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@ValHighwind
FFXIV - DRK/SGE/VPR/DNC/RDM (Omni) - Degree in music theory I guess - Usage of GenAI is being proven to decrease critical thinking and brain activity.
🇺🇲 Inscrit le Ekim 2015
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@ThePRu3 @CMDR_J_Hakke @losok75 @Ayebee123BL @Pirat_Nation I genuinely can't tell if you are trolling or just retarded and that makes it even funnier.
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Backrooms director Kane Parsons says Valve has been one of his biggest inspirations, especially for storytelling.
“Don’t make it if there’s not a meaningful reason motivating it.”
In other words, don’t add things just because they’re cool. Every mystery, location, or story element should be there for a reason.
Parsons also revealed how much Portal 2 influenced his work, saying: “I frequently have dreams where I’m just in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.”
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@Inki_FairyTales @historyinmemes Its wild that years after the case there are still idiots that take Heard's side.
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@historyinmemes Oh, how sweet. But is it okay to beat your wife?
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Johnny Depp was reportedly so committed to Captain Jack Sparrow during the filming of At World’s End (2007) that he was rarely out of character on set. According to Tom Hollander, when he let out a curse, the correction didn’t come from Depp—it came from Sparrow himself.. “You cannot curse in a Disney film, mate.”
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@OpossumMedic @11975MHz @OPceSniffer @bzl_bub Something about changing it from a British name to a Mexican name is so funny.
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@11975MHz @OPceSniffer @bzl_bub Well the Provence name is after queen Victoria's 4th daughter. Sorta like how Virgina is named in honor of queen Elizabeth I. But hey breaking away from red coats is tradition down here so come on in if you will
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We did.
We cut your USAID cash flow.
This should please you to no end.
Upper Canadian Cavalier@UCCavalier
@HardPass4 @shashj You Yankee dogs need to learn how to stay the fuck out of everybody else's affairs first
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@XSarahNova @bloakie80072 @The_PunKing @DawareTV Hopefully the mountain of video evidence against them is enough for the judge to tell them they did it to themselves.
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@bloakie80072 @The_PunKing @DawareTV They are going to try to claim that “their good name was smeared in a hate campaign” and try to take it for libel. It’s complete bullshit, but they *will* try it.
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@themoderntimes_ I think it makes more sense to say called because using a phone has not been the only way to call someone for a long time, so saying called or calling covers a much broader spectrum.
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okay genuine question why do people care about "britishisms" (correct english btw) like i get it when you're writing dialogue for an american character that you want it to be accurate, but for the rest of the story why does it matter... why conform to americanism!
🧚♂️ staticatmidnight 🧚♂️@ao3atmidnight
one of the main things my beta reader does is check for britishisms. I only made it to the second word this time 😭
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@foxgirlfrot @Steam Tin Sweeny is going to see this and go on another rant, please don't subject us to that
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yo @Steam why the fuck does adding $10 to my steam account cost $642, what the fuck is this bullshit?????
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Val ⚜️ retweeté
Woah Buddy! Insane LEGO Corruption!
The American Fork Police Department just "accidentally" released 50gb of unredacted Body Cam footage reguarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs, but deleted it to late before the internet grabbed them.
In the media dump the Joshua Johnson asks to see the legal court papers but the officer refuses to show it to him because it would count as a legal service and says it would "place him in a bind"
This police department, Joshua Johnson and Ammon McNeff are all toast. I've never seen the internet unanimously come together in unison on anything like this in my life.
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Val ⚜️ retweeté
Ah yes, human economics. Very fascinating. Very concerning.
*wheeze*
“Who does Earth owe $350 trillion to?”
Mostly itself.
You owe money to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, foreign governments, central banks, corporations, and millions of individual investors.
*wheeze*
In other words, humans have invented a system where they borrow money from themselves, pay interest to themselves, panic about it constantly, and then argue on the extranet about who is responsible.
As a Vølüs, I find this arrangement delightfully profitable.
The more interesting question is not who you owe. The question is whether the debt grows faster than the economy that supports it.
* wheeze*
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 100,000 credits per year, nobody cares.
If I owe 10,000 credits and earn 12 credits per year, suddenly C-Sec starts asking questions.
Hah hah hah…* wheeze*
So when a human says, “We owe $350 trillion! Who do we owe it to?”
The answer is:
“Mostly other humans. The real question is whether future humans can keep making enough money to convince everyone not to panic.”
* wheeze*
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have several sovereign debt instruments to sell to the Elcor. They take a very long-term view of investments.
maro@ProofofMaro
If Earth is $350 trillion in debt, who do we owe money to?
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Precisely. Let's use Lego as an example. Lego is *the* building brick toy brand. Most people who like building bricks will pick Lego because it is the most well known, has the best themes, and has a quality pedigree, but then there are companies that offer the same thing, just with different themes and licensed brands like Mega Bloks or Brickcraft. Steam is PC games Lego brand. It's just the best one and the most well known.
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Este tema recurrente comienza a cansar.
Como desarrollador: elijo Steam porque, pese a quedarse con un 30% (que dicho sea, es lo mismo que otras plataformas como GOG o Google Play) me ofrece muy buenos servicios.
Como jugador: elijo Steam porque, también como jugador, me ofrece muy buenos servicios.
Es cierto que la pescadilla se muerde la cola: como son buenos, casi todo el mercado de PC gira en torno a Steam, aumentando las fricciones a cambiar de plataforma.
Es esto un monopolio? No, para ello tendría que tener alguna ventaja externa al mercado, como ventajas legales o parecidas.
Es una dominación, simplemente porque hacen las cosas mejor que las demás desde hace muchos años.
Y esto pasa en CUALQUIER sector. Cuando hay una empresa muy establecida es difícil competir con ella, sobre todo si intentas competir al mismo nivel en lugar de intentar ocupar los huecos donde ella lo hace mal.
O acaso es fácil competir con Google, Inditex, Amazon etc?
Si quieres hacerte un hueco, empieza por aportar valor al consumidor en lugar de tirar fango encima de la competencia.
Dexerto@Dexerto
Valve's Gabe Newell believes Steam doesn't have a monopoly, saying that gamers have “enormous choice” about where they buy games “Whether they buy the game on an Xbox, or Steam, or Epic Games Store, or whether they buy it directly from software developers”
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Epic Games is the platform equivalent of a drugged out rich kid that did bad in highschool, but still got into a good college (PC games) because their rich dad (Tim Sweeny with Fortnite money) paid to get them in.
And now the parent is mad that their kid is failing, while also failing to understand that paying the college off doesn't mean their kid will succeed.
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@old_dwayne @tehshaprr The previous owners were forced out of the franchise by the new owners threatened via litigation before they could even do anything about those sets. There's audio recordings and video.
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@tehshaprr they dont have them, the previous franchise owner stole them or sold them, no one wants to hear it but its true, everyone involved including ben has handled this like an idiot
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So why KEEP THE LEGOS? If you NEVER PAID for them???
That is by definition, STOLEN.
eBuck@activistJ741
The CEO of BAM released this statement and it just comes off as pretentious and pompous. BAM 100% tried to say they don’t do consignment even though it’s clearly in the Franchise Contract. Unfortunately BAM is now a party to the Am Fork PD corruption. It’s too little too late.
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Take your damage control back to Mecca, Brickem Young.
Val ⚜️@ValHighwind
As someone who lives in Utah, the American Fork Police department has a notoriously bad reputation that is well known across the state. Other police departments across the state make fun of them. Take everything they say with a grain of salt or just dismiss it as lying. They never hold themselves accountable.
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You get to the place where Steam is by providing a quality product. Valve earned the market share it has by earning the good will of PC users.
You then come in, with an underdeveloped launcher, and also bring exclusivity to the PC platform which is why a lot of PC players hate consoles, and dangle free games over people like jingling keys, and wonder why people hate you.
The 30% cut is industry standard, Tim. Xbox, Sony, and Nintendo as well as other PC platforms take a 30% cut, so why not go after them? You are only a monopoly if you have cornered the market making competition impossible.
There are more choices for gamers to pick from than just Steam, and it isn't impossible to compete with Steam either, no one just wants to risk nearly going under like Valve almost did to bring a competitive and quality product to compete with it.
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles? If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.
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That's fair, plus Ben has some of the most damning video/audio recordings on both the AFPD and BAM/B&F. I'm sure they could slap him with some small charges but it's going to be hard for his opponents to wiggle out of this especially with a massive public eye on this one as you said.
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@ValHighwind @HaloFollowercom Its different and much more difficult when hes got good lawyers and the eyes of the public on him
I come from a small town so I know what you mean but I also know they can only do that shit when no one's watching
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1. You are using AI to think for you. Stop it. It's stunting your ability to use your brain.
2. Monopoly means that there are no other options for consumers to use. There are multiple on PC.
3. The 30% cut is industry standard, if you are going to get upset at Steam for this, do the same for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.
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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…
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@splattersmot @Hammerman7015 The worst part of it, is that the Book of Mormon isn't even a Bible, it's a secondary text that is meant to 'contextualize and supplement' the Bible, which is an overt blasphemy.
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@Hammerman7015 @ValHighwind Dude you believe in a man who looked into a hat to make the Mormon Bible.
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As someone who lives in Utah, the American Fork Police department has a notoriously bad reputation that is well known across the state. Other police departments across the state make fun of them.
Take everything they say with a grain of salt or just dismiss it as lying. They never hold themselves accountable.
Dexerto@Dexerto
YouTuber Reckless Ben responds to American Fork PD's video on his arrests over a $200,000 Lego Star Wars collection dispute "Stop lying about the facts ... unredact the audio ... some of the best lawyers in the US are reaching out to me"
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It's most likely not anything monetary. The problem stems from Mormon protectionism, which is one of the main reasons that AFPD has the reputation it does. They have a very tight-knit community there, and the community protects each other against 'outside influence' all the way up to the judicial level, so we rarely see the AFPD actually face any accountability. Just so happens that BAM is headquartered in Utah, as well as the owners of the franchise that caused all these issues being American Fork citizens.
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@ValHighwind I wonder how much Bricks in Minifigs is paying the American Fork PD. Probably a lot more money than that. Lego collection is worth
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