Because the loan fraud involved his audio production company and his reputation is now marred?

Not to kill the vibe (if you’re having fun then by all means continue) but replying is probably the worst thing you can do - all you’re doing is telling the spammers that you have an active email address, so they’ll send more spam.

Sounds about right. 41% of game devs got laid off last year, and there have been several more big layoffs since that survey.

Statistically, this is a terrible time to try and join the industry.

Or else they’ll say ‘stop’ again, but quieter

How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal

Not if your chosen reference frame is a hand and a ball, as per the example

This isn’t about you, America.

The billionaires’ various acts of performative space tourism are dumb to be sure, but they’re just a drop in the ocean for this specific issue.

Not personally, and if a creator I follow did so I would unsub immediately. It’s lazy and insulting to the audience.

Anyone who cites an LLM or AI-generated summary as a legitimate source can’t be trusted to provide truthful or accurate information.

I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.

I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?

In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.

They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.

Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.

They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.

I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.

It’s not just down, it’s gone:

News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

Absolutely not the same.

The key defining characteristic of a game is interactivity: the ability to affect the outcome in some way. Some games allow for less freedom than others in that respect, but watching someone else play and make those decisions for you is always going to be fundamentally different to playing it yourself.

Not to diminish the value of streams, especially if you find enjoyment in watching them, but you should understand that it’s not a comparable experience.

It’s hard enough finding one job - how in the hell are these people getting five?

Just dropping in to say what follows in this thread is the most pointless, overblown argument I’ve seen in a very long time.

Full-on, unironically, arguing over dictionary definitions with each other and trading insults.

This is what the internet does to some people. Look on and despair.

Why save 2 clicks when you could save 3?

The menu item in question reads as follows:

Chicken Pops

Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.

I have 6a

My condolences

The pic from the article with candles and ray traced reflections is giving big ‘time cube’/geocities conspiracy theory energy