There’s two main reasons why I like physical media:

1. Longevity. If the maker/publisher of the game doesn’t want to support it anymore or goes broke, I still have the game.
2. Used game market. I’ve got a backlog of PS4 games I got cheap because they still existed after demand went down, so prices went down.

Steam meets both of those in different ways.

1. Any game I’ve purchased on Steam has remained available to install, even though some of them aren’t available for sale anymore via Steam. If a publisher folds, Steam can still serve their files to people who bought the game before it folded. This might change in the future and there might be exceptions where a publisher went to court to stop Steam from serving the files (not that I know of any cases of this, just acknowledging the possibility exists here while it doesn’t for physical games you already own), but so far so good.
2. Steam sales are often better than used game sales. Sure, not all publishers participate in them, but my steam backlog dwarfs my console backlog because I can often buy multiple games for the price of one used disc game.

They are both ultimately in it for greed, but a different kind of greed. Sony wants the short term make most profits this quarter every quarter, even if this quarter’s strategy hurts next quarter, that’s a problem for next quarter.

Valve seems to at least understand that not taking its users for granted and forcing shitty options on them to make a quick buck will mean they are more willing to continue spending money on their shit.

Also, Valve didn’t come in trying to end physical media, they were a digital service from the start. Similarly, I had no problem with some games on the PS store not having physical releases and I’ve even bought a few. My issue is that the physical disc drive is one of the main reasons I even have a ps5, so saying they won’t be doing them anymore mostly just means that the ps6 won’t be as interesting to me. I’m not even really mad, just disappointed and moving on.

Lol the guy talks about linux like it’s his job or special interest.

Yeah, over the years I’ve learned to not hold my breath about any interesting announcement. Though I’m at the point now where I don’t really care either way and feel like pointing it out for any specific project just feels overly pessimistic. Just let them cook or contribute knowing there’s never a guarantee it’ll come to fruition.

Yeah, while my mind did go to GoldenEye, this really applied to NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, and ps2, out of the systems I have/had.

My wii u games are still playable, though they might try to connect to a server that no longer exists to look for updates. Similar with ps3 (though I think my system needs an overhaul because it’s running pretty slow these days, like many dropped frames in rock band 2 or even some in GH3).

For the ps5, I’m not sure what will happen when Sony no longer wants to support it. I mostly have physical games, maybe I should try disconnecting the internet and see what happens if I try to fire up random games, both ones I’ve already played and ones that haven’t left their case yet.

Anyways, I mostly thought of the era of the first paragraph, since the others have updates.

Yeah you should probably stick with consoles then.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned from trolley problems is that it is way safer to be on a trolley than it is to be tied to trolley tracks.

Acquiring meth (finished at 13:18)

Meeting up with man (finished at 13:24)

Satisfying man (oops! There has been a problem with your order, our meth and sex engineers are working hard on resolving it)

Village People Showed up (finished at 13:55)

Getting the party started (finished at 13:59)

Noticing surgery is already finished (finished at 14:42)

Left party (14:50)

Panicked drive to hospital (finished at 14:53)

Rushed trip to gift store to support story of taking forever to pick a special gift and losing track of time (finished at 14:54)

Organized the balloon display by colour shade (meth hasn’t worn off yet) (finished at 14:59)

On his way! (In progress)

Lol like the respect of die hard apple users is worth anything. Something about people being snobby about the shittier option (though Google is doing what it can to catch up in that regard) is hilarious.

LinRAR when?

Funny thing but those cases are also often designed to be held in your hand ergonomically, almost like they expected people to hold them just like phones. And while some use transparent plastics that have an aging colour, my current one is just black. I don’t drop my phone often but it occasionally happens. Haven’t had a single phone break on me so far (knock on wood) but I think the case is to thank in at least a few of those cases (heh).

Plus my case allows me to use a magnetic mount in my car without needing to use the adhesive side and make it actually stick to my phone. It just sits under the case on the back (or if the magnet couldn’t handle going through the case, I could adhere it to the case instead of the expensive phone).

You should probably get a case, after posts so full of hubris like these, you’re probably going to end up dropping your phone soon.

Buldak ramen is intended to be prepared like that and comes with a thick sauce you add during the fry instead of the boil. Their curry flavour one is amazing, though hard to find.

My protein shakes when I worked out were some kind of milk, yogurt, protein powder, creatin, frozen berries, and a banana if I had them. If I wasn’t in a rush at least.

There’s no point in talking down to LLMs because they aren’t an entity that feels anything, and your aggressive words are just going to make it predict a response with those in the context. Polite requests get the best responses from humans so LLMs will be similar, not because they have feelings but because their training data likely includes both polite and aggressive communication and you’ll probably get better responses in the polite context.

I think these two were pre-boomers, as by the time boomers were that age, it would have been in colour.

All the lead didn’t help. And the playing with mercury in school. Actually, there was lead involved there, too, as I remember my dad telling me about how they’d put a piece of lead in their cup of mercury to see that it floated.

Also had a science teacher clarify that it was mercury oxide that made playing with mercury so dangerous, with the anecdote of knowing someone who tried to commit suicide by drinking a large amount of mercury, but then only ended up with the shits (and probably a few less IQ points from the mercury oxide vapours he would have inhaled while drinking it).

Edit: oh, also the wars probably helped age people faster and no idea when this was filmed but he could have fought in either war and started acting after.

The last GTA I really got into was Vice City on PS2. I did get San Andreas as a gift but tbh it might still be in its shrinkwrap because WoW was around that time and since I stopped playing WoW, I’ve diversified my gaming to the point where I have a shitload of games I have yet to try across a variety of platforms. And I heard a lot of shit about V like getting griefed by cheaters that I never tried it and at this point the AAA label is more of a repulsor than attractor and I still have all those other games to try.

Going in another direction, but ramen is great if you fry it after boiling it. Just drain the water (save it if it’s a broth type as you can add the noodles back after frying), then drop them in a pan with heated oil, fry them for a few minutes, just to the point where the noodles on the bottom start to burn a bit (don’t stir them before this but do stir after to interrupt the burning) and your ramen will have a satisfying crunch.

They are better while they are still frozen. Love me a bowl of frozen mixed berries, even worth the seeds that stick in the teeth.

Yeah but the difficulty won’t be “we have nowhere to put our shit”, it will be “how do we put our shit into this hole in our bathroom?” Which will probably turn into getting a bucket or two to anyone that doesn’t already have one and getting creative with fashioning funnels while the supply lines ramp up and deal with toilet scalpers and the other grifts that are sure to pop up. That 2.2 billion pounds of fecal matter can still be handled in the same way it currently is, we’d just be improvising the interface to it.

Though that is from a purely rational point of view. I do agree that there will be many infections that happen because of the average intelligence level and some thinking “all toilets broke means I gotta shit in the river” or “all toilets broke means I get to shit in the river” (ie some people fucking shit up because they don’t know any better and others fucking shit up because they like fucking shit up).

If all toilets on the planet are destroyed, how long would it take to replace them? The plumbing should still be fine; the toilet is just a fixture. You might need to rush to turn off the water, but there will still be a functional pipe to take any waste away. Toilets are pretty much just funnels into that hole, plus some extra plumbing to help wash away whatever goes into them.

In the short term, it would suck, but I think the problem would be solved pretty quickly, maybe even as humanity’s top priority. Probably with funnels, buckets, and chairs with holes cut in them at first, then the market will be flooded with new toilets.