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I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence.

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Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs
  • Unity is so ubiquitous that it would have unimaginable consequences.
    For example, 90% of vr games are made in Unity. So that's one segment of gaming completely wiped off the map.

    Things are not much better in desktop and mobile gaming either, as Unity has close to 50% market share.
    It would be a literal Thanos snap.

  • Unity Has Apologized For Its Install Fee Policy and Says It 'Will Be Making Changes' to It - IGN
  • This is a huge opportunity for Unreal as well. I'm surprised they haven't announced some flashy on-boarding campaign.

  • How I imagine most Reddit moderators look
  • Pretty much this.

    I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.

    Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.

    I just can't understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?

  • Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?
  • Ditto. Except I use an old Nokia from 2007.

  • Western doublespeak compilation
  • freedom fighters vs terrorists
    Media really had a field day with these over the last 20 years.

  • Arizona cop who put gun to handcuffed woman's head ☆might☆ lose state certification for copwork
  • "might"?! A person with this mentality should never even be allowed near firearms!
    This is the kind of asshole who shoots someone at a routine stop for coughing.

  • Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer
  • I played HL2 in VR and the original (but upscaled) textures still looked good.
    It would be great to play the RTX version in VR as well because it adds so much to the atmosphere. Baked in lighting is only good up to a point.

  • Researchers Expose Tricks to Jailbreak AI Tools and Gain Knowledge for Illegal Activities
  • "Forbidden knowledge" my ass. You can just Google these things.

  • Scientists, disturbed by anti-science and far-right content, starting to leave Twitter
  • Really? Because as far as I know it's a pyramid scheme.

  • Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games
  • Bold of you to assume they even went to business school.
    All the big wigs I've met were "self-made millionaires" -meaning assholes that used, manipulated and fucked over enough people to reach their current positions.

    Also, tax evasion.

  • North Korea's Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations
  • Kim made the comments at a meeting of the Central Military Commission which discussed plans for countermeasures to deter North Korea's enemies, which it did not name, the report said.

    Are these enemies in the room with us now?

  • The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans
  • It's infuriatingly stupid. It makes me read the same sentence 2-3 times before I understand what they're trying to say.

    We have a well established and clear distinction between 'streaming service' and 'streamer', why fuck with it?

    What's more, it's double stupid because now both 'streamer' and 'streaming service' means "a company" AND we don't have a word for individuals streaming on the web.

  • Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'
  • Can you imagine the sheer weight of cognitive dissonance they would experience if it their mind wasn't slathered with industrial-grade denial?

  • Due to deepfakes and people getting really good at editing, there's only going to be a very brief period in human history where video could be trusted as evidence.
  • Photoshop has been around for over quarter of a century but you don't need a forensic team to tell something has been photoshopped.
    Tools to detect image (and video) modifications have been around and will continue to be developed alongside these technologies. We're simply entering a new era of media creation.

    When Photoshop became mainstream, people said the exact same thing, but somehow the world didn't end up on its head.

  • Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
  • The entire story surrounding this discovery is a scientific rollercoaster ride, with rogue scientists, updated papers, plus cloudy definitions and process descriptions within the paper that make replication efforts more difficult, and even a Russian soil scientist (and anime catgirl) deconstructing the original Korean paper to unveil the trademark levitation of the Meissner effect over her own kitchen counter.

    I can't believe they just dropped all this without any explanation. XD

  • Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice -- and scientists are scrambling to figure out why | CNN
  • The article actually provides it in feedom units.

    That is an area nearly as large as Argentina or the combined areas of Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

  • Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark
  • People still don't understand that AI is an all encompassing term like "tool" and not a single thing.

    Just like we use thousands of vastly different and specialized tools, in a decade we'll be surrounded by medical AI, engineering AI, accounting AI, design AI, research AI, life coaching AI, etc.

    Right now we have a few LLMs and generative AIs, but that's like having a pen and a spray gun.
    Of course you wouldn't ask any of them for a medical diagnosis.

  • Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to 'all the birds'
  • That only works if you don't alienate the user base.