Don’t forget pets, they shoot those too.

Didn’t Steam have skins/themes back in the day?

It must be hard knowing the employee of the month was a contractor.

You found your way here. Just wait until it happens. Alternately maybe follow Fedoras release notes

I remember there was a water treatment plant or something similar that got hacked. The hackers started messing with the levels of the chemical mixtures to poison an entire city. The only reason it didn’t end in catastrophe is because there was somebody watching that specific screen at the exact moment it happened. Seeing this made that scenario more terrifying.

That changes when GabeN passes.

Fines should be paid directly to the workers that had to work under these conditions. They should also be paid in multiples of yearly salary, it’s a trillion dollar company. The company pays more as a consequence and those that suffered get compensation. Maybe also a percentage should go to the agency (not Amazon related) overseeing this kind of thing like the NLRB.

Pre GME they would’ve buried them, for fun ofc

Post GME prob have bots shilling it to lurkers wondering the same thing

After the price falls, I see them having a future as a data company. They already have 1 customer paying them $60m annually. Regardless of it’s future, they have over a decades worth of data in many areas. Spez already got his though.

1 year ago we had Will Smith eating spaghetti and a never ending Friends episode. Today we have a company sending $25 million to fraudsters.

You’re on the right track but I think your timeline is off. I’m guessing in a year or 2 AI can make a full Pixar movie.

AI is really good right now and it’s getting better faster than anyone anticipated. This went from hypothetical to reality seemingly overnight. Nobody is ready. The fallout will be huge.

But not before the grinder blades go dull.

So “technically” right but not “completely” right. Thanks for the explanation.

Same thing happens here. I was scrolling c/All at the doctor’s office and there it is.

Aren’t we running out of sand? How is this a sustainable option.

So basically Biden ads on the blockchain.

The hell they can’t

I agree on the maintenance costs and do believe that the costs were justified but I can’t sell my horse armor and map packs from the same era at a GameStop, now or then. Doesn’t matter if I have a digital or physical edition. We normalized this.

Xbox Gamepass and the Nintendo Switch online console collections are the future regardless of what we want. We are simply rehashing the launcher wars with individual titles at this point. We traded ownership for convenience and somewhere along the way we became comfortable with the same IP being remastered, re-released, remade or reimagined on a yearly basis.

Just look at overwatch and counter strike. New game comes out and the developers “erased” the old game/version. We are reaching peak games as a service where you pay for everything but own nothing. I was never interested in Stadia but wasn’t their whole business model a subscription service with individual game titles as microtransactions?

I had a CD collection back in the day, still do, but it’s getting harder to find somewhere to play those discs. Most new cars don’t even come with a CD player. So now I can either repurchase on some digital platform or pay indefinitely for a streaming service. Both give the content without ownership. Why would gaming be different?

Look at what Nintendo did with the switch. Every physical copy has a unique license built in. So if you buy a used game, there is a real possibility that it won’t play despite having it physically in your hand. We’ve had always-online-DRM for offline single player games for years now.

Again, I agree with you. Its just that this has been coming for a very long time.

Gaming has had subscription since at least the early 2000’s. WoW, XBL and Eve are some examples off the top of my head. Some even required the purchase of additional hardware like the PS2 network adapter. Anybody remember Final Fantasy XI or the now defunct Matrix MMO?

Today every console has some form of online subscription. If anything, gamers normalized the online subscription model.

$999
I have no use for a HR smart watch but at this price it’s not even a possibility. Hundreds of dollars is acceptable but this is a hard no for me. My Casio G-Shock GBD 200 + GadgetBridge has all the features I want from a smart watch and costs about $150.
However, I will say kudos to Masimo for sticking it to Apple. Not many people can go against a giant like that and win.

In other words, they took the Apple approach to right to repair. Disappointing but not unexpected. This is the same company that got rid of their “don’t be evil” motto after all.

That is was what they claimed, you are right. However that felt more like a boilerplate response meant to avoid a payout. Again, she asked for clarity on what that meant but never got a real response. I’m sure even now she didn’t get an answer. She was an account executive at the end of the year, not a greeter at Walmart. She was not on a PIP and was exceeding her KPIs, according to the video. Even her boss was shocked. If they had real data to prove their point, they would have brought it up then and there. Instead she got crickets. The whole thing reminds of the King of the Hill episode where Dale gets hired to fire people.