I have a heavily modded wii and I love it. You can play anything on it, it’s got everything. The only downside, no hd support. I’ve been considering looking into some other consoles for that reason.

Honestly, my biggest issue is that Rock Band works so much better in HD. But… I have the giant plastic peripherals that I have, so I’m kinda stuck in this ecosystem now.

By all means don’t let me yuck your yum. I get that it’s a popular genre, that people really like these games, and that’s legit.

But it’s kinda like, well imagine you’re a huge basketball fan and you’re really into football too. But over the last 10 years most of ESPN’s programming has shifted over to auto racing, which bores you to tears. And hey, that’s fine if you like auto racing, but now it’s legitimately hard to find any basketball or football content.

Anyway, my point is, it’s just a sucks to see the industry dominated by something you don’t really care for.

I relate strongly to those incentives. Death sucks and I’m not doing it, you can’t make me. Also you can’t tell me otherwise because my fingers are in my ears, and I can’t hear you.

Hey, I wouldn’t disagree with that for the most part. But I would still say this is mostly an example of supply and demand.

When supply is so limited that you probably won’t be able to acquire all of a resource that you need, it’s perfectly rational to attempt to secure as much as you can from the next batch, even if that means prepaying to ensure your access.

Now if that buyer is offering higher prices to secure the resource, it’s also perfectly rational for the manufacturer to sell it to them.

We’re going to continue to have this problem as long as that relationship remains the same. No legislation or trade deal or tariff or is going to make a meaningful difference. The only way to solve this situation is to increase supply or decrease demand. Well, I suppose you could outlaw LLM training in every country on earth, but good luck with that.

Modern games kinda suck half the time.

I’ve said this before in other threads, but here I go… What’s popular right now is battle royale shooters, and that’s a shame, because battle royale shooters all suck. And yes Epic, you are largely to blame, as you make one of the most popular entries in this terrible genre.

If there’s any worse game mechanic than frantic inventory management while under fire, I have yet to see it. At least in chess boxing they pause to take their turns between rounds.

Also, winning feels good, I think most people would agree with that. But if the game hosts 100 players with teams of 4, that means 4% of players get to “win”. Compare to CoD or Overwatch, where in most game modes 50% of players get to win.

And just as a side note, I don’t think Epic has solved anything with some new voice chat system. Because it’s not new, discord already exists, steam already has integrated voice chat.

Yeah, the cartel comment implies price fixing or a monopoly or something, which really isn’t the case. This is really clearly a case of demand going through the roof (for entirely stupid and irresponsible reasons) and supply not being able to meet it.

But that’s what I get for using critical thinking amongst a mob, this is on me.

I mean sure, but this is a plain supply and demand issue.

The Internet user in this stock photo was quoted saying

“suck it!”

7 days to die is an open world zombie survival game. Getting the motorcycle is a slog, it’s practically an end game item. But once acquired, it’s totally badass.

That time was long ago. The writing was on the wall as soon as they put a giant perpetual ad on the home screen.

Here’s the worst part, there are no parental controls on the home screen, so if I’m trying to get my kid to Disney+, while it loads we’re staring at some ad for a horror flick. Great job Roku…

Honestly, the parental controls on the Roku are non-existent and it’s definitely on purpose, really pisses me off.

Yeah, I’d say they’d be looking at a class action suit if it weren’t for the fact that it’s just so easy to apply a pirate crack.

They’re still doing better than a lot of fields. I mean when you factor in compensation it’s still one of the best fields to be in. Compare to a teacher, where you’ll need a master’s degree in most states and then you can expect a salary around 40k. Whereas with software, when you do find a job it’s not unusual to start over 100k. But if you were willing to work for half that, I bet you’d find something quick.

Well if they have degrees in software engineering, certainly.

I think you’re missing the point. Apple has famously resisted implemented back doors for the authorities.

He’s warning against leaving that metaphorical key under the mat.

Oh man… That is wild. How is that a thing?

At the jiffy lube, or perhaps more likely, the dealership service center.

Ok, so the alternative is buying Intel/Nvidia. Surely they’ve never done anything problematic, so this is a good plan.

In retrospect I probably should have mentioned the horizons games as well, but I just finished with cyberpunk, so that’s been on my mind.

I just don’t understand the motivation here. Why are they helping us?

Wait… I just got it. The Chinese government actually wants us to fall behind in the “AI arms race”… Oh my God, the Chinese are actually bullish on AI… They’re just as dumb as we are.

They’re trying to hurt the US by discouraging us from pursuing AI tech. LOL. wow. Just wow.

Yeah uh… “No China, don’t do that. This hurts so much, please stop.”

Yeah, that would probably be a put use of resources.