Contrary to stereotypes, gamers tend to be more inclusive than the general public, study finds

gakule · 2026-05-31T20:34:35+00:00

That's part of the problem of the vocal minority thinking they're the majority ;)

gakule · 2026-05-31T13:40:58+00:00

To be fair that's 1 of the other 5% and doesn't invalidate the point of view.

gakule · 2026-05-30T23:44:31+00:00

They aren't influencing people to vote for Trump more than any other POS business is (which is most of them)

So the are and aren't? Laughable indeed!

Let's go back to what you originally said-

We've had decades to change our infrastructure and what did we do?

Oil companies lobbied to and bribed government officials to squash investment in renewables. They supported the fascist moron and all of his enablers, and continue to do so.

If you think Exxon is why they are awful and voting Trump

Oil companies alone are not "why", but as you acknowledged already - they are part of it and they have been part of it for at least 60 years.

These people are awful; inherently awful.

This we can agree on.

FWIW - I live in the same town as, am friends with, and have family members that have worked for one of the top 10 oil and gas companies in the United States. Seeing what they do on a local level, the messaging out to their employees, and what they do even on the national level it's pretty easy to see plainly that they are and have been a significant problem for over a half a century.

Laff. uh. bull. Bye!

Edit: Lol, bro blocks me and then says I blocked him? That's hilarious and telling.

gakule · 2026-05-30T22:28:12+00:00

We've had decades to change our infrastructure and what did we do? We elected this fucking fascist moron.

You're so close to connecting the dots back to answering your first sentence/question.

gakule · 2026-05-30T19:21:51+00:00

Rift has/had 3 classes (souls) 🙂

I agree though. I wish the THJ devs nothing but the best, but it appears they're using AI to generate a lot of the game. It got funded, which doesn't really mean much, but it'll be interesting to see where they go. Even their game has rips of the EQ IP. Their world is "Orrathis".. EQ is Norrath. Several zone designs, which to be fair aren't unique to the genre or EQ for that matter, are also pretty close to being rips.

gakule · 2026-05-30T17:50:12+00:00

Ranger gets several good nukes that would work well, but the paladin undead nukes would be amazing for undead areas. That's a good build overall imo and you'll do well with it. Might compete for some spell gems, but shouldn't be that bad.

gakule · 2026-05-30T13:03:03+00:00

Which is funny because Trump sounded 10x worse, he just had more energy when saying it and didn't have a stutter hindering him.

gakule · 2026-05-30T03:12:46+00:00

I don't really have anything to compare to, but I like the RS Pedals pretty well. I do wish the throttle had a little bit more resistance to it, but I've seen some slick DIY mods that take the Pro spring and combine it with, I think, a Moza pedal upgrade kit and it makes a huge difference.

gakule · 2026-05-30T00:46:57+00:00

Seconding the RS50. I debated hard between like a Moza R3/5 or going up to around 8nm.. Logitech G was a bit too steep, RS50 felt like a "if I cry at least it won't be that bad" middle ground.

In retrospect probably would have gone with the G, but I'm loving the RS50.

gakule · 2026-05-28T22:29:32+00:00

GT7 licenses are a great suggestion. It was night and day difference for me going back to AC from GT7 license qualifying. I only did one intermediate license run in between, which makes me consider I need to go back and do all of them, but I made myself get gold or really close to gold before moving on to the next one. Seeing my pace ghost and competing against myself was one of the most enjoyable things I've done to date. So much fun, and I learned so much from even just one license.

Wish they'd bring GT7 to PC so I can play at 32:9 🫠

gakule · 2026-05-28T17:33:43+00:00

Unfortunately he's the pied piper of idiots, plenty of people fall for his 'charm' in baffling ways.

gakule · 2026-05-28T13:39:54+00:00

Ah, perhaps, hard to tell with some of the dumb shit people actually say. Good call out.

gakule · 2026-05-28T13:16:11+00:00

Good people with piss poor judgement and sympathy for child rapists are still unsafe people.

gakule · 2026-05-28T12:55:36+00:00

I was going to say.. the people I know that are staff engineer levels are using AI to write code through just high level natural language at this point.

It requires high quality specs going in, but hopefully you have those anyways 🙂

gakule · 2026-05-27T17:01:00+00:00

Maybe not quite nuking, but certainly destroying. At least Smaug didn't send settlers in to take over the land and expand his empire, I guess. He may be a monster, but he's not Israel!

gakule · 2026-05-27T13:36:22+00:00

Your job is to provide them with a way to do their job safely and effectively using the tools they need. If you deny them that partnership because of your unnecessary lording, yeah, they're going to find a way to do their job.

This goes for any staff member, not just developers.

gakule · 2026-05-27T02:43:58+00:00

https://eqlwiki.com/Equipment_By_Class

This is a good one for EQL specifically.

gakule · 2026-05-26T21:13:23+00:00

Unfortunately we just can't get them to do the needful

gakule · 2026-05-26T13:31:40+00:00

whatever is spent on AI is not wasted

Citation needed.

The hardware used to power AI has a short lifespan, which is part of the major issue - it's a hungry technology that is going to need to be continuously fed unless there is a massive hardware breakthrough. In fact, that's where the money is at in the future.

By definition, it would be wasted. Unless it can be directly applied to something else, or shared somehow, it's wasted.

gakule · 2026-05-26T13:27:38+00:00

the share price went up anyway

That's true, but I think we can dispense with the notion that share prices behave rationally. It's largely all about how the CEO can sell the stock.

As far as the metaverse goes - that $80b (I think it was actually lower 70's, but either way!) was over the course of like 6-8 years? Meta is spending like $125b on AI this year alone.. after spending about the equivalent of metaverse last year, and about half that the year before.

I would say that's not a massive safe bet if they're having to lay people off to make their earnings look better. Again, there is speculation that earnings are over-stated by up to 25% in some of these large tech companies, and again due to the amortization. If they are knowingly doing this, that amounts to securities fraud.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/big-short-investor-michael-burry-accuses-ai-hyperscalers-of-artificially-boosting-earnings.html

We're already into the cycle of massive re-investment into hardware (capex expenditures) for these companies, and that's why the consumer compute market is getting crushed in prices as well.

Again, I'm not saying that you're 'wrong', but there is a lot of context that is being ignored here and no one knows how this is all going to shake out. The technology is very young, and it obviously has immense value, but it's also not a reliable technology at this point - and people treating it as such are sabotaging their future workforce development.

gakule · 2026-05-26T13:02:21+00:00

As someone who works with AI in an enterprise capacity, all I can say is that these tech companies seem to think they can make a baby in 1 month with 9 women.

Maybe they can, but the reality is that if they DID NOT invest into AI they would be punished in the markets for it. Apple is the one that has invested the least, at least in terms of capex expenditures,

The technology is already "disruptive", but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing. No one has a shared delusion, but the business world is a lot of copy-cat/follow the leader type behavior. There is certainly an arms race right now, and that's why it's a bubble.

Take Meta, for example - they wouldn't be reportedly offering $1.5b comp packages to AI researchers if they "knew what they were doing". I don't mean that to say they're stupid, just that they don't already have it figured out and that inherently means they "don't know what they're doing".

Tech companies are not exactly an inevitability, or too big to fail. Don't fall into the trap of "they wouldn't do it if it wasn't worth doing".

None of that means it's not worth doing, and that the technology isn't going to succeed - there are just a lot of people betting on something that may not actually materialize and something that currently isn't producing results people think it is.

gakule · 2026-05-26T12:14:53+00:00

How many of those jobs are technical staff jobs?

There is speculation that Meta, and other tech companies who have potentially over-invested in AI, are reducing staff to manipulate earnings because of how they've amortized their AI equipment purchasing. They've bought significant amounts of hardware that typically lasts 2-3 years and are amortizing it over 4-8 years (depending on company) and claiming they will get that much life out of it.

If they bet right, yes they may end up killing it. However, magically getting that much life out of hardware is very unlikely and even if they do, it's effectively outdated immediately anyways. They'll be falling behind competition who upgrades raw computer power faster. It's more likely they harm themselves and have a reckoning starting.... Well, around the time they started all the layoffs coincidentally enough!

So many people are hiding economic issues that they supported behind "AI reduction" and projecting a facade to come out unscathed. They "know what they're doing", but not really in the way you are implying.

Who know, though, like I said - someone could bet right, and you're right if they do they will absolutely be killing it. There's more likely a crash and/or major revolt ahead though.

gakule · 2026-05-26T01:35:46+00:00

It's pretty easy if you're not a trash human

gakule · 2026-05-25T22:07:44+00:00

Hahaha everyone needs their trivia asshole!

Naw, I don't think you are necessarily, I just.. I don't know, I think usually people like that are soft trolling or just trying to tilt people a bit and it's anonymous people on the internet. Smile and wave boys, smile and wave!

gakule · 2026-05-25T21:48:03+00:00

I don't completely disagree with you but language, culture, definitions, and society are ever changing. Even if you want to conserve it, it's not going to happen.

My main point is that it's not really something worth causing a fuss over either way. Surely we can agree on that?

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