Th4tGuyII

Yes, but that’s not the point.

ELI5 means Explain Like I’m 5 [ys/o]. It’s not meant to be an info-dump, it’s meant to be a basic explainer for someone who is interested to know about a specific thing, but has no knowledge of the surrounding subject matter.

Would you point a 5 year old to a wikipedia article and tell them to read up about DNS’s. No, you’d explain it to them in terms they understand.

What do you think are the chance that they cooked these insects first?

Is a bit wild how they remembered to put down vinyls and even cassettes, but forgot DVDs and VHS tapes which are very arguably bigger household names than Blu-ray.

Also, literally all millenials were born before 2000. And many of them (myself included) grew up with VHS and DVD.

Exactly. I absolutely agree with OP that robbing people of the choice to own physical media sucks…

But when not paired with shitty-ass DRM, digital format media can be an absolute boon for games preservation. Easy to backup, takes up barely any physical space, and doesn’t require physical hardware to play it that will become increasingly sparce and expensive over time.

If the industry doesn’t want to provide legal pathways towards games preservation, then it looks like the pirates are going to start wearing archavist hats too.

In the same week they’re in the spotlight again for removing purchased content from people’s libraries?

Born too late to explore the world, too early to explore space - but just in time to watch the rise and enshitification of the internet and gaming.

Yeah. Stealing from the employees they say, while pushing said employees out of the window

If piracy was the actual reason for not releasing on PC, then Rock-star/2K are downright idiotic considering most current consoles GTA 6 will be releasing on have exploits/jailbreaks that also allow for piracy/dumping.

Might as well just not release the game at all, that way nobody can pirate it… which seems to be the current strategy anyways

Exactly this. Overlord’s primary weapons and defense were held on by relatively thin and delicate arms that Warhead just broke almost instantly with the first bite.

A simple and sturdy design is hard to beat.

Extra parts means extra failure points. The Nudge is just KISS on steroids.

If someone actually managed to get turned on reading this, I’d be concerned for their mental well-being

Wow, today I learned. That’s a rather interesting story.

A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.

While I do respect this guy’s perspective, I don’t think you need to be a historian to see just how terrifying this is.

You’ve got multiple top members of the Fortune 100 over-leveraging their finances multiple times over and laying off staff like no tomorrow, all so that they can dump billions upon billions of dollars into a technology that hasn’t so far even made a single penny of profit.

And then, just to prove how wild all this speculation has gotten, in walks fucking Elon Musk with SpaceX - which for reference in 2025 made $20 billion gross with a net loss of $5 billion - being valued at damn near $2 trillion, a figure it cannot possibly make back with its current rate of progress.

Its maddening. Investors are playing with the dollar like it’s monopoly money, but at some point somebody is going to have to pay the bills, and who do you think that’s gonna be? Cause it certainly isn’t going to be them stupid fucks.

Not even just evidence based. Anything that’s just a bit too fair and egalitarian towards all folks.

There is a little bit of nuance in there…

For millenials at least, a lot of us grew up with Boomer parents, who saw a very defensive military. Fighting for us against foes who truly wished harm upon us (i.e. Nazis/Axis). These were folks you could proudly look up to.

Whereas what more modern generations have grown up with is an offensive military, which seemingly goes out of its way to create conflict. Not to defend us, but to defend the interests of the rich - including fighting the very public whose tax money funds said military.

And there’s no better proof of this than people’s opinion of Ukraine’s military (outside of tankies) versus the US military.

This is the type of person to pick up fruit and vegetables without checking their conditions, then be shocked when they’re bruised and damaged

Enough Scoville’s and your ass will be burning brighter than the sun in the middle of July

Good point. Does a Tool Assisted Shit (aka. a TAS) plasma shit count?

If your ass can shit out Plasma or a Bose-Einstein Condensate, you ought to go to hospital

If the bulk of those 3 million pages are truly duplicates of existing pages or unrelated to Epstein, why not release them? Why not get that doubt out of the air?

Considering the fact that Trump’s DOJ were practically forced by congress just to release the redacted mess that they did, I sincerely doubt that their refusal to release the remaining 3 million pages is in good faith.

There’s almost certainly damning evidence in those remaining files, but the chances of us getting to see that are slim to none - as it’d all be redacted anyways.

It would’ve been easier for them to just spill ink all over the files and call it a day.

Such blazen plagiarism and profiteering from “fans” of John Koenig’s work is abhorrent.

Of course this kind of thing existed before GenAI, but the problem is how easy its become to plaigiarise the work of actual creators by just prompting an AI to do it for you.