[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm picturing a hippy tearing a tab off a blotter and throwing it like a shuriken.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It wasn't "Stab it VR" right?

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Is it Tucker Carlson has hell hounds for pets?

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think he means it would take six hours of walking to reach his city. I mean I live four miles outside of town (which incidentally I'd need to travel to to reach a railroad) and even though it's smaller than 3000 people it still calls its self a "city". Also I'd like to note it's four miles of hilly terrain, which depending on season may feature hundred degree plus temperatures or foot deep snow.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Okay, hypothetically let's imagine someone who is a Bitcoin trading god. Every peak he's there unloading his bags, every dip and he's buying hundreds of Bitcoins. This guy turns thousands into millions and millions into billions. Huge success story right?

But here's the rub, where is all this money coming from? The money isn't coming out of thin air, it's not coming from the crypto exchanges, otherwise they'd go bankrupt, it's not coming from the value of any goods or services produced. The answer is that all that money is coming from other people. Someone has to be buying at the peak thinking it'll go "To the moon" and getting burned, or maybe the need to pay off some hackers cryptolocker. The same for the dip maybe someone needs real money right now and must sell despite the loss, or maybe someone is panic selling thinking the price will go lower. Our hypothetical trading god hasn't really created any money or anything of value at all, they've just moved money from the losers in the Bitcoin to his own wallet.

This makes you the equivalent to one of the spokespeople from near the top of a pyramid scheme taking about how this is one of the legit pyramid schemes, because you've earned so much money! Ignoring of course that all of their money means that someone somewhere needed to lose that money first.

However, I suppose at the end of the day, you did take twenty four thousand dollars from crypto morons, so I suppose that's kinda noble in a way.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wow, that's bad. I thought it would be more of a "confusing a sentence for a similar sounding one" type thing but from the above and the article it's just generating semi-believable text and sticking them into the transcriptions.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Haven't we known about this for years?

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago

The entire music industry is built to grift money from musicians and Spotify is a second layer of musician grifting industry built on the first.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's also a pack containing every ship they've sold which you can only see/purchase if you've spent one thousand dollars in their ship store. I'll spoiler the price so you can try and guess how much it is first:

spoiler$48,000, not counting the $1000 you have to spend to be able to see it.

Edit: I should include the source for that price since (as mentioned) you can't even see the pack until you've dropped $1k

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

At least it's not Star Citizen prices:

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Sticking your economy in crazy seems like a bad idea China.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.

Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

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submitted 6 months ago by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/3dshacks@lemmy.ml

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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submitted 1 year ago by Sludgehammer@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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