Orcocracy

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[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago

Or even just pay attention and stop looking at their goddamn phones in the middle of their fucking STEM classes. They ran a text-generating algorithm with shitty sci-fi novels in its ‘training’ database and the algorithm generated text similar to those same shitty sci-fi novels. This isn’t exactly difficult to understand stuff.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

It might depend on where you live and whether Valve can legally get away with the price fixing this UK case is accusing it of or not.

To give one example, the base price for the standard edition Cyberpunk on the PlayStation store is CAD60 (ultimate edition CAD95), on the Nintendo eShop the ultimate edition is CAD100 (no standard edition is available), and on Steam the standard edition is CAD80 and ultimate is CAD110. Interestingly, base prices on Epic and GoG are lock-step on the standard and just $5 off on the ultimate edition with Steam’s prices.

Maybe there is price fixing going on after all, but perhaps Valve can only persuade publishers to fix the PC prices, hence the cheaper game prices on consoles.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That calculation gets a bit weird around zero C

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, please feel free to read “got distracted” in that manner, apologies for my somewhat vague and passive language. The US is a bloodthirsty country and found itself a more tempting set of victims for a few years, to put it a bit more dramatically.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Since the 1990s really. For example, when the US bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in ‘99, and then a US spy plane was captured after it went down over China in April 2001. Then 9-11 happened a few months later and the US got distracted for a decade and a half or so.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes I did see your joke, thank you. Just out of curiosity: Why make the joke about AC3 and not one of the other made in Canada games about the US? Again, this is not meant as an insult or a malicious assumption or whatever, I’m just genuinely curious.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s the joke, isn’t it? None of the games on the list were made in the USA.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve heard tale that the Gen Alpha teens find outwardly enjoying things to be cringe as their peers will shame them for it on TikTok. But I’m not sure how true that really is.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Additionally, the unspoken reality here is that we are all picturing some kind of imaginary essential pre-globalization cuisine and ignoring the fact that people in all of these countries are just as likely to eat a meal at a fucking McDonalds.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Doubtless at least one Swedish person has lacked culinary discipline and spread jam on toast, putting all of Scandinavia to shame.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

There really isn’t much difference between the food in Britain, Germany, Sweden, etc. For example, they all basically do the same sausage and potatoes with poorly seasoned vegetables dish, just like every state in the US claims that they have a special version of pizza or hotdogs or whatever even though it’s really all just the same shit. It’s the narcissism of small differences.

Oh my god in Sweden they have lingonberry jam on toast but in the UK they have marmalade on toast and in Germany they’ll put Nutella on toast holy shit so different.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I did mention monitoring installs as one of the reasons, thank you. That was the only online check back when it was introduced 25 years ago, but there’s quite a bit more going on now.

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