Did the same move recently and am currently using qobuz. Higher price aside, it’s great and I think worth it.

My one caveat is that the android app has something seriously wrong with it where one of my two phones battery drain like crazy, and a search indicates this seems to have been a recurring issue for years…

Same for me. I’ve been using YouTube for long enough that my over decades curated subscription feed is my primary source of both entertainment and learning, and while I’m successfully degoogling all other aspects of my life, this one will be hard.

Absolutely pathetic Tim. Pathetic.

Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous.

Oh god.

Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

Yup.

Sure, the long term productivity and quality takes a nosedive, but the shareholders don’t care about that as long as the numbers for the next quarter look better.

This article is more disinformation than the initial comparisons were.

The author clearly has no 3D experience. OF COURSE they had to fucking scale the models, 3D assets from different games and engines are not going to automatically share the same coordinate space. The point is that a lot of geometry that make up various pals is similar enough to pokemon parts that it has almost definitely been either traced or retopologized from the Pokemon originals. Multiple pals are just kitbashed together from random recreated bits of existing pokemon.

I don’t care about any vague AI accusations. I don’t care or know if what they’ve done is legal, I’m not a lawyer. I haven’t played a pokemon game since Red. But it should be clear that Palworld is at best creatively bankrupt, and they used their similarity to existing IP to gain viral success.

I’m not saying it’s a mechanically bad game. I’m not saying you should feel bad for playing it.

But this stuff is definitely ethically questionable and deserves to be discussed, and that is not helped by some idiots who do not understand 3D modeling weighing in about how “all the similarities were faked”. Because they were not.

Nicely put.

Yeah, this is exactly where I’m at.

A large part of the reason I want higher framerates in the first place is that I want lower latency.

Higher framerates that actually make latency worse make no sense to me.

He’s sticking to what he knows.

Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.

Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

Yeah, I think it’s pretty likely that the only reason Unreals terms are sustainable at all at this point is that they are funded by vertical integration using Epics infinite Fortnite coffers. Unity has no such safety harness, and has to squeeze everyone for as much money as possible to be profitable. The moment all of Epics deranged fake consumer rights activist PR starts working and devs and customers actually get locked into their ecosystem at scale they will start tightening the screws on everyone.

Yeah, not surprised. Industry consolidation sucks in general, but Embracer specifically always felt like it was way overextending. Their bizarre acquisition spree was always going to end badly.

Great news, I really like the recent Zenfones so it’d feel bad if it goes away. Not many great near-stock options at that combination of size/price/features.

The last two zenfones both have headphone jacks and were reasonably priced given their hardware, so I’m not sure what this is referencing.