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by ythl 10y ago
You're not "buying" a Tesla anymore just like you aren't "buying" an iPhone anymore. Thus it is not "yours", and you can't do anything you want with it.
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by ythl 10y ago
> sing untrained, un-uninformed randos to deliver packages in their personal vehicles means my deliveries get screwed up much, much more frequently Lasersh*t strikes again
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by ythl 10y ago
That's a flaw in democracy, not my argument. Democracy relies on the majority having good moral judgment. If you're in the minority, too bad. I'm sure there are lots of religious people that would like to impose their morals
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by ythl 10y ago
> and proclaimed that one of his first acts as President would be to ensure the imprisonment of his political rival. Yeah, but he's saying that because HRC has used her power and wealth to evade punishment for the white collar crime
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by ythl 10y ago
> Even as a liberal Democrat, I feel sorrow for the loss of a loyal opposition and a voice for limited government. I always got the impression from my liberal friends that they would be overjoyed controlling the house, senate, and oval o
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by ythl 10y ago
> Are we to believe there is no line to be drawn, anywhere on this continuum? The problem is that the line being proposed here separates roughly 50% of the population of America, possibly more. You are basically saying "I know that
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by ythl 10y ago
No, we can just see right through the gross hyperbole that people are so fond of invoking. It's like the anti-circumcision folks saying things like: "Circumcision is a barbaric practice in which babies have their genitals violentl
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by ythl 10y ago
Politics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.
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by ythl 10y ago
That moment when https://xkcd.com/1357 gets taken too far and people are afraid of voicing anything but the current, popular, politically correct opinions for fear of losing their careers.
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by ythl 10y ago
Italians have the opposite problem - too much spare time (at least, all at once). When I lived in Italy I was astonished that the entire country could effectively shut down for an entire month (ferragosto). I mean, come on, at least stagg
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by ythl 10y ago
Because European governments take a lot more out of your salary before it reaches you in exchange for social services (pensions, healthcare, etc). Unlike America where you are expected to either drop a stack of bills just to see the doctor
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by ythl 10y ago
> So, I always wonder when reading this stuff, what portion of the sample just has "affluenza" People don't like being held accountable for their own situation. The blame will always be shifted to society where possible. Y
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by ythl 10y ago
"Fox had little experience with game development; he and his three brothers often used RPG Maker 2000 to make role-playing games, though few were ever completed." Fox still has all the assets for Undertale. All he has to do is por
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by ythl 10y ago
You should host the list and post a high visibility link (i.e. news article). You'll probably discover real quick the pressures that caused GitHub and GitLab to buckle so quickly.
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by ythl 10y ago
I don't even believe that. One or more merchants on that list threatened you with legal action so you took it down. Even if your cover story is true, you are basically throwing users and banks under the bus to help merchants with dir
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by ythl 10y ago
GitLab booted it too. Something fishy going on here. Edit: Mirror of the 5900 sites: https://archive.fo/8u0iB
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by ythl 10y ago
I would argue that other frameworks have too steep of a learning curve for beginning game devs, and as a result, prospective game devs skip GameMaker because of the criticism and then immediately get overwhelmed by UE4, then quit trying alt
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by ythl 10y ago
"The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest"
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by ythl 10y ago
You can't. A forecast is just that - a prediction.
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by ythl 10y ago
People are worried about how they are perceived by other developers. It's the same reason a lot of people loudly pooh-pooh GameMaker (citing Godot, UR4, Unity, etc. as superior) even though it's a super powerful tool that, in the
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by ythl 10y ago
> replacing natural ingredients with chemicals. How is natural vanillin any better than synthetic vanillin? Matter is matter. Organic molecules are identical whether a plant produced them or a chemist.
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by ythl 10y ago
For some reason I am imagining you working in a server room shaped like an equilateral triangle (i.e. the walls of the room meet at a 60° angle)
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by ythl 10y ago
We build a bigger, better telescope. Soon... "Observable universe contains 100x more galaxies than previously thought" Downvote me all you want, I've seen the predicted amount of galaxies in the universe increase by factors o
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by ythl 10y ago
The say democracy is one of the most inefficient forms of government in existence. Way more inefficient, for example, than a benevolent dictator. However, democracy is the only type of government that is effective at mitigating tyranny. Her
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by ythl 10y ago
Just thought I'd also mention that he likes to do "case studies" where he reverse engineers effects from different games in Unity using mostly Cg shader code (Ice from Spelunky, Golden Cards from Hearthstone, Bomb explosions
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by ythl 10y ago
TL;DR Homage to Latin
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by ythl 10y ago
For Unity apps I like "Makin' Stuff Look Good": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEklP9iLcpExB8vp_fWQseg
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by ythl 10y ago
I'm arguing nothing of the sort, only that the sheer number of people enjoying and fulfilling fantasies of violence and destruction are indicative of deep instinctual human tendencies. Most people would not enjoy child rape simulator 3
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by ythl 10y ago
You should start a VR game studio and make a game about kidnapping and raping children. People like being able to do silly things. Give them points for every rape and make sure there is a win condition (people like winning games). This type
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by ythl 10y ago
His point was that you find something gratifying in the fantasy of murder and violence. If you don't find GTA to be abhorrent, then that means deep down some aspect of the anarchy and violence is appealing to you.

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