Wait, I didn’t think the allegiances in that civil war movie were likely

This comment fascinates me

California is apparently about 12% of the total tax revenue of the US, and New York is about 8%. If every other state was equal after that, they are about 1.5 each.

That’s quite a lot of leverage

Can’t send people to El Salvador if you can’t pay for planes

If it wasn’t so destructive, it would be hilarious that he can only hire kids

TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. Though that’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then

I mean it’s the logical conclusion of “everything the right says is projection”

If a right winger wants to ban something you can find as a category on pornhub, that’s what they’ve been clicking.

I mean there’re plenty of accounts of him shitting himself around people. Whether the pic is real or not, the man should not own light trousers and should have realised this when he was getting hosed down every time they finished an episode of The Apprentice.

Why does a man infamous for shitting himself on the reg for decades, think that light coloured trousers are something to even entertain in the wardrobe.

Also does someone have an antidote to this image? I think it maybe caused a minor trauma

No, not at all, generally not a good sign whatsoever (unless you’re wall st apparently). I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.

The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?

Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, just trying to rationalise

Hmm, had to look up who these guys were

Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit

I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away

Oh that’s actually pretty sad to hear—I did not realise they had new owners

Burger king in the Whitehouse for the next leader summit then

Don’t disagree with you but I’m not sure what the goal here is if they’re both in on it

Has it really been at least 4 years since I checked on it?! Thanks for the correction! (And mild existential crisis)

I’ve just checked and quakenet still seems to be a thing at least!

More oats per oats

I have dairy in my diet, but when it comes to porridge, oat milk only please

IRC is still alive and somewhat kicking on places like freenode, obviously a lot of that kind of culture lives in discord today, but you’ve also got matrix as an alternative to that style, but I can’t say I’ve really clicked with it myself.

A few forums have managed to hang around (not that I recommend it, but I discovered somethingawful is still around recently), and the software to run one is still out there being maintained. Reddit really did a number on these sites though so Lemmy, etc is probably a good tool in the box for this too.

Flash games are dead for a pretty valid reason (security, etc), but sites like newgrounds still have a presence for the kind of stuff you’re thinking of. I can’t say I’ve browsed it in a very long time though. You’ve also got the indie game scene that blew up in the 2010s—I personally feel like that’s scratching the same kind of itch for me at least. Places like humble and itch.io are good sources.

And so, the era of the illegal meme dealer has begun

About time

My (half serious) conclusion is the contestants like you describe are either the no-I’m-not-wealthy class of idiots that have simply come from money and don’t realise that’s not the norm, or they’re drug dealers that found a skilled accountant.

Genuinely I don’t know how they’ve managed to take a word processor that used to open in about a second or so on a Pentium 233 on windows 95, and make it into the bloated mess it is today, opening slower on hardware several magnitudes more powerful

Every project I’ve worked on in the past decade or so has cared about not regressing on NFRs around performance for the user. I do not understand how a tech company the size of Microsoft has let one of its flagship products get bungled so badly. It’s not like the IE6 days where they were complacent—Google Docs & open source projects such as libreoffice are very much eating into their main customer base right now.

I thought it was something like 95% of actual pharmaceutical innovation comes from academia, and that most American pharma R&D spending was predominantly on taking the work of others and tweaking it so they can file a patent.

Before someone says clinical trials—every other country manages to do these without the ridiculous amount of money being consumed by the American pharmaceutical industry

Edit: typo

for some reason

I’m gonna guess they’re going to release an overpriced bundle of the games