TekkenChauncey [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 31st, 2022

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  • The number of 2-year-old accounts that had issue with my basic-marxist position on "art for art's sake is a bourgeois invention, all art is routed in social forms and thus political" take a month ago was surprising. They also weren't super-active, they made basic posts every 2-4 weeks, maybe, sometimes a couple months of inactivity. But somehow were called to action to dogpile me and call me a Twitter-lib for, like, the most basic Marxist takes on art. Has me suspicious.







  • Bell and the other companies just gave up trying to bring wired highspeed to anywhere in Canada outside the cities. I guess they're using 5G towers now or something (they say they're line of sight, but I think that's just because 5G can't handle interference very well). My family switched and it's advertised as 25Mbits per second, I think? Can only get maaaaybe 1/2 of that consistently. They hit the data cap in 11 days although it thankfully doesn't stop data transfer or charge overages, they just get bandwidth limited which is still slightly faster than the actual speeds they were getting anyway so as far as I can tell there's no difference in speed. Still faster than DSL was here.






  • It can't even write a Kotaku article. It writes a misinfo-laden parody article that sounds like what dipshit reactionaries think a Kotaku sounds like. Not too worried other than that 2nd-rate sites that already sound like they're AI-generated are going to be AI-generated. Real games journalism isn't actually going to be affected. Especially because it's going to take as much time having someone comb through and edit these articles as it does to churn out this shit in the 5 minutes required already for a writer to make like 10-15 articles a day to maintain a decent level of income.


  • Probably because it was an easy way to sell XBOX Live to people as an added feature and it's stuck around as a vestige. It's like another axis of interactivity with the game and techno-libs were and still are pretty common in the video game industry, so they're always going to minimize the downsides.