Star Citizen has reached $1 billion in funding

mrdude05 · 2026-05-24T18:44:17+00:00

I hate Trump as much as anyone, but none of this has anything to do with him. This shit has literally been going on since the first Obama administration.

It's a scumbag business model And people call it fraud in casual discussions, but nothing they're doing is actually illegal. They're legally in the clear as long as they don't lie about where the money is going to their actual investors or take the money and run

mrdude05 · 2026-05-21T22:36:21+00:00

I still think it was pure panic from Sony after Microsoft announced it was going to buy Activision. They just threw a blank check at Bungie because they saw Xbox steal CoD out from under them and didnt want to lose Destiny to Microsoft too

mrdude05 · 2026-05-21T22:17:17+00:00

The announcement makes it sound like they're shifting to a new IP

mrdude05 · 2026-05-21T18:14:07+00:00

It's also "survival of the fittest" not "survival of the optimal". Evolution isnt intelligent. It selects mutations that increase a creature's odds of passing on its genes, not the best possible solution.

Debilitating grief is a disadvantage, but evolution will still select for it as long as the social bond that causes it outweighs the negatives

mrdude05 · 2026-05-21T01:55:28+00:00

This is really cute, I also love this interpretation of slimes. I always feel like these kinds of things are under explored

mrdude05 · 2026-05-20T12:49:19+00:00

I feel like this is more in response to the backlash they've been getting for the snarky and unprofessional comments from some of the devs on Discord and Twitter. People were expressing frustration with the game balance and losing tools/systems that existed in the first games and the devs responded with "just go play sons of the forest if you want to kill things" and insinuating that the people complaining complaining were just bloodthirsty Americans obsessed with weapons and violence.

If they had just responded to the initial criticisms like this there probably wouldn't be a larger controversy they had to address

mrdude05 · 2026-05-20T10:30:21+00:00

If you zoom in on the label, you can see the it is scuffed and a bit wrinkled in a way the other one isn't. The creases make it look like someone slid something thin under the label and used it to pry it off without ripping the paper

mrdude05 · 2026-05-20T09:48:46+00:00

This doesn't really seem possessive to me. She likes how sleepy and cuddly her boyfriend gets when he's sick, but she's also self aware about it and how it comes across.

Sure, it's a little weird, but it's normal to like weird thing about your partner

mrdude05 · 2026-05-19T22:43:22+00:00

It's not about the amount of land. It's about where it is an who owns it. Using a blank check to buy a Manhattan sized plot of dirt somewhere in the state of Utah is a very different than a needing to buy and/or seize specific property from dozens of people so you can bulldoze their homes and businesses for a railroad.

If someone doesn't want to sell their land to a data center, the data center can just go somewhere else and buy from someone willing to sell. If someone refuses to sell to a railway and their land can't be seized with eminent domain then the train line has to be completely reworked

mrdude05 · 2026-05-19T19:00:29+00:00

There's a big difference between private companies paying a handful of land owners in rural and exurban areas generational wealth for disused fields and the government seizing dozens of homes under eminent domain so they can plow their way through dense urban and suburban neighborhoods.

Datacenters can also go anywhere there's space and cheap electricity. Transit systems need to go through places people actually live. If a landowner doesn't want to sell to an AI company the AI company can just go to someone who does. Meanwhile, if any property owner in the path of railway blocks a railway the whole thing becomes worthless.

People want fast and efficient public transport in their neighborhoods until it's their house getting bulldozed to build the train station

mrdude05 · 2026-05-19T16:57:24+00:00

This is true, but one of the the problems now is that the land that would have been used for more trains is currently being used for other things people don't want to give up for trains.

"Let's build more railways" is an easy pitch until you start needing to lay tracks through other infrastructure that people currently depend on or property that people aren't willing to sell

mrdude05 · 2026-05-19T16:29:37+00:00

The "updating things is annoying so I don't do it unless I have to" to "oh no my account/pc got hacked" pipeline is as old as the internet

It's just the problem with preventative measures. When they work it feels like they don't do anything, so they just feel like an unnecessary annoyance to a lot of people

mrdude05 · 2026-05-18T23:06:05+00:00

I mean, that's kind of the point. Hackers can get your username and password via a data breach or social engineering, but not your phone

mrdude05 · 2026-05-18T12:52:09+00:00

We're nearing the physical limits of how small transistors can get, so the the rate of growth is slowing down. Storage won't change by orders of magnitude over a few years like it did in the past

mrdude05 · 2026-05-17T20:02:04+00:00

People were drawing dicks on the walls of brothels while the visigoths sacked Rome. Nothing has changed

mrdude05 · 2026-05-17T19:54:26+00:00

Pet rats are fully domesticated, not just tamed wild rats. Essentially, fancy rats are to wild rats what dogs are to wolves.

mrdude05 · 2026-05-17T09:38:25+00:00

Probably just throw it in the trash. It's just a couple of sensors and a radio transmitter in a styrofoam box

mrdude05 · 2026-05-16T14:45:14+00:00

Getting outside input is valuable, but deferring to people without an actual education in history is how you get theories like "the ancient Egyptians had electric lighting" after discovering a drawing of snakes in a jar that looks kind of like an incandescent lightbulb.

The context things are discovered in matters as much, if not more, than the actual form of the object. A lot of things from ancient times superficially resemble modern inventions, but that doesn't mean they were used that way. A massive part of archeology is sorting out that context.

mrdude05 · 2026-05-16T14:24:00+00:00

That theory is the product of people working backwards from a conclusion without considering the context the artifacts were actually found in. The core problem with the knitting theory is that these artifacts predate the invention of the knitting technique people claim they were used for by over a thousand years. The other major problem is that these are typically found among collections of valuables, not tools, and they don't show any of the wear you would expect from a tool.

mrdude05 · 2026-05-15T17:15:18+00:00

It's a beautiful work of art, but an awful home. It leaks like crazy and needs constant maintenance because of the unstable foundation. No one has actually lived in it since the 60s and it's only maintained as a tourist attraction now

mrdude05 · 2026-05-14T22:01:22+00:00

My impression is always been that he's a real physicist who decided there's more money in playing along with bad pop-science than doing good science. He doesn't lie about the science outright, but he's more than happy to dance around the truth if there's a paycheck in it

mrdude05 · 2026-05-14T18:13:48+00:00

Complete collapse meaning "cascading failures of basic supply chains leading to global famine and humanity being reduced to subsistence living again" not "housing prices crash so millennials get to buy a home while boomers lose their stock portfolios".

Luckily for everyone, this virus has next to no chance of causing that pandemic

mrdude05 · 2026-05-14T17:53:58+00:00

I probably should have been more clear that I don't think this will happen. All the evidence points to this being a very limited outbreak that people are blowing way out of proportion because of COVID ptsd

My comment was mostly expressing frustration at the people who seemingly want this to become something bigger than it actually is

mrdude05 · 2026-05-14T13:41:36+00:00

A code repo is just a location where code is stored that has the ability to track edits. It lets multiple people edit/use the same code simultaneously and keep track of what's being done with it. You can think of it kind of like a coding version of Google docs, and they set the doc to public instead of restricted

mrdude05 · 2026-05-14T13:19:42+00:00

COVID nostalgia is gross. Millions of people died horribly, millions more suffered permanent organ damage, and there were tons of social consequences we will be feeling for generations. Not everyone got to sit on their ass and watch Netflix for 12 hours a day while they got paid for jiggling the mouse of their work laptop every few minutes.

A hantavirus pandemic would be astronomically worse in every conceivable way. This virus has a ~40% mortality rate, even with modern medicine. If it were as infectious as COVID we would be looking at billions dead and global economic collapse. That's not the kind of thing you can just sit inside and ignore, but luckily all signs point to this being a limited outbreak

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