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New comment by howlingfantods in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

howlingfantods — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:55:27 +0000

Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remaster and Dragon Age Inquisition marked a significant dumbing down of the original Dragon Age franchise. I would think Bioware fans marked the fall of Bioware at ME3 or even a little before, which means EA ran Bioware into the ground in 5 years.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made"

howlingfantods — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:22:45 +0000

Branch Educations video on ASML's EUV machines is probably one of the most mind-blowing things I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2482h_TNwg

New comment by howlingfantods in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

howlingfantods — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:23:03 +0000

Grammar at its best promotes clear communication but more often is used as a social tool of control and exclusion. When you are already talking to people within your in-group, that impulse isn’t necessary.

New comment by howlingfantods in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

howlingfantods — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:27:49 +0000

Where is it confirmed that Pretti's gun went off? The only place I see this theory is /r/conservative...

You're arguing that an acceptable, albeit unfortunate, punishment for civil disobedience is state murder.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

howlingfantods — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:08:29 +0000

They shouldn’t exist

New comment by howlingfantods in "Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy"

howlingfantods — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:29:32 +0000

Public companies have to undergo a financial audit every year. If you’re referring to a tax audit from the IRS, then yes, those are rarer.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Character amnesia in China"

howlingfantods — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:32:15 +0000

“Sneeze” or “喷嚏” is a pretty difficult word to write in Chinese in terms of number of strokes and its internal components. I’m not surprised people wouldn’t know it off the top of their heads. It’s like if someone asked you to spell “unnecessary.”

New comment by howlingfantods in "British microchip plant faces closure after Apple pulls the plug"

howlingfantods — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:36:37 +0000

The graph is percentage of total production. You can see Chinese production ramps up significantly, which can presumably imply that US production as a percentage of total world production falls off, even if absolute production increases.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing"

howlingfantods — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:34:23 +0000

WhatsApp servers have been blocked in China forever. I lived there for 13 years and the only time I recall using WhatsApp without VPN was in the early 2010s.

New comment by howlingfantods in "WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says"

howlingfantods — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 01:55:41 +0000

Guys, it’s chapter 11 bankruptcy. Wework is not going out of business. One of the top uses of chapter 11 is to renegotiate/break commercial leases. Wework is going to continue as a company though it may shut down some locations. It is absolutely going to use chapter 11 to pressure landlords to renegotiate leases.

New comment by howlingfantods in "H-1B Visa Program Changes Aimed at Stopping Applicants from Gaming Lottery"

howlingfantods — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:55:08 +0000

I think you’re underestimating the agony of a overland trek through Central America…

New comment by howlingfantods in "Real-Estate Commissions Could Be the Next Fee on the Chopping Block"

howlingfantods — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:26:08 +0000

In NYC, the commission for sales is about 6% and 1-2 months rent for rentals. So I would welcome this.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice"

howlingfantods — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:20:10 +0000

market valuation depends on the consensual negotiations of all the stakeholders and consumers of a product don’t have 100% power to control the price. movie studios would love to price content creation at 0 if possible.

New comment by howlingfantods in "The iPhone 13 mini is dead"

howlingfantods — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:18:43 +0000

i love my iphone mini form factor, but i have to charge mine twice a day. and if i'm traveling, i have to carry an external battery pack, which severely diminishes the form factor advantages.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base"

howlingfantods — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:42:55 +0000

If you can't judge someone by their actions, what can you judge them on?

New comment by howlingfantods in "Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base"

howlingfantods — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:40:34 +0000

Irrespective of the contents of the leaks, the Trump resistance leaker wrote an Op-Ed for the NYTimes and leaked formally, directly to the media, so of course the media is going to protect its anonymous sources.

This leaker was trying to win an internet flame war on a subculture forum.

New comment by howlingfantods in "VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B"

howlingfantods — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 03:58:29 +0000

In simple English

Context: Dell has large stakes in both Pivotal and VMware

VMware buys Pivotal. Pivotal's regular shareholders get paid in cash per share ($15). Dell, which owns a separate class of shares, gets paid in VMware shares rather than cash. This is likely because Dell already has a large cash balance and they don't need any more cash.

New comment by howlingfantods in "More money than anyone imagined: an explanation for why the bubble never burst"

howlingfantods — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:03:56 +0000

"acquiring companies" not "acquired companies"

New comment by howlingfantods in "A Wave of Fear in American Commerce"

howlingfantods — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 03:21:35 +0000

How does the left has a vice grip on discourse in media? The most watched cable news network is conservative. The largest operator of local tv is conservative.

New comment by howlingfantods in "Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears"

howlingfantods — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 05:11:43 +0000

iCloud accounts are region specific, it’s a pretty involved process to change it. You have to have a local payment source like a credit card.