peto (he/him)

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can’t force people to read it in this font.

Are you referring to the song or Reagan?

Folk always seem to underestimate the effect of training and experience. In a match between two unpracticed players, sure, the more analytically inclined of the two will have an edge. This is true of any game with a strategic component. General intelligence helps but specialist knowledge is better.

I’m willing to allow that someone could have a change of heart after acquiring wealth, or can control of such wealth through inheritance.

I don’t really care how such a realignment of thinking is achieved though. Be it force, visitation by three spirits, whatever. I guess my point is that as they have the capability to change but don’t, which should inform our actions.

The thing about billionaires it that they could just stop. It’s not a skin colour, it’s not an ethnicity or even a religion.

If they wanted to they could redistribute the wealth. They could use their power to close the political doors they exploit.

Wouldn’t even have to check themselves out, wouldn’t even have to adopt some monastic lifestyle. But they would rather live in a world where they have lifetimes of obscene luxury at the expense of others. At a certain point you have to ask if causing suffering is part of their fun.

Remember when we were all laughing at George W Bush and the dumb shit he said? At least the fuck was concise rather than this embarrassment going on about how he used to tie an onion to his belt to scare off Mexicans or whatever he said.

Should Vale release a general Steam OS and folk move away from Windows en masse it’s probably going to be worth it. Proton does a great job but a tested and supported Linux build will be better. Some solos do it, but I think it is more based in ideology rather than necessity.

Your time and effort as a solo is going to be limited though, testing and supporting a Linux build is going to be work, and if you want to keep things closed source you are not going to be able to leverage the community in the way open software does.

There might be steps you can take to be more compatible with Proton and/or Steam Deck, which probably would be a good idea, and give you much more effect for your time spend.

I only really associate HP with corporate machines, which they seem to work fine for. Don’t really associate them with the gaming space. Of course them looking at it is probably a sign that the handheld market is about to really open up, which is a good thing I think.

And if they make a good product with neither their corporate bullshit or all the ‘gamer style’ gimmicks I anticipate from folk like Razer or Alienware.

What I’d really like though is something DIY, or at least Framework-like. A man can dream…

I know this is the common advice but I started with Consider Phlebas and it is far from unapproachable. There are some benefits of the PoV character being outside The Culture I think. As much as I liked The Player of Games, I much preferred the second half of the book.

Round Disc confirmed?

Mildly?

That 2000 IQ king sacrifice gambit.

Are we entirely sure it’s not just an ornament? I’ve got all kinds of things that aren’t even ritual objects.

And as AI monsters go, it’s far from the worst. Barely even a monster.

No wonder he was the captain of the Black Perl…

As if they consider women people.

You have to use it a lot. From what I can tell that’s their problem, they priced unlimited access low based on some numbers they pulled out their arse and then were all shocked Pikachu face when people used it and unlimited amount.

Male chicks are largely considered a waste-product of the poultry industry, you don’t need many males to maintain the population. It’s cheaper and easier to identify them once they hatch, at which point they have no economic value and so are killed.

I sometimes suspect that the push for decimalisation was in part to avoid having to teach computers the old system.

Well, he’s clearly not talking about small people like say, me or you compared to Trump or Musk. And let me be clear, he is probably wrong about that as well. If Trump is anti-google that is likely nothing more than a negotiating position.