1bluepixel 7mo ago • 33%
1bluepixel 7mo ago • 83%
Yep. There's a tendency to single out China's bad behavior for stuff other world powers (including the U.S. for sure) also do.
A great example is China's meddling in Canadian politics these last few years. An ex-RCMP official pointed out that a lot of other countries do it, including allies. He singled out Russia and India, but also the U.S. (I mean, how could the U.S. not try to influence their neighbors' politics.)
But China makes the headlines, every single time.
1bluepixel 10mo ago • 91%
Made the switch to Aegis a little while back. I like it a lot.
1bluepixel 10mo ago • 100%
Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.
1bluepixel 10mo ago • 100%
Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?
It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it's all about name recognition.
The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.
I'm sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.
1bluepixel 10mo ago • 100%
Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 91%
I tried this exact scenario and didn't see any difference in load times. I'm using an ad blocker and it's definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
It's certainly more portable than a flamberge or partisan.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
“Meng did nothing wrong, let her go with a quiet whisper not to come back”
That was absolutely not my read on it here. It's describing a realpolitik situation where Canada is on shaky legal grounds since they are not a signatory to a foreign embargo, and thus overreach their strict legal obligations to please an ally. The suggestion of letting Meng go isn't about her being right or wrong; it's about what's the savviest move Canada could have made here that would have neither pissed off China nor the U.S.
Simply refusing to act on behest of the Trump Administration and giving plausible deniability why isn't defying them. It's a neutral political move. The consequence of not doing so is what we've since experienced: deteriorating relations with a major foreign power with no gains in return with the ally we tried to suck up to.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
the rest was just tooting China's horn
Is that what we're calling reporting on facts that don't completely feed the "China bad" narrative, now?
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 84%
Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 92%
Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.
1bluepixel 11mo ago • 100%
He's the idiot who tried to pressure the devs of Cyberpunk 2077 into letting him appear in the game as himself.
1bluepixel 12mo ago • 94%
Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.
1bluepixel 12mo ago • 100%
That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a "storefront" that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.
The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.
Wait, WHAT?
1bluepixel 12mo ago • 62%
We hate cars so much, we've come full circle to parroting fossil fuel industry propaganda against EVs, I see.
1bluepixel 12mo ago • 96%
I've been reading "Trump is gonna be done any day now" articles since he started gaining steam in the 2016 GOP primaries. Fucker's still free and currently leading the incumbent president in presidential polls.
I know this is a joke/meme, but I sincerely think of the Roman Empire a surprising amount of times. I find myself obsessing over how Roman citizens were living just as complex lives as we are today, or about Marcus Aurelius' life and philosophy, or about how the Republic fell and became a totalitarian state.