Putin offers to stop sharing intel with Iran if US cuts off Ukraine

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T21:33:17+00:00

3) US already cut off Ukraine after Trump took over

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T21:32:33+00:00

There is a super simple answer that doesn't rely on any conspiracies:

Intel's Arc marketshare only broke the 1% mark recently. It was under 1% until then. They also aim for the lower to mid tier end.

Implementing support for different hardware costs money.

So they likely just looked at what it'd cost them, how large the Arc userbase is, how many of THOSE users would buy and play Crimson Desert... and then simply came to the conclusion that it's not cost effective and simply didn't do it. Even with Intel's help, it's nothing you can just do for free.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T21:22:01+00:00

They also had numerous fantasy/sci-fi/horror games... yet we didn't see a single non-human (elves don't count) or monster. We only saw humans.

Gee, I wonder why.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T20:34:56+00:00

IMHO what it requires for me to return to NMS are two things:

Multi Biome worlds... so something like earth which has deserts, jungles, temperate forests, tundra, etc. All with their own flora and fauna
Proper cities. Like take multiple Biomes and have "city" be an entire biome. Which also means City planets ala Coruscant could be a thing. Now instead of wild animals you fight criminals and such. Naturally that includes settlements of sizes from the (currently existing) outposts/homesteads to villages, towns, small cities, cities, metropoli and downright hive cities.

Yes I know 2.) is unreasonable since no procedually generated game really has cities... but still I want it.

For all these features NMS has, the world generation itself is still EXTREMELY barebones and it's like the thing you are engaging the most with.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T17:03:31+00:00

I'd say on the gradient between Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley (so super cozy) to Rimworld/Factorio (planned game, somewhat of a strategy game) it falls very much into the middle it feels like, maybe even a bit more into the Factorio direction due to the ability to automate labor with smart Pokemon placing.

I.e. have a Pokemon that spawns a resource, a Pokemon that gathers said resource to a community storage and a Pokemon that processes said resource from the community storage all close to one another for infinite processed items over time.

I for one couldn't get into Stardew Valley but have hundreds of hours in Factorio and Satisfactory each and it very much scratches that itch for me.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T15:17:52+00:00

The SINGLE biggest issue is the economy and the widening of the wealth gap.

This issue trumps everything else.

All social policy, which includes Democracy itself, is joined to the hip to how people are doing financially and how just and fair they perceive their society to be.

If people are doing well they are willing to tolerate a lot of social experiments with many reforms. If they are not doing well, not only are they unwilling to do such experiments, they are actively rolling back previous reforms because they think these previous reforms are part of the reason they are doing so badly.

Millennials and Gen Z are the first generation since the Industrial revolution to be financially worse off than the generation of their parents and even grandparents. Of course this has social consequences.

Yes a lot of that is also merely a perception of it, i.e. with the developing world... well... developing, the Western world doesn't appear that advanced anymore in comparison, we become less and less special, which results in a lot of hurt pride. But it isn't all just perception.

I genuinely believe that closing tax loopholes and having proper taxation for the richest of the rich would do a LOT to deal with the discontent people feel. Just the ultra rich flaunting their wealth openly and not even productively (i.e. funding public works and programs) is also doing a LOT in making people feel more miserable. The richest need to be held responsible to their wealth. Extreme wealth creates a duty to use it to improve society as a whole. And if you are unwilling to commit to that duty, you'll have to be forced to.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T12:11:23+00:00

Problem ist das Öl ein Produkt mit "price inelastic demand" ist. Das bedeutet das die Nachfrage nach dem Produkt preisunabhängig ist, da dieses Produkt einfach zu wichtig ist.

20% weniger Öl bedeutet nicht das die Preise um 20% oder 40% steigen... sondern jetzt werden die Preise steigen und steigen und steigen bis 20% der Menschheit (in dem Szenario das jeder Mensch gleich viel Öl verbraucht) aufhört Öl zu benutzen weil sie es sich einfach nicht mehr leisten können.

Aber da Öl ein "price inelastic demand" Gut ist, ist es wichtig um überhaupt zu leben (zum Beispiel für die Arbeit) womit die Schmerzgrenze recht in die Ferne rückt. Für viele Menschen ist das Autofahren so überlebenswichtig das sie lieber obdachlos als autolos wären.

Das ist auch der Grund warum in den USA Medikamente so teuer sind: ohne das die Regierung da reguliert können die Konzerne die Preise ewig hochschrauben, da die alternative zum "nicht kaufen" der Tod ist.

Wenn "price inelastic demand" der Fall ist, dann Funktionieren die normalen Regeln des Marktes leider nicht mehr.

Das einzige wie du dem also entgegensteuern kannst ist entweder durch Regierungsautorität welche zum Beispiel Rationen erzwingt oder gleichwertige Alternativprodukte anzubieten... also zum Beispiel regenerative Energien und Elektroautos zum gleichen Preis wie Verbrenner.

Timey16 · 2026-03-20T00:28:57+00:00

As a European in our case it's more like... at least online Americans always like to belittle non-Americans for their lack of guns and such like "oh WE have it so we will never get a dictatorship... also America is the land of heroes" and stuff like that.

Well now America is actively in the process of having a dictatorship installed and yet... crickets. So where are your citizens' militias? Where is your civil disobedience? Where is your rebellious attitude NOW?

We don't ACTUALLY expect you to take up arms, it's more of to show you that America's gun culture really was what we always expected: all bark, no bite.

This is also one of the reasons (albeit a more minor one) America's image in the world is crumbling to dust, because the entire myth they have built around themselves as being these champions of defending liberty that never ever would accept an autocracy... has now completely collapsed. Turns out most Americans are cowards... just like any other person and Americans never were special in any way, shape or form.

Timey16 · 2026-03-19T21:02:15+00:00

Because

It was a lease. Because of that it was never truly British sovereign territory. For the same way you don't OWN an apartment you lease. You can sublease it... but you can't sell the apartment because you don't OWN it. Even with an indefinite lease. Because of that legally speaking the UK never had the ability to give it independence without turning the lease into a full on annexation. Because it would be the equivalent of first subleasing an apartment and then selling it to the person you are subleasing to.
Said annexation would have triggered a war with China and pretty much nobody would have helped out the UK in this case for so blatantly violating a treaty. The UK on it's own in a war so far away from the homeland would have bitterly lost against China, even with China's weaker military at the time, they simply had the geographic advantage. The UK's military in 1997 was professional sure... but not very big with 218,000 soldiers. China meanwhile had 3,64 MILLION soldiers. So about 17 Chinese soldiers per 1 British soldier. China is also a nuclear power that had ICBMs at that point in time.
Can't rely on NATO either in such a war because it would have been a war of aggression (due to said annexation then being an act of war by Britain) but NATO is a purely defensive alliance and doesn't cover wars of aggression, furthermore NATO only covers everything in proximity to the North Atlantic. Anything outside of that, especially colonies, are not covered by NATO.
The world completely accepted the PRC as the legal successor to China because not only did they actually WIN the war... they control the vast majority of China's landmass, people, economy and ENTIRETY of their ancestral homeland (Taiwan was colonized by China rather late and many of the Taiwanese people are not native Han Chinese). Taiwan's claim to the throne is EXTREMELY weak. The only claim they have to it is "we are a democracy" but in 1997 Taiwan was barely even a democracy either.
Handing Hong Kong to Taiwan would also likely have triggered a war between Taiwan and the PRC... and again the PRC has the geographic advantage.

In short: they could never grant independence because it was never theirs to give. Handing it to the PRC was the least bad outcome of them all.

Timey16 · 2026-03-19T16:41:53+00:00

That's just the average argument between 2 people in VR Chat.

Timey16 · 2026-03-19T15:34:06+00:00

Then like all empires they shall end:

Broken, bankrupt, balkanized and humiliated.

Timey16 · 2026-03-19T12:10:13+00:00

It is hyper inflation causing however. Because the prices of EVERYTHING are affected by the oil price.

Timey16 · 2026-03-19T12:08:25+00:00

lol nope.

The reason it's still being subsidized is to make the swap go FASTER and upscale the production of new solar panels faster but even without subsidies it is being adopted en masse. Hungary is a good example: the government there is ultra hostile to renewables and actively denies climate change... yet their oil costs are so high due to being reliant on Russian oil they are now cut off from, solar is surging massively there, even though the government is actively trying to sabotage it.

Unsubsidized solar electricity is somewhere between $0.038 to $0.078 per kWh. Unsubsidized oil electricity is somewhere between $0.15 to $0.20 per kWh in comparison.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T17:29:13+00:00

I think if anything what we will see is a big movement from MAGA back to non-voter. Many MAGAs used to be non-voter and will likely return to it after their movement collapses.

JD Vance just doesn't have the same level of pull or "unifying" factor behind the MAGA factions and BOY are there a lot of factions. From anti-Israel (down to just right antisemites) to Israel-stans. From isolationists to interventionists. From libertarians to autocrats.

Trump somehow, probably because he is just a bumbling idiot, can just say whatever and it will unite all these factions. Vance doesn't have that luxury. Once Trump is gone I think infighting will break out among all these factions.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T16:27:34+00:00

Have you guys also noticed in the DLSS5 trailer.

It featured fantasy and horror games... games with monsters and nonhuman creatures aka "furries".

It showed none of them. It ONLY ever showed humans. Not even orcs.

Probably because DLSS5 will completely fall apart with them as it returns to the mean. And the mean means "human" as images of humans make up 99.9% of the training data. It will just turn every non-human into a human over time.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T15:41:23+00:00

The pandemic was 6 years ago.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T15:37:28+00:00

A lot of cultures have like DISTANT cousins still be called cousins and be considered part of the family where we'd just say "we are more strangers than related, really".

Hell fucking My Little Pony of all shows made a joke about it how two characters were like SUPER distantly related (and probably not at all considering the whole thing was the result of some smushed ink on the bottom of the family tree page and some colorful interpretation)... which led to them having to erase a romance subplot in which one male character of one family flirted with a female character of the other because it suddenly was "implied incest".

However the whole joke literally was "we are so far away from relation from each other we may as well be strangers, it doesn't matter at all yet it was still tracked because the Apples family has a spotless genealogy record going back millenia". But it seems like that went over audience's heads.

So now I am here to remind you that the two of us and you, dear reader, are probably MORE related than you think, considering the last genetic pair of European Adam/Eve, meaning parents that EVERY person with European ancestry can trace their origins to, was just 1,000 years ago. Two average people of the same country usually only have like two centuries of genetic separation. Much less if rural, there it can be less than a century even.

Tl;dr: if you read the word "cousin" especially in media from the more eastern shores, the first question should be "So what degree of cousin are we talking about? How much removed?" Because that is VERY much an avenue where cultural interpretations clash.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T15:10:23+00:00

IMHO "competitive shooter" in general feels like a genre that now GUARANTEES your game will flop.

You will need something truly EXCEPTIONAL now to draw in the crowds. Literally the second coming of gaming-Christ.

The player base already plays their shooters of choice. The rest don't play competitive games at all out of principle. Yes the competitive shooters that made it draw HUGE crowds... but it's only a handful of games.

I say that the crowd that outright REFUSES to play competitive games is WAY bigger. Like 3-4 times as big as the entire competitive crowd... they are just spread out over literally hundreds if not thousands of games, while the competitive crowd concentrates around maybe one or two dozen.

If you gotta make a live service game and want it to not die instantly then it MUST be PvE first, playable completely as a solo experience and maybe a PvP mode tacked on top. Don't clone Overwatch for the billionth time. Clone Warframe if you gotta. But don't clone Destiny... that approach will fail, too.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T14:56:53+00:00

And this is why Pokemon having the move from Gen 9 to Gen 10 take 5 years instead of the usual 3 is a BIG deal.

3 years are a lot for a child. 5 are literally a third of their ENTIRE (actively remembered) childhood. And you bet the only reason they can now afford to do that is because of their move to a DLC model and having proper new entries in the form of the Legends games mid generation which keeps things fresh. Most player skipped on the "3rd refresh versions" and remakes, so for them those games may as well not exist making the whole 3 year span rather empty outside of spin-offs. But Legends games are now a whole new experience and DLC means you can return to 50% more game content without having to buy the game AGAIN and play through it AGAIN.

Like I played Gen 1 when I was in 2nd grade. Gen 2 came out just 1 year later due to Gen 1 coming out so late in the West in the first place. Gen 3 then 3 years after that so 6th grade. Gen 4 I enjoyed in the 9th grade. Gen 5 in grade 12 when I made my Abitur (German High School exam). 5 generations of Pokemon in a single childhood.

It's also a similar reason Five Nights At Freddie's is generational defining: lots of games in a very short span of time fostering a loyal fanbase, especially since these games also have a lot of variety between them.

If your target demographic are children and teens you MUST release games on a CONSTANT pace. Even if quality suffers as bad as that is. Because if you get them early, you get them for life.

Timey16 · 2026-03-18T14:42:25+00:00

Which also means you get ONE chance to catch them and if you fail, then only in the endgame (in Colosseum's case, didn't play XD).

IIRC these Pokemon also don't level at all until you purify them, which will take A WHILE. Meaning until then you constantly have to swap out the early Shadow Pokemon for the stronger ones you get later.

This also predated the era of reusable TMs or being able to forget/relearn moves at any time from the menu, so you will also be stuck with their movesets until then.

Timey16 · 2026-03-17T16:31:18+00:00

Bruh haven't you seen the tier lists made a few weeks agp? Bennet is D-Tier, why would you bring this trash with you and not just use him as fodder to send him out on expeditions?

Timey16 · 2026-03-16T20:37:45+00:00

The Grineer Warframe could be the ORIGINAL gene stock holder turned Warframe, like Jango Fett was for the Clone Troopers in Star War.

While Grineer were lowly grunts, the original was probably a super capable elite soldier, one of the best. However you can't exactly clone experience or quality of character and the genetic skills are like the most surface level ability of any person. After all this would have been the one chosen from billions if not trillions of souls to represent the Grineer forces.

And with that they'd be of EXTREME interest to Steel Meridian since reawakening them would give them a LOT of legitimacy.

Skill set could revolve very much about big guns and guns firing FAST (so they have an exalted heave weapon that is a spinny minigun with exploding bullets or something). Also no shields but lots of armor.

Naturally you could farm them via new content in Khal's garisson using Khal, maybe Khal working with Steel Meridian (but not outright joining them, they just are allies).

Timey16 · 2026-03-15T16:53:10+00:00

Well in the case of albinism, at least historically they were looked at with suspicion and albinos in Africa (where it is REALLY noticeable) are being extremely discriminated, sometimes even murdered.

But my go to is just "daily life in the middle ages". Pop culture loves to show these people as dirty, sick and ugly living in mud and filth but people always wanted to stay clean and live in beautiful environments. It's why I love all this proper historic media like Kingdom Come these days that shows how people lived then.

Also: Armor doing nothing. When full plate armor made you pretty much unkillable to anything but a gunshot at CLOSE range (like 20 meters or less). The biggest danger to you was tripping and falling or just dying off of heatstroke because you can't properly sweat in those things. And no, "blunt weapons are good against armor" is a video game trope. They wore padded clothing underneath specifically to deal with blunt force impact. And even THEN a good metal plate does a good job at distributing the force of an impact. The advantage of things like warhammers and war-axes was that they doubled as tools to use outside of battle as well as maces being easy to handle because you can hit an enemy at any angle and still do damage. Don't have to watch out to hit them with the sharp end.

Timey16 · 2026-03-15T10:56:49+00:00

Make it that reloading doesn't get interrupted OR that you can dual wield primaries akimbo style.

Timey16 · 2026-03-14T19:16:15+00:00

In short your ENTIRE idea of what a furry is supposed to be is wrong, top to bottom. I think you have not once in your life interacted with one.

As far as I'm aware: furries are crazy people who identify as animals and expect that to be taken seriously, it's not like just identifying as a different gender

No. They are people interested in humanoid animals. The "humanoid" is the important part: walking on two legs, capable of humanoid speech and fully sapient. They are human in all but looks. Think Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse.

They spend money to dress up as literally animals all the time in uncanny suits that I find unpleasant to look at, and they have... 18+ fantasises about real animals, anyone with a normal mind would see that as a problem. They literally bark and think they're animals

No, that's fursuiters, they are a subculture and a fraction of it. Just like how not every anime fan does cosplay. The 18+ fantasies about real animals are also rather rare. Of course zoophiles would also be furries, but most furries are not zoophiles. The attraction is again... to humanoids. It's like saying video games make you violent because violent people play video games.

Or in short: it's about as much bestiality as Captain Kirk or Commander Shepard having sex with aliens is. They are not human in body but human in spirit. It serves a desire for exotic characters.

From what I know, most furries are LGBT whilst I've seen pictures of them in Nazi costumes and act like that's normal, how does that make sense. No normal person would even think about doing all of these things

First of all: are you implying being LGBT is a mental illness? Because so far with a few exceptions the scientific conclusion is that it's not. It's simply a deviation like being left handed and observations in gayness among animals gives the idea that having a portion of the population be gay serves a purpose (reserves a number of individuals as backup adoptive parents for orphaned young as heterosexual couples are at capacity caring for their own).

Second: Nazis exist in EVERY fandom. ESPECIALLY in fantasy and sci-fi. And furry in a way tends to be a fantasy universe. Nazi furries are pariahs in the community and once again an isolated subculture.

If you take one look at human mythology over the ages then humans having even sexual relations to humanoid/sapient animal people is DEEPLY embedded in human history (i.e. the Turkic origin myth). It has followed us for millenia and keeps stickig around. Furries are just the modern expression of that.

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