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  1. Is it Steam tracking the time? Because they have many cases where the patcher/launcher is what's being tracked. You can have 20 hours for a game you have never even loaded.

    Add in persistent patchers that sit in the tray to grab updates for you, you can easily get THOUSANDS of hours for a game you have really only played 10 hours of.

  2. Re: Fascinating on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 2
  3. "Get her", perhaps? Rather than explain herself why she thinks whitebecky is 'problematic', she chooses instead to retweet the message to all her followers with the request to "get her" i.e. requesting dogpile mob tactics

  4. Pretty much why any screencap 'reportedly from their twitter/paper/blog' you verify. I don't care if it's Milo, Trump, God or my dog that gave me the shot..if their is no archive link or active link? Yeah, no, not biting. You want nibbles, archive it so if it does get deleted or marked private the proof is still there.

    Don't care what the Milo defenders say (and I adore Milo), the 'glorious faggot' is a narcissistic troll.

  5. The same media that parrots that the ISIS member doing ISIS tactics on significant occasions, that visited ISIS territories and has their acts claimed by ISIS...was only saying 'alu ackbar' for unknown reasons, probably was mentally ill? THAT mainstream media? Or do you not mean Fox/CNN/'BC/etc?

  6. It's hard to counter argue when their respond with blocking communication, closing the venue to let you speak, refuse to debate, plug their ears on any facts, refuse to stop using any 'fact' that was disproven regardless of the source of the disproof, talk about feelings trumping facts- but if you have feelings or a story you've either 'internalised it' or are '____splaining it', cling to hypocritical theories like punching up vs punching down, and shriek about the invisible hand that is 'systemic'...

    Basically, you can't reason with crasy.

    That said, crasy exists on both sides.

  7. Re:Twitter isn't interest in stopping trolls unles on Stopping Trolls Is 'Now Life and Death For Twitter', Argues Backchannel (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Difference is rapists don't get to teach courses in university to spread their views.

  8. Re:trolling for clicks on Stopping Trolls Is 'Now Life and Death For Twitter', Argues Backchannel (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides the things the AC noted, I've found it useful for catching various indie bands' plans to release new albums or appearances - in between photos of their dinner or latest cat antics. While not the greatest in signal:noise, it is at least better than the never-updated webpages or blogs whose last entry was 4 years ago.

    Disclaimer: I don't have a twitter account, find it rather pointless for my own personal use [What, did you want to know the brand of OJ in my screwdriver? Thing the carton was white...]

  9. Bullshit. If that were the metric, Randi Harper would have been banned ages ago instead of being lauded as their heroine against bullying.

  10. Re:B-b-b-but GUNZ is SKEEERY!! on Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:B-b-b-but GUNZ is SKEEERY!! on Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Hm... should also remove the knife. And the fist. No hammers or golf clubs or such. Lots of potential weapons to threaten with, going by FBI homicide stats.

    While we're at it, remove that nuclear family one, that's harassment of split families and orphans. Might accidentally send it to a kid with two dads and it taken as homophobia. Or a mixed race kid and be racist 'purism' taunting. Remove the sun emoji too, that's a threat to torture albinos. Think the cookie emoji might contain nuts...that's a death threat and a half there to peanut allergy sufferers. Might want to remove the fruit for that citrus one some suffer. Dagnabit, we'll make sure nothing could be taken wrongly or interpreted as a threat or harassment, even if we have to remove all the emoji!

  12. Re:B-b-b-but GUNZ is SKEEERY!! on Microsoft Swaps Toy Gun Emoji For Revolver -- Days After Apple Does the Opposite (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Adults.

    I get far more asinine emoji shit from older people than younger ones. The kids just don't care while the adults find it 'cute'.

    This makes as much sense as putting in a censor to replace the WORD gun with ***. Because you know, all the major terror threats and such were emoji filled, and if we banned emoji those threats could never be made.

    Parents get upset, parents sue? Simple solution: toss the case out without merit, and nail the family with costs of both sides and the court. Seriously, if you want to whine about children being granted the ability to make threats DO NOT GIVE THEM A PHONE. If you don't want to prevent them having a phone, instead don't teach them to read so they can't write threats. That still leaves them able to make calls and speak words that are scary though. Want to stop teachers calling the cops on kids pointing a french fry at another student and saying 'bang'? Fix the idiots that overreact and hide in safe spaces.

    What's next, blocking the non-letter characters to prevent gun ASCII? This solves absolutely nothing but generates media about appearing to 'care' and be 'doing something'

  13. Because because black people when they become police internalise racism and are stooges of the man, trying to appease their mastah by eagerly turning Uncle Tom

    ...or certain bullshit to that effect.

  14. Re: Wait for it... on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    She was claiming she was being lead poisoned, and in the end, she was right ~

  15. Re: FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 2

    HOW? People drive, walk, kayak, even skydive glues to their damned social media. Why would having a shotgun in one hand and a phone/tablet in the other through a closed door sound any less likely? Especially since she was uploading video as she was doing so?

  16. I'd happily sacrifice Trump if it means all the "Kill all cops" "Kill all men" etc were taken as incitement to violence, attempts to hire hitmen, and accessories to any murders that occurred of the targeted group. Until then, I'll take his rejoinder as humour.

    Takes a lot of spin to turn "If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!" to 'hack please'. First off, that nasty present tense.

  17. Re:Does anyone else fear for our future, on 7-Eleven Just Used a Drone To Deliver Slurpees and a Chicken Sandwich (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Tip the drone, or else?

  18. Re:All About the H-1B on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The Ogre Choice: Would you like to be eaten alive, or would you like me to kill you first? Remember, if you don't pick, you don't get to complain.

  19. Re:What's a mile? on New Dwarf Planet Discovered In Outer Solar System (seeker.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nautical miles are a lot easier once you get your sea legs.

  20. Re:Don't like bats? on Insect-Devouring Bats Now Welcomed in New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Corpses in the walls, and histoplasma from guano in attics.

    I've no issue with bats being bats in the wild, but when they decide they want to winter in your attic and it takes three visits by removal companies (coupled with a 'no, they have young, we have to wait until they are grown' - while hearing them in the walls and finding some hanging off curtains)... you tend to not like them in a more intimate environment =P

  21. Re:A civil matter with a criminal punishment on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    None. If 5 notes of music is enough to claim IP theft, Disney hasn't a creation to bring to market.

  22. Re:90% of dinosaurs survived? on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    So we can start calling magazines clips now?

  23. Re:STEM on Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Well if we're playing with assumptions on anecdotes...

    I went to two majority-female universities over the course of seven years in the 90s for several pieces of paper. In my STEM courses, females were a huge minority. Of the students in my courses, they often were among the top scorers.
    MY observations were that the majority of the women I talked to on campus has no interest in STEM stuff. A decent amount of the men that were in my courses were in it because they were expected to have went into it, or thought it would be a well paying job. The majority of the women in my courses were in it because they enjoyed the field and felt they had talent in it.

    My conclusion would be that the girls in STEM wanted to be there, were driven to succeed in there, and it showed. Some of the guys just 'expected' to pull out 'a pass' and it also showed. The women that couldn't hack it dropped out, and the men that couldn't hack it stayed until they failed out. End result: the women in the courses placed rather well, but in no way meant that the majority of women 'secretly want to be in STEM and we are losing top engineers/coders because of it'. I've no doubt that there are some women who would have flourished had they chosen a different major, but I looked it as more that 'too many men thought they could take a piece of the 'new rising field''.

  24. Re:frist post on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Except there are knife and hammer emoji, and according to the FBI, in 2013 twice as many people were murdered by hammers, and fives times as many were killed by knives. Hell, three times as many were bludgeoned to death, but there is a 'fist' emoji. This is just PR shit.

    source

  25. Re:Not worried, frankly. on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends which day of the week. Last I checked it mitigated liver damage from alcohol. Not sure if that was before or after they study saying it raised heart disease which was countered by drinking wine unless the grape was from a vineyard from higher altitu...