Wow. I knew the troll(s) were working in unison, but didn't expect to learn that it goes all the way back to this fucker. They really have nothing better to do and have been at this for a while.
One of them must've reported back to their Discord that Dom's an AFK mod.
Like Norenia said, they got sold in 2022. Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montreal went to CDE Entertainment, which is just another Embracer subsidiary.
Now Embracer is splitting into three so those studios will end up under "Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends"
At least Lara can hang out with Adam Jensen in the IP gulag.
pretending that they "created it together"
There's a procedure called "reciprocal IVF" in which they use the egg from one and implant it in the other just so they can feel more "involved." Incurring all the risks of IVF plus a couple extra risks over regular assisted feralization just for the feels.
Being willing to take those entirely unnecessary risks for self-gratification tells you everything you need to know about what kind of parent the narcissists will be.
There's also this one which is interesting and done for non-vanity reasons, but results in a kid with DNA from three parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_replacement_therapy
Edit: To be clear, there are non-vanity reasons for reciprocal IVF but it is marketed towards lesbians for vanity reasons. It's obviously not cheap.
There are over 6 million car accidents annually in the US. When will the terrorists stop trying to shut down our roads and freeways! There are thousands of attacks a day! Why is no one talking about it?!
Maybe there could be something to it, but it just oozes confirmation bias. A big event happened so now we notice all the small events of the same type and because it's not something we're personally familiar with, we have no sense of scale.
If you're saying that it's the increasing population of retards and a competency crisis, then you're on to something. But I really doubt anyone is carrying out deliberate attacks. Besides the people pushing the diversity hires. That is the attack.
Even worse I'd guess. Unstoppable meaning that they can't decide who is allowed to use it.
Just wait for them to charge some wrong-thinking open source dev because someone happened to use their string-parsing library in ransomware or something.
What am I saying, "happened." They'll find someone they want to arrest, include their harmless general-purpose code in a false flag and then persecute them.
I've got to agree with this one. For a lot of them it's about making superficial efforts to be seen as "involved." It's not maternal. It's frivolous high school girl stuff.
I'd go as far as to say the ones who are the more maternal kind are actually the competent ones. I've seen a couple of project managers who can keep a dozen teams in almost as many time zones synced up with the laser precision of a mom getting a van full of kids to their respective sports practices on time. Billy isn't missing piano and that product is shipping on time.
Anyone in HR is a cancer though.
This is a hilarious idea. Train LLMs agents based individual's chat histories, simulate a long conversation instantly, and check the results.
Millions of dollars worth the parallel processing hardware just throwing pickup lines at itself until one lands and turns on a little green light somewhere.
But seriously this is them comparing profiles in a slightly different way and throwing $CURRENT_TECH_BUZZWORD at it. I'd be shocked if these apps hadn't been using collaborative filtering and/or neural networks for years.
It's funny because men are 1000x more discouraged from expressing anger and rage than women are.
But if this is the excuse it takes to get you outdoors getting some physical exercise, I guess it could be helpful.
Edit: Also I'm noticing a lack of "diversity" in this video, so I can only assume this is a racist hate ritual /s.
That's a you problem. Discord is just IRC (+ZNC) duct taped to Vent. Nothing is more or less "intimate" about it than platforms we've had for decades. Not that there weren't plenty of odd relationships on IRC.
The significant exception is persistent identity, which I could do without and is the root cause of why modern social platforms are such shit. But on the whole, it really isn't anything new. Unless you actually care about trivial shit like emote reactions.
I don't know if it's this one, but it's good. He probably had another on that topic specifically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VviwQeV0mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHr5tJhTgA
Sole proprietorships maybe but you hire one person and suddenly you're the "petit bourgeoisie" which gives you the distinction of being the enemy AND a traitor to the other workers. They hate them more than the megacorps.
They might have a point about XBox. Imagine pouring all that R&D into making a shitty console when you're already the company that makes the OS on 72% of the PCs out there. They could license to third parties to their own Steam Machine equivalent with living-room targeted Windows PCs. Then the XBox division becomes software-only which has much larger margins.
Merge the ecosystems and then go all-in on Gamepass and the storefront. They're already competing with Steam, Epic, Sony, and Nintendo - why not fight a war on only one front by making the idea of a "console" obsolete and annihilating the PlayStation brand? Let Nintendo have whatever's left of the console space after that. Nintendo's carved out their own, very well defended, niche. MS was never getting that business anyway. Not to mention the console business is getting fucked at the low end by mobile.
I guarantee you the business guys have at least considered it. Business guys love outsourcing HW and focusing on those juicy SW margins.
This. It's the eternal problem with moderation (and politicians). No one who would be good at the job is retarded enough to want the job and they're definitely not willing to Do It For Free.
Do I think Dom's fucked up a fair bit? Absolutely. But judged purely against other mods and "community managers..." He hasn't tried grooming any of us, so he's already in at least the top 95% mods on Reddit-style forums.
Why on earth would he think telling people this would be a good thing?
The article literally tells you why. He was being deposed during his divorce proceedings in 2012. He was claiming that the injury left him with less earning potential, presumably in an attempt reduce how badly he was being divorce raped.
Worm trouble?
Pissing off Grammar Nazis at best.