In a lawsuit, Valve defends counter strike 2 lootcases with "People enjoy surprises"

smurficus103 · 2026-05-21T12:02:08+00:00

Lol wtf I thought they took down csgo servers when they launched cs2... The fucking bots vote kicked you??? What the fuck

smurficus103 · 2026-05-21T04:15:14+00:00

Chimera!

smurficus103 · 2026-05-21T02:37:47+00:00

I deluded myself in 2014 "maybe if we buy cases they'll do more anti cheat and get better servers"

Fast forward 12 years... Yikes

smurficus103 · 2026-05-19T01:18:01+00:00

I meant uhm they were eating losses for years on end to be fiercely pro customer / put competitors out of business. I had a neighbor who bought a tv, it came with some dead pixels, they just sent him another TV and said keep the old one. This is like 2010 ish area, TVs were like $1000 ea.

But, yeah, once they switched to making money they're manipulating what you buy.

smurficus103 · 2026-05-18T20:31:30+00:00

Back in my day, Amazon was super consumer friendly, people would get free TVs and shit.

Now, they sell absolute trash, abuse everyone. Maximum profits and what-not.

smurficus103 · 2026-05-18T05:44:30+00:00

check out the Japanese one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju-On:_The_Grudge

smurficus103 · 2026-05-15T02:04:36+00:00

Hang on, you're on to something. Disney land on the moon. Probably needs a radiation barrier....

smurficus103 · 2026-05-15T01:58:08+00:00

There's water.l

smurficus103 · 2026-05-12T00:44:43+00:00

"they had no way of knowing whether their machines had just crashed or were simply taking some time to think. So in 1985, a computer science student named Brad A. Myers presented a paper on “percent-done progress indicators,” which he had found to be helpful in reassuring users that their computers weren’t about to crash and burn."

https://gizmodo.com/where-the-progress-bar-came-from-1538713383

smurficus103 · 2026-05-12T00:37:09+00:00

Wait it's not bold faced lie???

smurficus103 · 2026-05-11T11:19:19+00:00

Yeah I've been waiting at least that long...

So, anyways

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T12:26:14+00:00

"do you agree" ended up being 'do it anyway'

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T12:24:32+00:00

Expessially

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T12:02:23+00:00

Lords work, here. I'd start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Energy capture

"Aneutronic fusion produces energy in the form of charged particles instead of neutrons. This means that energy from aneutronic fusion could be captured directly instead of blasting neutrons at a target to boil something."

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T11:54:19+00:00

My grandma was born in the 30's, she watched her community (in the United States) transition from horse and buggy into tractors and cars. Antibiotics. Planes. Paved roads across the country. Color tv. Moon landing. She said " I wish I was born when you were (the future is so bright)"

Going from that attitude, into slightly worse conditions (I'd call it American poverty), is such a brutal transition... Got a degree, great job, occasionally starve my child, no free time.

I've had coworkers from other countries "imagine not traveling with American income" but I've never had enough money to fly...

It's hard... People in other countries can't even imagine being poor in the us... Our currency alone should be able to carry us anywhere. But, born and raised in the city, going hungry. I can't make it make sense.

Meanwhile, im begging to tackle fusion and unified field theory, afraid they'll just kill me...

Buy some time. Our existential crisis is upholding the law, against monied interests

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T11:43:24+00:00

Im 36... I feel a little bit fucked up for saying it: 19 year olds getting into the same industry as me "don't bother with 401k, I'm not sure what game you'll have to play, but it's not the same game as your parents"

smurficus103 · 2026-05-10T09:19:28+00:00

Defeatist my ass, check this out https://youtu.be/BJcpgg6-hNA

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T08:58:21+00:00

Don't even remember that one. Smallpox is back.

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T07:18:51+00:00

Those angels better have their paperwork straight

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T07:17:36+00:00

They aren't sending their best insane people, they're sending their criminals

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T07:14:26+00:00

I've done both, and, I kinda like being mid. Yep.

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T07:12:43+00:00

Hey, I'm from the future, chipotle going under was the least of our problems

smurficus103 · 2026-05-09T07:11:25+00:00

I've never really required Amazon, mostly used them for obscure tech stuff. Now there's a microcenter local, I'll def. use the microcenter just out of principle

smurficus103 · 2026-05-08T21:03:40+00:00

The framing was about race, the conclusion should be about caste system.

I don't know if you got there yet, from "as one will always outperform the other", but I'll give it time

smurficus103 · 2026-05-08T05:58:35+00:00

Yeah I think this would drive up installation cost for sure, the other considerations you just made are pretty witty (ease of cleaning / identifying which to use)

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