Yeah, I mean… This is just “company releases Linux gaming pc” and just noting that it has a better graphics card than the Steam Machine.

I’ve gone through this with shows, and all I can say is that you tune out the studio laughter after a few episodes.

I’m not sure that effort alone is a good enough metric. Some great art actually does just kinda flow out sometimes, to the point where artists often talk about feeling like they’re just a channel that the art flows out of.

There’s great art that’s been born in 30 minutes as a silly afterthought of the artist, and also great art that took the artist’s entire life.

They’re probably using “Windows updates” to mean “updates to their software on Windows” but it’s obviously confusing.

And the fact that they hand wove that away, “we totally have solved the problem of counting installs on remote computers no problem, just trust us when we tell you how much you owe us”. Like, how out of touch from your userbase can you get?

Doing good does not guarantee rewards. Expecting rewards for doing good leads to disappointment, but doing good is absolutely rewarded sometimes.

There are plenty of gamers (myself included) who do actually like well-designed achievements, and they can actually really help you vary how you engage with a game. I’m sure that publishers also love the analytics, but pretending that they aren’t for regular people at all is silly too.

I didn’t know Seamless coop invasions were a thing at all! I’ve been wanting to do a coop run with a friend but also wanted to get invaded while we run through stuff, but assumed that invasions wouldn’t work properly.

Do invaders need to have the Seamless mod installed too or do you get Invaders from vanilla clients? I’m guessing it’s the former.

I played Red Room a decent amount when it first came out and hadn’t been completely taken over by children, and it was a great time! Apparently I had earned some fancy items, and over the last 8 years I’ve had like 20 people cold-messaging me on various platforms because I used the same username on Rec Room and they wanted the items.

Capitalism does not give incentives for self care and living like a human being. I see a lot of stuff like this in communities like this, and it’s because part of why our current system sucks is because it doesn’t give us time to just live.

There’s an annoying amount of people that believe that having fun and being joyful is not allowed when bad things are happening in the world.

They seem to know that bad things are always happening though…

The point is that humans are weird at evaluating risk.

Past a certain size, sample size stops mattering. You can filter the data to try and control for outliers and confounding variables, but with as much data we have on driving and flying, it’s just a fact that you are much more likely to be in an accident in a SINGLE car drive than you are in a SINGLE airplane ride.

And if you really think about it, it makes sense. All the pilots are heavily trained. They mostly don’t need to be constantly alert looking for other vehicles/pedestrians. The density of traffic in the air is much lower than a road, so you’re just way less likely to hit another plane and you don’t need to avoid pedestrians.

You are me! I can nap on my back, but something about night time sleeping makes me require laying on my side. Cannot go to sleep at night on my back at all.

Hey, I’m American and I’m absolutely pissed. This shit is bullshit and I’m pulling every lever I can, I just don’t have a lot of levers.

I say this multiple times per week.

DARE programs were notoriously ineffective. Some studies found that students who went through it were MORE likely to try drugs.

I also had a fairly friendly cop come in for our DARE classes when I was a kid. They also basically just said “drugs are always bad, just say no, if you don’t your whole life is ruined.”

They didn’t talk about why people use drugs. They lied or exaggerated negative effects. They discouraged any critical thinking about it. It was not a good program.

That looks like some fucking good pizza.

Well done.

Honestly this was my biggest “wtf” takeaway from this. There’s a Microsoft Copilot DISCORD SERVER? Are there other “official” Discord servers for other random Microsoft products? Why aren’t they using Teams or whatever?

To be fair, they lay everyone off even when the teams make a good game too.

Is there any data on how many actual people still regularly use Twitter? I feel like you’re assuming that that’s where the users are, and maybe that’s still true, but I don’t know a single real life person who still actually uses it.