City people. They want everyone to be packed into a 5sq mile radius, have busses take them everywhere, but also be able to walk outside and see green trees and wide open fields.

Yeah, and a great post too - because some of your points here just point out that everyone ELSE have deprecated PhysX as well. Unity and Unreal both dropped it long ago. It’s basically a moot point for 99.9% of people playing games.

Instead of using a PPU on the GPU, most people have focused on GPGPU physics calculations instead. The idea behind PhysX was a difficult one to launch in the first place. Given that most chip real-estate is going to these VPUs, I’m not surprised at all that they ditched the PPU for a more generalized version.

It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games

Is the only sentence in the entire article you need to be aware of.

This is rage-bait.

This is a list of the games it affects:

• Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• Crazy Machines 2
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
• Hot Dance Party
• QQ Dance
• Hot Dance Party II
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
• Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
• Mirror’s Edge
• Armageddon Riders
• Darkest of Days
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
• Shattered Horizon
• Star Trek DAC
• Metro 2033
• Dark Void
• Blur
• Mafia II
• Hydrophobia: Prophecy
• Jianxia 3
• Alice: Madness Returns
• MStar
• Batman: Arkham City
• 7554
• Depth Hunter
• Deep Black
• Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
• The Secret World
• Continent of the Ninth (C9)
• Borderlands 2
• Passion Leads Army
• QQ Dance 2
• Star Trek
• Mars: War Logs
• Metro: Last Light
• Rise of the Triad
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

AI has been here for years now before you even knew it. Reddit employed fake users for a long time to make the site seem more active than it actually was. Before AI, they just had mass amounts of people pushing things. Now they can do it on the cheap.

Is your consciousness real? How do we measure this? How do you know you’re not just a sufficiently advanced AI in a sandbox?

Return the internet to its glory days of no rules anywhere, imho. Get rid of the crybullies in every corner of the internet by harassing them out of existence. Learn to shitpost with the rest of us.

Again - which isn’t required. You don’t have to supply your phone number.

I don’t think many people know about sim-swap attacks, so they think people knowing their phone number is fine.

Honestly I wish people would just fucking get rid of phone-number-based OTP anyways. TOTP is where it’s at.

This is or was part of their anti-spam/flooding protection. In the server admin dashboard, you can require a phone number on the account or you can disable it and allow users without verified phone numbers to participate.

They do not require this just for a discord account last I checked. It’s likely due to whatever discord server you’re trying to join.

Same for Twitch. Same for a Microsoft account. It’s become the new normal.

To be fair, decades to destroy. This has been slowly culminating since before I was even born. Maybe before my parents were born.

Occupy was infiltrated by our government by people meant to destroy it from the inside. They incited people and then arrested them for it. This isn’t something that simply died off, they’ve mastered being able to co-opt an idea, push it the way they want, propagandize FUD around it, and then make it disappear.

Honestly Arch is fine as a beginner distro for the right person - The benefit of arch is the rolling release model and the fact that it’s closer to edge than other distros. No; I don’t want to use that package that’s 6 months out of date – Compile it myself? Well, then why would I run a ‘stable’ distro then?

Someone being on Linux instead of Windows is enough of a win for me. I’m going to praise whatever way they want to approach it, none of this purism shit.

Likewise, SteamOS is based on Arch because of the way it’s architected in the first place. It’s fine to want that. Now…if this were Gentoo on the other hand…

Joke’s on them, I get all my books from Z-Library anyhow.

You literally cannot escape these companies, they own everything. Every brand of every everything, and you’ve got a large corporation in there somewhere in the shadows. That’s why they tell you to separate the art from the artist, because it’s been made impossible to boycott anything.