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I can't can stop staring at this picture due to the sheer absurdity of the visuals at display. It is like a surreal painting, it is Kafkaesque. The Spanish leadership is a malignant kakistocracy.

@PoltFan69 This is why I argue that if China ever got into a hot conflict with anyone, over half of their casualties will be because of their own military equipment is built to these corrupt standards.

Now realize China does this with literally every aspect of their country. Literally every part.

@PcPhilanthropy At this point this is a collector's item for people with too much money and too little sense. The way Valve fumbled this release is going to be remembered for years to come.

- “Sells out in minutes” - ~80% of units sold 👇🏻

Oh no! Somebody is taking intellectual property from the AI companies without permission! Won't somebody do something?!

@Charles1701A @TArchcast In 1996 when you payed $60 for a game it came in a nice box, with a printed manual and a physical disc that is complete and yours to keep forever. In 2026 you pay $60 for a digital license that can be revoked on a whim. The old game wasn't more expensive, it was more valuable.

@TArchcast Now to be fair, $60 in 1996 (N64 release year) is worth about $130 today. Now because of a larger market, better tools, and more developers, and in game purchases, a price near $70 (imo) does seem somewhat fair. Now, many AAA games quality wise likely don't deserve even $60.

Levels of submissive obedience that would be found deeply unseemly in a BDSM flick....

@TArchcast Good pay piggies going "oink, oink!"

@ShitpostRock The PSP games also show how much the Gods meddled and ruined Kratos' life, specially "Ghost of Sparta". In their efforts to stop their own demise they set into motion a chain of events that led to a self fulfilling prophecy.

As much as i would to make fun of Kratos for being a "soyboy", his character development makes complete sense when you consider the events of the first 3 games He lost everything and annihilated anyone who ever did him wrong. There was nothing else for him to chase after Greece

@LordSmap @ultradereks What is very uncommon and unprecedented is the AI insanity driving the price of aging tech UP. Nobody would complain about the tech being a few years behind if the price went down year over year as it used to be the case. The entire consumer PC market is in a dire situation.

It's actually very common for the technology in these types of machines to be outdated at launch primarily due to the long development cycle. When the PS5 launched it launched with hardware that was almost 2 years old at the time. The switch 2 launched with hardware that was 4 years old. It's really only PC's with off the shelf parts that can be bought with the newest consumer technology. Even newly released laptops trail behind desktop PC's by about a year. The steam mechine is essentially laptop hardware in a console form facter running desktop software.

Steam Machine was announced. The specs looked meh. 6 cores, rx7600 8gb gddr6. Techtube gets super hyped. People in the comments are all hyped. I point out specs in comments. Replies be like “nah bro, they will optimize the games for the steam deck.” Ram and ssds skyrocket in price. People are worried about the cost. Steam deck gets released. Performs as speced. People lose their freakin minds. “I can’t believe it performs like how it’s speced!!” “It’s such a rip off. I can build the exact same computer for around 50 dollars less!” Am I taking crazy pills?

@SCShipyards Unfortunately EU policy makers are extremely allergic to simple solutions. The only "solutions" on the table are the progressive type, which tend to make things far worse. Case in point: Germany getting rid of all it's nuclear power plants.

@JDPD11618 Almost all of that has fairly simple work-arounds. The core problem is some tremendous cultural inertia against the notion.

If I had to make a guess, it's because y'all won't shut up about baking for the past decade+, yet adamantly refuse to do anything about it. There's a switch you can throw that will solve all your problems. People get confused, if not concerned, why you won't.

@PhotogenicMem What's happening to South Korea's birth rates is completely mental, the country is heading to complete depopulation within four generations.

South Korea banned porn, and they still have the worst birth rates in the world. It’s almost like porn serves a sexual pressure release valve for men but otherwise has little to do with the birth rate crisis. It’s almost like women actually hate it purely for vanity reasons.

@MadamSavvy @PlayStation It is a mute point because there is no disc, it is a digital download only game and chances are it will also connect to Take2's servers to data mine player behaviour. Even the single player mode will be designed to FOMO players with all manner of content and gameplay boosters.

@PlayStation >removed the disk drive Question. Do i have to have internet to play the single player game? If i buy this game, and i buy your system, will i be able to play the game i bought or do i have to do more to play the single player non online game?

Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19, with pre-orders starting June 25. Learn why it plays best on PS5: play.st/43WR2tT

@oldtoons_ @TheGamerDracul

@TheGamerDracul Ummm what else?

Walt Disney made a campy dragon in the 1940s.

@TArchcast R⭐ must rip off every single penny out of anyone who buys GTA VI. Paywall everything within the game. The single-player mode turns into a monthly subscription service after purchase. The mouth breathers will be made the industry's sacrificial lambs as it burns on its final days

This is the dark side of supply and demand. GTA VI is going to sell like e-girl bathwater in the Sahara! And due to hordes of mouth breathers that will buy the game at any cost! Well, we should almost be grateful it's ONLY a 100$. For now...

Palworld players are losing their minds over the new cat-like Pal. Palworld devs revealed a new Pal named Sekhmet, a cat-like creature with an ancient Egyptian style. Many players say it looks similar to Ankha, the Egyptian cat character from Animal Crossing.

@Art444Star Sorry to be that guy but pornographic art is not entirely protected by free speech laws. If it is qualified as obscene by the "Miller Test" it falls outside of that protection. It is a case-by-case basis, it is not an universal protection just because it is art.

One policy I'm very interested in is the banning of live action pornography (and AI generated obv) but not illustrated, animated or written: >pornographic art actually sometimes has artistic value >pornographic art is protected by freedom of expression >pornographic art doesn't exploit or abuse anyone >pornographic art requires at least some degree of skill in illustration, animation, writing etc. which is valuable and transferrable if needed or desired >pornographic art being legal will siphon off the audience now without live action, so black market alternatives won't be (as) profitable >pornographic artists of all mediums will then get more money from views, sales and commissions, like a horny renaissance >in places like Japan with hentai, pornographic art can be a starting point and a gateway into other creative industries and an easy way to grow skills while making money >technological development, such as in 3D animation, can be driven by the human desire for horny art, as opposed to live action which provides nothing >one of the most significant risk factors of porn addiction is exposure at a young age, if pornographic art can be cordoned off to certain, less explicitly titled sites than Pornhub: the hub of porn, if paired with a fine for kids found with cell phones or on the internet like I previously proposed (enforced primarily by teachers and parents not wanting to risk the fine), this could massively reduce porn addiction in a generation Obviously people can be addicted to pornographic art but the simultaneous soft ban of under 18s from the internet via a ban instead of age verification laws as a cover for digital ID plus the less explicitly sexually marketed brands and site names will put a significant dent

@CristeraAbigail Because The Prohibition worked out great, no unintended negative consequences whatsoever.

La première nation occidentale à INTERDIRE LA PORNOGRAPHIE deviendra rapidement la nation la plus productive de la planète. Cela résoudrait la crise du déclin démographique du jour au lendemain. Cela sauverait des millions de mariages. Cela sauverait des millions d’enfants de voir leur innocence arrachée. Cela forcerait les hommes à se bouger et à faire le travail de courtiser une femme. Cela sauverait des millions de femmes d’être exploitées et trafiquées. Il n’y a littéralement aucun inconvénient à interdire la pornographie. La pornographie est un pur poison civilisationnel. Nous pouvons l’interdire. Et, par Dieu, nous le ferons.

@CharlestonArchi This kind of architecture and the philosophy behind it is one designed to demoralize societies and their people. It is a mockery to the human sense of aesthetics, it seeks to crush the spirit. It is a monolith forcing its spiteful, repulsive presence upon all who gaze upon it.

When I was in architecture school, I went to see a lecture by the architects of this building. The gentleman said, "We don't really care what our buildings look like." I thought, what am I even doing, then? I wrote to him and asked if he could explain what he meant.

@DuneVolton @not__vee @sleepy_devo Heavy Metal (1981)

@not__vee @sleepy_devo Idgaf about dev, what is this clip from?

How people expect me to talk about @sleepy_devo and get dissapointed when i dont q_q

@LoMo_Loren @mattvanswol I was with you until you said "locked up". Someone that is so mentally unstable that is a lethal threat to innocent children then that's a direct, one-way ticket to the gallows. There is no advantage in keeping such an individual around.

@mattvanswol If you're so "mentally disabled" that you can't stop yourself from throwing babies to be eaten by crocodiles, I think that's all the more reason to be locked up somewhere.

🚨#BREAKING: It has been confirmed that the man who threw a 3-year-old toddler into a crocodile enclosure in the UK... ...HAS ALREADY BEEN LET OUT ON BOND!!!! The man is being described as 'mentally disabled' and police are STILL refusing to name him. Witnesses say the zoo owner's WIFE jumped 15 feet into the crocodile enclosure herself to rescue the child.