Yes indeed! That makes much sense! Also! Moonlight helps your enemy to see on clear nights and clouds help provide cover for incoming drones! Obviously all of nature is against Russia!

What about Russian sunlight, moonlight or clouds? Are those complicit as well? This is an important question, pls respond!

Tbh that's actually pretty good for what is probably a VHS rip. They might not even be all that compressed compared to the original.

Can we go back to this please? My phone can probably do everything in that picture and better. That's so fucking boring. Sure, you never have "gee I sure wish I'd brought my camera" moments when every phone has a camera. At the same time though, you actually have things. Idk if it's just me, but I'm kinda getting tired with how it seems owning physical items is becoming the premium thing.

What brain drain? They're evacuating, not casually popping over to the mainland for a bit of fun.

"Oh no! The nearby volcano erupted and it's gonna flood a city of millions! We'd better start evacuating one person at a time so they don't experience brain drain."

C'mon man.

Eh, reputation is still a thing and they probably aren't getting to keep any of the IPs they worked on, like Stray or Outer Wilds. They also won't get to keep whatever cash the company might have had in reserve. My understanding is that the idea of spinning off a studio to be indie is that you get to keep developing your IPs to some extent, you still have your brand and your reputation, etc. Otherwise they probably would have done this at the beginning.

So, no, they didn't really spin it off heh.

Correct. I'm not all that invested in social media tbh. If all generalized social media went down (like Twitter, Lemmy, Reddit, Tumblr, but not discord, matrix, mumble, specialty media like enthusiast forums, etc), then it'd take some time for me to find a new place to get news and memes, but that's primarily what I use social media for. News, memes, and occasionally venting into the comment section.

If you're gonna charge for social media, you have to have a pretty good incentive for people to join. Social media is expected to be free. Now, if you had a larger network that didn't just serve social media, but a wide variety of things like cloud storage, webhosting, game server hosting, etc in a walled garden that was designed to allow users to do mostly whatever they want while keeping bots out, now that I might be willing to pay for.

I wonder if there'll be a round two of The Internet Idiots vs The Hedge Fund Dumbasses.

Yeah, I'm sure South Africa emerged from apartheid just so they could defend a colonizer.

That's because people are insane and unhinged, and love whipping themselves up into frenzies.

Tbh, they probably deserve to die.

Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, made its foray into Jarvis-like territory when it launched on Thursday the Zhixiaobao app – a so-called life assistant that can help users order meals, hail taxis, book tickets, and discover local dining and entertainment options, while accessing third-party services in the firm’s Alipay payment platform more easily. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

Waow, that's amazing! So cool, so exciting! We've never seen anyone try anything like this ever before!