Unreal Tournament is an arena first-person shooter, with head-to-head multiplayer deathmatches being the primary focus of the game.

Those are two terrible examples to use for single player games.

My guess is what they really meant was ‘single-purchase’.

It takes all the fun out of bombing school children when it makes oil prices go up

That’s one hell of a perverse incentive

First of all, fuck them.

Secondly, thank you for working on this app. I know Roku is a bit of a liability, and I’ll eventually have to move to something open source, but it’s been my main media player for a couple of years and I’ve been very happy with it. o7

One Pink Floyd album and now we have to deprogram everyone’s misconceptions

Sounds like he got to visit a pedo-island.

I feel like I’m having a Mandela Effect moment because this seems very familiar.

I did some searching and it reminded me that there was a shop called Tesseract Computers in my home town.

For the blue cube, are you perhaps thinking of an SGI workstation of some sort? Some of those were blue cubes.

The problem with the phone thing is that banks (though not all of them) limit you to two operating system vendors: Google and Apple. Is that better than Visa and MC?

The moral of the story is cocaine

I saw it last night and really liked it. The book seemed perfect for an adaptation, and I think they pulled off the tricky bits.

I’m old so I’ve seen lots of movies, but mostly in the distant past. In the 90s it was almost a weekly thing. This century it’s very rare.

They wanted hate, but they got hate and poverty.

machines will be able to ‘think like humans’ when it happens

Maybe AGI is just a brain-destroying pandemic?

Hang on, is a sphere just a torus that poops out it’s mouth?

I think a web of trust is a much more powerful concept. Users should be able to choose how they distribute and delegate trust.

The tree invite thing is what private torrent trackers have been doing for a long time.

You can audit the code but something like:

The rate of commits and new features seems rather high for a single person working by themselves

Is a huge problem in itself IMO. It implies there’s no real human oversight of the project.

These are hilarious and made me want to go to Ottawa more than anything else I’ve seen recently.

Wouldn’t the transmission be directional to a satellite or possibly other aircraft? It doesn’t seem like something that would be useful on the ground.

Conventional cheerleading is just doing it to cheer on a team.

So they only have amateur predators?

How could you enforce a maximum price? People will just negotiate and pay outside of the system.

It’s because CEOs don’t play cyberpunk, but they did try chatgpt and got an immediate boner thinking about all the people they could lay off.