before long people are gonna want to buy nothing but used 70s and 80s carbuerated shitboxes just to avoid all this shit.

10 bucks says all this data is being fed back to insurance companies.

Genius level creativity here, definitely not the same tired joke everyone makes all of the time and have been making for years

You heard it here, Folks.

No more making fun of conservatives hiding behind masks. Velvets tired of the comments.

Isnt that basically enterprise?

It was my understanding enterprise edition stripped out all that bullshit.

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.