no

This is all just so you can kill-a-what? isn’t it?

Elsevier is just a mafia model applied to academia, it is hardly a business in any meaningful sense of the word “business” where an entity employs paid employees to do actual work.

As a big fan of the Steam Deck something I want to emphasize here is that even if you didn’t want both the joysticks and the touchpads on the Steam Controller and wish they had picked one or the other, this kind of setup means the controller has essentially the same layout as the Steam Deck which is HUGE for ease of finding custom control schemes already uploaded by the community for complex games.

I prefer joysticks+gyro over touchpads for aiming and so for me the touchpads might seem superfluous, but in reality I heavily use them for virtual menus in all of my control schemes I make for complex games with lots of controls and inputs. The nice thing is that even though I am in the minority of people in that I prefer joysticks + gyro over touchpad for aiming, because the Steam Deck and Steam Controller both have two touchpads and two joysticks, somebody who is touchpad centric can use a control scheme I make pretty much right out of the box just by flip flopping the touchpad and joystick bindings so the virtual menus live on the joysticks instead.

I think this will be one of the subtle things people look back on and credit the Steam Deck and now new Steam Controller for having, it might seem silly and extraneous to have both touchpads and joysticks but it opens up a very wide range of capability and also makes it easier for touchpad and joystck focused players to share custom keybinding schemes with each other.

Hell yeah!

What are the ideologies of the people that own Reddit, X, etc… and who are they willing to hurt for it?

That is really the heart of the question here.

emacs in termux

Throw the cameras in jail!

this is how WW3 starts isn’t it

I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

That is exactly what this is, conservatives pride themselves on having a toddler’s sense of media literacy, especially the men.

It is a reoccuring pattern enough that I have seen multiple video essays on the general topic that try to unpack the different reasons because it is so confounding from the perspective of being a normal well adjusted adult.

I think it is a part of the same core thing as conservative humor being embarassingly bad, formulaic, weirdly cruel to specific groups and just plain not funny almost as a rule.

BAR and the spring/recoil engine have been in development for 20 years, it is a really impressive community and I have zero doubt BAR will grow massively in popularity, it doesn’t just look cool in action, the moment to moment gameplay has been tweaked and refined for years and years while sticking with a coherent design vision. Not many other games can say that in the RTS genre or otherwise and you can feel the difference immediately after you get a handle on the combat tactics.

This meme hits like a laser guided munition.

On F-Droid Phocid is good

https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en

https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/

The extra layer of ugliness is we already know, Israel in conjunction with Microsoft Azure did this, with the intent of assisting the mechanical process of selecting targets for ethnic cleansing and rationalizing it within a beaucracy of terror and vast human rights abuses.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/microsoft-gaza-workers/tnamp/

I only use the past tense to be very specific with my words, the genocide of Palestinians and complicity with it are ongoing and multivariate.

What Palantir sees as the past, present and future of bullshit and surveillance.

Saved you the waste of time of bothering with reading something from the NYT.

Best answer: Blender by far, Blender is ON FIRE right now, so many exciting things are happening.

The answer my heart gives: Beyond All Reason (my heart really loves watching robots and tanks blow each other up in scifi battles).

Yes, this is the extra cherry on top that makes San Francisco look like a parody of itself here lol

I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too though? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.

Not an excuse.