PorciiVorbesc

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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>It'd be ironic if Europe ended up banning ASML (a Dutch company) from shipping to US instead! ASML's Dutch EUV machines depend on importing US made EUV light sources from California to build them, and depends on sales of the
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>Intel shares are still up over 100% since the Trump admin invested in them and started going to bat for them. Nokia shares were also up after the iPhone got announced. Current share prices don't really mean much in rational futur
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
Or homeless people to just buy a house.
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
I would see stuff like this even before AI.
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>Likewise, you may not feel like AI is de-skilling your brain. But it probably is. It is, but why is that a problem? Moving from physical labor on the farm, factory or construction site to sedentary work and lifestyles would also atro
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by PorciiVorbesc 9d ago
>It breaks during regular use due to small compounding errors that happen due to bad software design. And where's the proof/documentation for this, if it's as common as you suggest? If it were a design problem as you say
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by PorciiVorbesc 9d ago
>Has had implications on housing affordability, but it's great for GDP statistics. Which high performing economy DOESN'T struggle with housing affordability? >mostly through immigration *SKILLED immigration
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by PorciiVorbesc 10d ago
>after fairly strong evidence that Russia and China have been breaking the treaty by deploying weapons into space for years. The US invasion of Iraq was also based on "strong evidence" of WMDs.
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by PorciiVorbesc 10d ago
>Stability and the system that stability enables is what has put them into positions of power and prosperity in the first place. The system is already unstable due to the rampart growth of wealth inequality, especially after covid, dis
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by PorciiVorbesc 10d ago
>the US government is owned lock and stock by the Russians So that's what we're calling "AIPAC(Israel)" now? "The Russians"?
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by PorciiVorbesc 10d ago
>Almost every AA and AAA RTS in the last decade has made a profit. Which AAA RETS games? How much profit?
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by PorciiVorbesc 10d ago
> at "random", during regular use Out of all the vague and unprovable things that never happened, that one never happened the most. I'm sure you can find users on any OS complaining with "random" breakages but
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by PorciiVorbesc 11d ago
>Starcraft 2 was over 6 million sales before its final expansion even came out. GTA 6 preorders beat that in like a week and the game isn't even out and no gameplay footage was even show. >That seems like the obvious player ba
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by PorciiVorbesc 11d ago
>I grew up with DOS, Win 95, 98, 2000, XP and so on. I have to ask when was Microsoft above breaking things? Can you share specifically what did those OS exactly break back then? And were the breakages more common than competing OSs u
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by PorciiVorbesc 12d ago
Where's the cruft? Win32 is pretty simple.
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by PorciiVorbesc 12d ago
Why is it a cluster fuck? When it's been virtually unchanged and stable for the past 30 or so years, which is how Winamp 2.95 can run on WIndows 11 today and how Wine can so easily run Windows games. Way better than Linux and Mac have
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by PorciiVorbesc 12d ago
>Meanwhile, Fortnite, Destiny, Marathon, and Apex Legend revenues have all been trending downhill for several years. Other games having done bad is not proof that your unique RTS will do good. That's my argument. > If the goal
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>Starcraft III would be as far from a new IP as you could go while still making an RTS What are existing players missing from Starcraft 2 to justify buying Starcraft 3 so that Blizzard can justify the money to develop it?
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>Or that home ownership is inherently good Home ownership is always better than no home ownership, 3rd world country or first world country. Owning an asset is better than owning nothing. >You ever live in a 3rd world country? Wh
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>Colorado is shipping a regional rail project in the front range. Unfortunately my city doesn't have US/Colorado money. >the district is voting on new sales tax to fund the expansion Won't more sales tax make the al
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>when I was partially responsible for hardware refreshes in a UK public sector organisation with around a thousand endpoint PCs we budgeted something like £600 a box. Same here in EU mainland, at every org I worked we used to get budg
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>Tempest Rising made more in profits than Marathon Choosing the biggest flop as your benchmark is a very poor argument. If you lose half as much money as Marathon, you're technically twice as good, but it's still a flop and i
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>There's quite a few new RTS games coming out And how many copies are they gonna sell? How big is their player base? All important things bean counters want to know before they pony up north of seven figures of investor money into
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
>Repairing a broken PC was a trivial help desk ticket; my PC was restored in an hour or two. Except that even IT would know that a missing 8MB RAM stick is not a defect, it's (petit) theft, since RAM stick have no legs to just wan
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
Gon on, as in you mean like to explain the obvious? Just google/chatgpt sales of RTS games vs shooters and other shit. Good luck convincing an exec to give you 200 million $ to make a new RTS for the 50 player based market out there wh
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
The trailer != the game, since there was no gameplay footage.
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
Couldn't be more wrong. The market for new RTSs is too tiny and saturated to turn a profit on any new IP. The small existing player base is too entrenched to move away from the old established IPs that are still popular to something ne
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
Great idea, if you want to stay unemployed. How many corpo HR/recruiter types you met that will gladly bypass company policy and switch to the tools demanded by the candidate?
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by PorciiVorbesc 13d ago
Original Youtube title of the video I got a few hours ago was: "LG’s Manipulative, Gaslighting Response to GN Report" Either they changed it for some legal reason, or Youtube allows for A/B testing of multiple titles for enga
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by PorciiVorbesc 14d ago
>If you think him getting money from Jack Dorsey and Michael Dell has no political implications, And the device you type this on is made by which company? Apple? Google? Microsoft? Lenovo? They all involved in politics and lobbying. An

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