as revealed in his new book, Play Nice: The Rise And Fall Of Blizzard Entertainment, […] he could tell when things were starting to fall apart, and a key reason for that was certain “business-minded hires,” including former CEO Bobby Kotick, who came on after the Activision merger.
MBA and MBA-minded parasites ruined shit for everyone? What a shocking revelation!
Shipping metric assloads of weapons to Israel is a really fucking funny way of trying to bring peace
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
A post-apocalyptic scifi short story (and a game based on it about 20 year later) by Harlan Ellison, about five humans tortured by a sentient butthole.
But Data’s an android and not, you know, a man.
Technically speaking your man don’t even man
Tip of the spear, edge of the knife.
Why did 'ol Wheels there get off his chair and start crawling towards the sunset? Maybe he heard the drone and figured he’d be better off Somewhere Else™?
Yeah, same, I found it a bit surprising they have fewer than Germany
Yeah, some real “DEBATE ME” energy here
Yeah I personally took it as a weird meme and not a real ad
NUMBER GO UP 📈
Pretty much everything that’s not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don’t generate power using that heat.
So far we’ve mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.
Ah, it happens.
One time when I was still with my ex partner I meant to text them “hey remember to buy some salt from the store” and I accidentally typed “you motherfucker you’ve ruined my life” instead
On a semi-related note, I was actually radioactive for a few days once, after I got my thyroid nuked.
What was cool was that it turned out that regular 'ol camera CCDs (like the one in your cell phone) can detect alpha particles, so I naturally pressed my phone to my neck in a dark room and got this video. Those tiny white “flashes” you see are actually all alpha particles (video in a spoiler block so it doesn’t take up half the screen at least on lemmy-ui):
I verified it by taking more video with the phone away from my body – no flashes!
This is a horrifying abuse of technology.
I love it!