Thank you, I’ll check once I’m off work

Super Splatters seems interesting. I’ll take it.

The game isn’t sold on Steam anymore, will the key still work?

EDIT: What the fuck. This is from supersplatters.com - “Online casinos without a Swedish license are becoming more and more popular among the Swedes because it is a non-stop casino. This means that players do not face any restrictions on gaming sites with local licenses. Their gaming experience keeps getting better and more interesting.”

Or one of Satan’s worse bodily fluids

and how to skip bail and move to Venezuela

First lesson: don’t become president of Venezuela

The movie had an even worse cultural impact

Haven’t watched Avatar, but I think it at least shows the “real bad guys” instead of a monster that isn’t even a proper reference to the CEO of the corp

Also, oh my god there is a Ferngully 2!? WHY???

Very good read. As I’m taking some classes in the neuropsychology of learning, his first part on how knowledge changes you is spot on. Sometimes the change is tiny, sometimes the change is significant, but it is always on you that it happens.

The technopoly, as the author puts it, was a long way coming, first with patents ensuring that the patent owner got the benefits (which often wasn’t the actual discoverer) and later with near eternal copyright thanks mainly to Disney. When computer companies managed to make peeking at their code a crime, society as a whole lost.

If you have two economies of equal size and productivity, one has a massive financial sector and billionaires while the other does not, the financialised economy will have less left over to invest in research, education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Over time, it will inevitably fall behind the country with a smaller financial sector because it’s the other things that drive the economy and productivity, not stock market growth.

I can imagine the shareholders going feral, explaining how they create jobs.

Another thing, regarding the USA stranglehold on tech, Brazil was in a very peculiar situation in that regard in the 80s and up to '92. It had a suffocating protectionism, which fully prohibited people from importing computers and videogames, in order to incentivize the local industry. The computer tech was roughly 5 years behind USA and Europe of the time, the first local NES clones were built around '88, if I’m not mistaken. Of course, game cartridges and software diskettes and tapes had to be imported, usually as contraband and often as pirated copies. Come 1992, the recently elected government takes down all the protectionism in a single swoop. It went from full to zero in a day, there was no gradual relief of the protections. The following influx of much, much more advanced computers crashed the local computer economy. We still pirated nearly every software, tho.

Reminds me of a Veritasium video I saw last week about molecular polymorphism. They spent a good 6 minutes talking about the different forms of crystallization of chocolate and how to solidify it back into form V - the shiny one we usually see after unwrapping it.

Well, she is some 640-760 times thiccer than the Sun

KFC has certainly gone sideways

The sociopaths want everyone isolated, that’s better for control and their business

I received a flyer for “Let’s celebrate Jesus’ death” this April. Terrible choice of words

I’ll take 0,01 if it ensures that the person who dies is a billionaire

Until we have an OS that is literally just a web browser and does nothing except run PWAs and open web pages, that line of thought won’t make sense.

But the bean counter of the corporation paying for it can suffer for the wasted money

Partially related: I remember some months ago, down here in Brazil, UberEats and iFood drivers were getting restless about the complete lack of any rights when working with the apps - no rest time, no charging stations, low pay, all while being told that you’re “being your own boss, working when you want to!”. They usually formed whatsapp groups to complain about that.

In an almost inexplicable twist, the majority that wanted more rights also wanted the govt to stay the fuck away and were against a law that was meant to regulate working for apps. Said law included many of the rights they wanted.

Sounds like a dream job lol

or Sony and Nintendo give up on physicals (as they seem to want to)

Sony was already very clearly migrating in that direction since the PS4, but didn’t go all in thanks to microslop shooting itself in the foot with the Xbox 1 reveal

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

Frankly, still one of the better ways to waste time on the internet