems like these reviews won’t be taken into account because they’ll be incorrectly tagged as German.

Historical evidence would seem to suggest that Intel very much do like their blood money I would imagine they would like some more please.

Isn’t there supposed to be a phone OS from Mozilla as well. No idea what’s happening with that.