With Chromeo? Jebus, if I were a concert-goer I would think this was set up specifically for me. I'll never stop loving "When the Night Falls."
ETA: Yep, that music video was definitely someone's fetish. Also, pretty sure that's Olivia Taylor Dudley from The Magicians and 5secondfilms getting pregnant twice as two different people.
If someone dies because the medicine needed to save them is "too expensive," both the corporate executives who set the price and the government cheapskates who won't adequately fund healthcare should be guilty of murder. Change my mind.
I believe if you have the means to save someone and willfully withhold it, you're culpable for murder.
Pharmaceutical companies aren't going bankrupt if they can't charge thousands of dollars for a single dose. Common medications that are manufactured and sold in bulk subsidize the cost of medicines for rare conditions. They also enjoy patent benefits other industries don't get specifically to recouperate R&D costs.
Governments also can and do negotiate for lower drug costs, which is why medication is cheaper in Canada than the US.
Oh, and don't forget all the public funding pharmaceutical companies already get. Governments dumped tons of money into developing the covid vaccines and the companies made insane profits off of it.
I knew you'd retort with this exact example, because you're predictable.
No, I actually don't have the means to save everyone starving in Africa, or even a few. I don't have supply chain access, influence over foreign governments, or anything to directly aid anyone internationally. So I can give to charities, and do, but government corruption in poor nations ensures that the reach of those donations is limited and the cycle of poverty is ever perpetuated in order to maintain their existing power dynamics.
I also fully support foreign aid and am happy to pay my taxes to contribute to that.
I also am not wealthy. I'm not poor, but I have a hard cap on how much I can give to others before I'm hurting myself and my dependents, and that amount is nothing more than enough to keep a few people limping along for a little longer.
A billion-dollar company can reduce the cost of their absurdly priced medicines that would save millions, and still make insane profits. They just might not maintain perpetual growth.
I really wish game and film companies would stop sharing trailers on xitter, and people should definitely find a different source before resharing it. We all need to quit driving traffic to Elon's nazi bar.
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on Wii is my favourite DBZ game of all time, so I hope this lives up to it. That game had a massive roster, with the ability to transform and fuse characters mid-match, so I hope that's still a feature.
I'm just worried that they'll chop up the characters and release them piecemeal as DLC. Seeing Gogeta and Broly as pre-order bonuses makes me think this'll be the case, but they're just "early-unlock" so maybe they're in the game anyway but the pre-order just gives you access to them from the start.
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
It's a solution looking for a problem. As someone in the comments of the article pointed out, Microsoft spent a lot of money investing in OpenAI and now they're desperately trying to find a way to justify it.
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
Not what you're looking for, but there's an episode of Doctor Who from the Peter Capaldi era with a very similar plot that might interest you. The episode is called World Enough and Time.
I never thought the music in nu-Doom was all that great anyway. Not compared to classic Doom at least. E1M1 is forever stuck in my head and if you hum a couple bars to anyone who has played it, they'll immediately know the tune.
The music in nu-Doom is fine while you're playing, but I can't remember a single track.
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Origins is better, in my opinion. It's the black sheep but it's my favourite in the series.
Arkham Knight is my least favourite but I still like it. If you really hate the tank sections, though, you might not like it no matter how long you play. That's a pretty big part of the game, and it's not great.
The story is also dumb.
major story spoilers
It would have been way better if Barbara was the arkham knight, having faked her death and the suit could have had mechanical legs to help her walk and her voice digitally altered to sound like a man. Instead we got another Jason Todd as the Red Hood with a different name.
ETA: I'm curious whether the downvotes are because I think Origins is better or because you don't like my idea for how the story could have been improved.
A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that "whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist's assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to 24...
This is one of those cases where I invoke my policy of "don't let the person charging you money for something tell you how often you need to do it." It's like companies selling mattresses saying you should replace them every 6-8 years.
Or, more rationally, you all invested so much of yourselves into your gamer outrage campaign and built yourselves up as the underdogs fighting the big, mean corporation. And when, to your own surprise, you actually won and got all of your demands met without compromise, you still can't let it go because you managed to incorporate all that upset over a video game into your personal identities over just a few days time.
So now, instead of celebrating your win, you'll limply cling to your hatred of Sony for a few more days or weeks until everyone finds something else to get upset about.
I talk like I have seen this exact same thing happen over and over and I'm sick of capital-G Gamers throwing tantrums over every inconvenience. You aren't Union Men fighting for your rights. You're gamers upset by a TOS change to your new toy even though Steam was going beyond their own policy to honor refunds.
Aw, the gamer is upset I forced some introspection into their life.
But no, I'm sorry. You're totally a noble warrior who fought back the evil Sony and now must remain ever vigilant lest Kazuo Hirai leap from the shadows and scream "Riiiiidge Racer" at you and take away your toys while Gabe Newell gives you your money back and sheepishly shrugs like "I know, right? This guy, man."
The "random upset people" on the former side were perfectly happy to give their money to the "corp" on the latter side before the TOS change. This has nothing to do with how untrustworthy Sony has been in the past and everything to do with upset Gamers wanting to keep their outrage party going even after they got what they wanted.
The Lumia Windows phones were actually pretty nice. App support was lacking but I have never been an app user. I would have kept using mine if the BlackBerry KeyOne hadn't come out shortly after.
I think it's common for former BlackBerry stans to go for unconventional phones to replace them. iPhone and typical Android phones are boring to me. I'm currently using a Surface Duo 2 and looking into a foldable as my next phone.
The picture of Elbow Mush in the thumbnail looks like he's going for the "Justin Timberlake if he aged badly after a diet of whiskey, hamburgers and pocket-fulls of drugs" look.
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What's not to love about this legendary system?...
I still love the aesthetic a lot of PS2 games have, with smooth, bright textures instead of a lot of detail that gets stretched and blurry at low resolutions. The way metal surfaces look in MGS2 and Zone of the Enders is really nice.
But then there are games like Silent Hill 2 & 3 that use a lot of detail in the low resolution textures to create a grimy or rusted look. Those games really benefited from working within the limitations of the system, like the fog to reduce draw distance.
Dreamcast was killed off so early and didn't run alongside the others for most of the generation, so a lot of people consider it as more of an in-between system. Maybe not to someone who actually owned one, but given how poorly it sold the majority probably didn't.
I could never get into the Ratchet and Clank games, except for Deadlocked which I know is generally disliked by fans. I was really into arena shooters at the time.
I've tried a bunch of the others and they are definitely good, but not my kind of game.
Same here. I find it isn't powerful enough for a lot of modern PC games unless you drop the settings, but it's amazing for retro and emulation. I'm living in 2004 again.
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....
This guy is yet another tankie on Lemmy. Every comment is defending Russia and China. Of course they'd defend Modi now that India is more interested in cozying up to Russia.
The Midnight - Brooklyn. Friday. Love. ( www.youtube.com )
D&D But... It's Pokémon | Oxventure ( youtube.com )
This is a hilarious one-off from Oxventure where they combine Pokemon with D&D mechanics.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis leaves EU scrambling for medicines ( www.politico.eu )
Vital drugs are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive, as cases rise....
Almost all of the American ones I've heard of are terrifying. ( lemmy.world )
You're ok.
It's sad to see so many good titles get ruined because of this
Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Showcase | Ubisoft Forward ( www.youtube.com )
Dragon Age The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal Teaser ( x.com )
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO - Release Date Announcement ( www.youtube.com )
Everything means everything ( lemmy.world )
Doesn't have to be a serious theory, but come up with something that the creepy old woman might've been saying to everyone.
To reference another work of surreal social horror, I'm going to say it was that Ruby is actually a giant cockroach
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated ( www.tomshardware.com )
What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?
The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
[request] Help finding a space movie
An astronaut crash lands on an elongated asteroid with extremely strong gravity. He manages to crawl away from his ship and finds that the gravity in the middle is normal and the gravity at the far end is reversed. Time is also affected by gravity and goes backward at the far end of the asteroid. His dog was injured and he...
New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June ( www.gamespot.com )
Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue ( insider-gaming.com )
Does Arkham Knight get better?
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can't get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak ( arstechnica.com )
A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that "whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist's assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to 24...
Temperatur ( sh.itjust.works )
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 ( lemmy.world )
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 ( mainichi.jp )
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit ( www.theregister.com )
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter ( www.swissinfo.ch )
Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter)....
The PlayStation 2
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What's not to love about this legendary system?...
Three arrested and charged over Sikh activist's killing in Canada ( www.bbc.com )
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....