Let’s not forget, it took years for Wikipedia to even notice Neelix, the Wikipedia admin who made over 80,000 pages/links about titties.
He was just out there spreading the word of boobah but yeah this stuff can go under the radar for a while.
The problem lies in noticing them in the first place. If you make a thousand legit edits to various articles and then make some slight changes on some rich clients page chances are nobody will register this. Then again we’re on the internet so there’s always at least one guy who’d hyperfocus on monitoring something like this. The hero we need.
Same for acid rain btw. It is a real thing and causes real issues but after figuring that out regulations have reduced sulfur dioxide emissions.
It’s about as acidic as a cup of coffee so it won’t melt your face off which I guess some people expected. In general I think the real effects we feel today just don’t sound very threatening to people. Take the cocoa price exploding at the end of the last year for example. That was due to increasingly bad harvests that are getting more frequent with climate change. For western people it means chocolate gets very expensive and less real cocoa but more corn syrup ends up in products. For farmers in South America it means their livelihood is destroyed.
It came to me guys. I was wondering why he was so obsessed with peace because it’s not really something you’d expect from someone like him. Then I remembered all the beauty pageants. All those girls on stage babbling something about world peace.
It’s burned into his dementia ridden brain by a bunch of exploited minors regurgitating the same bullshit lines over and over again.
I don’t know man, I currently got a baby and she seems rather reasonable in comparison. Sure she cries when she’s hungry but so far she has only hungered for milk and not a nobel peace price. I’ll let you know if things change.
Ah it’s a <make up weird quotes that don’t reflect the general feedback and then react to that> episode. I too remember people in the street shouting “you never should’ve tried something new BioWare!” after making that memory up.
In truth the biggest criticism they got was when they released it unfinished, promised a bunch of content and then let it die because they smashed the numbers into a calculator and came to the conclusion it’ll not be worth it. No fucking shit. Fixing the mess you sold people for full price won’t make you a lot of profit, it’s something you do to make up for delivering unfinished crap in the first place.
Imagine a plumber who does pipe work in your house and when you call them because they did a shoddy job and it’s leaking they say “Nah, wouldn’t be worth it to fix this. I’ll rather go do a different project for more money.”
Fuck right off.
“How much to let me poop on your chest?”
“I’m sorry I don’t so this kind of t-[he pulls out 4 32GB DDR5 RAM sticks] …OKEYDOKEY!”
You’re not wrong but it still feels bad.
My nieces’ favorite video game of all time is dead or alive 3 on the original Xbox. There’s a switch with new games and fancier graphics connected to an OLED tv but at the end of the day they just want to kick people as simply as possible. Old ass console connected to an old tv in a guest room.
Nobody is better at sniffing out what’s actually fun than kids. They might get tricked by marketing here and there but once they get their hands on things it’s a simple process for them. Does this spark joy?
It’s like a rewiring through new experience. Back in the day games were improving in looks and gameplay rapidly. Then the latter started deteriorating for many big studio titles.
You tell me some new AAAA Ubisoft game is coming out and my gag reflex starts to tingle.
A new pixel graphic indie title with great reviews? Sign me up.
The fruit that was once sweet has become poison.
Since olden 4chan (rip) days Australians have always been top of the heap when it came to shit posting. If anyone could make a giant poopy fatberg it’s them.
10 years is not a long time and once the cat is out of the bag it’s rather difficult to get it back in.
It was the same for other manufacturing. You can’t manufacture most commercial items at a competitive price not just because the difference in labor cost but because there’s simply nobody left that is capable of doing it at scale in the US or Europe.
We’re just trying to help those nerds spend less time on their PC, you see? Yes, we produce memory but at our core we’re a grass touching company.
This whole situation is really weird. He describes a gun fired as making “click” noises like in the movies. That’s not how a gun with a silencer actually sounds like. Such strange reports.
First they came for our neighbors and I didn’t say anything.
Then they came for family members and I didn’t say anything.
Then they took my chicken tendies and I was mad but didn’t say anything.
BUT…when they take my PC I will REEEEEEEEEEE
Yeah, neglected would be the better word. I think the software in some trains is actually from 93-94. During this time period of increased demand they just let it run with bare minimum maintenance.
Forget about the personality for a minute. They have a different thing in common. Uselessness. I tried AI for a bunch of general use cases and it almost always fails to satisfy. Either it just can’t do the task in the first place or it makes mistakes that then cost too much time to fix.
There are exceptions and specialized models will have their use but it’s not the Swiss army knife tool AI companies are promising.
The dumbest thing about wikipedia exec pay is that there’s barely anything for them to do that would justify it. It’s not like they’re plotting the course of the company. It’s doing the same thing it did 10 years ago and if everything goes well it’ll still be doing the same thing 10 years from now.
Here, let me take care of the 2026 workload by writing the Email for them.
Dear staff,
please continue as before.
XOXO Your CEO
It’s like people looked at scat and thought “This isn’t brown enough. We can do worse that this.”