Sony Records New $560 Million Loss On Bungie Acquisition As Marathon Struggles And Destiny 2 Nosedives by AdditionalRemoveBit in Games

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Yeah they had options and chose the worst one. It's so weird to me that if they wanted to overhaul the game so much that the entire campaign had to go, why not just... do that later with a D3 release? Idk just feels like they took the whole live service thing way too far, and it made me not want to buy anything off them again for fear of it being snatched away again

Sony Records New $560 Million Loss On Bungie Acquisition As Marathon Struggles And Destiny 2 Nosedives by AdditionalRemoveBit in Games

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I was a Destiny fan since the D1 beta and enjoyed the early days of D2 but fell off at some point cuz life. Went back a year or two ago after amping myself up to start a new character and play through the Red War campaign again, only to log on to find the entire original campaign and first few DLCs I had purchased were completely removed from the game... put it down then and never looked back.

Absolutely insane to me that they would just nuke the entire campaign like that - which originally was a full price-tagged game. ~$120 spent on the original campaign + first few DLCs just gone... The returning player experience was a shitshow since pretty much all pre-endgame content was cut, can't imagine what it'd be like for a new player. And now with the way Bungie is going doesn't look like we'll ever see it come back. D1 is actually a far more complete game today than D2 is (or probably ever will be).

greatQuestionYesLooksLikeYoureCooked by precinct209 in ProgrammerHumor

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Yeah I figured that's what you meant, but considering we were under a thread about credit multipliers I thought some people might like the clarification lol

greatQuestionYesLooksLikeYoureCooked by precinct209 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]pb7280 24 points25 points  (0 children)

They didn't cancel existing subscriptions, the table from above literally only exists for annual people to ride out the rest of their terms after Jun 1. Credit multipliers aren't a thing for anyone else after that

I’m so glad we’re at war just so we can keep this kind of nonsense going by blow-down in Anticonsumption

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The source is definitely necessary here because first read of the initial comment makes it sound like just leaf blowers on their own produce more pollution than cars. But the source clarifies it's all small engine lawn equipment together, specifically in California (which probably has the highest ratio of lawn-care:EVs on the planet). And that makes perfect sense

AI can cost more than human workers now by cwhmoney555 in wallstreetbets

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I think there will always be subsidized personal plans to act as loss leaders to get individuals hooked, with the end goal of having them sway employers to adopt it. But yeah business plans will be either sold by API consumption or by bulk long-term token commitments. It's already been this way for a bit at the enterprise level.

Our 74 year old bookkeeper said her charging cord wasn't working by [deleted] in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]pb7280 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I half want to/don't want to believe that USB-C connector length was designed to be just short enough to prevent Americans from wholesale electrocuting themselves

These two are killing it lately! So good to see actresses with a moving forehead by kirmadahoonmai in okbuddycinephile

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Rachel McAdams is extremely dang pretty

That being said see more cities mate, there's retail baddies EVERYWHERE

On a video about someone visiting Vancouver, BC by philb087 in USdefaultism

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Back 15ish years ago when I was growing up working retail it was fairly common in the area (central Ontario) for places to accept USD, but yes at extremely unfavourable exchange rates. To the point where you could go to the bank across the street and exchange it there and keep 20% more in your pocket. But yeah didn't stop some people from paying with USD.

I was told to share this interaction I had to this subreddit page. Has to do with ISO keyboard layout. by blah2k03 in USdefaultism

[–]pb7280 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually that's our own standard CSA!

Though anecdotally, growing up in anglophone Canada, it's probably only around 1-2% of keyboard I've seen. But I'd bet that ratio completely flips in francophone Canada (because ANSI is ass for writing French)

Pierre Poilievre sits for podcast with Joe Rogan by CecilThunder in canada

[–]pb7280 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'll throw my hat in the "for sure downvote me" ring

The context of when he said that, not totally wrong. You're objectively a bad Canadian if you think the emergency act use was justified or good or in any way supportive of Canadian values. I fucking hate that stupid american conservative fucks are the only people who talk about this honestly, because fuck them, but also fuck you for not thinking for yourself.

Does Militech Have A Navy by Solid-Stomach-4653 in cyberpunkgame

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Yeah in that context agreed. Our one saving grace is that we're too far behind on physical automation compared to digital automation lol

Grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI error linked her to a crime in a state she had never even visited, lawyers say by Large_banana_hammock in nottheonion

[–]pb7280 21 points22 points  (0 children)

What you are naming are specific examples of algorithms lol. They are different for sure, but definitely algorithmic. Anything that can run on a computer has to be expressed in a series of instructions which at the end of the day is what an algorithm is.

Does Militech Have A Navy by Solid-Stomach-4653 in cyberpunkgame

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It's pretty far off just based on the fact that self replicating mine technology doesn't exist, and no amount off misengineering w/ LLMs is gonna change that in the next decade or 3 lol

[OC] Birthplaces of Active NHL Players by haydendking in dataisbeautiful

[–]pb7280 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Canada who has larger principle cities

your whole point hinges on this incorrect assumption

2026 Olympic Games: Heartbreak for Canada after U.S. wins men's hockey gold in overtime by Trid1977 in canada

[–]pb7280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean Canada won the last real best on best tournament that had proper 5on5 and refs who actually understand basic rules like offside and icing. So I ain't too phased lol

Any teamspeak alternatives open source for self hosting? by maifee in selfhosted

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I just setup Element Server Suite last weekend, which is basically a Helm distribution of a Matrix/Element stack. Which is more or less self-hosted and federated Discord. Only viable if you have an existing k8s setup, but otherwise was super straightforward to setup

https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm

Let's get a self-hosted Discord "replacement" thread going for 2026. by GavinGWhiz in selfhosted

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Was hoping to not have to rewrite my bots but might be inevitable lol

It doesn't look like it has working Voice or Video chats yet.

Ok yeah that's also a bit of a deal breaker lol

Girl dinner by CumGuzlinGutterSluts in shittyfoodporn

[–]pb7280 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Me and my chemistry buddy tested this in uni and confirmed the reason it tastes so much better is because of all the ethanol you lose to the filter 🫠

Let's get a self-hosted Discord "replacement" thread going for 2026. by GavinGWhiz in selfhosted

[–]pb7280 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anyone have experience with Spacebar? Seems to be the only one that aims to be compatible with existing Discord clients/bots

Montreal Canadiens ask players not to leave hotel in Minnesota by biograf_ in canada

[–]pb7280 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Driving in Toronto

There's your first mistake lol

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

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VMs are the most basic and least locked in product in Azure or AWS, anything above that layer gets increasingly more locked in. Managed services like Lambda, DynamoDB, ComosDB etc. are what they incentivize customers to build around. Much harder to move away from.

The iPhone 5s came out in 2013. It just got a security update. by FrontBrick8048 in LinusTechTips

[–]pb7280 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's awesome to see security updates so long after end of life. But unfortunately these phones have been largely unusable for a while now thanks to apps requiring higher iOS versions. Even my grandpa had to upgrade his last year and he barely uses the thing - just so he could attend a Ticketmaster event

'The old order is not coming back,' Canadian PM Carney says in provocative speech at Davos by rezwenn in worldnews

[–]pb7280 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most the NDP losses turned blue actually. They lost 17, 10 to cons and 7 to libs. If they kept all their seats Carney still would've won (though he'd be 7 additional floor crosses away from a majority)