The end user is seen as nothing but an exploitable resource. If a few thousand nerds don’t like it, they don’t give a shit. Until the general public wakes up to the shitfuckery, nothing will change. Just ask your mom, what she thinks about Microsoft’s data collection.

What a fantastic plan. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

I like to play Nintendo on my PC.

You don’t want to anger the 800 pound gorilla.

My theory is that they’re just scared to annoy Nvidia too much. If they priced their GPUs so as to really increase their market share, Nvidia might retaliate. And Nvidia definitely has the deeper pockets. AMD has no chance to win a price war.

It’s all performative. Everybody knows that word filters do nothing to prevent bad things from happening. But taking actually effective measures might impact the bottom line.

Good article. They’re certainly making progress but there is still a very long way to go. I still stand by the fifty years from my other comment.

I’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.

What timeframe do you foresee for that?

Axes entering skulls give pleasure to the psychopaths we let run our societies.

Next up: Half Life 3.

If this is accurate, it should get Muskiboi in deep doodoo in Germany where this kind of stuff is highly illegal.

It’s not like the Nazis invented this shit.

You could try to get a used Steam Deck. That will let you play most current AAA games and plenty of indie or older titles for not a lot of money. Apart from that, I wish you all the best and I hope things get better for you.

Corruption.

And you can get a whole collection of games for the piece of one Nintendo game. They have a lot of kids’ games too.

I wonder if we get a Steam Deck 2 by then.

I’m going to play all those games! Really! Some day.

Narrator: they monetised the site to death.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Another dangerous terrorist eliminated.

PUT DOWN THAT JELLYFIN SERVER AND NOBODY NEEDS TO GET HURT!! THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!!!

They already managed to brick the defence industry. So now IT is next.

If there weren’t so many pathetic losers paying for this sort of crap, none of this would be happening.

That thing would be OK if it was reasonably priced. They don’t even pretend to be interested in anything other than squeezing money out of their customers. If there was meaningful competition in the sector, this wouldn’t be happening.

Those games are so expensive because people will pay those prices. There are plenty of cheap games to be had.

The death of affordable computing in America.

OK. Never bought anything from Nintendo, so that’s not a great sacrifice.

Wait, what? Are you implying there is a world outside the US? Preposterous!

So, is there a nude mod yet? Asking for a friend.

I know a great loophole for avoiding setting up a Microsoft account: don’t use this steaming pile of shit in the first place.

I’ve been playing quite a bit of Grim Dawn lately. It really captures the spirit of the original Diablo.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

You’d probably be breaking a lot of sanctions. And if you’re not part of the oligarchy that will have consequences.

They’ll probably drop the price soon. At $500 it might be worth looking at…

Meanwhile Nvidia:

The 9070 would have to be below $500 to have a chance.

Oh noes! 600 billion fluffybucks that only ever existed in the feverish fantasies of stock market analysts! Oh the humanity!

You’re obviously not a true red blooded American! True patriots enjoy being choked to death by exhaust fumes!

Finland has been “close to completing” their storage site at Olkiluoto for quite a long time now. Let’s see when they finally get it into production. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

They don’t care about being liked, they just want to prop up the oligarchy by controlling access to information.