Justin Kimball

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@harukaawake The value of money pales in comparison to preserving the culture/society I grew up in.

🌍 Let's say the UN tells you: "We will give each of your citizens $200,000 USD as a one time payment. In return, you will let in 1 million Muslim migrants from various countries". Would you accept it or reject it?

@harukaawake I don't know much about the Shinto religion, but I did visit many shrines while in Japan. They are beautiful places of pure japanese culture that deserve respect. Anyone who would dishonor them like this deserves to be booted out of your country immediately.

Muslims insulting Shinto gods in Japan: 🇯🇵 Legal Japanese insulting Mohammed in Muslim countries: 🇾🇪 Death penalty 🇵🇰 Death penalty 🇸🇦 Death penalty 🇦🇫 Death penalty 🇸🇴 Death penalty 🇸🇩 Death penalty 🇮🇷 Death penalty (*Islamic Republic only*) 🇵🇸 Life imprisonment 🇦🇪 10 years in prison 🇶🇦 7 years in prison 🇪🇬 5 years in prison 🇮🇩 5 years in prison 🇲🇾 5 years in prison 🇩🇿 5 years in prison 🇲🇦 5 years in prison 🇴🇲 3 years in prison 🇹🇳 2 years in prison 🇹🇷 1 year in prison 🇯🇴 1 year in prison

@EllipticalMan @LuciaLobosvilla I read many of them. Page count is irrelevant when you get into a good book. I would burn through Harry Potter books in days right when they came out. You only feel the pages when you're reading something that isn't interesting to you.

Yes. I read it as a child. Because it’s a children’s book. We keep lowering standards for children’s media and then wonder why kids can’t read or grasp complex concepts. Running into words you don’t know is part of the learning experience. Not an insurmountable obstacle.

@mattforney If you want to make a point, you might try to use examples from things you actually know something about next time. Otherwise, you have a high likelyhood of making yourself look like an ignoramus fool, like you've done here.

I'm old enough to remember when this movie got shit on because "the last samurai" was played by Tom Cruise. Shut up.

@ScottPresler They're fine, but they probably don't belong in residential areas.

What’s your honest opinion on data centers? I want to be able to tell elected officials how you feel about them.

@Pirat_Nation Thinking a brand is untouchable and ignoring the customers has to be the dumbest thing any company can do.

Reports claim Sony believes it doesn’t need to stay in close contact with PlayStation fans because it trusts the strength of the PlayStation brand and the loyalty of its community. According to the reports, Sony expects players to keep buying its games as the company moves toward a digital-only future. They also believe the backlash over ending physical PlayStation game production will eventually stop and most players will eventually adapt to buying games digitally.

@ZacksJerryRig Just stick to scratching phone screens, its the only thing you seem to understand.

Genuinely delusional. Don't do drugs kids.

@Bruwulf I was reading DragonLance novels in elementary school and Jordan's Wheel of Time series once I got to middle school. Wasn't aware of Lord of the Rings until later in life but I would of loved reading it as a kid.

"The Hobbit isn't for kids" Meanwhile, I read Lord of the Rings at 6.

@Matthewwa25 @chrisrobovan @SawyerMerritt Amish aren't going around pushing everyone to live like they do, and at least they live their philosophy. These environmentalists will fight to drag us back into the stone age while enjoying all the benefits of modern technology. Hypocrites.

@chrisrobovan @SawyerMerritt These idiots just hate tech. They're amish and want to live as people did thousands of years ago.

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@SmorglesBord @IterIntellectus I don't know how it could be possible to even get through primary school without encountering the Odyssey at some point. Much less get a masters in fine arts as well.

@IterIntellectus Remember that she admitted that she did not know who Homer or the Odyssey was until approached for the part. Despite her Yale MFA degree

we remember Homer 2800 years after he wrote The Odyssey and we'll still remember him 1000 years from now we'll forget about lapita nyngo next week

@ajroo @SmashJT The Dreamcast actually had a lot of great games though. Kinda doubt we get that for PS6 given the current state of things. Sony would have to make some radical changes yesterday to deliver a comparible library.

@SmashJT Playstation is minutes from becoming Sega. The PS6 will be their Dreamcast if they dont clean house & get their head on straight immediately.

When did you realize the game industry was co-opted into destruction?

@NoNotouches @Asmongold @Polymarket Voting should be a privilege earned via contributions to society. Military service, having children, serving the local community, being a net contributer (tax paid > welfair rexeived), etc.

@americangirly42 @Asmongold @Polymarket Most men shouldnt vote either in all fairness.

NEW: Analysis reveals female-dominated corporate roles are more vulnerable to AI automation than male roles.

@kylaschwaberow Don't jinx it.

Is it too early to be getting 2019 vibes? $TSLA

🇯🇵 What a good portion of my replies look like recently. "omg pearl harbor, hiroshima, WW2!!! they nuked you!"

People have been saying phone gaming is going to take that next step for years. We've had powerful phones and tablets for over a decade now and no advancement has happened. Its just a different market and I don't think that's changing anytime soon. Small touchscreens are terrible for any type of complex game controls, and you aren't going to get enough people to carry around controllers to have a market big enough market to target that.

@americansulla @Grummz I said this 2 days ago on here, with RAM prices, mobile gaming will take massive leaps forward. Everyone needs a phone. A separate console is relatively unnecessary at this point. The problem isn't the hardware, it's just that they're not making games for phones yet.

It's begun. XBOX has been cancelling vendors and PR agency according to Jason Schrier. The big layoffs are coming soon, timed to end of fiscal calendar in July. The great cleansing. And much needed pruning of AAA development to get back to a leaner core that wants to actually win by listening to gamers...we can hope.

This is what game studios need to get back to. Building games purely based on what business and marketing people think gamers want is part of whats led to the current collapse. When the objective was just to sell as many copies as possible there was decent alignment between business people, devs, and players. Now they are all at odds with each other. Business people want as few games as possible, all built for maximum money extraction. Fun is secondary. Devs want prestige, huge budgets, and long dev cycles. They want to make fun games but thats secondary to keeping that funding rolling in. And gamers just want lots of fun games to play at reasonable prices.

The way id Software did our games is based on the fact that John Carmack wanted to make the most awesome game technology possible. The rest of the team didn't care as much about tech, but we wanted a game that was super fun - that WE ourselves wanted to play. The philosophy was if WE wanted to play it, there would be other people bent like us to buy it. This is also Ensemble Studios philosophy. We wanted to play a game like Warcraft, but with real historical units, campaigns, and nations. We thought that would be cool. And we believed other people would also think it was cool. The link here is that id Software, Ensemble Studios, and other successful companies didn't try to mold or change our fans. We just wanted to make the fans happy. We also all played the bejeezus out of our games, because we LIKED them. As a side benefit, this also helped us find bugs and polish the games. 2/2

The most arrogant thing a company can do is tell customers what they (the customers) "ought" to want. How's that restructuring going, Ubisoft? Shares still down 50% from a year ago? As a business, it's your job to satisfy them, not to preach to them. And especially not to "fix" them. The punishment for such egomania is automatic. So the situation self-corrects over time. 1/2

@RealUncleTesla @SawyerMerritt

@SawyerMerritt Needs more lidar?

Here's my first Waymo ride in Nashville last night. It started off well, but the vehicle got confused and stuck 4 minutes in. After about 10 minutes of trying, rider support got it moving again, but then it couldn't continue, so they had to escalate to another specialist. After another ~10 minutes, they said the Waymo could not complete the trip, and that I should call an Uber or Lyft ride to reach my destination. I was 3-4 minutes from my destination when the Waymo initially got stuck. The vehicle was on call with support for about 20 minutes in total. While it would have been nice to reach my destination lol, I'm honestly not mad about it because it was interesting to see the whole process of them trying to get it going again and how Waymo support deals with situations like this (which are pretty rare). The support team was really nice and communicative. Have to fly back home to New England tomorrow, but hopefully will try another robotaxi ride in Nashville in the future, and of course other cities.

@TechOperator I owned a mustang once, it was a piece of garbage that cost more to maintain than it did to buy it. Also was a nightmare attempting to drive that thing in the snow. In short, hell no.

Would you buy a Four-Door Mustang EV?

@stupidtechtakes @7ammoodHammad @KyleKulinski That's what they said about the income tax when it was first implemented.

@JustinKimball @7ammoodHammad @KyleKulinski The 1% wealth tax isn't going to affect you then

@7ammoodHammad @KyleKulinski Na, I just believe we should each be able to keep what we work to earn. I'd rather set my money on fire than place more of it in the hands of our crooked politicians.

@KyleKulinski They all think they will be billionaires one day.