Why Are Game Installation Sizes Still Increasing? - "There are a variety of causes behind this problem, as the report points out, including developers not dedicating resources to making certain that the game files are properly compressed, games shipping with the audio for every single language included, games developers failing to consider some people don’t have fiber (or taking bandwidth caps into consideration), and games that ship with uncompressed audio resources because low-end machines can’t decompress the audio on the fly. There are ways to deal with all of these concerns, and a game could even offer the option to uncompress its audio streams for lower-end hardware with plenty of HDD space, as opposed to just keeping the files in that state by default.But there’s a cause Digital Trends doesn’t mention that may deserve consideration of its own: The death of disc-based media. So long as games shipped on physical media, the installation size of any given title was limited to the maximum capacity of its storage. While companies have shipped multi-disc games in the past, most prefer to avoid the additional cost of including more than one disc, and more and more games are shifting towards a digital-only distribution model... Faster connections can blunt the impact of larger game installation times. But they do nothing for capped customers, and the time it takes to download the installation files is only part of the installation time... The fact that we’re already seeing 100GB installs in the current cycle suggests they’ll continue to grow over the next few years."
Thread by @GadSaad - "Close your eyes and imagine this scenario:
A child is taught that his country is racist, imperialist, evil, bigoted. The same child is also taught that science is white supremacy and that we must decolonize knowledge. He is also taught that capitalism is rape. He is also
taught that "fixed binaries" defining biological sex is antiquated science. He is also taught that national borders are racist. He is also taught that meritocracy is white supremacy. He is also taught that my truth is more important than THE truth. And that's only day 1 of kindergarten. Now repeat this lesson all the way to his PhD in Intersectional Feminist Epistemology at @wellesley. And produce millions of such indoctrinated individuals that then assume leading roles in academia, politics, journalism, the media, Hollywood, high-tech, etc.
This is how a society implodes. This is how a civilization crumbles. It does not happen overnight. It might take 50, 100, 150 years"
"I FELT VIOLATED"|Police Search Baltimore County House Over BB Gun in Virtual Class - "the principal initially compared bringing a weapon to a virtual class to bringing a gun to school"
Fired Ukrainian deputy minister puts on bikini & announces own party to fight ‘male political prostitutes’ in power (VIDEO) - "Ukraine's former deputy infrastructure minister, Aleksandra Klitina, has bounced back from her scandalous firing last year, saying she is going to return to politics to fight corrupt men, but her looks overshadowed her message.The 37-year-old former official announced the creation of her own party, called ‘Ukraine against corruption’ in a video posted on YouTube.In the clip, which was filmed outdoors, Klitina appeared sporting what looks like a bikini or a rather revealing dress and delivered a strong-worded address, bashing the men now ruling Ukraine."
Erotic dance by Ukrainian border guards becomes internet sensation (VIDEO) - "“Those fiery and hot border guard servicewomen should stage gay pride parades across Ukraine,” Kotsaba wrote, adding that they would be perfect for the job if they were given more colorful underwear and taught better dance moves. Some users were outraged by the video, decrying the girls’ behavior and even calling the whole affair “Satan’s ball.” Others said that the dancers had “disgraced” the Ukrainian military uniform and called for them to be sacked.Such criticism was far outweighed by positive comments from people who saw nothing offensive in the footage, and defended the servicewomen. “Border guards are people too… They have the right to relax… Well done… Beautiful girls,” one of the users wrote... In January, a BDSM-themed video clip shot in a dorm by students of an aviation institute in Ulyanovsk made headlines in Russia. The cadets risked expulsion for the behavior, which the institute’s administration called “shameful.” But they eventually escaped with a reprimand after other students across Russia supported them, and many people, including the country’s biathlon team, recreated their video and posted it online."
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Seattle City Councilwoman: We Will Not Stop Until We Overthrow Capitalism, Replace It With Socialism - "Kshama Sawant delivers a message after passing the "Amazon Tax"... "You see, we are fighting for far more than this tax," Sawant continued. "We are preparing the ground for a different kind of society, and if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it. Because we are coming for you and your rotten system. We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism. This police state. We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it, and replace it with a world based, instead, on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality: a socialist world. Thank you.""
Thread by @realchrisrufo - "The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through it together in this thread. First, diversity trainers informed white participants that "objectivity," "individualism," "intellectualization," and "comfort" are all vestiges of internalized racial oppression.Sometimes both sides of the coin are "oppression."Are white employees speaking too much? That's probably the internalized racial superiority of "imposition" or "paternalism."Are white employees speaking too little? That's oppression, too, because "silence" is "violence."... the invitation for this training was strictly segregated to "white City employees."The goal is to teach them how they have "complicity in the system of white supremacy" and must be held "accountable to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color."... So far, the City of Seattle has refused to provide the names of the diversity trainers, the budget for the program, or the video of the session.I'm going to keep pushing—because this is exactly the kind of thought-policing they want to implement everywhere.As @ConceptualJames and others have shown, the new cultural revolution is being fought via corporate HR, city diversity training, and public school curriculums.When you find something like this in your community, expose it, criticize it, mock it, and reject it."
Gad Saad - Posts - "I’m an Arabic Jewish war refugee with olive skin. You are using your White privilege to silence my voice of color. If you wish to decolonize evolution, l'd think you’d be promoting me no? Are you a white supremacist? | feel threatened by your insults of my identity."
Gad Saad - Posts - "Dr. Kristina Schierenbeck: Dear old W man who clrly carries the false confidence of his ideas (as expected from someone like you) If you actually read the thread (ignoring the a**holes and 'splainers), you'll see a lot of interesting resources that validate the question. Fear of diversity and pluralism?"
"This academic tried to marginalize me by insulting me for being an "old white man." She then finds out that I'm an Arabic Jew war refugee. As is ALWAYS the case, she then deletes the bigoted tweets and blocks me. The Internet never forgets @BotanyRules. Shame on you. Next, she will contact my university and proclaim that it is not fair that I politely challenged her when she insulted me in a sexist, ageist, and racist way. She is the VICTIM for I did not quietly accept her bigotry."
Not Everything Is a Debate, Even If the Powerful Want It To Be - "British political discourse often posits human rights – particularly those of marginalised groups – as issues to be debated. How did we get here?'
So I guess to protect a truly vulnerable marginalised group - unborn children - abortion needs to be banned without a debate
Comments (elsewhere): "It’s never the powerless who get to decide what is and isn’t a debate."
"It's a great new strategy they have. Declare everything they believe in to be human rights, therefore anyone who opposes them is a human rights abuser."
"Translation: we can't defend our ideas and no longer want anyone to question us"
"White people and their...*rolls dice*...exchanging of ideas."
"Exactly - not everything IS a debate. Degenerates and those who wish to undermine civil society get the rope."
James Lindsay, knows kung fu on Twitter -
"Also, we need to call out how disingenuous it is to talk about specialized being majority POC when she means Asian."
"Asians: only people of color when convenient for the woke narrative. Expendable otherwise."
No Lives Matter on Twitter - "Also, we need to call out how disingenuous it is to talk about specialized high schools being majority Asians as if that's a bad thing because it doesn't fit a neat white supremacy narrative 🥳"
Thread by @TitaniaMcGrath - "IMPORTANT THREAD 🧵
Brave social justice activists such as myself are working tirelessly to expose *all* the racist elements within our society.
Sometimes it is difficult to keep up, so I thought it would be helpful to curate a comprehensive list...
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
• Golf
• Bedrooms
• Jesus
• Chess
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Cartoon characters
• Milk
• Roads
• Band-Aids
• Coronavirus
• Orcs
• Rice
• Skincare products
• Nurses
• Butter
• Applause
• Mathematics
• Front lawns
• Breakfast cereals
• Finding Asian men attractive
• Soap
• Toothpaste
• White people speaking
• White people not speaking
• Hiking
• Climate change
• Ice cream snacks
• The Golden Girls
• Biological sex
• Asking “how are you?”
• The Oscars
• Knitting
• Cycling
• Breweries
• Air pollution
• Abolishing slavery
• The countryside
• The suffragette movement
• The medal for the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
• Fish
• Pancake syrup
• Salt
• Traffic signals
• Earthquakes
• Classical music
• Horse racing
• Trying not to be racist
• Being nice
• Anglo-Saxons
• Toy Story 4
• Mary Poppins
• Jogging
• The Lake District
• Wives
• Fawlty Towers
• Reaction GIFs
• Botany
• Sandwiches
• Environmental activism
• Women
• Science
• Western philosophy
• Libraries
• Dogs
• Dieting
• Yoga
• Country music
• Scrabble
• Wine
• Shoes
• Having sex with black people
• Not having sex with black people
• Rock music
• Tipping
• Veganism
• Dr Seuss
• Robots
• Charles Dickens
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Thomas the Tank Engine
• Jingle Bells
• Interior Design
• Arithmetic
• Avoiding eye contact
• Dead dogs
• Baseball
• College admissions tests
• All white artists"