“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • but i guess thats why I don’t work in marketing

    Yeah, I guess it is, because this article works in Proton’s favor on multiple levels:

    • Plenty of Proton users have switched over from Gmail, still have their old account, and still, even with forwarding, occasionally need to use those old addresses.
    • People who search for or are sent a guide who’ve never or rarely heard of Proton might end up on their site and read a guide that lambasts Google and its usage of AI.
    • Meanwhile, Proton’s alternative product is being advertised everywhere on the page outside the guide and even is advertised within it.
    • These guides are going to exist anyway (many, in fact). You’re acting like this is some extremely niche thing users might want to do. Having your own guide but poisoned with your marketing when you’re the underdog is a sound idea.
    • This gives a benevolent image of “Good Guy Proton” who just wants to keep people’s data private regardless of business – and a “Bad Guy Google” image because it’s apparently so dire that their competition has to do this.
    • Consumers becoming more privacy-conscious generally is a boon long-term for businesses like Proton.

    You’re so smarmy about this but just come off as a complete dipshit who gave this two seconds of thought.




  • Heroic is an impressive achievement. It just isn’t a full replacement – and most of these points I’m about to list aren’t things it’s trying to or should necessarily do as a games launcher. Off the top of my head:

    • It doesn’t work for social aspects like friends, statuses, etc.
    • It doesn’t work for monitoring achievements.
    • The storefront is just the actual gog.com webpage rendered as a surface. GOG Galaxy’s store UI, by contrast, flows with everything else.
    • I don’t think games auto-update, although I could be wrong.
    • It’s bloated by nature of also being a launcher for Epic and Amazon – platforms I will never use. GOG Galaxy allows crossplatform stuff, but it’s not a full-on multilauncher.
    • The UI is pretty ass. I sympathize a lot with this one as someone who works on the (often disastrously undercoordinated) UI of a similar-profile project.
      • Rectangular UI elements’ corner rounding is all over the place (from sharp 90° to Material 3 and everything inbetween).
      • Themes are extremely samey with an enormous bias toward dark themes (I say this as someone who exclusively uses dark themes: a single light theme and thirteen dark themes means you don’t give a shit).
      • You can’t hide the left-hand menu bar to actually center the page you’re viewing.
      • Actions like toolbar dropdowns have no animations (I understand not wanting these; that’s accommodated with a “Disable Animations” option).
      • There’s absolutely zero compatibility with Orca (screen reader) that I can find.
      • Etc.

    Again, all of these except the UI aren’t things Heroic is doing wrong or even supposed to be doing at all.

    Side note: in Heroic, the GOG storefront opens with UTM parameters in the URL for “adtraction”. Wonder what that’s about.



  • I take some sense of ownership over my Steam library in that I can and will immediately pirate the game with the DRM stripped out if Valve ever decides to revoke my access to it.

    On the other hand, this – and buying from a better company – is why I actively prefer GOG, even in cases when the price is higher. (But pssst, hey, Beyond a Steel Sky is $3.50 on GOG right now compared to Steam’s $35.) The fact I have to launch the Steam client to play a game I paid for is absurd, and I regret every purchase I made, like Stardew Valley Terraria, before I knew GOG existed. The main outstanding issue to me now is that GOG refuses to port its Galaxy client to Linux.


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    The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

    Okay, Sabine, whatever you say. I’m sure bubble chambers and TPCs (I assume since you’re targeting “chambers” that other experiments like DEAP are fine) for direct detection are a catastrophic money sink that you’re totally not exaggerating even a little.


    Edit: Wait, are you specifically targeting the funding for the search for WIMPs? Since you’re just joining us from your 15-year coma, I’m afraid to inform you that problems have gotten much worse for science than bubble chamber and TPC costs.




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    People who premeditatively use words like “cunt” and then decide to censor it are behaving like 12-year-olds playing MW2 on Xbox Live who want to call somebody a “fucking bitch” but whisper it into the mic so their parents don’t ground them.

    Like, we all know what you mean, and you censoring it isn’t protecting anyone’s delicate sensibilities. You only end up looking immature. Just use polite language or fucking don’t, you daft cunts.










  • This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.

    What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.

    * One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.