They think they own most of the guns because they’ve built a whole culture around it. What they don’t realize is there are plenty of non-Rs who own guns too as a hobby or protection, but their whole identity isn’t “I’m a gun owner” so they don’t go around hoopin’ and hollarin’ that they own guns.
I’ve been a PC gamer for 3 decades. Most budget conscious PC gamers I know upgrade individual components as needed. Done this way, you can easily get more for your money than having to buy a new console every cycle.
The way I see it: PC has a high upfront cost with minimal maintenance/upgrade cost to continue using it with newer releases for years.
Consoles have a cheaper upfront cost but no maintenance/upgrade. Once it’s obsolete (as determined by the industry, not the owner) then you are forced to buy a new console for new releases.
For me, in practice, I know for a fact that I have spent less on my PC components and games than I would if I wanted the same experience on a console.
Just a reminder to everyone that it’s fun to hope it’s aliens, but Occam’s Razor suggests it isn’t and the real answer is likely something naturally occurring.
They probably realized it’s not profitable because 90% of a user’s visits are home, work, store… wash rinse repeat day in and day out. They can probably get more meaningful data from the person through their other various tracking methods.
Enshitification. Private equity buys up everything, squeezes it for all its worth, forces it to lose all its customers, and then sells off all remaining physical assets (land, buildings).
Look behind the downfall of most big country wide names and you’ll see a private equity firm running this same playbook right around the time they started losing quality.
Furiosa’s opening weekend numbers have been a point of discourse for many trades after its release. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Furiosa slumped to a $26 million gross between Friday, May 24, and Sunday, May 26. However, Furiosa was released over the Memorial Day weekend, taking its estimated domestic total to...
Agreed. I thought the movie was a great addition to the Mad Max films. As others have pointed out, some of the CGI was lacking, but other than that it was extremely enjoyable and well paced.
Good. I hope more forced live service games flop so execs will get it in their heads it’s ok not to make a live service game and still make money from it.
That’s the point though, right? It’s all publicity. They don’t want to give it to someone who may actually use it. Give it to the billionaire who will never use it so.
We ultimately don’t know what is going to survive the digital revolution. I wonder what’s going to be lost to time and what historians and archeologists will be able to recover and view centuries or millennia in the future.
Does ActivityPub report back bans to the user’s home instance? I could see a moderation tool that let the admin autoban their users if enough federated instances had banned them.
“In Fury Road, in [Furiosa], there are hardly any shots that haven’t been manipulated digitally,” Miller told io9. “For instance, changing the sky. When Steven Spielberg shot Jaws, the sea was changing all the time. If you look at that film one moment it’s choppy, one moment it’s flat. You don’t need to do that...
Background CGI for ensuring consistency and immersion is what CGI excels at. Human-based CGI still has the uncanny valley. I loved Furiosa, but you can easily tell when they had CGI humans for stunts.
It’s just another tool and directors need to choose the appropriate time to use it and when not to.
Between this and the study of whale language, are we on the precipice of actually being able to have a rudimentary conversation with another intelligent species on the planet?
Felonies, gotta catch 'em all (leminal.space)
Trump, in his first post-trial rally, demands that appeals courts reverse his felony conviction (apnews.com)
Newsmax Host Ominously Warns ‘You People in Your Cities’ Who Are ‘Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns’ (www.mediaite.com)
Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before....
(Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them? (www.pcgamer.com)
Radio signal from space repeats every hour, defying explanation (newatlas.com)
Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)
Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach (gizmodo.com)
PandaBuy pays ransom to hacker only to get extorted again (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
LOL
Private Equity Backed Firm is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)
Furiosa's Box Office Opening Explained: What The Hell Happened With The Mad Max Prequel?! (screenrant.com)
Furiosa’s opening weekend numbers have been a point of discourse for many trades after its release. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Furiosa slumped to a $26 million gross between Friday, May 24, and Sunday, May 26. However, Furiosa was released over the Memorial Day weekend, taking its estimated domestic total to...
Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day? (lemmy.zip)
Back when we would record onto VHS, is that considered piracy? Found a super bowl XXXI tape from my Uncle circa 1997. I’m curious lol....
Bioware executive producer: "Some takes out there about this game being a live service game. That part is in the articles. It ain't. Its straight up single player story goodness" (Mass effect) (x.com)
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Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Bill Gates' McDonald's Gold Card Offers Free Food for Life, Few Non-billionaires Were Offered One in This Decade (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Gates can visit any McDonald’s worldwide and enjoy a free meal for life.
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC (www.pcgamer.com)
Sony learned nothing from the Helldivers 2 shitshow.
GUILTY (edition.cnn.com)
Guilty on 34 counts....
Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist (www.pcgamer.com)
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
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PS2 Classics Catalogs coming to PS+ Premium on June 11th, Tomb Raider Legend, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (x.com)
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George Miller Reveals How Many Visual Effects Are in Furiosa (gizmodo.com)
“In Fury Road, in [Furiosa], there are hardly any shots that haven’t been manipulated digitally,” Miller told io9. “For instance, changing the sky. When Steven Spielberg shot Jaws, the sea was changing all the time. If you look at that film one moment it’s choppy, one moment it’s flat. You don’t need to do that...
R.F.K. Jr. Denounces the Removal of Confederate Statues (www.nytimes.com)
These statues were largely built during the peak of Jim Crow as a means of telling off the local black population:...
Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication (www.salon.com)