Sludgehammer

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Trains are for poor people and there's no "disrupting the industry" to hype up to investors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I dunno, he could have sacrificed his decency and integrity for power over the intervening eight years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I should have mentioned that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dang... and the free market was just about get around to replacing those pipes too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you go far enough back, "Data corruption"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess even the cheapest Brazilian beef they can find isn't producing the profits they want now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was thinking about that a while back. There's got to be some sort of upper limit to collecting data being useful. I mean at some point it becomes more economical to just buy the data from one other thousands of companies data mining phones rather then going to all the trouble of building and maintaining your own data mining app.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm holding off on buying this until I clear some stuff in my backlog (and hopefully getting the game at a deeper discount).

However from the videos I've watched my only criticism is that some of the games look rather complex and would benefit from supplying more information than a small blurb and a controls page. I wish UFO 50 had taken a page from Retro Game Challenge and had some in-universe game manuals and magazines. Still, since I'm planning on buying it at some point obviously not a deal breaker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ugh... this reminds me of the time I spotted some hotdogs tucked into a non-refrigerated endcap at a local store. Since they were already room temperature (and as such no longer food safe) I just left them there with the assumption that the staff would clean them up after hours. I went back to the store about a week later and noticed the hot dogs were still there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I would not take this bet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Grinding is another possibility. Rubbing rocks together isn't a very complicated technology.

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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