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33 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

Someone should tell China that Brave New World was not meant to be used as a service manual for a country.

but that's what China wants

As long as they aren't in the single player because I have literally zero interest in the multiplayer for a single player driven game

so that's two half-attempted pokemon games in a row... starting to sound like other big name developers who lose their way. Pokemon used to be pretty reliable

2 hours ago, Age of 9394 said:

The population of China is 1.3 billion, how the Chinese government catch people who didn't follow the rule? 

They selling engineering sample CPU, false hardware on online store, and pirate download.

So I don't think Chinese people will be upset about this.

you act like china hasn't long ago figured out how to be totalitarian to every single last one of their citizens

Maybe this will stop some scalpers, but I hope it halts those Chinese knockoffs a little bit more. So annoying searching for a controller and having to wade through 500 probably garbage versions to find the Nintendo official one

I feel like the police should be happier they're pulling less people over

1 hour ago, Energycore said:

They can always request that a bill be written. I don't know the chances that it passes.

They tried this in Arizona once. They made it illegal to flash your high-beams to warn oncoming traffic a cop was nearby, but it got shot down because flashing high beams is considered expression which is under the first amendment. I imagine this has to be the same deal

10 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Discord is a privacy nightmare

what isn't anymore? if you're around friends with cell phones and alexas and laptops with microphones, everything is a privacy nightmare

predictive gameplay isn't new, but i wonder how the famous diablo 2/path of exile desync will be when the AI fails to predict every now and then

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Money isn't the issue.

 

People are.  Always will be.  Human beings are shit when not accountable in any meaningful way.

I don't think any of them would bother being so buddy buddy with china if the vast amounts of money and future money wasn't there

I'm wishing more and more that it should be illegal to sell out to foreign entities like China or really any other country. It was astounding when we started trading with China after Tienanmen square, and it's astounding so many silicon valley companies are ignoring China's anti-democracy antics because they pay well today. I guess it's not really that surprising, money speaks above all

Neither were what I was looking for, oh well guess I have to wait

I bought a case recently that has USB C on the front, without realizing it would use a completely different cable (should be obvious) and my motherboard obviously doesn't have that connector on it. I don't feel like spending $300 to get one with it either. Back in the day I bought a USB 3.0 PCIe card that had a front panel connector too, and I was hoping to find one with USB C but so far I can only find a USB C PCIe card that has two USB C ports on it, and no front panel connector for the SUB C cable. Some of them have a connector for USB 3 but I already have that. Does one exist yet?

24 minutes ago, BuckGup said:

Is a mod on reddit consdered a worker? So then youtubers are considered workers? What extent does this cover

reddit mods don't get paid in any respect, and youtubes have pretty clearly been contract workers. I thought uber and lyft drivers were too. does this stop all contract work in California?

glad to see there's no exemptions. it seems too often our government makes rules but then a company asks nicely and they get out for free. Apple may as well be a Chinese company at this point, they should leave the US or bring all their manufacturing back to the US along with any other US company that sold out to China

that giant robot battle video was the dumbest thing i have ever seen

On 9/11/2019 at 7:40 AM, rcmaehl said:

Considering radiation in space is 2000 mSv. About 20-40 times the level required to develop cancer in the first place. I'm sure it wouldn't be good for you body to be exposed to that radiation.

you really think NASA hasn't thought of that since the 1960s

I have a 3700x and it'll boost to 4.3Ghz but not the advertised 4.4. I just thought it was my cooler not being able to keep up, but I doubt 100mhz would make a difference for what I use it for anyway

19 minutes ago, Beskamir said:

It should be up to the student to decide if they want their phone to be a distraction or a helpful tool. Being able to quickly google something can be better than stopping the entire class to ask a trivial or off topic question so even though most people would prefer to distract themselves with their phones I think we shouldn't punish those that would use their phone to aid their learning.

that'd be a grand total of zero kids who would do that instead of playing some game. part of school is supposed to be human interaction isn't it? why make kids afraid to raise their hand and ask a question in front of people?

next they'll have to rename git for making fun of people who say "git her dun"

13 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Kudos to the dev for not pulling it from another platform (Steam)

Integrity is sorely lacking in the game-dev world as of late

if you think the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ at the end of their project isn't one of the major, massive, motivating factors for people to develop games, then you've been in a strange world the last 25 years. it makes absolute sense to me a developer would go to a store that gives them more money. people should be calling for Valve to give more to developers instead of raging on epic for competing

On 8/16/2019 at 2:16 AM, kuddlesworth9419 said:

If petrol wasn't so heavily taxed the cost of petrol wouldn't ever be an issue. 

California gladly voted for those taxes

4 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

do we know if this covers GTA V? (i.e. you get into a car, and the radio plays for half a second before you can turn it off, have been demonetized before from that)

They'll probably still demonetize it out of spite but now they'll have to fire all those people they hired to manually claim any video so they could get the revenue instead

2 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

United States of China

Silicon Valley of China

the US needs to force the Bill of Rights onto the internet. If Trump can't block anybody because it violates the first amendment then nobody else should be able to block anyone for that same reason either

1 hour ago, justpoet said:

Inb4 requirements like this apply elsewhere and..."This boss will not drop your loot this time when you kill it" in WoW and similar games, so why bother...

I would imagine monster drop rates as the main mechanic in a game are a far, far different aspect than a box you buy with real money

makes me laugh every time I remember the rocket league guys went to EA first and EA told them no. probably the best thing to ever happen to rocket league