Holy shit, what a story. The fact that so many people tried to get him help when he was a kid and the wellness checks and whatnot just completely failed to discover any of this, while based on the accounts of what he was doing at school something was clearly very wrong, is pretty messed up.

The fact that there were other kids at the house is wild, too. How did none of them say anything to anyone? They had to know he was there, right?

This is hilarious mainly because all he had to do was type /DND and he could have stopped all of this, which anyone who had actually played the game for any substantial amount would know, but of course he doesn’t, because he just paid people to play it for him.

It’s funny, really, because game elements like that could make for a really neat game if it was done intentionally, but when it’s AI artifacts, it’s awful.

Even if they do, unless Musk divests entirely, they can still get fucked. As long as hurting Tesla hurts Musk, they’re just a means to an end.

That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.

Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.

This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.

The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.

That’s correct, it is, but that has nothing to do with the post I was replying to, which claimed

Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess.

Either way, I’d say that the the lede they did use - ‘Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday[…]’ - is just fine.

What would you have had them call it?

Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 14 children, 5 women, and (presumably) 8 men, Palestinian health officials say"?

As it happens, children, women, and men are all ‘people’, and using the collective term makes for a more concise title. It’s not like they’re sugarcoating what actually happened.

The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City

It’s literally the first sentence of the second paragraph.

I think the trailer and Steam page makes it pretty clear that this isn’t just aimed at furries. Not that furries won’t jump on it - we will, but it’s not just for furries.

As a US citizen, I consider the current administration an enemy, too.

The problem is, nobody in this administration gives two shits if they get ‘condemned’. It only matters if someone actually steps in and does something about it.

The agents that arrested her were masked and had no visible badges or identification. There’s nothing stopping any random group of people from doing that and claiming to be ICE agents… I’d like to think that if I saw something like that happening, I’d step in and try to physically stop them; in reality, though, it’s easy to sit in my house and think that, but I don’t know if I’d be able to do it in the moment. I think we’re well past the point of physically resisting this bullshit by force, though.

Another great example of this is Bandi Namco’s loading screen minigame patent, which expired in 2015. The patent was incredibly broad.

“thousands of hours of video.”

more than 15,000 pages of information and 800 GB of data

What the heck, did they just submit every piece of surveillance footage, every news article, every Reddit post talking about it, just every piece of media in the world that had the words ‘Luigi Mangione’ in it anywhere?

I’d argue that the indie scene is already providing that; it’s really just the AAA studios that’re churning out cookie cutter garbage. However, if everyone had patented game mechanics, those indie studios wouldn’t be able to make those games. I’d challenge you to find a game that hasn’t borrowed something from another. I certainly can’t think of one.

Fair enough; game mechanics really shouldn’t be patentable. Specifically / particularly video game mechanics; every video game uses concepts and ideas from other games - there’s nothing completely original anymore. Imagine if every game had patented all of its mechanics - there would be no new games, it’d be impossible to make something. Imagine if ID had patented the concept of a first person shooter, for instance.

This is a whole separate discussion; game mechanics really should not be copyrightable at all, IMO.

Yeah, this is a really shitty, clickbait title.

“They were only getting paid for the first copy sold,” Fryer explained. “They lost millions of dollars.” Sure, multiplayer games were growing in popularity at the time, but as Fryer put it, “How do we create a single-player game that is so compelling, that people keep the disc in their library forever?”

Really, they finally found that one simple trick to maximize profits: Make a good product that people want to play longer. Go figure?

I look forward to watching people finally reach their breaking point and start firebombing government buildings. Preferably while Trump is in them.