So much for cash anonymity. Unless a payment system is completely anonymous whilst supporting secure transactions, it’s a non-starter. Unfortunately the EU does not appear to be able to tolerate privacy for its citizens, hence constant attempts to undermine and curtail any privacy/anonymity-first technologies or concepts.

pity about that denuvo crapware.

The same author did another similar novel called Thin Air, which you might like - it maintains that tech noir theming.

The first season does the detective noir thing pretty well, and doesn’t deviate too far from the novel. They tried rolling the second book (Broken Angels) and the third book (Woken Furies) into one season, it didn’t work out at all.

Now I want to make an ai slop Altered Carson poster.

There’s so many great book series out there. Ian Banks’ Culture Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin series, could re-do Altered Carbon properly and base it on the second book more faithfully; which was actually quite interesting. Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space series. Terry Pratchett’s last contribution in The Long Earth series. What happened to the supposed adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series? Neal Asher’s Polity series. Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, anyone? And that’s just a small fraction of more modern SciFi.

None of these series really get a look in because we’re still busy repeating the same formula ad nauseam until the fan base literally can’t take ingesting another two hours of recycled dross.

Let’s try something new.

There is also the cost of power and computer hardware to factor in, which probably raises the barrier to entry, but you’re right. Once you have all the equipment or have it anyway for other purposes, it’s very cheap.

The elephant in the room here is that hardly anyone has a disposable income to spend $90 on an AAA game title and potentially thousands in hardware on which to play it.

Shelter, food, healthcare and power costs have increased too much. When the basics can’t be met, people stop spending money on these additional things because it makes the difference between eating or not for a week.

Matrix

…yet another reason to not use that pestilence.

CUNTS.

isn’t riccitiello the same fuck who was behind EA’s sharp turn bitchwards? and who even Sleepy Joe called “A creep”

[ohgod]

But seriously… i burned out of EVE many moons ago, just too grindy.

I wish they’d give SteamVR on Linux a long overdue upgrade.

And by upgrade I mean “Make it look like it’s a project which is even alive”

STALKER for that horror undercurrent, Deus Ex Mankind Divided probably has the best atmosphere of any game I’ve ever played and the fact the franchise was abandoned for that marvel brain-rot is a crying shame.

I’m sure they must be feeling a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

I’ve already decided it is, so I don’t care what they say. I also refuse to purchase games with digital restrictions management like this - franky, these days I have better things to do with my time.

OneAPI also looks quite juicy… from someone currently suffering under ROCm and in refusal to give the green goblin any business.