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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • The reason to use the escalators when you’re in a hurry is because it’s twice as fast if you walk up them.

    If you want to take the escalators to be lazy, that’s fine…stay to the right and out of my way. Same rules as the highway. Not complicated.

    How fucking entitled are you that you “hate the concept of escalator etiquette” and you think it’s acceptable to not let people pass you? Were you a bollard in a former life?



  • Yeah, it’s a scary word.

    I get the hate for it, especially around resource use, and it’s overuse everywhere. But it’s still the early days and it’s certainly going to evolve. I imagine if people were as environmentally conscious in the 60s, they’d be up in arms about rooms full of hot glowing tubes doing arithmetic. Eventually, though, they got to be far less resource intensive.

    Also the AI response is default behavior in Brave search…and many other searches. For me, Brave has probably been the best of the bunch, but that’s not exactly a high bar.








  • Whoa now, that’s a bit reactionary.

    The reason for the shit show is that it’s all based on good faith. And if a power hungry dictator tries to control the executive…well, the legislative is supposed to keep him in check.

    It’s also based on the presumption that the people wouldn’t willingly elect, let alone re-elect, a blatantly corrupt president and Congress that enables them…or at least have few enough bad ones to be able to break party lines and put a stop to it.

    Ideally, enough Republicans on Congress would have enough of a spine to actually put country before party and stop this shit. Start impeaching judges and presidents. Don’t let anything else get done.

    Nope. They all sold out on their party. Fucking despicable. Not even worth spitting on.

    I can’t wait till someone spills the beans on whatever kompromat or bribes or imperius curse has got such a tight grip on the party.


  • Rare cards are only worth real money because there is a secondary market for them.

    As I understand it, the same is true for lootbox drops. The only difference is in how rare an item actually is, but that is also reflected in price, since the resale is entirely market driven.

    You could say that Valve rigs the drop rate, but you could say the same thing for Magic. It’s all manufactured shortage.

    You could say that Magic items are tangible…but honestly I don’t see how that’s an argument in the modern digital-first era.

    I’m not trying to defend lootboxes…not directly, at least. Just trying to understand the hypocrisy in the gaming community comparing these two.