brokenshakles

brokenshakles, 13 days ago

@graf @nikiboo Let's have a little sympathy for the actual devs, DEI on the part of the publisher has completely interfered with their end of the business. Always be careful who you sign with.

brokenshakles, 13 days ago

@tyler @graf @nikiboo My understanding is that this was a unilateral move by Sony, against the active objections of the dev.

brokenshakles, 13 days ago

@PunishedD @graf @nikiboo @tyler I heard that the devs were one of the instigators of the review bombing. Rather masterful getting ahead of the matter on their part really.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@epictittus @transgrammaractivist @WoodshopHandman @boeswilligkeit @merchantHelios Semilexic's right, not everywhere was America at the time, and even Germany with it's miraculous recovery was still mostly horse-bound. I don't think this changed until the mid-1950s.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@transgrammaractivist @WoodshopHandman @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios Go check actual manufacturing and ownership stats, you will find auto adoption hit critical mass later than you are claiming.

Edit : It's like claiming absolutely everyone had the internet in 1994. Yes, the internet was a thing in that year. No, it had not reached mass adoption at that point yet.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@transgrammaractivist @WoodshopHandman @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios Go look up how many cattle cars the Germans employed in the first half of the 1940's for the purpose of moving horses. It's rather astounding.

Where do you think they got all the cattle cars to export troublesome hominid populations to the now famous internment camps?

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@transgrammaractivist @WoodshopHandman @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios By that argument the main method(s) of locomotion in the 1700 and 1800's was the tall-ship and river barge. I presumed we were talking about the main method of locomotion for the common person going about their day, not shipping freight.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@transgrammaractivist @WoodshopHandman @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios You realize historically that 80% of people lived out in the country, and not in a city? Horses (and oxen and other beasts of burden) are needed to run plows before the advent of the ICE tractor.

Furthermore, one not need to own a horse to use one, there used to be networks of horse rentals everywhere, just like a bike rental network in a modern city. This is not even getting into horse-carraige taxi's and other horse based services. Indeed, look at any novel written during this era, or the 200 years preceding, and descriptions of horses (and their wastes) in the city (among other locations) are always prominent.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@WoodshopHandman @transgrammaractivist @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios The WWW debut in 1994, but did not gain 50% adoption until some 20 years later. The tractor took even longer to propogate into common use. Also, Germany was flat broke between WW1 and WW2, they had little money with which to modernize with. They went into WW2 with what they had leftover from WW1, which included the better part of a million horses.

brokenshakles, 25 days ago

@WoodshopHandman @transgrammaractivist @boeswilligkeit @epictittus @merchantHelios That's great! Things were swell in America at the time. People had money to upgrade. Meanwhile, in Treaty of Versailles land...

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@YeetLibs God, I loved that series. Wish Alfabusa would join poast.

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@SrbijaStronk @YeetLibs It's commedia'd'art, it's always had that sort of thing. Theatre has long been known as a pit of degeneracy, even before Hollywood.

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@SrbijaStronk @YeetLibs That and Custodes are explicitly genetically engineered to be asexual, so having them act like a bunch of bored Eunuchs makes sense.

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@coolboymew @PurpCat @BigTLarrity @s8n Yea, the new handheld PC market is cannibalizing their value proposition. With Steam Deck/Aya Neo 2/ASUS ROG Ally/Lenovo Legion Go providing a near-console like ease-of-use experience and a much wider selection of games with a much longer potential shelf life, why would anyone want something that can't do the portable thing in addition to the HTPC thing?

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@coolboymew @PurpCat @BigTLarrity @s8n And "Consoles" are moving to all-digital distribution (I myself prefer digital distribution vs physical, but that doesn't obviate the coming point), and without physical media, that's the last of any residual value proposition for consoles. Except you have to buy the on-brand hard drive thats 3x more expensive rather than any off-the-shelf part.

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@coolboymew @PurpCat @BigTLarrity @s8n It's the worst of both worlds, you have to pay for the game, then storage (at an inflated price), and then you have to deal with the hassle involved in physical games. Why? It's already stored on the disk, and disk readers have enough thruput to play games... Yet you have to install them. You also lose the benefit of the distribution method policing unfinished titles, because even if you play it off the disk, the dev will want to use the ability to store updates on a drive.

brokenshakles, 1 month ago

@jobanab @coolboymew @PurpCat @BigTLarrity @s8n In their heyday, they were specialized bespoke hardware that pushed the boundaries of real-time computing. Often extremely hard to code for, but what was learned from them went into mainline PC development later on more often than not. These days though, a console is just a rebadged PC that has been stripped down and locked down.

brokenshakles, 2 months ago

@alex Late 90's Freshman college student starter pack.