Don’t forget that framing things in ways that maximizes emotional response (fear, anger) increases views, which increases ad views, and directly contributes to their bottom line. They have direct incentive to increase anxiety and worry, so everything is couched in scary hypotheticals of varying often undisclosed amounts of credibility.

It wasn’t the time before we lost either.

Saying you understand why something happened isn’t being smug or in any way happy about the outcome.

Stop externalizing your poor mental state and take a break from the internet or something.

So… money laundering and a tool for storing assets in non-liquid form, as usual with the high end art world.

At least it’s a good NES game.

Yep, and smaller chunks are less likely to leave soggy sections from the juice leaking out.

And if my Grandma had wheels she’d be a car.

Unfortunately you posted a shitty, arguably racist, excuse for moralistic grandstanding and now we all have to deal with it.

Complaining about people complaining about petty nonsense is, in and of itself, petty fucking nonsense and a waste of time. If you feel strongly enough to imagine it’s in any way useful to try and call out this shit, get off your ass and go volunteer in your community instead.

Man, 8 Bit Theater. Talk about a blast from the past.

Man, I want one of those living lounge chairs to ride around on. They couldn’t possibly be sentient or anything. I see absolutely no potential downsides.

Yo, could you flag this NSFW? Don’t think most people would be fine if their boss saw this wonderful pod of dicklets on their screen.

except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations

That’s literally it. The advertising and marketing teams within Google have politically maneuvered themselves into running the show, and the software/product engineering teams that want to maximize the quality of the system they work on (search, youtube) are overridden by insipid metrics that advertising needs more user interaction with ads.

They literally have been commanding that things be made more shitty to optimize their malformed metrics. You absolutely can get more people to click the sponsored search results… if you keep making them less distinct from the actual results. And advertising needs those good click through rates nooooow!

There are email chains documenting this sort of shit going on that have become part of the public record due to various court cases.

Wonderful article about it all here

You care so little that you made a meme about it, and have now reposted a slightly edited version of it roughly a day later.

You can re-enable microsoft store etc with a single line of powershell if you really need.

Common Redist is used for “commonly redistributed” installers of other software the game relies on.

Like how sometimes when you install a game through steam and it also installs a Microsoft .net framework (because it needs that installed to run). In that case you’d the .net installer in the common redist folder. In this case, all those VCredist files.

OALinst is just an installer for OpenAL, a piece of audio processing software. A lot of games use it for handling positional audio, like something exploding to your left and behind you actually sounding like it exploded behind and to the left. Some games will also use it for more complicated audio things, like actually simulating sound echoes against the walls of a room and their material.

If you’re talking about crowdstrike… They didn’t all blue screen. That was caused by third party software that caused the same sort of issue (kernel crash/panic) on Linux boxes not even 3 months earlier.

How could I ever forget

When you show it they stop and stare

Estimates from earlier this year are that they spend $2.35 for every $1 they make.

Man, he still isn’t over how Thiel snubbed him with Paypal and how his original “x.com” online bank idea failed, is he?

Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.

Skyward Sword too, going back to the Wii era. That was probably just someone at a games store dumping the disc when it was shipped to them before they could legally sell it though.