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Drew DeVault once again has no idea what he is talking about. He is now white knighting Terry Davis saying that 4chan trolls contributed to his further decline in his mental health.

We still don't know if Terry's death was from suicide or purely accidental. His further mental decline happened due to homelessness and that seemed to mostly steamed from further tensions with his father, as Terry was filming his parents and publishing the videos online without their permission, and his dad was tired of him constantly using racial slurs.

Though trolls did provoke him, Terry actually seemed to enjoy livestreaming with his audience. Most of his anger came from people he thought were incompetent, not people trying to provoke him. I don't think any of that contributed to his mental decline.

It wasn't like Chris Chan where people tried to provoke him into doing stupid shit and getting him and his family in trouble. Terry "did it to himself". He was kicked out because his Dad was sick of his behavior, got arrested at one point, and got kicked out of a library for poor hygiene just hours before his death (which may have caused him to kill himself). Terry was a ticking time bomb. He was an unemployable, mentally ill, middle aged man living with his parents who were in their 90s. Even before he got kicked out, I felt that he wouldn't last long after his parents inevitably pass.

While I can't speak for Kent Overstreet, this is another example of Drew revising stories to make it fit his agenda.

drewdevault.com/blog/Circus-fr

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needs to be more fuckin an less politics on the timeline :blobcatlul:
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@mint @bonifartius @david @ffaw @graf @ins0mniak @phnt Bill Gates funded these things and now Google is funding them.

We had the worst fruit flies I've ever seen in my life a few years back. I'd feed the cats and there would be maggots within an hour. What had happened was they were dropping planeloads of genetically modified fruit flies on Los Angeles for the summer. The idea--at least as stated--was that these fruit flies were sterile but also more aggressive, so they'd mate with the females and the females would not lay eggs. This didn't work, and if you think for a minute, it should be easy to tell why.

What regulates aggression is fear. The hyperaggressive sterile fruit flies were not afraid. This meant that the birds and lizards and frogs and whatnot ate them, while leaving the regular fruit flies to mate while all of their natural predators sat around with full stomachs. Of course, they just do this shit without a "Please do not run your shit-ass psychopath experiments on my goddamn city" is not ever on the ballot and all the Whole Foods-ass "we can't have GMOs in school lunches" Karens voted in the people that did it.

This is the same thing they did for mosquitoes in Brazil and it increased the mosquito population twice. "Oops." Then, despite it failing every time it was tried and for completely goddamn obvious reasons, they got CDC approval to do it in Florida.

Bill Gates did a TED talk in 2009 where he released a jar of mosquitoes on the audience and he's had a fixation on that shit since forever. (I think it's this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_mosquitos_malaria_and_education ) Why he is doing it is obvious; if I had to guess why Google's doing it too, I'd suspect the same reason.
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dude i miss radio shack so much.
i loved being able to go to a physical store and just get some random ass converter or whatever.
now the next best place is best buy but that's like a 30 minute drive from me and they don't have nearly the same amount of random niche shit.

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I don't think that's a sign capitalism isn't working .. because capitalism isn't really happening. That's an issue with loans, fractional reserve banking and extending debt. There's some overlap, but countries did have capitalism on gold/metal standard before fiat currencies. They had their own gold price stability problems, sure, but at least their money was attached to something that takes value to extract.

The entire AI bubble is based on loans nobody is calling on, so it just circulates a debt cycle.

It's a bit worse than that too. I think the AI bubble is designed to collapse. It's how you get rid of something even as corrupt as fiat currency and replace it with programmable, compartmental, digital, traceable money. The technocratic Epstein class want a world were people can't say, "I want $65k/year." They have to say, "I want at least 100 USDT housing allotment, 30 USDT food-coin and 20 USDT-luxary spending."
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Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#b

Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality

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So, not E3

I will actually bother with:
https://www.summergamefest.com/events

June 5 - Summer Games Fest - 5PM EST
^Day of the Dev right after if I'm not tired about it
June 7 - Xbox showcase - 1PM EST
^ PC Games Show right after if I'm not bored to hell, but I probably have Uma Musume runs to do :shrugz:

Nintendo is still unconfirmed but is likely around June 9th

For anything else, if anyone wants to host them I'll let you use the e3 channel for it
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But let’s blame cow burps and reduce red meat consumption.
🤡🌍

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The looming threat of carbon tax on fertilisers, which the Labour government have earmarked from January 2027. Yet another financial hit on cash strapped farmers.

The cumulative financial hit could amount to an extra £80,000 for a standard 1,000-tonne wheat farm.

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A perennial problem in gamedev is "oh don't worry it's X year so we don't need to worry as much about penny-pinching for the sake of perf" and then a year or two later in the same project it's "why are you using a square root there what do you think we're MADE of cpu cycles?!"
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Incredible work from Godot on supporting the whole flow, right up to publication, all inside Android. This allows many, many more people to try making and to publish their own games, especially for kids or people in poorer countries, where access to a PC can often be harder than to a smartphone.

https://godotengine.org/article/gabe-stable-release/

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