Percival Sweetwater

I'm a born-again agnostic. I have no clue what's going on.

[Sherman McCoy @wasphyxiation]

> notorious womanizer despite being fat and bald
> retires at 42 as the richest man in the colonies by building a fortune on posting
> world-leading scientist in his SPARE TIME despite little formal education
> hired by the government during the revolution to schmooze people in France
> founded the future most powerful country on earth
> died at an old age universally admired

Reminder: Ben Franklin was the biggest baller of all time

[🥀 🖤𝔏𝔦𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔫 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥🖤🥀 @LibertarianG0th]

Yes.

[Weapon 𝕏 @HellRaz0r1776]

Super Bowl wins:
USA - 58
England - 0

Revolutionary Wars won:
USA - 1
England- 0

Chick-Fil-A's:
USA - 3059
England - 0

[meme bastard 🍕 @mask_bastard]

hope my Japanese friends are seeing all the American 250 celebration tweets

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Max @minordissent]

Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

‘Akira’ is officially getting a 4K & IMAX re-release 🍿

In theaters September 4

[Mitch - Design & Gaming Hardware @MitchHHL]

I want to dispel the most disingenuous argument made against keeping physical discs: Nobody buys physical games! 89% of games are bought digitally! Gamers are choosing digital!

This is an incomplete figure that is skewed by digital-only releases. IE, most games that are sub $9.99 are digital-only releases. On top of that, this figure is only comparing ALL digital releases to ALL physical releases.

If you are going to compare fairly, you are comparing sales for when a game has a simultaneous physical & digital release.

Here's some food for thought with a proper source
Physical games sales
- 45% of Hogwarts Legacy sales
- 49% of Assassin's Creed Mirage sales
- 45% of Resident Evil 4 Remake sales
- 54% of Spider-Man 2 sales (Inc. console bundles)
- 55% of Astrobot sales

For games that receive a physical release, consistently you get more than 40% of those sales going to physical editions.

Anyone telling you that this is 'consumer choice' is entirely gaslighting you. Sony is entirely looking at the bottom line, and they see the extra bucks they can make when they cut out disc production as well as eliminating secondhand sales entirely.

Source info: https://t.co/wfnIFrMs2K

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

become ungovernable

[Underdrummer @underdrummer]

@RazorFist

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

The United Kingdom's "Office of Communication" is once again threatening the USA-based 4Chan.

Ofcom says that 4Chan must pay £594,000 ($793,878 USD) by July 9th (one week from now), or "Ofcom will consider formal action to recover the full amount of the unpaid penalties."

4Chan's lawyer responded by sending the UK's Ofcom a picture of a giant hamster, smoking a joint, and wearing a hat that reads "thug life" while standing on a pile of cash.

4Chan's lawyer, @prestonjbyrne, also wrote the following to Ofcom:

"You want money, huh? Come and get it.

As 4chan has no assets in the United Kingdom (given that it has no connection to the United Kingdom), that would require you to show up in a U.S. court as a plaintiff, waive sovereign immunity, and overcome existing U.S. doctrine regarding the non-enforcement of foreign regulatory penalties. We suspect that isn't going to happen. We also suspect you know it isn't going to happen, too.

If you'd like to help us set some new precedent, we'd be grateful for the opportunity. If not, then, in the immortal words of Michael Jackson, just beat it. (Did you see the new movie btw? I thought Jaafar Jackson was simply fabulous in that.)

My client reserves all rights and waives none."

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Git. Without the Rust. Awesome.

Two days ago, the Git team released Git 2.55. A key "feature" of that new release being the incremental, forced adoption of the Rust programming language and toolchain for building Git.

Today, the "Libre-WD40" project (because WD40 removes rust), has released Git 2.55.0... "WD-40 flavor".

With two simple changes:

- Rust removed.
- Default branch changed to "master".

This is *exactly* how Open Source is supposed to work.

The developer of a project does something that some people don't want, so another developer forks it and gets rid of the problem.

https://t.co/JtrrSmXmUr

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Pretty much.

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.

Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.

By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.

That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.

I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.

So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.

But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

During COVID, the "if it saves one life" argument was used to justify locking everything down, no matter the cost. You'd think the people who made that argument would be mandating AC for everyone instead of confiscating unapproved units.

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

A Two-Sentence Insider Report On Why ‘Destiny 2’ Died via @forbes https://t.co/59vzH3HMkj

[Saffron Sniper @Saffron_Sniper1]

Chinese people are trolling Europeans by posting videos on social media showing that even their pigs have air conditioning, while many Europeans can’t because of government rules.

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Adult Swim has announced a five-part documentary series about Cartoon Network and its legacy.

The series will explore the network’s eras and its legendary artists throughout its 34 year history.

The docuseries will premiere in 2027.