That was so perfectly executed by him that it made me try to squeeze down on an imaginary controller in frustration.

I would think solar would be even more efficient high up in mountains.

Colder temperatures mean they’d stay cooler, produce more power, and for longer… and they are higher up in the air, so amount of photons hitting the panels has to be higher than at sea level, too, further increasing power generation.

At least thats what I’d assume, applying some common sense and a little educated guessing.

Wish someone would just overnight install a vast solar array on my roof. I’d love getting money from the power company every month, instead of giving it to them.

Thats bullshit.

Gamestop killed physical stores. They bought out who they could, and did everything they could to crush the rest and push them out of business, until nothing but gamestop was left. and gamestop is an awful fucking company.

So, of course, perpetually online idiots decided to worship it and turn it into a meme stock that brought in unfathomable amounts of undeserved money.

edit: i’m stupid, i dont know how i ended up on a year old post.

This is the second or third time that “discs are going away forever”

Yes, thats my point.

You have maybe a year, if you’re lucky, on a flash drive… and very few’d probably make it that far, and the ones that did would be egregiously expensive.

on optical media you have time that can be measured in decades, possibly even a century if proper storage practices are used.

That is a significant difference in stability

I’m saying, not be cocksure in the ignorance of “That never happened before, surely it’ll never happen in the future”

Because gaming companies have spent the past 15-20 years stripping away our rights and our ownership and our ability to play our games that we’ve paid for.

you used to get all kinds of really cool and amazing shit when you bought games, maps, manuals, pewter figures, and more.

You do realize that flash drives are not near stable enough for long term storage, much less archival storage, right?

games only require patching because developers cut corners thanks to internet connected consoles allowing for updates, before that we had literal decades of stable, playable games.

That has nothing to do with optical media, and everything to do with corporate stupidity and greed.

Bluray has enormous capacity, and compared to SD cards they literally cost pennies to print and manufacture.

the only disc rot I’ve heard about with regards to DVDs is a couple years where Warner Brothers specifically had an issue, which they ended up replacing all the discs for, granted it took them like 10 years to get enough pressure to get off their ass and do it, and it should have done it much sooner, so I’ll concede that WB are cunts… and I wager the reason they had rot is cause they tried to cheap out on the manufacturing and use something substandard.

No, we just vote for which person the oligarchs buy and own.

Yep. The steam deck was basically the equivalent of a budget PC stripped down and shoved into a handheld.

And this was 4 years ago when its new. Which relied heavily on low resolution and resolution scaling to even make due.

Now its even worse, especially with no significant price drop, and double especially with the ridiculous price increase they put on it.

Steam deck is an interesting device, and I’ll give valve credit for it. But its past its time, especially with the lack of price reductions.

Console games also used to be entirely on disk, and didnt require online connections just to play an offline single player game.

Times change.

Bluray is starting to show it’s age

How?

Yep. Wind and Solar will generate power for the next 30-50 years.

a lump of coal will generate power for…what? 15 seconds?

No, they are just getting a slap on the wrist.

It just sounds like a lot because we’re poor peasants who think a thousand dollars is a life changing amount of money.

To company like google, 4 billion dollars is pocket change. a small evil tax compared to what they’ve made doing the evil.

It’d be like you setting up an illegal hotdog stand, making 2000 dollars selling hotdogs all day, then the government coming by and fining you 20 bucks for it, but not before getting a free hotdog with a wink wink nudge nudge.

No, this is just playstation continuing to hate their customer base.

They’ve always hated their customers. Between Sony, and Nintendo, I dont know who hates their customers the most… but they both certainly try.

and it doesnt matter, because they both have enough fanboys that strip off their clothes and gleefully dance naked and joyous in the rain of shit both companies sputter out of their assholes and down onto their customers.

I hard switched to linux like…6-7 years ago I think, right around when Windows 7 went EoL.

It was not an entirely easy switch, and that first year I was plagued with lots of problems. And thats with a system I hand built with a future linux migration in mind. But i was still able to game with relatively few issues, and what issues there was, was usually fixed in the next version of proton, or in GE Proton. So there were always paths forward and sometimes workarounds. but it took a lot of thought, and research, and effort.

Linux today is astronomically easier compared to back then. I am, for the most part, where I was with Windows 7. What I mean by that is… I dont even think about my OS (I run Nobara, just fyi) anymore. My OS is completely irrelevant and invisible to my daily life, because I can just do what i want without issue, without thought, without worry.

and thats not me becoming more experienced with linux and knowing how to fix things and solve problems faster, I’m still a mouth breathing fuckwit when it comes to Linux, its just so much more easier to use, so much more stable, with many issues addressed and fixed and no longer the end users problem to work around.

I will ad the caveat though, that my gaming is decidedly not competitive. So I don’t generally play games that have invasive rootkit anticheats, which don’t work on linux. So if those kinds of games are your bread and butter, then you’d probably resent any attempt to use linux and be blocked from playing them.

Thats okay. you can be rest assured, theres plenty of people out there that don’t care about the harm they cause and will continue buying sony products and digital downloads, sustaining sonys anticonsumer practices for years to come.

/s