Software Consultant and Neophyte of the Exalted Order of John McCarthy.
Joined January 2010
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>our rate of technological progress [...] has plummeted since
what
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Peer review was disastrous for society. It was established since WW2 and our rate of technological progress and has plummeted since and academia became dogmatic. It’s literally just selecting for groupthink
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"I find it really weird that people on social media would find the idea of a social media ban to be bad"
is there some kind of mandatory level of retardation required to be a British news person
I’m not myself convinced by the idea of social media ban but I notice my timeline flooded only by accounts utterly sure of its tyranny. Weird that.
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>"skill expression"
>look inside
>it's just the same thing that the Mario RPGs have been doing for 30 years
It did something revolutionary which is not be painfully padded out and stalling out its progression, also have skill expression with turn based rpgs completely lack lol
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So as a content creator now i have to give full unfettered access to my information to the government or i wont be able to do anything online
make a slightly spicy joke on stream? arrested for it
send a tweet the government doesnt approve of? well they got my info forced out of me to use it so they can just come arrest me lmao
fucking joke
note also bluesky not mentioned. interesting
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps
TikTok
YouTube
Snapchat
Instagram
X
Reddit
Facebook
Twitch
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lara croft was so mainstream we were getting hollywood adaptations of her games in the 2000s
Let it be known: female protagonists in gaming wouldn't be where they are today without Ellie Williams. She helped bring them into the mainstream and proved they could lead some of gaming's greatest stories. So whenever you see a peak female protagonist, be grateful for Ellie🐐
Community note
Female protagonists have been part of mainstream gaming since at least the 1980s. Samus Aran from Metroid (1986) and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider (1996) were influential long before Ellie in 2013.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_re… ign.com/articles/2011/…
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They've been close partners with Sega for longer than you've been alive
What did Xbox do aside from failing in Japanese markets to get all the cool anime game reveals 😭
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Longlius retweeted
Jun 12
The NO FAKES Act is now on the Senate Judiciary's agenda for Thursday, June 18 after being cancelled yesterday.
Blackburn is working with the WH on a package that includes NO FAKES, KOSA and the App Store Accountability Act possibly preemption.
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Because mortality from all other causes is down. You're now statistically likely to live long enough to get cancer (which is usually inevitable once you starting getting up in age).
Jun 12
Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
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Every day I feel more and more vindicated by skipping marriage
Jun 12
there's a sex therapist who has a ritual of making out with her husband every night before bed, and so many of the comments on her posts are some version of "but what if he gets turned on and I don't want to have sex" and i need men to understand and prioritize non sexual touch.
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New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search plates hundreds of times over months
404media.co/cops-keep-gettin…
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Longlius retweeted
Jun 12
New: A county commissioner in North Carolina refused to let citizens oppose Flock at a meeting this week, instead making dozens of people select one person to represent them: "You will not speak on Flock tonight...I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this."
404media.co/you-will-not-spe…
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Nobody wanted Saturn because it was $400. That is the equivalent of buying a PS5 Pro in today's money.
Obviously game selection became an issue but the system costing so much massively hampered early adoption which killed a lot of the momentum for devs to support it.
A normal person from 1995 did not want:
- The Virtual Boy (because migraines)
- A Sega system that didn't have a primary Sonic game made just for it (Saturn, as underrated as it is)
- The PC-FX and it's lack of 3D GPU
- The Atari Jaguar
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This is actually a perfect example of "what's the difference between a bouncer checking your ID and a website doing it?"
Identity theft.
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
But don't worry guys age verification is going great!!
Great reporting from @verge
And this is for a purpose I'm understanding of age verifying people for!
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Longlius retweeted
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Canada’s Bill C-34 Would Require ID or Face Scan to Use Social Media
reclaimthenet.org/bill-c-34-…
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I see from the replies that the XBC community is still not ready to reckon with the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the best-selling game in the franchise by a country mile.
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I usually just laugh at this guys opinion because he's a doomer like his brother, but damn most of what he said has truth to it.
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It's two adults man. At 19, I was plenty savvy enough to navigate the complex intricacies of being an older woman's diversion.
Pedophilic age gap aside *dials 911*, PS5 AND RTX 5070X? WITH TEACHER'S SALARY?
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This opinion piece would have been just as fitting in 2016 as it is in 2026 lol
Jun 12
[OPINION] PlayStation's Japanese identity is slowly slipping away: nichegamer.com/opinion-plays…
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Games became worse because they started being made as mass-market entertainment with absurdly large budgets catering to the lowest common denominator. And this process was well underway even back in the era of console exclusivity (see - PS1 vs PS2)
Jun 12
It is not a coincidence that games became worse and worse as console manufacturers began competing with one another less, and everything just started going to PC instead. The medium was at its best when all of the consoles were viable choices and had distinct identities and options. Do not listen to a man who plays World of Warcraft for a living about video games.
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