Of course. I'm not an idiot, clearly there are people affected.

But even if EVERY Helldivers 2 sale were affected, of the 1.85 BILLION estimated PC gamers in the world, we would be looking at around 0.6% people affected. It's a tiny sliver, despite Helldivers having over 12 million sales (and that's both PC and console).

The fact of the matter is this doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme, and most people have likely never even heard of the game still even with the controversy. The industry is unfathomably massive and one game is tiny, even one with 12+ million sales.

All games like this have massive daily player drop offs a few months after release.

To be honest despite the publicity, most players don't actually give a shit. Most players don't read gaming news. And many players don't care, either because they already have a PSN account, or they just don't care about making another account to play the game.

I wouldn't be surprised if over half the players had never even heard of the PSN controversy at all. The SteamDB player chart actually indicates when those shenanigans were compared to player numbers, and the daily player numbers had already been declining at that same pace for a month up to that point and continued at about the same rate after.

https://steamdb.info/app/553850/charts/#6m

There are too many sexist voters that would never vote for a woman. Look at Hilary, even ignoring how unlikeable she could be, a ton of people were very vocal about not voting for her only because she was female, including other women.

Besides, I'm fairly certain Kamala is making a lot of the current decisions anyway. Joe and her have been together a lot more than other VPs and Presidents in the past.

But I can't get an Orange Julius online.

Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grubhub, etc. all exist for this exact type of purchase.

Although you will pay for the convenience, as opposed to it being cheaper like most other products since the physical store is still involved.

The time to switch candidates was 6-8 months ago. It's too late at this point, at least for US politics. Too many "undecided" voters seem to think they need a year to get to know a candidate.

If they were to switch from Biden, Trump would win in a landslide without having to say a damned thing or remind anyone he existed between now and then.

This country is fucked.

It's deprecated. They should update to the newer US English release, that's probably what the bot expects.

They are more efficient however distributed power is better for overall grid resiliency.

Not to mention having a solar system at home with a battery means having power if the grid goes down for any reason.

The rule is there to prevent them from releasing info the NTSB hasn't done a full analysis on, but that's not the case here. However, the info was already made public by the NTSB, to the Senate nonetheless.

In what world does it make sense that Boeing can't repeat the same thing when talking about it? Boeing isn't even allowed to repeat what the NTSB as publicly said? That's insane.

A judge would throw this out of court if it came before them, as a ridiculous waste of the court's time.

I really want to see someone use the lack of any AI accountability as an active defense in a copyright trial for piracy. Force the court to compare the "theft" of a digital item like a book or movie that is used a few times probably, to copying something that is then effectively used internally every time the AI generates something.

In that show, they're actively going to visit what they believe to be a child, privately, in person. And discussions leading up to that point often make it clear their intentions of what to do when they get there are sexual.

We don't know what is in Doc's comments. He says it was inappropriate and crossed the line, but no images were shared and no attempt to meet privately.

There is a difference, and likely why there was no police involvement. Inappropriate comments aren't by themselves, illegal. Otherwise half the internet would be in jail.

This, plus just how egregious was it?

No one is wanting to read these messages like they're 50 Shades of Grey or anything like that. Well, there's probably somebody but that's not why most want to see it. Clearly it was not bad enough to get the police involved at the time, so we're talking less than To Catch A Predator.

Ignoring the age difference for a second, because that part is not relevant to my specific point here... What some people consider flirty, others consider creepy. On a similar note, the same comment coming from a person someone considers attractive and from someone they find ugly often has a completely different reaction.

Doc says that it crossed a line, that's not under debate by anyone at this point. He says there were no pictures, etc. exchanged, just messages and there was no intent to meet up or anything like that. On the other side one of the original tweets claimed they were sexting. Peoples definitions of sexting can vary dramatically as well.

So clearly the messages went over the line of being inappropriate, no argument there from anyone paying attention, but how far over that line was it? Were they truly explicit messages, or just inappropriate within the context of a 35 year old talking to a minor?

Yeah, that's what we've been told.

We were also told this wasn't an issue to begin with, and issue after issue has happened. So, sorry if at this point I don't take what Boeing says about their vehicles at face value.

NASA is reliant on manufacturer info for a lot of things, and that is coming from Boeing. We now know for a fact that Boeing has falsified manufacturing and safety information for over a decade with nearly a dozen whistleblowers coming forwards on the airliner side of the business now, and more every day. If you honestly think that the spacecraft side was 100% insulated from that company culture, I've got some great stuff to sell you.

They assume it can maneuver. They assumed it would dock correctly the first time, before there were multiple failures as well. The last time it moved was to dock with the station and multiple thrusters were inoperative and took quite a bit of time to get working again to dock in the first place. We don't know that those will work without issue again. Those thrusters have already failed once while up there, failing again isn't exactly unlikely.

Of course they're not stranded. There are other capsules we can send up to bring them back down, regardless of Starliner's status. I'd bet SpaceX is preparing a Crew Dragon in the background, regardless whether NASA has asked them to or not. A rescue Dragon ready to go to save Boeing astronauts would be a massive PR win.

This helium leak that wasn't an issue on the ground is becoming more and more hilarious to me (because no lives are at risk, just Boeing's already shit reputation now). A small leak on the ground, no big deal. Even with the leak, it will last like 40+ days. Oh, now there's 2 leaks... oh now it is 5 "small" leaks. As the days count down and it sits up there attached to the ISS.

No one is saying it, but I honestly think they're worried about whether they can even undock and maneuver the capsule away from the ISS safely and reliably. NASA for sure has teams working on all sorts of contingency plans. if it can't maneuver on its own, either dealing with that airlock being useless for the rest of the Station's life, and a dead capsule that cannot serve as a lifeboat being stuck there; or if there is a way to get the Canadarm to grab the capsule and chuck it back towards the planet out of the ISS sphere of influence. As hilarious as that would be to see, this super slow motion robotic arm grabbing the capsule and yeeting it back towards Earth. Unlikely scenario, but that's the type of thing NASA does all the time, plan for as many scenarios as possible so there's always another option available even if they seem ridiculous.

Thank you.

At this point I'm more angry at article writers that don't include screenshots of the things they're writing articles about than I am at the issues they're writing about.

A decent amount of the time once the issue is in a bit of context, my reaction is vastly different than what the writer was trying to get me to feel.

I wish there was a way to easily mark or denote articles written by certain authors when loading a page (especially across sites since many of these people write for multiple places) so I don't waste my time reading things from people I've found to have irresponsible or questionable reporting.

Ah see I stopped playing or even looking at it when the NYT bought it. At the time, that was the assumption since their other games are behind the paywall.

Instead, loading it up right now, it just looks like they have insanely large ads taking over 1/3 of the vertical space on lyn1440p monitor and forcing me to scroll to even see the full on screen keyboard.

Pretty shit UX there, as expected from every news site in the modern age.

How long until the New York Times buys it out to put behind their paywall like Wordle?

Mountain Dew was made to cover up the flavor of low quality moonshine.

I wouldn't be surprised if it could hide Round Up.

Is that supposed to be revolutionary? They've digitally modeling proteins like that for over a decade, if not longer.

Or is this just an "AI" version so they can grift millions from some billionaires VCs.

It's the puritanical roots of the country. That bullshit is still hanging around.

Not sure why you seem so personally invested

There's nothing personal, I just expect accusations like this to have real evidence. All the "evidence" we had through Twitter was hearsay, and we've all played telephone before. Hearsay is no different than gossip, and it quite often is incorrect, that's why it's not admissible in court. Sorry for actually wanting proof of egregious claims instead of just trusting a former employee, who already had questionable trustability, and who was using the publicity to promote their own shit. Not exactly a great source of accurate information.

he admitted to it so a lot of this conjecture is moot. There's links to his statement ITT.

My post here was made around the same time his tweet was posted. In fact looking at the times, it was posted here the same minute of his last edit. So, no chance to have even seen reports about that response yet, nonetheless read it.