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That DLC is actually $1.49 during the sale, at least in the US.

It’s almost like all these CEOs and MBAs are just shooting in the dark because of the $$$ in their eyes, but the fact remains that the market is no longer responding favorably to their absolute need for year-over-year growth.

I have not bought a phone through my carrier for probably around 10 years. I always buy something factory unlocked, often a LatAm model, and drop my SIM in. GSM was designed with that kind of freedom in mind.

It doesn’t surprise me how much hardware costs are tied to (and inflated by) subscription plans in the US, though.

Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.

Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric

I am hopeful for this. Playing it on day one, I reported a garbage management bug on the official forum: only to be told it was “by design”, and yet still game-breaking.

The performance woes got all the press, but the game was fundamentally broken. It was nearly impossible to lose. Too many services for a small city? Here’s free “government subsidies” that you also can’t shut off when your city is successful. Don’t have garbage service? No problem, a neighboring city you have no control over is gonna handle your trash – for free.

I hope this is finally a step in the right direction, but I’ll never understand why it took a year to listen to day 1 issues. If the game had been released Early Access the response would have been better all around. Performance issues need to take second place: if the game isn’t fun, I don’t care how it performs.

Tell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.

Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

Sony’s version of the classic Sega “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”

My thoughts exactly. Sounds like some corporate lobbying to try and break into Steam’s market.

To reference a Gaben quote out of context, these other companies have a service issue.

corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites

Is that not all of them right now?

100% they will do this.

But I wonder if the effect will be different to now. I know Apple wants to retain the idea that their users are in an exclusive blue bubble group. But currently, green bubbles are associated with shitty looking images, video, etc, due to MMS. Especially for people that don’t know why files come through that way, green bubbles are always presented as inferior by virtue of actually being inferior.

But now, if they do keep the green bubs, they’ll just be green. Green at feature parity is different from green with clear differences.

This has generally been my experience as well. The sole exception: Distant Worlds. I’ve never, ever gotten it to run with any version of Proton.

I’ve never seen a more useless waste of news space.

Income. Everything else can be proportional, but if income isn’t, we’re fucked.

Idk if I trust this Tightpussy character, better google that first

I’ve actively been trying to have as much as possible in AV1, and before that, h265. A lot of my older material is still in h264.

That said, I generally have the following patterns:

• 720p media at feature length should be about 1 GB, if not less.

• 1080p media at feature length in h265 should be between 1.5-2GB. Ideally more towards 1.5GB. The same 1080p media in AV1 should be about 30% smaller.

I simply don’t see the need to encode at higher bitrates to have larger file sizes than that. I don’t see significant difference at 1080p.

I’m gonna game until I fucking die.

Personally, I’m tired of franchises. I don’t want to see more money grabs when a movie does well. Let’s bring new ideas to the table.

The industry has been so obsessed with reducing monetary risk that franchises have taken over.

Tangentially related, but I’ve had a “Tap here to accept the Samsung terms of service” notification for years now. I always swipe it away. I swear they always show it right after I had a bunch of other notifications to make me more likely to tap it. I have thus made it my life’s mission to never accept it.

The controller, yes. The display itself, no, as far as I can tell.