People want to charge $15-20 for a CD, and if I did that for every album I listened to on Spotify, I would have spent at least a luxury car’s worth of music. I’m not going to ever pay that much again. Concert prices are already bad enough.

Piracy or streaming, pick one. Because the choices we had before that sucked.

The real problem is oversaturation, and the general worth of music. Good music is everywhere. People are making it every day and putting it out there, on Spotify, Bandcamp, wherever, and it’s all free or very cheap to listen to. Why should I specifically pay attention to Yee or Lil Shitstain or whatever is the college rock band of the week that got insanely popular?

Why wait? Get a Steam Deck now and have hundreds of thousands of games available to play.

You can do some wild shit with pipes:

• head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
• grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.

I’ve been using DDG for a bit, and honestly, it’s kinda garbage. They are just borrowing data from Bing, and it shows.

Nothing is “an apocalypse” for anything.

JFC, people, stop pushing these extreme opinions on AI. It is not simultaneously the solution to everything and the end of the world. It’s just a goddamn tool.

Nope, Outer Wilds.

It’s The Outer Worlds. It will.

The first game was shit. The game it was confused with became the greatest game ever made. Go buy that one instead.

It’s almost as bad as the opposition’s comparison of it to Skynet. People are never going to understand technology without applying some fucking nuance.

Stop hyping new technology… in either direction.

Only the Sith believe in absolutes.

I agree, and I’m not trying to make it look like every page on Wikipedia isn’t trying to be as impartial as possible. It’s just that for certain issues, people can cheat their way out of impartially by magnifying or subduing the material they present.

Wikipedia doesn’t have to list opinions. It just has to magnify certain ideas and opinions from other sources, under the guise of impartiality and “Objective Journalism”.

“So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Imagine playing Borderlands with a controller…

I asked ChatGPT and got a few wild ideas:

• Timefall Symphony - You play a deaf conductor in a future where time is tied to music. You must sneak through collapsing timelines by conducting symphonies that rewind or fast-forward reality. Meta Twist: The game’s soundtrack is dynamically composed by the player’s performance and affects NPC memories.
• Agent Ø: The End of The Author - You play an AI agent in a post-literature world where all creative writing is outlawed. Your job is to assassinate remaining authors hiding in simulated story-worlds. Meta Twist: At a key moment, the game deletes its own script and asks you to write the ending — but the NPCs begin resisting your choices.
• Neon Genesis Logout - Set in a VR world where logging out is illegal, you’re a rogue program trying to find the “Exit Protocol,” which is rumored to cause the death of your real-world body. Meta Twist: The game links with your real-world social media data and uses it against you as blackmail from in-game NPCs.
• Cognitive Espionage: Synapse Eater - You are a “Neuroleptic Diplomat” — an interdimensional agent hired to broker peace between collapsing timelines by entering sentient thought-constructs that have gained independence and now wage war against their original hosts. These constructs — known as Ideovores — eat ideas, replicate memories, and begin overwriting reality. Your mission: infiltrate mental realms that believe they are real, neutralize rogue ideas, and plant “cognitive malware” to reestablish consensus reality. At a critical point, the game begins reinterpreting your dialogue choices from hours ago as if they were implanted ideas — and characters confront you for “things you never said.” The main antagonist turns out to be your own future self, who defected and now works for a rogue nation of self-aware conspiracies. Final boss: defeat your own consciousness before you come up with it — a battle in “Pre-Thought Space,” where thinking too hard makes the level collapse.

I mean, any of these are probably more coherent than a Kojima plot.

So, Joseph Cross, the main art director is a “former employee”?

It’s not an artist that included her work. It’s multiple artists, including the main art director. They followed her and large portions of the art design in the game are based on her work.

We’re talking about software engineers, not plumbers.

Then don’t live there.

I’m sorry, but I can’t sympathize with normal people with normal salaries that choose to live in the most expensive cities in the world, and then discover that they can’t afford shit, especially when they find themselves out of a job.

Move out, find towns that are affordable, go work for employers that embrace remote work, get a normal salary, and enjoy a low cost-of-living.

It is 2025. The job market is global and remote work is now. If you’re relying on salary to be magically tied to where you live, then you obviously don’t know how capitalism works.

Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.

I mean, why not? Nobody can understand it anyway.

Smaller goals means something that everybody can agree on. If you start bloating the petition, then you start adding on shit that might not have universal agreement, and it hurts the whole process.