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by bluescrn 1y ago
Everything comes down to world population, which has quadrupled in a century, making the previously-sustainable now unsustainable. But even many of the climate catastrophists can't get away from the mentality of 'we still need gro
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by bluescrn 1y ago
I don't know how bad these specific games were, but meanwhile, OnlyFans pornographers continue to use sites like Twitch to advertise their work to teens, and Pornhub continues to operate, despite claims that they profit from sex traffi
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by bluescrn 1y ago
> This is not normal and is very different from an individual downloading some ROMs. Just go to archive.org and type something like 'romset' in the search box to see what 'normal' looks like these days, for better or
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Many AliExpress sellers are offering the devices bundled with a pre-loaded microSD card.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Physical books (and games) sit there on a shelf and you're occasionally remind you that you bought them and maybe should read/play them. Items in a digital library seem much easier to completely and utterly forget about.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Until they start denying people service because they expressed support for the wrong political party or took the wrong side on a divisive social issue.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Unless you're, you know, using GPUs for graphics... Xbox, Playstation, and Steam Deck seem to be doing pretty nicely with AMD.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
So when actual criminals leave their stolen getaway car idling as they go and loot a store, the owner of the stolen car now gets an extra fully-automated fine with likely no way to appeal it, and the real criminals get away free.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Facial recognition isn't enough. We need nano-drones that can grab DNA samples. Can't avoid that by wearing a mask/balaclava...
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by bluescrn 1y ago
We've got a brand new war in the Middle East, and a big ongoing one in Ukraine. If we can't prevent wars between nations, there's no hope of the planet coming together to the extent required to manipulate the climate in a mea
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Laws will be enforced if it's safe and profitable to do so, especially if the process can be fully automated. Meanwhile, industrial-scale shoplifting, hard drugs, sex crimes, riots. No automated enforcement possible there, let alone pr
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Milking motorists is very profitable. Stopping more problematic crime, not so much. So we end up with anarcho-tyranny, where 'real' crime is policed poorly, if at all - but loads of resources and tech are deployed aggressively pol
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by bluescrn 1y ago
With this one, given the seething hatred for Musk these days, I wouldn't rule out sabotage. It's not the most likely cause, but in a world where people have been torching Tesla dealerships, I'm sure there's a lot of peop
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by bluescrn 1y ago
> Starship is doing this on easy mode and it’s failing. But this 'easy mode' is still so incredibly hard that nobody else will even attempt it. I'd love to see some serious competition emerge in the reusable rocket space,
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Shader-based refraction/blur/chromatic aberration seems to be generating a lot of hype, but it’s stuff that game developers have been doing for decades. The bigger news is draggable, resizable windows in iPadOS 26. That’s quite an
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by bluescrn 1y ago
The other problem is that modern graphics APIs got so complex that they're intimidating even to experienced developers. That 'first triangle on screen' code can now look something like this - https://github.com&#x2
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by bluescrn 1y ago
But it's 2025. There is only UE5.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Plus staying logged out of YouTube, which seems to avoid their ad-blocker-blocking for now.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
And if you generate a set of bitmaps/sprites of individual glyphs from the font (e.g. to use as a bitmap font in a game), is that different to shipping an image with more specific uses of the font baked in, e.g. a logo/title image
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Wondering the same. Surrogacy would seem like a much safer option. Just use the working womb without transplanting it. Why put two people through major surgery, plus additional risks for the baby?
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Unstoppable force meets 104% tariff...
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It's only a good sign if they're able to speak out, and aren't terrified of expressing their dissent in public. Both the left and the right seem captured by a small minority of radicals, using social media echo chambers/
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> I bought an M1 Max that is now almost 4 years old and it still feels new to me. How are the keycaps doing? Mine looked awful after about 2 years of relatively light use, developing really obvious ugly shiny patches (particularly bad on
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by bluescrn 2y ago
'Gaming laptops' with more powerful GPUs are generally awful, though. Even ignoring the state of Win11. Yes, they can theoretically perform better, but only when plugged into mains power, and creating so much heat and fan noise th
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> I mean FFS today people'd probably complain that the first Star Wars movie (not just ROTJ, to which you allude) is "woke" because Leia's the only consistently-competent character out of the three leads Compare+contr
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by bluescrn 2y ago
This was inevitable, now that people are growing up with touchscreens and app stores. 'Content consumption devices' rather than proper computers. And so much digital content competing for their attention.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> Go watch CGI in a movie theatre and it's worse than 20 years ago, go home to play video games and the new releases are all remasters of 20 year old games because no-one knows how to do anything any more. Even more glaring is TV sh
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by bluescrn 2y ago
YouTube Premium doesn't get rid of ads though, as many of the videos themselves are still full of ads/sponsors.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The Amiga brought us DPaint, OctaMED, AMOS, Blitz Basic, and a whole lot more. People bought it for the games, then got interested in the creative possibilities. At the very least it inspired a generation of game developers, digital artists
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Yeah, prices have shot way up over the last 2-3 years, and not just for the big-box Amigas, even A1200 prices have got fairly silly. But people have a whole lot of love for the Amiga, it was a revolutionary machine at the time, and for many

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