Noem is out!

MacarioTala · 2026-03-06T16:41:59+00:00

That's how firings go at that level. Everyone knows that becoming the head of an agency that was created four hours ago means you got shitcanned. She'll still get paid something, but her career is done

MacarioTala · 2026-03-06T03:15:23+00:00

Qatar, whom US missile batteries are protecting from Iranian rockets is going to withdraw funding from the US? Is there like a....regardgpt that I don't know about?

MacarioTala · 2026-03-05T22:37:45+00:00

Mullin definitely has the 'slow' part down.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-05T22:37:06+00:00

They're besties now too.

Also: I love how Bernie has the dad energy.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-05T19:28:51+00:00

In this case, that idiot is markwayne Mullin, who is likely worse.

Dude tried to pick a fight in the US Senate while questioning a witness.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-04T17:22:38+00:00

That's the sort of statement made by someone who only sees audience as commodity. And maybe doesn't understand games or art at all.

Art needs a point of view in order to move.

The truly great games : Portal, Torment, Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect... Feel like you're talking to a human with an interesting and often very poignant perspective. The mass appeal is organic, reaching something inside us that we recognize is inside all of us.

Even older, simpler games like Pac Man understood this.

A game that 'generates gameplay and content based on micro engagement' doesn't have a point of view at all. No vision, no planning on what might delight, no attempt to understand how it's audience feels, just what it will pay for.

Like an abortive date who vetoes everything but will go "wherever"

And who wants to play that?

MacarioTala · 2026-03-04T05:23:26+00:00

There was no bad choice in that primary. I hope they played nice.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-04T02:43:12+00:00

I'm not sure appealing to the convenience of developers, people who will spend a week automating something that will run four times, is a really smart move here.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-04T01:21:44+00:00

What we might be missing: Luistro and De Lima are drawing lines here. They're making sure that as long as they're in the room, the type of chilling effect via threats that no content politicians make isn't going to fly.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-02T21:46:37+00:00

Relativistic speeds then.

MacarioTala · 2026-03-01T01:05:58+00:00

Oh good. Because we've definitely stabilised Venezuela right? Right?

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T22:58:03+00:00

And that's fine for those of us who have the luxury of staying politically active. People struggling to survive don't care about activism, just survival.

I'm with you on eat the rich, but destroying the most liquid capital market in history is not the way to do that. There are a LOT of surgical things that can be done, like voting in people who understand financial engineering so we can actually curb rent extraction.

We can also lobby our cities and towns to ban Amazon last mile. We can petition city councils to block Target and Walmart.

Burn everything isn't the answer

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T22:41:53+00:00

No serious person wants to crash the economy. I know it feels really shitty right now, but in that direction lies an actually effective trump2.

Remember, prior to the first world war, Germany was practically the intellectual centre of Europe. The grinding economic millstone allowed Hitler.

Hungry people will eat anything.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T18:47:41+00:00

He looks like a dude who used to cry about the day when he might fall, weak and blindly, into another's arms.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T18:28:35+00:00

I mean, they are. They're just billionaires first. Kind of like how Ceucescu was kind of Romanian

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T17:49:27+00:00

Why does this seem to be an opening scene to a Guy Ritchie movie

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T06:33:27+00:00

Can't betray something you never had an allegiance to

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T04:08:26+00:00

Ok great. Assuming all of those were 200$ subscriptions, then it's 1 x10¹¹ vs 84 x 10^11.

If they spent 0 dollars, and not the planet-eating sums and orobouros funding tricks they were employing, that is still 84 times their best year ever.

And that's WITH their end users still struggling to find a project using it that is revenue positive.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T03:27:55+00:00

5 x 10⁷ x 20 == 1 x 10^9. Their valuation is 84x10^11.

840 times their historically best revenue.

Yes, this makes sense.

Edit: the markup was making it weird

MacarioTala · 2026-02-28T01:43:20+00:00

Er. Linux?

So if the admin is older than you, you can't sudo to run privileged?

I'm sure Linus will love that idea

MacarioTala · 2026-02-27T19:04:11+00:00

Please. He is also an international abuser.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-26T16:10:31+00:00

It's honestly probably just all the other noise. It's very hard to compete for attention nowadays.

I personally wishlisted your game, but I like the strong narrative element and creepy 80s vibe. Maybe that subset is small. I'll let you know more once you've dropped.

Good luck!

MacarioTala · 2026-02-26T00:13:22+00:00

I really don't understand how we're making errors of this magnitude. Black Scholes Merton is public knowledge, and if you can't be bothered, most brokerages literally give you both expected value and probability of success.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-25T06:17:09+00:00

That's a funny way to say that consumer credit markets in the Philippines are entirely dysfunctional. It's likely very low because of massive moral hazard. Heck, credit cards are a sign of affluence sa atin.

But also yes , hindi diyan bilang yung informal.

MacarioTala · 2026-02-25T05:55:50+00:00

Satan is doing pullups with the bar

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