People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

they still have Respawn making Star Wars games.

I mean, that’s an exclusivity thing again…

From 2013 to 2023 only EA could work on Star Wars games. It was supposed to be a bunch of high quality epic games…

We got a couple that were decent because there’s no alternatives. And most of the time was wasted on battlefront and it’s terrible micro transactions.

Like…

"The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

Literally came from the beginning of that exclusivity deal…

EA:

We can go lower

Like, everyone knows that EA is a terrible company, but it’s insane how they continually lower the bar. It’s honestly impressive how EA keeps innovating new ways to piss off consumers.

If they ever lose their sports exclusivity contracts, they’re cooked.

Madden and FIFA is why they’ll never stop being profitable

The sentiment is shifting from anti-russia to pro-russia.

What shit hole corner of the Internet are you hanging out where pro-russia content is becoming the norm?!

And why would you think AI chatbots would do better against them than actual humans?

Oh…

Dbzero0.com

Yeah, just make a new account on a new instance and block your old one

You really need to specify where you’re talking about…

In America there’s no limitations on federal murder, but some states do

Know good review sites

Rtings and Tom’s Hardware are usually all you need, but for niche things you need to branch out

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Most oxygen produced on earth and CO2 consumed is done by algae.

Thats more because of total biomass, and the difference is we’re basically a ball of water.

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.

Whatevere, whatever, if closeness to platfroms my and languages, their AI pick, are a statement

We’re cooked…

The really weird one is shellfish.

Shellfish allergy is a big deal, And prior to refrigeration it wasn’t a common food unless right near da beach.

So people could not try it till they were adults, and just keel over on the spot. But since shellfish allergy is weirdly genetic, the populations most at risk for it now, are the ones who spent centuries avoiding it. Because everyone else kept losing at least some of the people who were allergic

or there are common bits of wisdom in most religions and there may be something to that.

The entire point of religion is to make important rules followed.

When a food is banned, it’s because that food was killing people when the rules were written. Abrahamic religions don’t like sex that doesn’t make babies, because they all start as persecuted cults by the main branches and the fastest way to grow is to have kids born into it.

It’s obviously all outdated, but it boils down to how you’d convince a kid not to do something when you can’t watch them 24/7: follow the rules or Santa will find out.

Like there’s always jokes about Jewish Sabbath, but honesty that was just the equivalent to modern union mandated lunch breaks. The only way to guarantee a day off back in the day, was to explicitly outlaw doing anything. Pretty much all anyone in the household could do was just relax and hang out together.

Like I said, it’s all way outdated. But every time you try something new suddenly the ATF starts hanging around…

I can assure you the body fails between 35 and 65…

Like, this is just about the brain. Middle age does not last until 65 unless you’re dividing a lifetime into three separate chunks and saying a 2 year old and a 33 year old are in the same group.

Which is fucking ridiculous, but boomers didn’t want to ever admit they were aging, so were left with entirely stupid concepts like “middle age” lasting until you retire.

That’s not based on anything scientific, just Boomer’s feelings.

Then, from 66 to age of 83, the brain tends toward “modularity,” where the neural network is divided into highly connected subnetworks with less central integration. At age 83, connectivity declines further.

Gee…

Maybe we shouldn’t keep letting geriatric people run our fucking country?

No one is upset, were disappointed.

That’s all it is, pity.

It’s 2025, and people still using “just a joke bro”?

Like, we all just like ved thru that and then the very obvious and foreseeable revelation that it wasn’t a fucking joke.

So maybe, just maybe, basic decency is a thing, and we shouldn’t dehumanize people?

Especially not for being interesting enough to for a self-absorbed stranger who’s brain is rotted from being raised by YouTube and needs real life dialed up to 11.

Because there’s less companies making media…

30 studios will all want to have the blockbuster game of the year, then 2-3 others to be safe.

3 studios want the same thing, but that’s a tenth of the games.

Plus to make it even worse rather than a game being a one off sale, maybe some dlc, they want “live service” where people keep buying cosmetics. The studios don’t want people buying a bunch of games, they want you playing their flagship and only flagship.

It’s less that the biggest studios but up smaller for talent, IP, or anything. They’re buying them up to shit them down to squash competition. That’s why we’re seeing it all over. Why bother making good media, when they can just make sure theirs is the only option?

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

i’m talking about people i’m interacting with face to face, having a conversation with.

Fucking obviously…

Wonder how much longer till you realize a 5 minute conservation with someone who’s only interacting with you as part of their job, isn’t enough to truly know the depths of their personality?

What is so special about you that requires everyone’s effort to cultivate superficial differences?

Even from this short exchange, I can assure you if it was face to face I would be monotone and put zero effort into the conversation. Not because I’m a fucking NPC, but because I want to stop interacting with you immediately, but for one reason or another can’t tell you to just fuck off.

Does it make sense now?

Do you understand what the common factor is when you and people like you constantly complain about “NPCs”?

Do you get that it’s just people obligated to interact with you and desperate for it to be over?