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If you’re snooping here, you gotta calm yoself down.

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newthrowaway20 ,

Does it matter at this point? They lost a lot of interest in this game.

US Supreme Court divisions expected to be exposed as final rulings loom (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, managed to bridge its ideological divide in major rulings this month involving constitutional gun rights and access to the abortion pill, but that could change as the court heads into what may be the final week of its term....

newthrowaway20 ,

They won’t make a ruling. They’ll leave this case on the docket until after the election, then if Biden wins, they’ll affirm the prior courts decision. If Trump wins, he’ll get the case dismissed and the courts will happily never answer this very important question.

newthrowaway20 ,

As much as I would love to see consequences for their actions, I wouldn’t hold your breath…

newthrowaway20 ,

It is medium, after all.

Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)

It’s disappointing that copyright infringement could cause these people to spend time in prison, but the predatory practices of the companies they where competing with are punished with no more then fines. A “cost of doing business” for the corporate aristocrats. This is the threat the upper class uses on the rest of us,...

newthrowaway20 ,

Already rocking one of those local stashes. My Plex is up to like 40 tb of movies and shows

newthrowaway20 ,

Unless you already paid for a lifetime Plex pass, I highly recommend giving Jellyfin a try.

Yep, bought a lifetime license like a decade ago when it was cheap. I’ve stuck with it since it’s been simple for my family to use.

newthrowaway20 ,

She’ll need about 6 months to make a decision.

newthrowaway20 ,

Yeah, I feel like I learned about this a long time ago and it didn’t end well.

Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer (www.gamedeveloper.com)

Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production. As noted in Embracer’s annual report, the company has adopted a new AI policy package it claims has the capability to “massively enhance” its production process by “increasing resource efficiency,...

newthrowaway20 ,

The executives that say this shit have such a lack of understanding of AI and the kind of work people do daily.

newthrowaway20 ,

If all billionaires were like Bill and the Melinda I suppose the world would be a significantly better place.

If no billionaires existed, the world would be even better than that.

Every time Bill or Melinda Gates are mentioned, there’s always someone waiting to suck their dick in the comments.

newthrowaway20 ,

Seems fine to me. This was like when the Republicans refused to vax only to end up killing themselves. Let them fuck around. They’ll find out soon enough.

But this article is a hell of a leap if all they got is that shirt.

newthrowaway20 ,

Guess it has to be.

newthrowaway20 ,

This is a stupid argument they’re making… they had no concerns about race based decisions when they were redlining black people. But now, when it comes time to make amends, race doesn’t exist and we shouldn’t consider it a factor?

These fuckin people think they’re so clever, but spend any time critically thinking about their position and you can immediately see how racist it is.

Awfully convenient they want equal protections now, after they’ve removed the upward mobility of an entire race.

newthrowaway20 ,

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickle. And in those days nickles had pictures of bumble bees on them! “Give me 5 bees for a quarter” you’d say.

newthrowaway20 ,

Is Logan Paul actually any good at Tetris?

newthrowaway20 ,

So they aren’t updating the original? Just releasing a new version??

I kinda feel like they’re trying to make me buy the game again.

newthrowaway20 ,

Just like the rest of us.

newthrowaway20 ,

Don’t fix the issue, treat the symptom.

It’s the American way.

newthrowaway20 ,

This has happened before.

Kinda embarrassing this keeps happening

newthrowaway20 ,

Oh a 2-year warranty? Not sure how useful that warranty will be if they continue to deny every warranty claim.

newthrowaway20 ,

Nah, we’ll just devalue everyone’s skill and talent to the point where no one makes enough money. Oh wait.

newthrowaway20 ,

Yeah I was fine with online only requiring it, but now they’ve lost me. Forcing it on single player games has made me reverse the decision on online multiplayer games as well. So even though I had every intention of picking up God of war Ragnarok at full price on PC, I’m gonna pass.

newthrowaway20 ,

Here we go again

newthrowaway20 ,

Trumped up charges, meaning lots and lots of verifiable and provable charges.

newthrowaway20 ,

Guilty on the first count.

Edit: Counts 2~34 guilty.

We got a total sweep.

newthrowaway20 ,

Boo, paywall.

Here’s an internet archive link instead.

newthrowaway20 ,

We knew that when they were buying them. Carbon offsets are just another way to kick the can down the road past the point of no return.

newthrowaway20 ,

I get that. And I self host the things I care about. But for the average layman? I don’t see self hosting as a real option. Unless you are decently tech savvy, and have an aptitude for troubleshooting, most people aren’t gonna put in the time or effort of initial setup. Even if maintenance is minimal once it’s running. That first leap into self-hosted is daunting.

I think of it this way… would I expect my dad to be able to do it? Absolutely not. And my dad is decently tech savvy for 70.

newthrowaway20 ,

Churn is inevitable with any subscription service.

The trick is creating just enough value and exclusive content/services that you feel like you’re gonna miss out if you leave. But not too much.

I haven’t seen any incentive to stay with any specific game subscription service via exclusive content or services. But I do see plenty of attempts to lock people into services with shitty tactics. Like forcing save data to the cloud. Good luck moving that saved file to your own personal copy of the game. Or multiple tiered service options with features/games locked behind more expensive options.

It’s all manipulative and anti consumer.

newthrowaway20 ,

And they could be just as philanthropic while also paying their fair share of taxes because they’re just that rich.

newthrowaway20 ,

Frankly, I don’t think we should be relying on the benevolence of billionaires.

newthrowaway20 , (edited )

Don’t think they mean sharing data. I think they’re referring to sharing an equally regulated digital environment. That could totally be done without sharing info, but following equal practices.

Really at this point, the lack of regulation is already killing the Internet. Google search isn’t search anymore, it’s ad delivery. Reddit and Facebook are ‘news’ for a huge majority of people. Amazon is essentially the only online retailer people have available, and where other options exist, Amazon uses it’s leverage to make those other experiences just a bit worse. All of these companies use their size and monopolistic weight to prevent competition and by extension worsen consumer options and create worse experiences.

The digital market is doing what any market does, just a lot faster.

newthrowaway20 ,

This is a huge stretch and I completely disagree with the premise.

newthrowaway20 ,

Sims 4 released in 2014. They had plenty of time to address bugs in-between the millions of stupid updates, but they didn’t bother. Who honestly expects any real work from these guys at this point?

newthrowaway20 ,

Ah yes. Because that one Reddit users option holds equal weight to the thousands of professionals in the eyes of an LLM.

This is gonna get worse before it gets better.

newthrowaway20 ,

Oh look, a vegan telling everyone else they’re wrong. Never seen that before.

newthrowaway20 ,

According to the post, they were running the x64 version via emulation on ARM. Not a native ARM version. That’s a lot more impressive to me.

newthrowaway20 ,

Used to be able to get Certified Refurbished 64gb from steam goes for $280, but it’s not in stock. Keep an eye out, they might become available again.

newthrowaway20 ,

Wait am I reading that right?

newthrowaway20 ,

How many times are we gonna let companies “Pledge” to be better before we start forcing them to be better through proper regulations?

With as many broken pledges have been made by these companies, you think we’d stop believing then. But for some reason cough money cough we keep trusting them.

newthrowaway20 ,

As long as it took to get these games on steam, I’ve completely lost interest.

newthrowaway20 ,

I think it’s a fair rating. Part of the game is unplayable on steam deck.

Exclusive: Tesla doing damage-control, discounts for European fleet buyers (www.reuters.com)

LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers....

newthrowaway20 ,

You’re not supposed to be shitty to your corporate customers until after you’ve captured their business and they’re dependent on you. Elon can’t even enshittify properly.

newthrowaway20 ,

I could also see a database being used to coordinate game ownership with a fraction of the power usage. But neither will happen because consumers always get the raw end of the deal and nothing will ever be done to their benefit without being forced.

newthrowaway20 ,

The fact people didn’t know this was coming and it was accruing interest seems to be the one thing that saved this lady.

newthrowaway20 ,

Yeah but feeding people doesn’t give them a return on their investment. They spent $92m on Trump, they plan on getting something for that money.

newthrowaway20 ,

It’s all a big joke and none of us are in on it.

newthrowaway20 ,

Yeah I agree.

We don’t know anything yet.

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