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Competition is good, and I belive helps innovation. I hope that we get closer to the ideal experience and don't get locked down into one choice. I would give someone other than Valve a look if they also committed to Linux as a platform (which really isn't that weird, historically). One of my complaints about the Deck is the D-Pad is kind of bad for fighting games. The left direction is obviously cut off some to make space, and strict left inputs tend to be down left instead. It's a bit of a nit pick, but I would like to see improvement there.

If a CEO is saying it, it's likely the most chickenshit explanation they could've come up with about the situation.

Whats interesting about Zuck in particular is he's trying to blend in with normal society despite never really being a part of it. I hope he knows that we see him, and he'll always be a billionaire dick head who was ultimately bad for the planet.

This lady is always finding ways to make me shake my head. She appears to be the same bullshit wrapped up in the "old" GOP shell.

I don't really agree with that, at least outside of niche situations. The upfront cost on a PC today puts the cost for playing on consoles much cheaper up front such that it would take years to make up the difference, even if you were paying for Game Pass.

My point isn't some pedantry over PC vs Console and cost nit-picking. Its that consoles aren't a bad deal. It's OK for people to own and play games on a console, and they work well for a lot of people.

I've been putting together PCs for a while now and the idea that they're more affordable for playing games than on consoles is becoming more and more of a misnomer. You can thank the major part duopolies for that. I don't think console companies aren't greedy or somehow noble, but consoles are still fill a gap and enable people to play games.

Console are great for the audience that doesn't want to pay the prevalent PC/GPU premium at this stage.

Ah, sounds like what-about-ism. Metas behavior doesn't exempt Apple from criticism. That logic tends to drive all of our standards and expectations down.

Theres room to criticize and expect more from all of these companies who are more than capable of doing better.

Just a shit ton more layoffs

This is true, but AI can be used as a tool to summarize and otherwise distill a massive amount of information to a form that someone can make sense of. It was probably cost prohibative to go through this data before or making specific snooping tools.

I know you weren't asking me, but to chime in, it's safer to say that the circumstances of memeing are actually way more complex than we give credit. I'd argue that it's rarely the case that a meme is just a meme. Situations where an event or a person becomes a meme can be totally misinterpreted, reinterpreted or otherwise change from reality. Memes are used tools, many times as propaganda, and who is in a meme possibly, does have an effect. Memeing is actually a big complex part of the human experience! Especially since proliferation of the internet.

Anyway, it's interesting to think about.

You love to hear it.

Interesting play here. I'm not sure if investors understand that games don't last forever, and a game out of nowhere can take the top relevancy spot overnight. Pal world is a good recent example of this.

I'm not claiming fortnite is going away anytime soon, but might not be worth a $1.5B investment.

Either way, I'm not mad if the gaming industry gets more jobs.

The older I get the more I come across excellent content and media that is sometimes hard to get going on modern machines. I totally understand and defend the need for preservation. Like most things in tech I wish the law would catch up and be more reflective of what people want and need. A good place to start would be these copyright laws and friendlier right to repair stuff. Just some thoughts.

This is basically why the French Revolution happened

I feel for people that never got to experience the rush of fighting someone's titan on foot while grappling around, then crushing the enemy titan with your own titan fall. Awesome series.

The right to vote is a hard fought privilege that we should be excited to exercise every chance we get. This post is a poor perspective of voting as it implies some huge cost to go out and vote for the person you feel is right for the job. There's something to be said about making it easier to vote and giving people time, but we can't get there if people don't vote.

I used to have this track on repeat nonstop. Still a fun song.

Watch this troll man somehow recreate Metal Gear (MSX) yet again. For sure I'm down though.

Without watching the video: this is an awesome rendition of The Heart of Darkness. Definitely worth the probably <$10 you'd pay for it, or sailing the high seas. Also a great performance by Nolan North.

Edit: To Clarify, I mean the game Spec Ops the Line

That's cool. I remember there being print strategy guides made of high quality stuff. I used to have The Ocarina of Time (Prima?) guide and they largely wrote it like a narrative.

Living organisms into a monitor... In the same way that a bunch of people in a stadium can hold up squares that make up an image? I mean at the end of the day almost anything can be made into a "monitor". That doesn't mean it's "running DOOM".