Now that I didn’t know, and explains a lot. That seems like either a very smart deal by marvel, and/or a very stupid deal by sony

AGAIN? In my lifetime now I have seen… god how many 4 separate spiderman reboots? This is literally the definition of insanity. Take. The hint. Sony, we are tired of superheroes. They’re fun, but god can you give it 2 years without doing a spiderman film?

Someone around the world would pick up the mantle, there are thousands of ctontributors. The point is that the code isn’t lost in the blink of an eye.

Clone and fork now folks

In the Midwest of the states it kills me. Hey here is the most fertile land ON THE PLANET and were just going to pave over it, add shitty suburban sprawl that will be bankrupt in 30 years, and kill the soil while we’re at it. So goddamn wasteful.

I agree with you, absolutely right, but also

"I’m walking to the store honey, I’ll be back in 90 minutes!

Consistently crappy theaters, other customers who don’t care about the movie, on their phones and talking, and staff that are both not paid enough and told not to deal with those problems.

All of that for now 20 per ticket, double that if you want snacks. My local indie house shows movies with none of those problems.

Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.

Hey don’t discount them that much, they also can’t make games either. They’re going for full on business-only approach, consumers are not a priority for them at all anymore.

And they want us to stay hyped about games. I refuse to believe any marketing garbage because I know now they’re just measuring hype to determine if they should keep making things. That is not a long term strategy

Vertical Integration is the term. And it should definitely be outlawed

it’s not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers

Hey this is our monopoly! You can’t just come in here and use your brain to bypass our arbitrary rules!

I wanted to try it, but they specifically banned Linux players, so they didn’t want my money I guess

If you’re only option is to give in to big corpos, then don’t do it. Go replay a classic game, relive a world you haven’t touched in years. Mass effect, dragon age, halo, skyrim, think of all the old games completely playable on a 360 now that you probably haven’t touched in years. Go back to them instead of giving in.

I truly believe its bad now, but its not going to last. Yes, I know that they want to take computers from us, but their purchasing isn’t going to stay this consistent. Its going to be rough for a bit, but after a few more contracts fall through and these purchases aren’t renewed for year after year (and looking at stock prices investors are not happy about these massive purchases) data centers are going to purchase less, and I really believe we’re going to see hardware crawl back to gaming.

Its up to us to decide which companies deserve our money when that day comes.

Almost like George Lucas saw something happening and based star wars on something

My spouse was roofied while I was in the restroom. I spent the night making sure she didn’t choke on her vomit.

Its true. A great other example is asking any of us nerds what best computer is out there for a family member. I know I personally would rattle off all of the specs and tell them exactly what to get, when all they needed is a browser.

Now I tell them just get something that isn’t on the discount rack and they’ll be fine

As someone who cares about audio fidelity a lot, there is definitely a diminishing returns. You’ll see me here telling people who complain “I have to constantly turn volume up and down for dialogue in movies”. That’s because your sound is TV speakers, basically phone speakers, go buy a sound bar and your life will get infinitely better.

If you want to go further you can get a nice set of speakers, even surround sound, and it’s fun, but it’s not as impactful as the first step.

Then though if you’re already at a sweet 7.1 surround sound system, it’s not going to matter if you get the high end cables, or spend 5k on the most bestest receiver. At that point you’re just wasting money. You may get… 1-5% better fidelity for… 500% of the cost?