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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, the dude’s an asshole. He shouldn’t be on any talk show because his personal views are not worth listening to. But he has also sold 26 million albums, which is enough to count pretty much anyone as a “music legend”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean “corpos” in the Cyberpunk sense - mega-huge companies that put profits far and above all else, discarding any notion of ethics, morality, or care about others in the process.

  They’re the companies that buy up emerging tech solely so they can kill it (their competition). They don’t give a shit about long-term sustainability - if it raises the bottom line today, they do it. They disregard laws and consumer protections because the only consequences are paltry (for them) fines, which they see as the cost of doing business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good callout - treating these game rental services more like we do with streaming video services by subbing to one for just a few months, then dropping it for another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh… PSN isn’t really any better. Their Game Pass competitor is a hot mess. Better to just buy games outright, especially during sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once upon a time, the idea with subscriptions like this was to have customers set it and forget it. Charge them a small/reasonable amount and they’ll keep giving you money forever. Giving people a reason to think about - or worse, evaluate the merits of - the monthly deposit they’re giving you used to be a sin for companies.

  But here we are, seeing the difference between “companies” and “corpos”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a big Xbox dude for a long time but I can’t possibly defend this. It’s a garbage move, during a time when everyone’s chief complaint about life is “everything goes up in price way too fast, all the time.”

  They call these changes “upgrades” but that’s just PR bullshit. The big value of Game Pass used to be how it was cheaper than buying games outright. Now Ultimate is $360 a year. How many brand new games that you’re interested in come out each year? Would buying them on day one total anything near $360??
  The value just isn’t there anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless of course the manufacturer hamstrings it well before that time.

  See: Samsung

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m going to spend $1500 so I can save $8/month.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use a USB cable. No extra software required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah fuck them. They black box said analytics, making any kind of audit of the decisions impossible. This is HORRIBLE, especially in the contract of government and health care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this thing supposed to do?

  The article says “Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more –” but that tells me nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty curious (read: leery) about the post-launch monetization. Does the game feel complete or did they obviously hold things back for the battle passes or whatever? Will I have to pay in to enjoy things like a level cap increase?

  They were pretty clear about going HAM on paid stuff after launch, and the game is already priced super high, so this might end up being a sale pickup for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also hate, and this is another compounding factor, the complete lack of enemy HP bars.

  IIRC, HK1 had a badge that turns these on. I’m not far enough into the new game to have found this yet, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. There’s no “hopefully” anything when it comes to this bullshit. It’s bad for the individual, full stop. This is not a thing to compromise on, because any compromise at all will eventually harm the users (though leaks/hacks, or government overreach, etc.) without any actual benefit or offset to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so isn’t that exactly the same situation as the Xbox, but then the Xbox gives you the additional option to actually expand the hot storage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well then I’ve got great news for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you able to expand the PS5’s storage with just a normal USB 3.0 drive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. We’re not talking about a “hurry up” kinda dude here. His development story is wild. It’s a miracle that he ever actually released Stardew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or - hear me out here - it shouldn’t be on anybody to do anything because the law itself is garbage and should not exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users’ cloud storage quotas, right? Right??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari has acquired five Ubisoft games, including Child of Eden and Grow Home, and will re-release and ‘evolve’ them | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The five games that are now owned by Atari are:

  • Cold Fear (2005)
  • Child of Eden (2011)
  • I Am Alive (2012)
  • Grow Home (2015)
  • Grow Up (2016)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really sad to watch this slow-motion train crash continue to play out. Subnautica 2 was a guaranteed hit thanks to the strength of the first game, and somehow the new studio owners have completely fucked that to pieces. Truly a masterclass in snatching failure from the jaws of success.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change your profile to Clippy (call to action)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  8min video and I gave up after 2:30 of rambling. Anybody have a tl;dw?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairgame$ Has Been Canceled, Too, According to Michael Pachter, Who Says Sony Has ‘Lost Its Way’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic Michael Pachter. That dude is wrong all the fucking time, yet people keep pushing his garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Motherfucker, you can buy me a new PC if you want me to have one so bad. Shit’s expensive and nobody has the money to replace something that still works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cadence of Hyrule is fun as hell. Gotta fix that on the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I love this game when I’m looking for something to chill with. Relaxed mode (with the timer off) is the way better way to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This but with Shorts, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this true of like everything AI right now?

  We’re in the “grow a locked-in user base” part of their rollout. We’ll hit the “make money” part in a year or two, and then the enshittification machine will kick into high gear.