They’re claiming that this is a DDoS attack but multiple users have posted replies with that message so it seems that they might be either lying or incompetent.
It’s worth nothing that archive.org is unrelated to other archive services like archive.ph and has been known to support leftist causes and remove archived pages to that end.
I'd say his views are sincere enough, but he understands that it's his job. Political commentary is how he makes money. It's literally his career. So he does what keeps his paying customers happy. In the end it doesn't matter if he really believes as far as he says, but his boomer DW customers who pay the bills want to watch someone who appears to believe that way, so that's what he provides. I'm sure he doesn't like video games, but his real disdain might be a 4 out of 10, while the paying customer wants to see 10 out of 10 hatred for video games, so that's what he gives them.
To me this is a distinction without a difference. I didn’t care whether Anita Sarkeesian was doing what she did purely as a money grift and didn’t hate video games at all, or if she merely disliked them but played it up, or if she was/is a true believer.
The damage is the same whether or not the human garbage that espoused it was sincere.
I won't give attention whores like that the benefit of the doubt.
The average person who loses weight? Of course that should be celebrated; being healthy should be encouraged. But the fact that this person apparently hid his weight loss like that while continuing to post old videos? It's all performance and he's in it for the grift until proven otherwise.
For anyone who might not be aware, Rust has a Code of Conduct that includes such wonderful rules as "Remarks that moderators find inappropriate, whether listed in the code of conduct or not, are also not allowed," had a conference with 50% trans/"non-binary" speakers, and its community is generally full of "nontechnical nonsense" like promotion of trans politics.
So it's rich that this bastard wants to complain about C developers telling him to fuck off. He's a Microsoft employee too, so it's hard for me to not see this as pulling "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" on the open source community by injecting it with radical leftist politics which are incompatible with an environment of meritocracy.
That was my first thought too. Apparently, some people now use the term to refer to Palestinians living in the West Bank.
Or maybe they're just "disabled, neurodiverse, or mental health issues." Actually scratch that, they're definitely retarded.
they knew that the smallest glitch in Election Day technology could become fodder for conspiracy theorists
The firm had offshored part of the work
A programmer had hard-coded the Ukrainian national anthem into the database
This was “a disaster averted,” said the person familiar with the probe, citing the risk that hackers could have exploited the first two issues to surreptitiously edit the state’s voter rolls, or use them and the presence of the Ukrainian national anthem to stoke election conspiracies.
Golly, I sure am glad to hear it's all just a conspiracy theory and not conspiracy fact. Someone might have gotten the wrong idea...
There is little oversight of the supply chain that produces crucial election software, leaving financially strapped state and county offices to do the best they can with scant resources and expertise.
I bet soon enough it will have the best fortifications "guardrails" they can create for it.
release date the day before election day
The release is October 11, which is three and half weeks before election day. I can see how the title could be confusing, though (date before election day vs day before election day).
I firmly believe that the reason that media like Law and Order blend fact and fiction is to purposely confuse normies who won't remember which is which, and that this is yet another attempt by hollywoke to pull that same stunt. Except this time it's to influence an election.
It suggests that the French state isn't being given access to a backdoor by Telegram. It doesn't necessarily suggest that the state doesn't have access through other means though, as it may be in their best interest to act like they don't even if they do.
Nitter: https://nitter.privacydev.net/fedalvar/status/1825749345666478543
I banned the account quickly
You don't say. These people get a high off banning people.
This is kind of working out in our favour because looking at their psychology you realise even when it comes to something they're 'outraged' about they'll have forgotten it all within a month because normies are absolute retards.
This reminds me of a comment of yours I saw in another thread, and I have to say I disagree that it's necessarily favorable:
What's extremely creepy about the psychology of it all is the normies especially will forget anything the journalists post in a month or even less these days and they fucking know it.
The goal isn't to have normies outraged at anything specific.
Journos and other leftists don't care if normies remember that Donald Trump rudely and impatiently dumped bread into a Koi pond (nevermind the fact Trump was following Shinzo Abe's lead, of course). They care about the negative impression of Trump burned in by article after article and story after story.
They don't care if normies remember George Floyd. They care about the repeated narrative of cops killing innocent black people.
They don't care if woke Fallout or Witcher or whatever remains popular. They care about woke entertainment being normalized.
But then this can work both ways. Normies may not necessarily remember the shit Biden and Harris have done, but they can feel like they're worse off for it.
There is a rainbow tie accessory for Pyro, make of that what you will. IIRC it may also be possible to customize colors for some items to make it a rainbow.
It seems possible to me that Valve's issue was more that someone was trying to sneak this by without getting it approved rather than the content itself. But I do think Valve tries to stay out of any overt politics.
I know you got retro hipsters that would be interested but not enough of them.
I think for most people into retro media (who aren't just in it to make a buck), emulating the experience is probably enough. For games that could be using an emulator on modern hardware, and for movies or TV that could be just watching old media. Going further you might use visual filters, or maybe actual hardware (with or without mods) in combination with something like a flash cart or ODE.
Physical media itself is arguably the least important part of that equation, and those who do care about it are in it to collect, not to rent.
I keep mixing them up, I won't buy from the people who did that bully hunters shit lol.
That was SteelSeries that sponsored that.
SteelSeries also backtracked after that disaster of a livestream, but the fact they endorsed such an idea in the first place means I’m never going to buy any of their products. There are plenty of other options.
And there will be no reason to not go back and re-translate with a better, faster, more accurate AI model for the older works.
I think this might be expecting too much from the big publishers. At least when it comes to games.
It will probably be similar to now where fans have to spend years hacking the game to fix the translation, except that the fans can use the AI themselves instead of needing a translator.
Still better than dealing with ideological “localizers” though.
I think no matter where you stand on the idea in theory it’s hard to deny that the reality would go very poorly.
The trannies might be able to escape blame for injuring women but normal men would not and as a result many would have to hold back out of fear.
And even in sports where there is no chance of a participant injuring another you just know they would start grading on a curve.
This (and the other similar stories that were leaked) all read as fables. They're fucked up in the way fables often are, and they're not really all that salacious or pornographic.
They're reminiscent of stories that actually made it into some of the games (particularly the 4th gen ones).