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WON was a multiplayer service that was ALSO a early foray into online game distribution. Somewhat ironically as the platform on which Valve’s Half-life was originally published.

The modern era of online games distribution is pretty closely tied to multiplayer hosting because those were the games that were primarily targeted for online distribution in a world where MOST games were offline and physically distributed.

Steam launched its own platform to compete with WON and moved all of its own titles over there. The biggest controversy associated with that was that Valve sent out a patch over the WON servers to move all the existing WON enabled games over to the new Steam platform.

Stop carrying about the quality of your output and just copy and paste the slop back and forth. its what they want.

Or, you know, the ability to fuel aircraft that are already airborne so that you can maintain a constantly ariel surveillance and can stage your high value aircraft further from the field of operations.

The fact that Russia has never been able to actually operationalize this basic necessity is a good example of why they have never actually been a peer military to NATO.

Do what a cat would do. Sit between then and see what happens.

The fun part is that unlike an intern, this shit isn’t going to get better at it’s job.

The most technically illiterate leaders are pushing the hell out of using for things that don’t make sense while the workers who know what they are doing are finding some limited utility.

Out biggest concern is that people are going to be using it for the wrong stuff and fail to account for the errors and limitations.

That pile still isn’t big enough to actually represent the real world disparity.

A viable product is something with a customer. This doesn’t have one.

Riiiiight, except that the ENTIRE point of this is that it looks like SOMEONE ELSE attacked the ship. If they can effectively fake Ukraine attacking a Russian ship they can effectively fake Ukraine attacking a Turkish ship.

A false flag only makes sense if provides a justification to actually DO something you couldn’t do without the attack. Ukraine attacks Russia every day and visa versa. That is a pointless scenario for a false flag.

Its not though. They have had robots that can mirror humans for more than a decade. They don’t use them for hazardous work for one REALLY simple reason:

They are worth more than humans.

Seriously. Anything that is so dangerous that it is prohibitively expensive to safely do with humans just gets exported to the third world where humans aren’t worth anything. Why use million dollar robots when you can can just use brown guys in sandals for a nickel an hour instead?

Take auto battery recycling. That is a dangerous job that requires a lot of PPE and a ton of environmental mitigation efforts for the factory doing it. You have tons of vent hoods and lots of training and tons of inspections and oversight. Of course, that is only if you want to recycle batteries in a country that has workers rights, which is why no one recycles batteries in those countries. Instead, those batteries all get shipped to Africa where dudes break them apart with hammers in a field and cook out the metals in open pits and dump the acid into their water supply. Sure, those dudes are going to be dead in a 3 years, but who cares? Battery companies make a ton by getting the cheap recycled materials back and selling new “recycled” batteries.

Wouldn’t it be like a thousand times more effective for Russia to just attack a Turkish ship with a “ukranian drone” and skip the three steps of logic it would take for anyone to care about a Russian ship getting hit by Ukraine?

OK, But how does Russia benefit from falsely claiming to have been attacked by the one country on earth that literally everyone agrees has the right to attack Russia already?

Man, the US committing economic and cultural suicide sure is good for everyone else.

Funny take given the resurgence of standalone mp3 players and handheld gaming machines, all with 3.5mm jacks.

Those were all supposed to be dead too.

It’s currently sold out, but they have been shipping them for a year. They are currently available in allie as well.

Its a niche fork of a niche product that doesn’t make money for anyone involved in making it. They don’t care.

Which is funny because that is one of the things that LLMs are particularly bad at.

You can already get a better version of this that isn’t tied to a specific model of phone and just attaches to the back with a magnet and is perfectly usable on its own if you want.

https://www.theverge.com/news/838885/xteink-x4-e-reader-magnetic-apple-iphone-google-pixel

And this product actually exists.

Shame they are going to send you a “battery protection update” that makes your phone last 45 minutes between charges on year three.

I’d bet against any plan that requires Google to not fuck you over for a whole 7 years.

It never occurred to me that releasing these files might cause child traffickers and rapists to actually have CONSEQUENCES. The horror. Anyways…