Just for the sake of being fair, Steam does do one thing which is anticompetitive; they require publishers don’t sell their games for less than they do on Steam.
If you think about this for a moment you’ll realise it’s in the publisher’s best interest to agree to this.
One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.
Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.
Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.
Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.
Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.
It’s hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they’re at all comparable
Where’s my upstream explicit sync lads
Maybe it’s a climate change joke?
Discharge though. Ew.
Wait, what?
That’s like saying you don’t have to drive faster to win the race, you just have to cross the line first.
I’m pretty much on board, though how much anyone can agree is a matter of relativity.
We know about the closest stars and the planets within them, and based off spectrometry, we’re confident the planets “close” to us haven’t had life, though they might be capable.
The chances of there being no mass extinction events in the millions of years following abiogenesis is arguably smaller than surviving the five or so we’ve had. Given everything we know about astrophysics, we owe the asteroids a few clean hits, we have been astronomically lucky, and that’s not even taking into consideration every other cause of mass extinction.
15 billion years is still considered early in the grand scheme of things, it’s likely that we are the early ones. A billion years head start is plausible, sure, but it’s certainly less plausible than our existence.
All of this is to say that life is rare enough without them being a stones throw away.
And this is all disregarding any possible intent behind a visit. Any being capable of space travel does not need our resources.
Unless they’re sex tourists, which would explain all the anal probing.
On second thought, I choose to believe.
I mean… The child never saw who gave birth to them, so there’s that…
The chances of extra terrestrial life to have visited earth is very, very small.
The chances of life to occur are small enough,
The chances of evolution to pass through multiple extinction events and producing a being capable of higher intelligence is even smaller,
The chances they have done this faster than humans is smaller still,
The chances they have evolved close enough to us to have visited is near impossible.
The universe is huge, there’s almost certainly life elsewhere - but to ask whether they visited earth is like speculating on whether ghosts exist.
Also the universe is expanding at such a fast rate that unless we develop faster-than-light tech, we will never reach another solar system.
Statistically better than the choices I’ve made thus far I suppose.
That guy cracks me up. His intonation and delivery is perfect.
Though I’m pretty sure he says he tattooed them on his eyelids, which begs the question of where they went after the scene.
“The oil looks a little thick, maybe I should add some water to it” became a go-to for me.
Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, NHDTA-613: "If you don’t hurry up, you’ll have a baby!”, Event Horizon, The Lego Movie
Here’s a sleeper hit:
Strange Wilderness
Get high as a kite and check it out. Check back in with me later and tell me you didn’t giggle your tits off.
Two things:
You are responsible for the choices you make, but there’s a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.
Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.
I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.
Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.
Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.
If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.
Great episode.
I’m tempted to believe in reality, some kind of “mutually assured destruction” scenario would occur.
If I was to create a simulation, I would add in a recursive condition wherein the detection of another simulation would crash the system.
But the theme the episode really touched on was whether it was right to tell another the truth about reality. Maybe that reality isn’t another layer up, but that God exists, or maybe not.
Assuming you found out we really were in a simulation, what is the right thing to do? Force everyone to learn the truth? Hide your knowledge of it?
If you thought: “I can tell the people who want to know”, you’ve just created a cult.
Personally, I’m convinced we are not in a simulation. But that’s only assuming the level above us is somewhat similar (a universe that started with a big bang and formed stars and planets and evolution etc).
Think of it this way: an advanced society would need to evolve more than us, meaning more filters to pass before achieving this kind of power. This means unlimited power and unlimited processing power.
I fucking hate that I learned what this means a month ago.
Bought myself a ZigBee coordinator and started pairing some devices.
Sweet! That was easy, now all that’s left are the Tuya ceiling fans
Little did I know, what was about to happen would cost me my sanity.
Honestly, just give me a fucking HP printer and ask me to connect it to my computer from the other side of the world.
At the risk of sounding critical of your hobby, to argue the imperfections improve the experience sounds somewhat culty.
I understand there is something akin to “character” which you don’t get from something highly polished. I know when things sound too clean it can feel sterile.
I accept vinyl has a collectors value, but anything claims regarding preference come across as either pretentious or deluded (to me, as someone who probably can’t tell the difference).
Quick to call other people kids as an insult.