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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yep they noticed a while ago that they can up the price of the completely ad-free experience, call it super extra premium and create 15 tiers below it, gradually giving you more annoyances and pretending it’s necessary to keep their business afloat. These are multi million dollar profits they’re making, it is in no way necessary. This is just profit maximalisation over the back of ignorant people who will do anything to pay a little less without knowing they’re continuously paying more.


  • Yes ads, specifically tv and radio ads. They are designed to be bad, because either a very bad or very good ad sticks in the mind. It sickens me that a noble art line psychology is misappropriated for commerce.

    The thing that bothers me most is that it should be easy to get rid of, if we were more conscious of what us going on in front of our eyes and collectively say ‘no’.

    The idea of having personalised ads, so you don’t get to see super bad ads or ads for stuff you don’t want or need ever, is kind of okay. You just really shouldn’t want that kind of data in the hands of commercial conglomerates.


  • Falling through a bed like in the article and then floating up and down like that just shows that the player and the bed are two separate entities. If the person is a human player, this could mean the coordinates of the player and the bed were the same at some point and then it’ll move the player to noclip it. It doesn’t show up like that for the player but only for others.

    If the person is an AI, then it would first of all not make sense not to fuse them and second, it’s highly likely either the bed or the character model has a boundary issue. This can cause boundaries to overlap briefly, but then they collide and since the character is a more dynamic model, it will continuously look for the boundaries of itself in relation to the bed.

    In any event, these things are just general bugs that can happen in any game. It would seem GSC either doesn’t test these things or they saw it, decided that fixing it would take up too much time and let it be.




  • I’m not saying I understand the magnitude, but ICYMI: the populist right is also winning left and right in Europe. In my country, it’s mostly just kind of funny since these blowhards are only now realising governing a country is kind of difficult and lots of government employees are just fighting against everything that’s idiotic or destructive.

    Thing is, one man can only do so much. If there are still people on the inside who have a feel for wrong and right, democracy is pretty rigid. People are desperate, but nowhere near as desperate as Germans were in the 30s after the huge sanctions and fines after The Great War.

    In any event: my take on it all is to see what happens. If you voted, you did all you can do other than organising and taking to the streets. That’s essentially what your second amendment is for. To put a positive spin on it: maybe he will actually improve your admittedly declining country. I just hope the means won’t be catastrophic for anyone.