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  • It does from time to time. You'll see "pushed" (ie really good and hard to get) cards come out and enjoy their time and then either they get banned or the synergistic cards that make them format warping get banned.

    I don't even mind that aspect of the product cycle that much. I enjoy they competitive aspect and some strategies can and will be better than others.

    But the cards that define the format being inaccessible AND this type of product design that's endemic to the CCG business model really sucks. And IRL play is so much better than sims, especially if you're trying to improve at the game too.

  • I hate the business model of these card games. The gameplay is usually pretty good and the competitive aspect is nice. But the competitive chase cards being at predatory distributions in the product really turned me off to the whole thing.

  • All the wannabe crypto influencers were quiet on my feed for a while after prices crashed in late 2022. Gen ai bullshit could not have arrived at a better time for them. They all pivoted to being ai experts immediately.

  • The children yearn to lie about the operational status of the frosty machine.

  • The proliferation of android as a platform has made it too easy for these companies to shit out garbage iot devices that connect to the internet for reasons unintelligible even to God.

  • I was sitting a few rows behind some rowdy British teens on holiday the other day and between skibbidi and the British slang, I understood none of what they had said. Is this what getting old feels like?

  • I hate javascript. I hate javascript. I hate javascript.

    Javascript and mobile apps will not fix structural issues in society.

    People who suggest otherwise should be conscripted to build public housing and throw eggs at nimbys at city council hearings.

  • Holy moly the amount of racism.

  • The conventional wisdom is no caffeine after 4 but the half life is 4ish hours I remember reading somewhere. It's better to hard stop caffeine consumption before 2pm.

    I think blue light also conflicts with your body's natural sleep priming so yeah cutting screentime before bed is a win or at the very least use the night mode or orange filter on your phone after sundown.

    If your schedule is really bad, an acute solution is to hard reset by full commiting to going to bed at your new desired bedtime. Don't nap or anything that day if you can, and if your desired bedtime is too early you can try taking some melatonin. Don't use melatonin regularly though.

    That's how I wrangle my sleep schedule back to a better baseline when it starts to drift towards later nights and waking up exhausted.

  • Hand wringing about the federal debt is how they gaslight you into signing off on dismantling regulatory apparatchik and the social safety nets.

  • Remember when they accidentally confirmed the mall in Kyiv that got shelled by evil Russians was actually a weapons depot when they reported on the TikToker across the street who was arrested by the SBU? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  • Why is this not 100% green wtf

  • Those hard working landlords ya know. Also acting like eminent domain doesn't exist in burger land lmfao

  • The thing I think people don't think about is it's really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn't just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it's a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it's not like iphones are made there or anything..

    There's a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a "Juciero" the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about "Chinesium" in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there's other "American made" tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.

  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml

    Gofundme, but with more javascript

    archive.is /LbbUX
  • Don't forget how ableist they get if you disagree with them.

  • This is just a gamer (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games) ranting about Trueskill2 based on an out of context paragraph that in context with the rest of the model of skill they are trying to approximate, your teammates' skill doesn't really affect your change to win/predicted stats in a given match.

    If you want, they have talked about the actual algorithm that then attempts to match players based on their rating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs

    It biases towards matches it thinks will be a fair fight between both teams with bounds on the max skill diff between the best and worst players between both teams. And they adjust these bounds with player population throughout the day so you can get into matches quickly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/truematch/

  • I know someone whose kid became really irritable and started having aggressive episodes after a head injury. Insurance doesn't think an MRI is medically relevant.

    It makes me so mad when anglos try to gaslight the success of obamacare and how many millions of additional people are "covered" by it.

  • All Cops Are Bastards @lemmygrad.ml

    Marxists stay predicting the inefficacy of bourgeois policing

  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml

    Very legitimate business.jpeg

    www.theverge.com /2023/11/21/23971066/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-step-down
  • Technology @lemmy.ml

    The parrot makes shit up!

    web.archive.org /web/20231116131155/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/16/chatgpt-lawyer-fired-ai/
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    The Anglos are not Russophobic, I assure you

  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml

    Eleven Objectives of Neoliberalism | Michael Hudson

    michael-hudson.com /2023/08/eleven-objectives-of-neoliberalism/
  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml

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