No you’re actually spot on. Douche bag was even talking to a conservative paper.
Docter told the Wall Street Journal bluntly of the reasoning behind the creative overhaul, in which the Walt Disney Studios subsidiary found that some parents didn’t want media to broach topics they weren’t ready to discuss with their children
It’s really not hard to discuss someone being gay with your kids… unless you’re a bigot.
SK opened the $2.6 billion battery plant in Commerce, Georgia, in January 2022. The Korean company notably supplied the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Ford announced plans to cancel the fully electric version of the truck in December.
So you built a $2.6 billion battery plant to build batteries for the truck Ford abandoned immediately. Who could have possibly seen this coming?!
Yep, and it gives them an out
“An important caveat, however, is that the acceleration may prove temporary”
Oh I bet
Good news! They mention it right in the article.
We found that people are generally overconfident in their political knowledge, especially those who truly don’t know much about politics (the classic Dunning-Kruger effect),” the researchers detailed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited knowledge in a specific area greatly overestimate their own competence, often because they lack the expertise needed to recognize their own mistakes.
I wish there was a name for these kinds of statistics.
They remind me of baseball. “He averages seventeen strikeouts per game when he plays on Tuesday evenings in mid-September”
I hesitate to use the term “friendslop” but
I honestly laughed out loud when I saw this was the first sentence. The title pretty much defines friendslop: “co-op … game … looks like a good laugh”
Yale’s own article about the study:
https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/03/ais-hidden-bias-chatbots-can-influence-opinions-without-trying
Wait maybe it’s because Kirk himself had an educ—
Kirk did not receive a college degree during his lifetime, a fact he noted in debates with academics and students
Oh
Rock Paper Shotgun is somewhat misrepresenting Myrient’s original posting. As is to be expected, I guess, since Rock Paper Shotgun is using Kotaku as a source.
The reasons in the original posting were in order: Increasing traffic costs, download managers, then increasing hardware upgrade costs on top.
Here is what the original posting says, in order:
As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.
This is obviously the main issue! $6,000 out of pocket is clearly unsustainable.
The rest pales in comparison:
Paywalled download managers: In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
Then it talks about hardware prices.
Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices: Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient’s hosting expenses to go up as well.
“As well.”
With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.
I added emphasis. Note that it says “aforementioned existing monthly deficit,” $6000 a month. Hardware upgrades are in addition to the massive traffic costs. Not the main cost.
Kotaku turned that into “AI-Fueled RAM Crisis Forces Retro Game Preservation Site To Permanently Close.” And Rock Paper Shotgun fell for it.
a new Race Day expansion will arrive on March 10th giving you options to transform streets into courses for motor racing, running, and cycling events. On top of that more paid and free content is coming with the Iconic Brutalism and Renewed History content creator packs, a new radio station called 8 Gear Radio, and a free patch adding roadside fences and a new Employment Info View that allows for a closer look at a city’s workforce.
I’m totally in on building a race track! I also really love brutalism, so both of these sound great
I have genuinely never understood it.
People heard the horror stories, and not only were they like “yeah I’ll do that,” they wanted to eventually do it to others.
That’s because “Paramount” in the title translates to “the Ellisons.” I feel like they could have just spelled that out in the title.
The article later says
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his dad Larry Ellison - who is funding the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery out of his personal fortune
Myrient is a popular video game preservation service that has over 390 terabytes of classics
Increasingly popular, according to the owner, which was part of the problem. Myrient was costing them $6,000 a month to run after donations.
Which is why people don’t start these things out of pocket. At best it’s questionably legal to distribute ROMs… but it’s really expensive to pay for the traffic.
They blame rising component prices as well, but the main issue was traffic costs.
Ooh sparkling archive actually sounds really fancy, I’ll start using that
Man, me neither. I didn’t even know who it was until you said “Revenge of the Nerds” and I thought “THAT guy?!” I didn’t even know his name.
Absolutely no idea his brother was the Kung Fu guy.
The only thing crazy about this is that this journalist is using the term “back.”
It was just a few years ago that there were more large cars on the market because the automotive chip shortage supposedly made it less profitable to sell smaller cars.
Large vehicles aren’t “back,” they’ve intentionally created an industry that makes stupid people feel more capable with a large vehicle.
The narratives journalists create to perpetuate these stupid markets are honestly impressive.
Yes!! I came here to recommend Xenoblade Chronicles X. It’s the most MMO feeling game I’ve ever played that wasn’t an MMO.
I wish they’d stop using close-ups of these people’s faces as the article image.
They do it constantly for specific people.
This is hysterical, he never realizes when he accidentally tells the truth.
“It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by
foreign interests anda political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think.
This is the definition of Trumpism and the movements that created it. Way smaller than people would ever think.
I’m ashamed that someone with this little self awareness became president this far into the 21st century.
Yep. Or, at least the one who has an LLM girlfriend(?) he thinks is fully conscious.