Ahead of its time, IMO. And honestly should not even have wireless. Might be usable in grandma’s house out in the middle of the woods (unless Grandma’s got a shit-ton of IoT stuff…or one cheap security camera), but just about anywhere else it’s far too unreliable.
Exclusives.
Legit the only reason.
I guess it’s also “easier” in a “It just works*” kind of way. Like you can have a pretty good expectation to how well a game will run on your system, and no fiddling with settings, or drivers, etc.
This is a big point for the steam deck and similar handhelds. There’s now a benchmark PC platform.
Lost spirit, what is your name?
D…A…V…E…
Dave’s not here, man.
Yeah, I get it.
I’m preaching to the choir.
This is an interesting perspective. I kinda like it, even though I hate it.
As an ex smoker…if I were to pick up a pack while working as an AI researcher…I’d absolutely use that as a cheeky comeback when someone said something about me smoking again. Entirely not meaning it, blatantly joking to anyone possible of understanding tone and having a sense of humor.
However, I’m fairly certain most executives, and especially AI execs, are both tone-deaf and humorless.
I’d put $10 on polymarket saying that one of them overheard someone like me saying that, and it snowballed from there.
Here.
Idk man, when a pope gets cancer that sounds like a bad omen.
And then accepting modern treatments? That shows a lack of faith. God wouldn’t have given you cancer if he wanted you to get rid of it.
It’s really amazing how many people knew that they were destroying the world…and not only continued to do so, but accelerated it and covered it all up…just to see their wallets get fatter.
Kinda just makes you want to accelerate the decline faster. “Intelligent” life my ass.
Edit to add: remember the villains in Captain Planet? They were over-the-top cartoonishly evil, even for a cartoon. But I’m starting to think they were closer to reality than I wanted to believe.
Also there were some cool as actors among those villains. Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry, Jeff Goldblum…and then the regulars like Jim Cummings and John Ratzenberger…just a cool cast)
When a tire company can’t sell tires, it makes up a restaurant review system to get people to drive more.
Is the jobs market really that bad that Indeed has turned to brewing?
I’m generally the same. I live in a region of America with a bustling craft beer scene. I don’t think I could try all the different brews around here if I tried.
There are some exceptions. I.e., Heady Topper…I don’t think it’s really all that great of a beer, tbh. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it’s worthy of all the hype that it gets…but damn if that hype doesn’t make me want to order it whenever I see it actually on a menu.
Toss in some Amaretto and baby, you got a morning cocktail.
Sir this is America. Unstable kids with guns is kind of our thing.
Tbf, Eric Carle gaslit generations of kids, telling them that butterfly catepillars spin a cocoon.
It’s called a chrysalis!
In Soviet Russia, britches too big for you!
Well. Guess he’s done with that house, now.
What does it mean when gods right-hand man gets cancer?
That sounds like genocide. You must be a Republican.
They only call it that because he was scared of “big word”.
Honestly, almost every console runs on my PC. Why not just make Microsoft Xbox for Linux?
The hardware now is just an x64 or ARM platform built to a certain spec running a custom OS. Basically, a PC or a tablet or a Mac Mini.
When you look at it that way, the idea of these walled-garden publishers and marketplaces starts to make absolutely zero fucking sense.
The need for consoles is rapidly getting eroded. There’s no proprietary hardware, no special sauce, nothing that they can do that a moderately spec’d PC can’t do, and often for less money.
Where they still succeed is just being easy enough, that they more-or-less just work predictably with barely more effort than running the updates that it prompts the user to run. And they’re fucking all that up with stupid shit like Virtual Gamecards. It’s honestly impressive that Nintendo managed to be the straw that broke my fucking back, would’ve never seen that coming. At least I knew what I was signing up for with GamePass (and they knew exactly why I term’d it when I did).