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  • This doesn’t release any copyright work in the game. So you will need to go through and remove any sprites, images, audio, etc that is copyright. Which means you will need to own a copy of the game (to have a right to the copyright usage) to use any binary produced from THIS source.

    Additionally, it indicates that you must include in any derivative that the source of your code is from the EA drop here.

    Outside of that, it is GPLv3. Of course it has hard dependency on DirectX 5.0. So a fully free version will need to redo those parts. Also the code is very MS VC++ heavy. Don’t expect gcc to build you a binary.



  • The thing is that it’s difficult to even get a complete picture because they release so little data.

    One screenshot I saw had the PIID in the shot so I looked it up. Doofus indicated he saved $8.2M but that was the total amount for the outlay.

    The contract began in 2022 and had already paid out 80% the total $8.2M, meaning only $1.64M was actually “saved”.

    So I know for a fact that the values they’re reporting aren’t correct because they’re looking at these contracts and having no clue on how to actually read them.

    As for the SSN thing where we’re paying 150 year old social security. There’s likely another table with “in question” that has to be joined to get an actual number.

    When I worked for my state this is how we had some data. A master table that you then had to join like five or six exception tables to remove the “questionable” entries from the master.

    And on systems like AS400, EXCEPTION JOIN is a thing for a reason because the OS SQL engine has special ways to optimize these kinds of joins. So it’s likely this is the case here.




  • Smart thing would be to completely agree with Trump. Get $100T in military might, defeat Russia, get call from US about new rare earth metals, and then just be like “I’m sorry, who dis?”

    I mean what are they going to do, invade Ukraine? Didn’t you hear, they got $100T in military supplies to back them up.

    Trump always forgetting that some of this shit don’t ROI till way longer than he’ll be around. If Ukraine has any sense, they’ll send a giant gold plate W for Trump’s win, if he promises tanks and planes. They keep saying the wars ongoing for the next fifty years for all it matters. And if the US wants that metal upfront be like, “Yeah y’all come on in and mine it yourselves, don’t let us get in your way.” Then oops, sorry we bombed that, thought it was Russia.

    Like Trump thinking he’s walking with some massive upset and it’s just Ukraine court to play ball how they want. Shit yeah Ukraine “agrees” to whatever.





  • Hur, hur, folks will speak about “DeepSeek won’t let me talk about June 3rd, 1989”

    That’s not really the point nor why investors are bailing.

    Investors are popping bubbles mostly because they already knew nVidia and the AI craze was overvalued. There just wasn’t a hard case for making the short sell.

    That’s where DeepSeek comes in, not because of what they offer, but because of how they did it. nVidia has posed the market that the ONLY means towards the “bright AI future™” is via their advanced chips. Chips mind you, that China does not have access to.

    Well guess who has a pretty advanced model for a country that’s not supposed to have the chips to do that? So one of two things is going on AND it plays well to our AI short sellers.

    1. China is indeed somehow getting those chips even though they aren’t supposed to, which means vendors like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc have Chinese competition and that went so well for American companies last time they had to compete with China.
    2. nVidia is a big fibber, and we don’t actually need their super deluxe chips to get advanced models, meaning team green is overpricing their hardware.

    It’s one of these two situations and it’s THAT, that had investors finally getting that sweet, sweet orgasm of calling bullshit on a market leader. Now the science is still out here. DeepSeek put out a lot of information and open sourced their code on how they went about building their LLM. So, science doing what science does best, there should be some repeatability to what DeepSeek did. And there’s plenty of folks around who have the setup to attempt it. So eventually we should see SeepDeek soon enough or whatever.

    So if we start seeing SeepDeek, Zuckerbot 5000, and so on. Then it’s number two that’s likely true, which means nVidia is going to be hurting. Now if we don’t see any of that coming out, well then arrows start to point to number one. nVidia isn’t hurting too much, but boy oh boy will the vendors not like seeing some of that inventory going to people it shouldn’t be going to. If there’s one thing American Companies hate, it’s competition when there shouldn’t be any.

    That’s the thing with FeepPeaks here. It isn’t that your social credit score will hit the hunny pot for dear leader Xi Jinpoobear. It’s that someone has successfully given the required red meat to the autist that have been chomping at the bit to short the fuck out of team greenbacks. That’s the bigger story here. It’s that sly pandering to the retards of WSB to do what they do best in spite of the recent “US superiority for meme coins and Presidential rug pulls.”

    Now in the end if number two does pull true, it’s a game changer for how nVidia was planing to do this “AI will suck your fucking dick if you buy the top shelf silicon”. What DeepSeek does isn’t a golden goose here, it’s still a bit slower than <<those other LLMs>>, what it does do is get the job done for about the same number of kilowatts coming into your setup.

    Put another way, nVidia’s top tier card gives you the full service, cups the balls, gentle humming, no teeth, all the way to the base. The “Shit we Sell to the Chinese™”, is like the person who spits in their hand once and tries to get the job for the friend done as fast as possible like they were trying to break up asphalt on the Interstate with a jackhammer on cocaine. DeepSeek just showed that you can get the Chinese Bullshit to lick the balls a bit, get some actual stroking in, and use actual lubricant. Still not the full service, but vastly better that the hawk tauh that nVidia was telling folks the bottom tier would get them, which nobody was really liking the idea of.

    That’s what DeeperPeaks here is putting forward. It isn’t a final product, it’s a method, a method for others to build on to take on all those vendors out there telling you that their fancy five star Swedish call girl from nVidia powers their advanced fancy you cannot live without AI model. DeepReeks is telling you that the bottom tier is that nerdy girl from all those 90s movies that if you just let her hair down and take off her glasses, well suddenly you’ve got a hottie. Yeah, she’s still awkward as fuck, but not awkward in that way where she gives you a “Roman salute”, so you might get your lemonade stand LLM model to actually make you some cash.

    That’s the thing here, not the lack of squishy Chinese people from the late 1980s. If you want you too can build one using MeekPeeks that tells you everything about tanks and the human body’s inability to carry one.






  • One, the filing can be found here. Because this story basically links over to the WSJ’s copy of the PDF file. A PDF file that’s on their CDN which is paywalled.

    Two, yeah I was absolutely expecting this to happen and it’s likely we are going to see a ton of this. The law requires a bit of transparency. I fully expect Trump to counter with “national security” and tell the courts to fuck off because Congress is spineless as fuck. And Trump calling everything an emergency or nation security to prevent any kind of judicial oversight was like his whole MO last go round.

    Three, we’ve got to reform emergency powers in the United States. It’s got to be a one and done for 90-days. Post that, Congress has to step in. As the law is now, every 90-days the President can renew the emergency and basically the other two branches can suck his dick which is quite possibly the dumbest function we’ve got in our laws.

    All that said, I fully expect Trump to tell all the courts to go to hell and the case to be dismissed for lack of everything because it’s “top secret” shit they’re doing in DOGE. Filing in the Courts ain’t going to do shit to stop the guy. Only Congress can check the guy at this point and they are all too busy sucking his dick. So for at least the next two years, Trump will get away with literally everything.


  • the magards will finally realize they’ve been took

    No they won’t. They will line up for the next one. The only reason they will ever stop is because they have nothing left. And then when they have nothing they will blame immigrants, woke, Soros, or whoever for their lot in life.

    There are people who exist in this world who can not comprehend that the actions they take lead in part to the consequences that follow. The only thing that can be done is to watch from the side them losing everything and then getting out of the way as best one can in their fit of rage.

    Sort of like a person with a gambling addiction putting the last $10k of their life savings into a slot machine. We know what’s going to happen, there is nothing that can stop it from happening.


  • To note, the US has not sent an ambassador to the Bahamas since 2011. Nicole Avant, the last US ambassador, left the position to work with then President Obama’s reelection efforts in 2012. Since then we’ve largely left the role to the Chargé d’Affaires in the Bahamas. Nothing big happened, Avant’s tenure as ambassador wasn’t some ordeal or anything. It’s just been a long stream of weirdness and dysfunction that’s left the position open this long.

    • Obama’s purposed replacement died of leukemia before confirmation.
    • Trump kept trying to pitch Manchester whose nomination just kept getting stalled out. Didn’t help that he thought the Bahamas was a US protectorate and not, as it actually is, an independent country. But yeah, he was so ignorant of anything about the Bahamas that even the Republicans in the Senate couldn’t get him through.
    • Biden’s pick of Smyre just never made it to committee. Like it’s literally on their agenda as a To-Do. Oopsie, guess the forgot to get around to it.

    The fact that Walker is being picked is hilarious because the guy likely has zero ideas about anything related to foreign relations. It’s not some big secret that being Ambassador to the Bahamas carries with it the key to a really nice house in Nassau. And the embassy itself is quite nice though quaint. The real question is, will Walker be ambassador once the new facility gets done? Because the new embassy is supposed to be super fancy.


  • Freezing investment into the country and nuclear grade austerity will always bring inflation to an almost stand still. You’re literally tossing liquid nitrogen on your economy, it’s absolutely going to freeze.

    The IMF does not expect the Argentine economy to grow this year, but rather to decline by 3.5%, while it should start growing next year.

    And this is the key aspect that usually makes people who consider this pause for a second. Because freezing your economy might solve the right now problem, it also has the ability to ice economic activity completely, triggering an economic depression. This is the “balance” so to say. The harder your freeze, the more you’ll need to rewarm the markets to get your economy going again.

    President Milei and the government hope that the new laws, which offer investors decades of tax and customs relief, will quickly attract capital and curb the recession.

    This has always been the super tricky part of the weapons grade austerity. The what comes after part. So Milei has done it, he’s cooled the markets and supply has nearly cratered in the country. The next steps is to get production back and start pesos in the country to start flowing again.

    I’ve always been a bit irresolute about Milei’s approach on the economy. I’m not against it, it’s just a strategy that’s playing with fire in a gun powder factory. First and foremost, I hope that the people in Argentina find economic stability, because boy do they deserve it. So to that end I hope WHOEVER succeeds in getting that done. And second, I really hope this is something that can be long lasting. Hyper austerity has a history of bad boomerang effects. It can work, it’s just takes a ton of work, more than most governments are willing to invest. And so there’s a big chance that we could start to see some positive only to then watch it completely crumble once again.

    If I was a leader, this isn’t exactly a strategy I would pick. There’s just a ton of places where it can go all wrong. But I hope the guy gets it fixed once and for all. But dang, I don’t know how dude is smiling in that photo because if I was going down this road I wouldn’t be able to sleep properly.