That’s basically the whole story.

(X) Doubt

I have a hard time believing this wasn’t intentional. I don’t think I understand what the end goal was supposed to be, but in no way do I accept that this wasn’t 100% the expected ending to this project. dBrand aren’t a new or inexperienced company, and this isn’t their first time making licensed products. They literally know how to do this better than most others in their field. There is zero chance that they went this far into development without ever clearing it with Valve. Or if they did, then they had to have done it knowing Valve was going to shut it down, because I can guarantee you that there isn’t a single person in dBrand’s leadership who couldn’t have predicted this outcome.

It makes me wonder if dBrand is being honest about how much time and resources were lost on this project. Because that’s sounding like a very large loss to claim for a mistake this company is too experienced to be making in the first place.

Quit laughing, it’s just low tide right now.

Just use alternating black and white LIKE GOD INTENDED

Dude looks like a lady!

Do you not have Google where you live, or something?

I think you’ve lost track of who you’re replying to.

You know that even if you paid that ridiculous amount, it still wouldn’t be the last time they try to get money out of you, either.

I see that in the screenshot, but I don’t see how to actually expose that once you have the URL. For instance, I can grab a YT link from just about any Discord server I’m in right now, and almost all of them have trackers at the end. But when I click them, I don’t see anything that reveals the sharer’s details, it just looks like a normal YT page. I’m not sure where you actually get to the screen in that screenshot.

I’m confused, how does the recipient access the sharer’s username from this?

Oh, I thought that was an old coffee filter somebody threw in the corner.

I think I’m gonna go puke my pants now.

We won’t get a new F-ZERO until Mario Kart stagnates. Miyamoto once said something to the effect of Nintendo not wanting to have two racing games compete with each other.

I think a lot of that comes down to our ability to make personal comparisons. When you’re 10 years old, a year is 10% of your entire lived experience. When you’re 50 years old, a year is just 2% of your life. Life feels like it goes faster as we age, because we have so much more to compare it to as we grow older.

It’s a good quote, and it’s actually a little ironic because the line sort of proves itself, as it’s actually a myth that people ever believed the world was flat pre-Columbus. Scholars have known the Earth was round for literally thousands of years; Pythagoras wrote about the curvature of the earth as early as ~500 BC. The roundness of the Earth was never really contested until the last 50 years or so.

The myth stems from Washington Irving’s book “A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus”, in which he completely fabricates the idea that Columbus argued with scholars about the shape of the earth (as well as several other stories with zero historical data to back them up). Everybody at the time generally agreed, before Columbus ever set sail, that the Earth is round. That misconception about what the public believed is relatively new, as the book was only published in 1828.

Fact-checking was a much more arduous process back in the 1800s. Back then, you’d typically have to find a book to prove your point, so it’s really no surprise that people just accepted these printed words as the truth, but in this case the book is just full of straight-up lies. Lies that eventually made their way into almost every school’s history curriculum ever since. In fact, there are more flat-Earthers now than at any point in history, and we can probably directly blame Irving for that, for putting such a stupid idea into the public’s eye in the first place.

Interestingly, Columbus was actually WRONG about the shape of the earth. He didn’t believe the Earth was round at all. While most scholars accurately believed it to be spherical, Columbus thought the planet was pear-shaped. But “proving” that was never the point of his voyages, either way.

15 minutes ago, some of you reading this “knew” that people believed the world was flat 500 years ago.

And a +1 for egirls in general.

Valve’s argument isn’t in defense of free speech, it’s in defense of Gabe’s next yacht.

Well done, Henry.

It appears to have pulled the number from a PDF of a FOIA request that I made to the FTC back in 2016.

“Chatbot scrapes and recites public information. Over to Tom with sports.”

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a billion gallons of reasons to hate LLMs, but “doing the thing it’s supposed to be good at doing” isn’t one of them.

Obviously the chatbot should be regulated such that it wouldn’t be able to access that sort of information in the first place, or that it should be filtered from training material. But finding information that the author, himself, previously made public, isn’t really noteworthy. Especially if you consider that, until fairly recently, fucking Jeeves would’ve given you this phone number if you knew how to ask.

Just look at the hairless pits the character on his shirt has. Clearly this is a man of culture.

No, but it’s the best option for users who are unable/unwilling to switch browsers.

The Lite version still works fine.