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New comment by bentograd in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

bentograd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:50:17 +0000

To be honest, I think you're saying something you know no one will agree with and smuggling it under the guise of your opinion.

New comment by bentograd in "A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese"

bentograd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:16:52 +0000

This looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.

New comment by bentograd in "AI Is Dehumanization Technology"

bentograd — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:16:28 +0000

I mean, this really proves the point. You dehumanize the author and anyone who even attempts to read this slop by deferring your thinking to the machine, as if this kind of human interaction was not worthy to be had. Worst of all, you dehumanize yourself.

New comment by bentograd in "The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1"

bentograd — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:05:52 +0000

All art is subjective. Any attempt to "verify" a piece of art would be entirely dependent on cultural and personal sensitivities. Art isn't a math problem with a solution.