2072: Valve headquarters flooded with deadly neurotoxin

20789999999999: Valve employee wakes up in the -245th floor of their offices and must make their way back up to the surface

“God emperor Gabe, what should we do today?”

“Go fight the Epic Games militia so we can defeat them once and for all.”

“Can we also work on Portal 3? It’s the 100th anniversary of the franchise soon.”

“Three? What’s that?”

Also the Denuvo dude referencing a study and using it to show why companies need Denuvo and then walking it back and saying he doesn’t trust the study because it also shows that after 3 months it’s useless was honestly just kind of funny.

lmao

I don’t think that slogan communicates what you’re saying here well, if at all

Don’t they already have a stockpile from last time?

These people need to be banned from doing this lmao

Two words folks: Torment Nexus

Sorry, I think you need to brush up on statistics. The relevant measurement here would be the variance (Variation? Variability? Whatever the term is officially called) in the relevant statistic, not the size of the statistic itself. Using the variance and previous average of the deaths per capita statistic, you can calculate the likelihood of the current deaths per capita having this value compared to the past values. If that likelihood is sufficiently low (for most scientific fields, 5% or less), the result is declared significant, since it’s different than what we would expect it to be if nothing had changed, and we can say that with a high (>95%) confidence. To learn more about this “predict the chance of the result being within normal bounds and then go “whoa that’s weird” when it’s not” method, look up “null hypothesis”, or even better “statistical significance”.

To give a practical example: The number or deaths from car accidents is fairly low per capita, but since we have a very large amount of data available, it has a low variance and we can predict and calculate the ratio very accurately. If you look up a graph of car deaths per capita over time, each year will only have a ratio of like 0.001%, but the variance between years will not be very high, because we have so much data that the little bits of randomness all even out. We can then look at, for example, car deaths per capita for streets with crosswalks vs without crosswalks, and even though they’ll both be a fraction of a percent, because they’re both measured so accurately we can make confident assessments of that data.

Even if you were right and this were relevant, this would not be a statistical anomaly, it would be a methodology failure

Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)

Oh, it’s not partisan? That’s… fine, yeah

Any church that does this should not get to be tax-free under the religious exemptions, because they’re also a political organization

TIL the scope of a conversation can never include anything that wasn’t in the original post. I can’t imagine how boring your conversations must be irl.

Womp womp

I refuse to upvote any post woth the word “slammed” in the title

Hi it’s the music police, your taste is criminal

If you delete Banana Pancakes I’m deleting your spine

It would be pretty funny if nobody could make a song that’s 4 min 33 sec long again though so 4’33" might be funnier

I choose this comment as my song to delete

Seantah baybee…

Yeah, at least that other “product of its time” ™ song about being surprised someone at the bar is trans sounds decent. Dude Looks Like a Lady is just bad.