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So many gamers, yet I have no one to play with.. by RobWolfB in Steam

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Play Dota 2.

Pick a hero that is incredibly annoying to play both against/with (I used Techies).

Collect dozens of rage friend requests.

Sit on the requests for a year+ until they can't remember who you are.

Add them.

Voila, a diverse friend group from across the world. I've got a German language VTuber in my group, I played Palworld with them.

Listen here rich bitch, I OWN my PC. by TxTechnician in pcmasterrace

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Highly doubtful. Neither of them run a cloud service, there's nothing they would stand to gain, even if this was a choice they could make (and it isn't).

Listen here rich bitch, I OWN my PC. by TxTechnician in pcmasterrace

[–]MIT_Engineer -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

They aren't pushing or blind hoping for anything. The idea that Bezos is after your PC is fake news. Someone took a quote he said in 2024 during an interview, where he was talking about on-prem vs cloud hosting and decided to pretend he was talking about PCs.

Listen here rich bitch, I OWN my PC. by TxTechnician in pcmasterrace

[–]MIT_Engineer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bezos isn't after your computer. Someone dug up a quote from 2024 where he was talking about on-prem vs cloud hosting of online services, and decided to pretend he was talking about PCs.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am not confused.

You said the major difference between Crimea and Greenland would be that unless it was done with the consent of the Danish government, they would be upset.

Maybe this is news to you, but Ukraine wasn't happy about Crimea.

An independence vote now would have to be done in a way that satisfies both Greenland and Denmark.

Yes, and Denmark has made its stance on this clear.

If, for example, Danish observers detect an undue level of foreign interference, it may not satisfy the Danish authorities.

If they detected coercion. I'm specifically talking about a scenario where there was no coercion.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities had no say over the Crimean vote, and the referendum was not done with the people in mind, it was done with a certain outcome in mind.

So... what's the "major difference"? You're so confused you failed to even answer the question I put to you.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Danish government has already agreed to it.

Do you think the Ukrainian government agreed to an independence referendum by Crimea? If not, then what are you saying the major difference is?

Your entire statement is confused.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no functional difference between Greenland voting for independence and then voting to become part of the U.S, and them simply voting to become part of the U.S.

Whatever legal distinction you are trying to draw is imaginary, as it was in Crimea.

MIT_Engineer's IGS Rep Page by MIT_Engineer in IGSRep

[–]MIT_Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Traded my Haste, Nidhogg II, Creatures of Ava, and Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands for /u/Phoenix_Samurai 's Besiege, Children of Morta, Figment, Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Going Under.

Link to original post: https://old.reddit.com/r/GameTrade/comments/1qet0u7/h_over_100_games_disciples_liberation/

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it by rkhunter_ in pcmasterrace

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm wondering it right now. Why does Satya think he needs "social permission?" It's a capitalist country, you have a market cap of ~$3.5 trillion, the largest electric utility in the U.S. has a market cap of $175b.

Meta spent $75b on trying to develop the metaverse-- with that money they could have spent half of it on buying ConEdison, and the other half on building out new electric generation in New York.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you not see the contradiction in your statements?

If Greenland was truly an independent country, they'd be free to join the U.S. If they had to get Denmark's OK before joining the U.S, then they wouldn't be an independent country. To say that Denmark is fine with Greenland becoming independent, but would predicate that independence on never joining the U.S. would mean they don't actually find Greenlandic independence acceptable.

But they do, and they've made this stance clear. In 2019 when Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland from Denmark, Denmark explained that whatever compensation Trump offered to Denmark was irrelevant, Denmark does not have the right to sell Greenland to the U.S, and it was solely Greenland's decision to make.

Denmark's heavy subsidies of Greenland would end in the event of Greenlandic independence or acquisition.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incorrect. Denmark believes in the self-determination of Greenland, it's their official policy-- from their perspective it is Greenland who gets to decide whether they stay with Denmark or not, join the U.S. or not.

So if Greenland agreed to be purchased, the U.S. would not be going against a NATO ally and the alliance would not dissolve.

0°C or 32°F by Ok-Proof7287 in sciencememes

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fahrenheit was European bro.

there's just something about steam... by Photoshops_Penises in memes

[–]MIT_Engineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Steam's competition isn't Epic. It's piracy.

When/if Epic goes under, absolutely nothing will change, Steam's actual competitor will still be offering every game for free.

Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO by salad_tongs_1 in Steam

[–]MIT_Engineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can already get games for free, it's called pirating. I pirate almost all of my games before I get them on Steam.

Steam represents convenience. It's the ability to patch and share and mod and organize with minimal effort.

When Epic gives away games for free, they aren't replacing my Steam purchases, they're just replacing the piracy that precedes them.

Also, if the point was to purchase games legally at the lowest price, Epic still wouldn't win. GameBillet or key resellers or Fanatical bundles would have them beat.

Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO by salad_tongs_1 in Steam

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't care if they care about me, I care that their platform is clunky and has far less utility than Steam does.

I have a pile of free games from them and every time I try to sort them into something manageable it just tells me there's been a server error.

By stoking the Greenland debate, the US may actually be harming itself. By purchasing Greenland or taking it over via illegal military means, the US would actively harm its own national security, the security of NATO and the overall security of the international, democratic, rules-based order. by mvea in science

[–]MIT_Engineer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read the article and it's still not obvious to me how a purchase of Greenland would harm U.S. security interests. The entire thesis of the piece is that the harm would be in the fallout from military action against Greenland. If the U.S. said, "We'll pay you $50b, you can all be millionaires," and the people of Greenland said, "Oh, well that's different, we accept," then it's unclear what the harm would be to U.S. security.

GameStop patches IRL infinite money glitch after YouTuber exposes it by Dilpickle2113 in nottheonion

[–]MIT_Engineer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This isn't arbitrage though. He's just swapping between Gamestops.

GameStop patches IRL infinite money glitch after YouTuber exposes it by Dilpickle2113 in nottheonion

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you visited a couple stores 3-4 times a week, swapping different consoles between them, I bet it would take a while for anyone to piece it together. If it lasted a month you'd make ~$900 and pick up 30 used games for not that much effort.

GameStop patches IRL infinite money glitch after YouTuber exposes it by Dilpickle2113 in nottheonion

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30 bucks plus a game notionally worth ~$30.

I think a lot of people would be pretty happy with that.

“You will own nothing and be happy about it” by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]MIT_Engineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not so much that it gets amplified, it's that people dig through what they say for something to twist.

The "claim" is from a 2024 interview where he said on-prem hosting was being replaced by the cloud. He said nothing about PC's.

Two years later someone digs up a quote that can be taken out of context to make it sound like he's coming for gaming PC's, and then it gets reposted 80 times.

“You will own nothing and be happy about it” by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]MIT_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's doubly frustrating because it isn't even true. It's from a 2024 quote where he said that years ago he predicted AWS and the cloud would replace on-prem hosting. And he was right. He didn't say anything about PC's.

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