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New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:13:15 +0000

That’s why every visual novel (well, almost every visual novel) have a skip function. I know exactly the stretch you’re talking about… I think. Just ctrl-skip through it.

New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:09:57 +0000

Convergent evolution. It’s probably just an amazing and fortuitous coincidence. They look similar but have completely different internal structure, like a bug that pretends to be a leaf. I can’t go any further without spoilers, so I won’t.

New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:34:39 +0000

DDLC borrowed a lot from YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story (Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi), which I consider generally superior to DDLC. I say this not to diminish DDLC, which is excellent, but as a plug for anyone who enjoyed DDLC and wants more mind warping content like that.

New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:28:35 +0000

Wouldn’t be the first time people assumed it was porn just from the cover. Chaos;Head/Noah was mistakenly banned from Steam for this reason until there was an outcry.

New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:23:36 +0000

I’m glad I had to scroll down this far to find such a breathtakingly ignorant take. DDLC has zero fan service. It’s a story that happens to deal with subjects often encountered by adolescents.

There’s no good reason for this except general Western bias against Japanese moe

New comment by jquery in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jquery — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:18:12 +0000

Play the game to completion and you’ll understand why that’s not ideal. It is doable but I recommend the PC experience first.

New comment by jquery in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

jquery — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:34:32 +0000

We had a consumer protection agency with teeth. Dunno where it went though.

New comment by jquery in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

jquery — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:32:34 +0000

There's a strong chance it's illegal so admitting to it is pretty breathtaking. They must be very confident they're in the clear, or the spokesperson didn't run this by the right people.

New comment by jquery in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

jquery — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Awesome!! Thank you SO much for this.

New comment by jquery in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

jquery — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:20:08 +0000

People support anti-pollution measures yet corporations still choose to pollute. Curious.

New comment by jquery in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

jquery — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:19:27 +0000

This is certainly the most uncharitable way to think about it.

I see a prisoner’s dilemma where people often support regulations even if on an individual basis they would personally violate them, because they prefer living in a the less chaotic society. For example anti-dumping regulations… the expected value for any given individual is +EV, but when everyone is dumping, it’s a big -EV

New comment by jquery in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

jquery — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:30:21 +0000

Yep. It's used as a shield for the worst humanity has to offer.

New comment by jquery in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

jquery — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:29:09 +0000

Hacker News is not solely news about hacking. "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

New comment by jquery in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

jquery — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:26:59 +0000

Real shame this got flagged so quickly, too. This is prime HN material.

New comment by jquery in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

jquery — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:35:20 +0000

Black holes have a maximum growth rate

New comment by jquery in "All Look Same?"

jquery — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:01:33 +0000

Yeah, none of these were obvious to me. China is an especially massive country and none of these people would look out of place in parts of China (I've seen every one of these facial types in China speaking native Mandarin). Most of the "signal" is gonna be from fashion, and/or the biases of the test-maker in what they choose to represent and how closely those faces match stereotypes.

New comment by jquery in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

jquery — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:38:31 +0000

I don't support nationalizing the tech sector, but I believe the reason we have Trump in the first place is because our government refused to nationalize health care.

New comment by jquery in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

jquery — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:14:30 +0000

I'm convinced paper straws are a psy-op by the plastics industry to make us hate environmentalists.

New comment by jquery in "Scott Adams has died"

jquery — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:29:16 +0000

I didn’t say he was a hypocrite. In his pro-corporate positions, he was very open and consistent. He saw his readers that believed otherwise as suckers.

New comment by jquery in "Scott Adams has died"

jquery — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:17:28 +0000

You’ll get no argument from me. Dilbert did accurately skewer corporate culture. But what was its solution? Unstated, but omnipresent, was that workers and bosses just needed to be more efficient. Not a whisper of unionization or anything that might threaten profits. This was a deliberate choice by Adams and he proudly bragged about it in interviews.