Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@chrishudsonjr Also love that game. Very underrated. It has a lot of very subtle touches that really tie it together.

There's probably only one thing I really don't like about C# and that's that the String class can be written as a lowercase primitive.

It never ceases to amaze me how much big companies are willing to punish their legitimate customers to prevent bad actors from abusing their service.

Lack of accountability for one's actions is the #1 problem in this country, both in the private and public sectors.

Every other problem stems from it.

@Sheril I feel like that's just part of the human condition, not a uniquely American thing.

There will always be people pushing for new unknown boundaries just as there will always be people more comfortable in the debunked facts of the past.

@ThinkingSapien That's nuts. Everyone should know that simple pattern by heart.

@gerrymcgovern Shit, at least people enjoy looking at those photos.

They're a drop in the bucket compared to bitcoin miners.

@onreact It's not my job to back up your wild claims. That you choose not to back your nonsense up with facts tells me you know damn well how full of shit you are.

Stop trying to troll people. This is Mastodon, not Twitter.

@admitsWrongIfProven @jeffcliff Other countries have stronger laws against speech.

So, where these assholes are very visible in America, they tend to work hidden, under the surface, in other countries.

Personally, I think the US approach is better in that respect. Can't fix what you can't see.

@rhm Right, but even then, such a game would more likely than not end up feeling soulless and meandering.
Plus, without a vision, you'll end up copying its flaws too.

@onreact @jon
>"Most searches are 'no click' searches by now."
[citation needed]

>"With AI search ("SGE") Google just uses copy and pasted or regurgitated third party content on their own sites and the chance of click through is minuscule."
That's not how LLMs work, and have they even released that yet, or are you freaking out about something they're still considering?

>"Why should two gatekeepers get most of the advertising revenue on journalistic content globally? Can you please explain that?"
Because they're the ones delivering that content to waiting customers. That's like asking "why should paperboys get a cut of the news?"

@onreact @jon Except they're not "stealing" content. They're distributing links that point back to the source where the journalists get paid through their choice of ad-supported business model.

If anything, Google should be charging them delivery fees for putting their headlines in front of millions of eyes.