radix

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 78 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

https://bsky.app/profile/windypundit.com/post/3mg2brj55fk25

Successful psychopaths are very good at imitating normal emotional responses, which they learn over decades of observing normal people. But when facing a novel situation, they have no such learning to rely on, and their jarringly cold responses reveal their hollow interiors.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

This article should be Exhibit A in any class on "correlation does not imply causation."

  1. Gambling was made more accessible in the US because of a SCOTUS case in 2018. Starting later that year, Delaware became the 2nd state to allow sports betting (after Nevada). The list of states allowing access to online sports betting keeps growing, with Missouri the latest to join less than 3 months ago. 39 states now have gambling in some form, with 7 more considering legislation in the next year or two.

  2. Gaming revenue took off in 2020-2021 because more people were spending all day at home. It has since flattened, or slightly declined as a) pandemic-era games that were written and designed in those tough circumstances turned out poorly. b) gaming company execs thought the gravy train would never end, so set projections too high. c) acquisitions and mergers due to a combination of a) and b) meant massive layoffs and low-effort slop. d) VCs bought up the shells of former successes and accelerated c). Oh look:

A new report by Epyllion, a gaming industry advisory company headed by venture capitalist and market guru

These two things have nothing to do with one another, besides coincidentally happening at roughly the same time.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wreckfest 2 is in early access, if that counts as upcoming. Same developer as Flatout 2, so it should feel similar, just more modern.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait until you see the page that redacted the word "don't". As in, "Don T." Why would that be a term they targeted??

[–] radix@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

They're never gonna financially recover from this.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's still relevant to make it as big a story as possible, since that was the stated goal, we should yell from the rooftops how badly they failed according to their own metrics.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'm pretty sure that every single person around him knows full well how cooked his brain is (and has been for at least a decade). They have to wait until Jan 21, 2027 to dump him, though. If he's replaced more than halfway through his term, Vance is still eligible to run twice more; before that and it's only once.

Not that VP Couchfucker would win a single free election, let alone two, but fair elections aren't part of the plan. Then they don't have to worry about subverting the two-term limit until the 2036 cycle.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was struggling until trump assured me I didn't actually need so many pencils, now things are great!!1!

[–] radix@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Comic Sans, Papyrus, and Brush Script. Better known as the Axis of Evil.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago
[–] radix@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Person, woman, man, camera, TV

[–] radix@lemmy.world 110 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Water: good

Hyperhydration: exists

The dose makes the poison.

 

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