Bingo.

It invites hatred from a sizeable (though perhaps potentially less politically-aware) fan base that might otherwise be receptive.

Using someone as popular as Swift as a target for less-pop-culture-interested folks who are politically informed is clearly kicking the hornets’ nest to stir up in-fighting among the working class.

Next time use Bezos or one of the other folks who showed up in that “Dialog” secret society since they also use private jets in the same way someone like Swift does, but in addition are far worse in every other way and who also lobby with their billions towards worsening the world in every way imaginable.

I’m about to be a huge asshole… so buckle up.

It’s literally just past midnight where I am - and the temperature is 80F and 85% humidity outside right now where I live.

Opening up the windows to “LeT in the CoOl” is laughably stupid suggestion for a MASSIVE number of folks living in parts of the US whose climate is more akin to EGYPT than to any part of Europe where air conditioning is still not the norm.

I have solar panels across my roof, I have solar screens on every window, energy efficient shades, black out curtains, and I only do laundry and cook in the oven (if even that) ONLY when it is dark out.

The actual solution is NO LLM HYPER CENTERS, neighborhood and building-wide geothermal energy, super white painted roof tops, requiring solar panels over any existing commercial parking lots that tie into the local grids, and high speed trains.

The stuff you suggest is like the “paper straw legislation” equivalent… when a dozen companies create something like 80% of all pollution with city-sized cargo ships crossing the ocean, private jets, and homes the size of warehouses consuming insane levels of resources just to exist as secondary holiday living spaces for the endlessly greedy.

Random thought : Anyone here ever seen the excellent 1996 film that takes place in Mississippi starring Samuel L Jackson - A Time to Kill?

It's a movie about a man who is accused of doing something to racists who seem like they're going to get away with doing something terrible.

Anyway... Good movie.

No worries. Hope I wasn't too harsh. Just want people to realize their personal experiences with only their local climates should probably not be letting that limited set of personal experiences then shape their own understanding of areas of the world of which they are far less familiar...

Imagine someone who's never been in the desert going "why are they wearing full white robes?"

...and then that same person proclaiming : "Shouldn't they just wear a t-shirt and that will help keep them cool?"

Not that I've lived in any desert before or worn anything like that before, but when wondering that myself, instead of thinking I knew better, I looked up some info... and instead found out that those "full-length white robes" actually not only protect their skin from UV ray damage, but also help insulate them from the heat better than just wearing less would in climates with less brutally hot dry temperatures. Also keeps wind from blasting sand against their skin, and when the temperature drops at night in the desert, that style of clothing also does a better job at keeping them warm.

Ah yes... because we are responsible for our entire multi-generational family tree settling in an area a hundred or more years ago... and we should just be okay completely bailing on the area where everyone close to us has ever lived... where we have connections... OH also, it's totally not insanely expensive to find a place away from where you have always lived... you know... where the cost of living is cheaper because it is crappier than somewhere nice..., which also means then the deck is stacked against you moving somewhere nicer is even harder because a better place is more cost prohibitive by the nature that it is just a more desirable place to live.

Any wallpaper from the Steam Workshop that also requires a separate EXE or DLL file to run is an insta-no-dawg from me.

That’s the Steam Deck.

Shitty framing.

They don’t want to pay for the luxury of being able to have an engineer on call 24/7 by paying 3 people to cover a full 24-hr spread of time.

They want to pay one guy a shit salary without overtime and be able to work them 24/7/365.

I am convinced that violet8 is the single most horny poster on Lemmy now... which is fine... because I am entertained by your posts.

To be fair, that probably is a REALLY nice broadcast-grade CRT like a SONY BVM-20F1U or something… which most people did NOT have access to back in the day.

Hell, my wealthy buddy’s family had a “flat screen” (meaning the CRT didn’t have a curved face) SONY WEGA CRT in the mid-90s and I know it had S-Video, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t even have a component connection, let alone the quality aperture grille/shadow masking, or the contrast ratio that the BVMs did (because those things were at local TV news stations running 24/7).

In reality, there’s a bunch of differences with connection types providing various levels of quality and CRT display technology , but the accessibility that new TVs give us all to astoundingly good picture quality at a pretty reasonable price means we are living in a golden era for retro gaming if you know what you’re doing.

I’ll take my gigantic 4K OLED hooked up to a MiSTer with some great shaders rendering the sub-pixel effects a real CRT has to emulate this visual effect with run-ahead to minimize the latency + input lag over anything except a BVM-20F1U in near mint condition almost any other day of the week.

TL;DR - you can emulate those sub-pixel CRT era display technology display artifacts with a decent shader on a good 4K OLED, and probably spend less than you’d need to get almost the exact same visual effect with pretty much none of the pitfalls you get with old CRTs like massive electricity use, having to carry a 150-250lb CRT, hope it has no burn-in, decent remaining bulb life, etc.

Said this in another thread :

First off - yes Sony is in the wrong.

Second - Helldivers ain’t Flappy Bird. Making an online multiplayer game that needs the ability to do reliable matchmaking across multiple platforms with hundreds of thousands of players out there needs MASSIVE network and infrastructure support…

So you may say “don’t take money from the mob,” but this is more a situation of where if they HADN’T taken Sony’s support, they likely wouldn’t have been able to have the resources to have done all that themselves which could have made the difference between their great success and failure.

Remember that the first helldivers game was also a Sony published title where everything worked out fine for everyone then… but mostly because it wasn’t near as big a success story and making headlines but was instead a far more niche title lost mostly in the noise of smaller dev Sony titles.

I’m sure arrowhead has learned its lesson now and it will likely able probably to flex its muscles in the future thanks to its success financially - as I’m sure lots of publishers will be now coming at them with much more lucrative and favorable contract deals going forward, but they probably would not have been able to do what they wanted to do at the scale that they have been able to had Sony not been there to help provide that initial capital and infrastructure support.

This is Sony’s fault fully. The guys at Arrowhead are just wanting to have the means to make good games. They needed the resources to launch successfully and pretending it would have been feasible otherwise without said resources is sadly… naive.

Ah yes, the ol' "joking about a threesome" trick.

"What?! Oh, no I mean... I was just joking, honey. I'd never do that... I mean unless..."