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  • Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

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  • it’s not hard to earn in-game money and buy ships with that

    If you can skip that process by paying real money, and the things you unlock are gameplay-effecting upgrades, then that's pay-to-win. That's what the phrase originally meant before being diluted. Non pay-to-win microtransactions are purely cosmetic.

    Not that people should be playing any game that's infested with a microtransaction funding model. Let alone one with a base price of $45, let alone one with absolutely absurd "micro"-transactions meant to prey on mentally ill people, let alone one that's already taken people's free money only to implement all of the above.

    At one point in time horse armor was enough cause controversy. How did it all go so wrong?

  • Scientists build device to harvest electricity from Earth's spin

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  • I didn't bother to read the paper, but the article says the system produced "10s of nanoamps at 10s of microvolts". I'll just assume each of those values are "100", since that's the highest value you could describe as "10s" of something.

    That works out to 0.01 nanowatts. For comparison the tiny solar panel on a solar powered calculator might produce 0.0075 watts, or 750 million times that amount of power.

    In reality, since wattage is a multiple of volts and amps, lowering both of those figures from my highball estimate would massively decrease the wattage. The solar calculator probably produces billions of times more power than this 1 foot long cylinder.

    So, i think its neat that they were able to measure an effect, but the article really should not even be mentioning power generation.

  • society rule

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  • For yuri authors that choose to list a gender the vast majority of them, 80%+, are women. While it varies by distributor the audience for yuri works is made up of close to 50/50% men and women.

    Furthermore, if you look at the tag numbers on sites like MAL or mangagao you will find that yaoi manga outnumbers yuri manga by more than 5x:

    Also, while its male audience has grown in the intervening years, yaoi originated as a genre primarily by and for women who were attracted to men. Bara is generally more written by gay men for gay men.

  • You should know this, Scotty.

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  • This sort of thing is really common in video games where you're able to move in zero G.

    In the few games that have accurate zero G movement people get really confused. They'll hold a movement key the entire way to a destination then smack into it because they didn't realize they'd have to hold the opposite key for an equal amount of time to stop. Or they'll fly a certain distance like that, then want to make a 90° turn, only to keep careening off in the direction of their initial travel with a slight bend to it.

  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • Am I allowed to complain about software bloat if I don't have that?

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Philips Ultra Efficient bulbs use only 4 watts, and they have a glass bulb and metal base, so they might feel cool to the touch anyway. Or at least feel plausibly the same temperature as the room, depending on how hot it is in there.

  • 2025-12-24

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  • This one feels like it's trying to say something, but I'm not sure what.

  • Proton Experimental latest update improves playability for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER, Rec Room, Warframe, Darksiders, GODBREAKERS, Indivisible and King of Bones

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  • It worked for me, but then again I don't use a virtual keyboard.

  • The American mind cannot comprehend this

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  • huge fucking place basically 50 mini countries who mostly hate each other.

    First, stop with the 50 countries crap.

    Next, the size of your country has zero, literally nothing at all, to do with transportation within an individual city. Get the "america special" shit out of your brain, please.

    New York does 8 million transit trips a day and it’s just a Lil state

    3.6 million people pass through this single building once a day every day:

    The rail lines in the Greater Tokyo Area serve in excess of 40 million people per day.

    If US cities really were so big and busy and extreme compared to the rest of the world like you seem to think, they would have a larger need for rail transit, not a lesser one. A rail line has a higher capacity than a highway lane, by at least an order of magnitude.

    I am asking you again, please get the "we are so special and big and extreme nowhere else is comparable at all, no one else could even comprehend it" crap out of your head.

  • good boy rule

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  • good boy rule

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  • Made me want to post this one:

  • Gotta Catch 'Em All

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  • From the wording at the top it sounds like this was just for fun and probably ungraded.

  • I promise, no one can tell that you're high at work, trust me

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  • Out of curiosity what do you think your thought process would be in a McDonald's?

  • 17 foot tall snowman built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1963

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  • Nightshade - A new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

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  • "new"

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • I don't even necessarily disagree, but I think that position is unfalsifiable because if the example is a highly popular program then "that doesn't count because it's big", and if it has a small user base then "of course it's small, it has a shitty name".

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • Sort of

    Today we differentiate between the physical substance (or category of substances that are the ethers) and the alchemical concept of the aether, but look at the etymology of "ether".

    The term "ethyl", as in ethyl alcohol or ethanol, similarly traces its origins back to "ether".

    At the time these various "light" flammable easily evaporated substances were conflated with each other, and were thought to be this sorta mystical stuff that was the fifth element from which the 4 other ones were differentiated from. Since it was undifferentiated it was supposed to be "pure", and free of the messiness of ordinary life (space was thought to be filled with it because of the "perfect" predictable movements of the heavenly bodies). This is also where we get the word "quintessential", which literally means "fifth essence", to mean a pure, perfect, and archetypical example of something, without complications. It's also where we get the word "ethereal" to mean "otherworldly", "light", "ghostly", etc.

    It's for similar reasons that we use the word "spirit" to mean both something that comes in a bottle and a disembodied soul. All sorts of alchemists from different areas and different times believed different things of course, but a lot of alchemical thought was based on the idea that everything had essences inside it which were hard to perceive or touch directly but which gave things their properties. In other words something's essence is it's spirit.

    Of course what they called "spirits" or "essences" were really things like distillation products, gasses driven off by heating, and the colored flames that you get when you put some metals in fire. But that's what they thought was going on.

  • The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" while I was watching it

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  • The really crazy thing to me is when a game is updated to remove copyrighted songs they lost a license for.

    That was apparently never a problem back in the days of CDs, but now they have to do that or else the poor music companies will go bankrupt.

  • SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years

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  • Initial cost of the read device will be about $6,000

    That's not bad at all. It's something that basically every library could have. Imagine that level of distributed redundancy for hundreds of terrabytes worth of information, in a medium that essentially lasts forever.

    Assuming it really is coming out at that price of course.