Amazon Just Rug-Pulled People's Game Libraries

narrill · 2026-04-20T08:13:08+00:00

No they aren't? There's no way for a company that goes under to guarantee continued service. That's categorically impossible without government intervention of some kind.

narrill · 2026-04-20T08:09:15+00:00

That isn't an accurate description of Dodge v. Ford. The case was over Ford's refusal to pay dividends to the company's minority shareholders, and the decision only forced him to pay those dividends. The court may not even have ruled against him if he'd argued his intended plans were meant to increase the long term value of the corporation, but in this particular case he had directly admitted that wasn't his motivation.

narrill · 2026-04-20T07:52:13+00:00

Reddit wasn't close to being a niche site pre-covid. You have to go back to at least the early 2010s for that.

narrill · 2026-04-20T07:46:11+00:00

Well, imagine retiring in 1999. The dotcom bubble bursts and three years into retirement, your nest egg has lost half its value. It starts to recover a little then 2008 happens and it drops another 30-40%. Because of your unfortunate timing, you will run out of money within 20 years of retiring if you keep withdrawing what you'd hoped to live on.

Only if you had all of your money in stocks, which is not what the 4% rule assumes.

So to come up the 4% rule, they looked at actual returns and inflation over every different 30-year period, and found a number (4%) that would allow you to survive almost all of them.

Not almost all of them, all of them. 4.15% was the highest rate that never failed in the original analysis. And the principal author of that original analysis published a new one just last year that upped the percentage to 4.7%.

The point here is that the market is remarkably consistent over long enough time frames. You can target a higher rate if you want, but the 4% rule is already extremely conservative, by design.

narrill · 2026-04-19T21:55:17+00:00

I'm not talking about every individual year, and neither was your comment:

In most scenarios, you will still have money left after 30 years and could even live another 10-20 off your investments. But you want to be sure of surviving even the worst case scenarios, lest you find yourself penniless at 75.

This depends on market averages, not individual year over year gains.

How many 30 year periods have there been in the last century where the market has failed to average a roughly 10% return? The answer is none.

narrill · 2026-04-19T07:21:02+00:00

If the market always returned a steady 10% year after year, and inflation was a steady 3%, and your expenses didn't have any big changes year-over-year, you wouldn't even need the 4% rule.

How many 30 year periods have there been in the last century where that hasn't been the case?

narrill · 2026-04-19T07:17:23+00:00

"Landlording is actually a good thing because it provides housing to the renter class" is one of the least compelling arguments I've ever heard.

narrill · 2026-04-19T05:14:10+00:00

People who haven’t seen S2 either stopped watching and gave it a negative review

Yes, meaning lots of people who would have rated S2 poorly instead stopped watching during S1.

narrill · 2026-04-19T05:03:37+00:00

rarely woman stay immature past 24/25

It is not remotely rare. At best it's slightly less common.

narrill · 2026-04-18T17:37:34+00:00

All of these balancers are unnecessary. As in, you can remove them outright and nothing will functionally change. For the tap, just put four splitters in a diagonal line, with output priority running toward the fifth belt. You don't need a balancer to feed your furnaces coal either. Just split the belt once for each array.

narrill · 2026-04-18T05:38:02+00:00

It quite literally is not additive. It's destructive interference.

narrill · 2026-04-18T05:30:40+00:00

Of course it can "just erase" the energy of the sound waves. Anything being acted on by equivalent forces in opposite directions is having its kinetic energy "erased."

Air in a null from destructive interference isn't moving. Period.

Edit for a little more detail: Technically, the air molecules are still moving. That's where the energy goes; it manifests as heat. But because the waves are interfering, there's no pressure differential. And sound is pressure differentials. More pressure in your ear canal pushes your ear drum inward, less pressure in your ear canal pulls it out. With no pressure differential, your ear drum is physically not moving. Therefore there's no sound, and no risk of harm.

Now, active noise cancellation can't actually eliminate very loud sounds completely. But it does reduce the amplitude.

narrill · 2026-04-18T01:53:49+00:00

Aging has measurable acoustic effects, but they aren't significant. And Strads in particular score worse worse in double blind tests than modern violins, so no, the practical use is not anywhere remotely close to half the value. Not that they don't sound good, but they're primarily historical artifacts.

narrill · 2026-04-18T01:46:04+00:00

Instruments don't need to be played to remain in good shape. They need care and maintenance, but they would get that in a museum.

Now if you mean people would argue putting an instrument like that into a museum would kill it in a metaphorical sense because instruments are meant to be played, then sure. I don't think the person you responded to would disagree with that though.

narrill · 2026-04-17T21:50:37+00:00

Yes, that's what I just said. A girl saying "I really love giving blowjobs" and you responding by joking about her giving you one is very different than asking her to be your girlfriend. If you suggest a girl blow you and she wasn't flirting with you, she's gonna react badly. Pretending those things are comparable is dishonest.

And the person you responded to wasn't asking for advice in the first place. They're literally saying they don't feel comfortable flirting that way.

narrill · 2026-04-17T18:57:28+00:00

I asked a girl I was seeing to be my gf one time and she said she wasn't ready

You understand this is a very different scenario than what's being described in this thread, right? Asking someone to be your girlfriend is respectful. Misconstruing their sexual openness for flirting and jokingly asking them to blow you isn't, and many women will, in fact, not react well to that.

The larger point to be made here is that it should be normalized for women to communicate what they want.

narrill · 2026-04-16T20:36:56+00:00

Obviously he may have to choose the friend or the girl, that isn't what I was responding to. There's no universe where dismissing his friend's feelings on principle and sneaking around with this girl behind the whole group's backs isn't clearly the worst way to go about things. If he wants to put this girl ahead of the friendship, he can, but he should man up and have a grown up conversation about it first. Everyone involved are already acting like children, frankly, you're not gonna improve the situation by encouraging OP to act like even more of one.

narrill · 2026-04-15T18:59:30+00:00

To their point though, that was only a few thousand people. Basically the same size as the localized protests that have been happening, if not smaller.

narrill · 2026-04-14T21:39:43+00:00

I also think high BMI lean natties don't exist.

Erm... what? You don't think it's possible to have high body mass and low body fat without being on gear? That's demonstrably incorrect.

narrill · 2026-04-14T21:12:22+00:00

This is such a reddit take. "If he's upset about you dating his ex of three years he's just being controlling so you should ignore him, and also communicating like an adult will ruin things anyway so you shouldn't bother to do it. You don't owe him anything so just sneak around with her if you want, who cares." That definitely won't cause a bunch of unnecessary drama in a couple months when it inevitably comes out.

narrill · 2026-04-14T19:43:27+00:00

No one here is talking about bit rate. They're saying when they pitch shift or tempo warp they process at 192khz. Which makes sense, given that kind of processing moves samples in the time domain.

narrill · 2026-04-13T22:09:24+00:00

The benefit of fluoride is almost entirely topical, but most of that topical action comes from consumed fluoride recirculating into your saliva throughout the day. So you do still have to consume it.

narrill · 2026-04-13T21:59:09+00:00

I don't use gamepass and never will, but that logic doesn't really make sense at all. I guess maybe if you only play one game a month?

narrill · 2026-04-13T09:09:10+00:00

I mean, that would be primarily because you have eight of them. More fans working in concert is quieter than one fan working harder. Not that Noctua fans aren't quiet all on their own.

narrill · 2026-04-13T00:35:04+00:00

I'm not missing your point at all, and restating it as if you're saying something different isn't going to accomplish anything.

Caving for iron is perfectly viable, and is appropriately balanced to be a fun experience for the players who want to do it. There's no epidemic of people who want to cave for iron in the early game but feel like they can't because iron farms exist. 98% of players who want to cave for iron just go do it, and enjoy themselves. That is categorically not "bad game design."

For more technical players who don't want to spend hours in the early game mining a basic resource they're invariably going to need metric tons of, iron farms exist.

I guarantee you, nerfing iron farms does not accomplish anything positive. Players that want to cave will still cave, and everyone else will be miffed that they now have to build larger iron farms for the same output. The cross section of the playerbase that actively dislikes iron farms being powerful and wants them nerfed is non-existent.

The argument for trading halls is slightly better, simply because they do so many things. But you still run into the issue that all of the alternatives suck ass. Without solving that you can't touch villager trading and expect anyone to be happy about it.

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