This minorfucker and his DUI hire didn’t calculate shit. Probably just type into Grok for a intelligence assessment and went with it.

It was a sacrifice that Trump and the Iowan Republicans were willing to make.

Sure it’s always good to point out that a person held absolutely trash views, horrible at debating anyone that was serious, and was a objectively horrible human being.

You always need to talk about a person like that as a model for how not to be a good person to help ensure future generations don’t end up to be racist, intellectually dishonest, grifting trash adults.

I mean I fully expect a group of Democrats to vote with the Republicans to pass the bill honestly with Jefferies in the corner shrugging his should with a “who could have seen this coming” look on his asshole face.

That and having a DUI hire that has driven out principled professionals and installed frat boys at the highest levels.

I mean AI targeted a school and killed hundreds of little kids with a precision missile already, so yeah.

I mean, I kind of wish that would be the scenario. That would be doing what Covid didn’t.

But wearing cargo shorts, red arm bands, brandishing weapons, bringing IED’s, dressing in upper body tacticool clothing, and storming the capital looking to hang Mike Pence is just good ol’ fashioned protesting right?

1. Retire you old fool.
2. Jesus christ progressives, primary his wrinkly power hungry, over blown ego ass.

A great step in the right direction if you ask me.

And Trump and the Republicans are the useful idiots.

You just also described most Republicans.

Guess this goes on my patient gamer list.

Given this history that FSR 4 was proven to have been able to be supported in RDNA 3 and 2 via a unintentional commit by AMD and the intrepid open source community implemented FSR 4 on these cards giving them much improved visual quality with a minor loss in frame rate and that this rumour is coming from a reliable source that has a history of being correct with their leaks, I’m inclined to distrust this corporation and start sharpening my tines.

And don’t get me started on how AMD has dropped linux support, another competitive advantage, and we’re relying on open source coders to give us FSR 4 capability while Nvidia, the current god father of fucking over gamers, has been increasing linux driver support.

But hey, we all have our opinions based on our observations.

I’m going to get downvoted but honestly I’m not 100% against some form of digital ID. I don’t think these half baked, unthought through state laws and patchwork state systems are anyway way to go about it though and they certainly do not have enough safeguards in their laws to limit surveillance which I’m sure there are those who crafted the laws to intentionally leave that out and they certainly didn’t have any inkling of cybersecurity in mind when they proposed these laws.

I mean we in the modern age already have a crap ton of digital ID’s flying around using our NFC enabled devices and 2FA systems commercially and we mostly don’t blink a single eye on these systems and generally regard them as a safer alternative now. And let’s not pretend that these corporations aren’t tracking the living heck out of us already with this.

Don’t do loot boxes then.

As for more user info, that I can agree with up to a point and I certainly don’t trust a corporation, even Valve to do the correct thing and protect additional PII.

Valid point. Still I think that there’s a notable difference between the physical vs digital aspects though that makes digital much worse.

There’s seems to be more effort involved with cards because they’re physical, more ritual maybe of going to the store to pick up a pack of cards or having to wait for the delivery giving it that cool down time vs digital where access is instant gratification and gambling dopamine hit.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that those companies that have tried physical loot boxes haven’t faired well either and haven’t taken off like their digital counterparts. Maybe it’s that mix of seeing physical items vs value and waiting for the next hit kind of dampens the gambling addition effect.

And then there’s the whole money into currency with the whole 1000 gems for 99 bucks to buy a 950 gem item psychological predation that you don’t have in physical collectibles, at least not that I’m aware of.

I guess overall I find the digital loot box just on another level of predatory, exploitation of addiction much worse than physical collectibles.

But hey I’m all for regulating physical items for gambling too. It would be interesting to see a actual study on them like they’ve done with loot boxes.

Valve I think are the most “ethical” implementations of loot boxes that just straight up charges cash.

Yeah, looks like the 9070xt will be the last AMD card I’ll be buying.

What a slap in the face to those who buy their GPU’s and giving away the only competitive advantage they had over Nvidia.

On the physical side, popular products used in this way include baseball cards, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, and Labubu. In the game space, digital packs similar to our boxes date back to 2004 and are in widespread use.

I think that video game loot boxes are very much different when you’re hiring psychologist to maximize fomo and extra currency to make kids spend more with 100 gems short of your next purchase.

But if they want we can outlaw baseball cards and Pokemon too. I’m good with that.