You replied to OP while somehow missing the entire point of what he said lol

We haven’t yet made an AI that can replace anyone’s job, so it might be better to hold off on resigning ourselves to that fate.

I can’t believe those bastards did it, M5, what will they cook up next?

I saw a post saying it’s untrue but their only evidence seemed to be that their Target had not removed anything g last time they checked. Meanwhile I have seen a half dozen posts from employees and customers showing the Xbox stuff being removed. A month from now I’m sure it’ll be clearer on what’s happened.

Not sure I’d describe that spreadsheet simulator as casual lol

No the regular kindles have ad free tiers… for now.

Make V’s voice actor sucks so much. It is the cringiest shit on earth. It’s remarkable compared to how organic Jackie sounds.

I’ve liked using FreshRSS in the past, but has the developer finally capitulated and allowed users to sort entries by publication date?

It was probably the most requested feature and they always insisted it didn’t make sense or wasn’t possible despite being a common feature among other RSS feed readers.

The only solace I take in the enshittification of the web and the resulting rise in prices, is that we might see (be forced into) a return to the small web and an escape from the stranglehold that big tech and social media has had on us for the last 15 years.

If we’re lucky, the late-stage capitalism effect of ruining companies long term futures for short term gains might happen to entire industries instead of companies.

The graph will also give you a note that the review behavior is unusual and that there may be review bombing going on.

I think the biggest problem is that when people are just browsing games, all that’s shown is overall and mixed reviews. They should add a similar indicator to that view of the game.

It would have been during your last state elections, the option with the little “R” next to its name.

I like my kindle as much as the next person, as well as self host a book repo, but physical books are absolutely not a novelty of the past.

Company gets a cut of every game sold, gets exponentially more customers that use your infrastructure on a day to day basis, meanwhile the price of games stays the same for 20 years and game development cycles get longer while games and infrastructure gets more expensive to make.

I wonder how Valve hasn’t gone bankrupt.

I don’t. Valve is in a super sweet spot in the market and their near-monopoly on PC game sales and lean business model gives them a lot of breathing room that Companies like Sony don’t have. Some benefits Valve has:

• They don’t need to worry about R&D of exclusive hardware often sold at a loss just to capture a user base. Valve has dipped its toes into hardware now, but even if its competitors eat some of its market share, those users will still buy games from Steam. On the other hand If people buy an Xbox instead of a PlayStation, Sony just loses out on the customers.
• Valve doesn’t have to operate a number of first and second party game studios to churn out increasingly more expensive games.
• Steam being a storefront on another company’s operating system means it can rely on external infrastructure to handle user services in many of its games.
• Valve is a privately owned company so they have a lot more wiggle room to tread water and “stay afloat” when necessary and aren’t being driven to an ever-increasing profitability targets year after year.

Valve literally can’t charge you for their user services because you’re not stuck on their hardware. The very moment they do, they’ll lose all the user goodwill that has made them the default in their space and everybody can just pack up and move to another storefront or even just pirate their games. Valve has to eat those costs at the expense of everything else.”, they have no choice.

Sony didn’t need that infrastructure in the first place. Things worked great before they charged simply for you to play online

What you’re both failing to grasp here is that the infrastructure existed when it was free. They always needed the infrastructure, and it always cost money. There is no “before”. They were just eating the costs as a marketing strategy to attract Xbox players who at the time had to pay for Xbox Live.

As console adoption increased, so did the cost of the infrastructure and the salaries of the many people it takes to maintain it, it just wasn’t feasible to provide those services for free when it cost so much money to maintain.

it was foolish to start paying PS in the first place when literally every other console had free multi-player

Every other console did not have free multiplayer. Xbox Live always cost money.

You don’t buy… the fact that infrastructure that has to scale to millions of users globally, and the salaries of the many employees who maintain it cost money…?

I’m not super familiar with Syncthing, but judging by the name I’d say Syncthing is not at all meant for backups.

Yes, charging customers for a product that costs you money to maintain is an excuse, and a valid one. Sony and Nintendo were giving away an expensive service for free to the user. It was generous, and a way to reduce friction with onboarding new users.

They jumped on board because maintaining that infrastructure has become exponentially more expensive to maintain today than it was 20 years ago.

I don’t even know why you’d have a problem with Xbox charging more for their subscription when you already argue for paid online.

Because unlike paid user services, game ownership is not something that costs them any money. They aren’t recouping their costs for a service they provide, it’s just rentseeking.

Platform infrastructure like PSN costs an inordinate amount of money. People owning games they paid for does not cost you any money.you already made your money back by selling them the ownership.

No lie you can and do fix Minthara and become one of the most wholesome a devoted couples in the game.

I don’t mind subscriptions for ongoing infrastructure as much. My problem is with using a subscription to replace ownership.