“a massive acquisition is actually one of the only ways to disrupt the marketplace and create more competition.”

Note with the Cheat Engine: Notice how every time he destroys a vehicle the Star Rating briefly drops? He might be editing the Star Counter, rather then the underlying rating.

Much smaller.  VShojo (the company behind Silvervale) is much the same, being a far smaller studio.

The problem is this has been an ongoing problem in the Vtuber community for literally years now. And Pikamee in particular was beloved; not a person can say a bad word about her. So you are seeing the pent-up anger from the Vtuber community against anyone who attacks members of the community, because IT KEEPS HAPPENING…

Because it doesn’t conform to their view.

Silvervale was hit hard.

Some notes/corrections:

“Also Microsoft would still only be the 3rd largest in the gaming market with the acquisition so it’s not like this creates an actual fuck you monopoly. just our normal late stage capitalism closed garden monopoly.”

Yep. The industry has contracted heavily over the past decade or two; just look at all the studios EA brought just for their IPs. As you said, past mergers (Like Activision and Blizzard) should have also been blocked. The thing is, CoD is such a major franchise the threat of console exclusivity is basically forcing…

Yeah, this is and has been a grey area for a while now, but the assumption is that it’s perfectly legit.

Because the core of Fox’s audience IS stupid enough to believe this.

For large teams? Sure. But I work for a company that does a similar thing (they only clamp down on the high end), and my team consists of just 12 individuals. And many of them are being held back from promotions because they need to be rated the highest rank three consecutive years in a row to be considered for a…

Once again: this isn’t shocking. It’s the classic “False Detection Problem” in a nutshell. To avoid the possibility of mowing down pedestrians, the AI that processes sensor data has to be pessimistic and assume any indications of an obstruction are genuine. And anyone who works with Radar/Lidar/Sonar/Imaging knows you…

Speaking as someone who’s probably around a 3 K/D, here are my thoughts:

I will say this again, as a SW Engineer who works with Radar/Lidar systems: There is no way we are ever going to get fully autonomous vehicles.

Do remember the US was *very* late making a lot of economic reforms even as FDR was spending a ton of money. It’s worth noting there is a direct correlation between getting off the Gold Standard and recovery from the Depression, and the US was one of the last countries to abandon the Gold Standard.

4k textures. Also, general purpose OS with other things taking up RAM, so you naturally need more to account for other things hogging it. [Software Developer speaking: NEVER assume you have sole control of any system resources on a general purpose OS.]

Its a tie between a late-70's (I think?) Chevy Celebrity that was always overheating, and the Dodge Caravan that had three working cylinders after 70k miles.

The Pokemon stat wise is meh, they should just ban the move and get on with it.

I played semi-professional Battlefield 2 during that era; if you didn’t play a ton of MP during that time period it is hard to understate how much of a leap Call of Duty 4 was over everything else in terms of how it felt and played. In BF2 we accepted things like pre-selected class loadouts, and a sever that more…