Sludgehammer

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you go far enough back, "Data corruption"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours 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 7 hours 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] 14 points 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago

I would not take this bet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ugh...

A "toxin" is a poisonous substance produced by a living organism. While all toxins are toxic to something, not all things that are toxic are toxins. As an example caffeine would meet the definition of a toxin (poisonous to insects and mammals in sufficient doses), arsenic would not (poisonous to almost all life, but not produced by a living organism).

Sorry for being so pedantic, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The groceries in the passenger seat are a nice touch, because of course there's gonna be no trunk space.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

Yeah... I'd like to know more about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, when I was looking for information about Tears of the Kingdom around 90% of my search results was AI slop. I think was looking for info about how weapon durability and fusion worked and I kept getting a badly reworded version of the explanation of fusion from the gameplay teaser.

Actually.. that reminded me of another TotK search I did, I was looking for where to farm some variety of lizalfos tails and kept getting AI articles that confused BotW locations with TotK. Amusingly, I eventually tried Google's chatbot out of exasperation and it actually proved more accurate than my search results.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Even a turtle realizes when something can threaten its existence.

 

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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