Mostly I suppose - but in the example/hypothetical given in the article of Sony moving it’s manufacturing from China to India, it would take 6-24 months minimum to find/develop the space they need and move the equipment. This cost to move all of the equipment half way across the world and the opportunity cost of out of stocks at stores worldwide when your distribution chain finally drys up - the cost was sited at 10%. If they MOVE a facility, I think that cost gets passed on to everybody worldwide.

There may be situations where JUST American production is moved to another country with more favorable tarrifs and worldwide production continues out of the existing facility, and probably in a situation like that, only the American costs would increase to cover the facility/equipmemt costs. But for that to make fiscal sense, this would have to be somehow CHEAPER than the price already elevated by the tarrifs. Companies could even in this case, theoretically hike prices worldwide to subsidize the impact to everybody. More people paying a higher prices mean everybody pays less.

Now, I couldn’t say if there’s any precident for the last line there. Purely hypothetical. But regardless - it’s entirely possible it WON’T be JUST Americans paying higher prices.

People vote with their wallet repeatedly against live service games, and they keep releasing them. Eventually they’ll stop, right? Right?

I’m a former player, but played continuously from release for 11 years. This is undoubtedly ridiculously expensive, but the convenience of having your mail and auction house anywhere in the world - the value to certain players is immense. I think if I played still today, it would probably be a struggle deciding whether this limited time offering was worth jumping on - I certainly don’t need it even a little bit, but when I want it, this thing would be incredibly convenient to have. Maybe that would just be the addiction talking. But when you spend all your free time with one game, you do feel a sense of good value relative to things like drinks at the bar or a movie or buying 1 or 2 full priced games a month.

But truly, the utility this provides for you and your guild is immense and impossible to replicate. They definitely shouldn’t be selling mounts on the shop for $90. That’s fucked. But compared to some of the video game devs selling weapon or character skins for as much or more, there IS at least a unique value proposition to the player. I guarantee there will be people with it the second it releases, for better or worse.

This is why I’m always a few versions out of date, ever since they started bricking computers via Windows update. Keeps me clear of their horrifying AI and additional telemetry and adware “enhancements” too.

Did people get bitchy on the internet when they released the PS One, the PS2 slim, 5 generations of PS3, or the PS4 Pro? Or the Xbox One X, Xbox 360 E, the Switch OLED, 2DS, DS lite, Gameboy Advance SP, Sega Genesis 2, Sega Genesis 3, Sega Saturn 2? I certainly don’t remember this much discourse back then. It’s like every gamer on the internet has collective amnesia about mid generation refreshes and how they have existed since the dawn of console gaming.

Just as always - it’s probably not meant for you if you’re perfectly happy with your base model.

And just like all those multitude of prior examples - no, they certainly will not release games that ONLY work on the mid cycle refresh device. Because that would be a really poor financial decision. And can you imagine the discourse if you had to buy a $700 console to replace your $500 console so you could play all the newest first party titles? On a device that has likely 4 years max before it is subplanted by the PS6? That would be a far more justified upset in my opinion.

Hit and miss anyways. Into the Spiderverse is an incredible series of films, and yet Sony’s attempts at live action Spider-Man lately are certainly incompetent.

Don’t even utter such heresy lest they hear it.

Miyazaki has inferred multiple times that they would love to do a remake for PS5 or PC port, but Sony owns the IP and he’s thus not allowed to talk about it and they can’t touch it without Sony’s blessing.

And then if it doesn’t sell well, they’ll use that as an excuse to discontinue private server development; and when they cancel their live service, it’ll be dead forever.

Sounds an awful lot like a discontinued Diablo III feature on the surface - wonder if the modern gaming landscape will tolerate this now.

I don’t want the devs to kill themselves for a game, obviously. I don’t think anyone does. People just want content updates for a property they love. In an industry that lays off people after they ship a game or starts work immediately on the franchise yearly $70 sequel, I just want a game developer that does better than that. That’s why the whole world waited patiently for the follow up to the GOTY of 2022 with Shadow of the Erdtree. Elden Ring didn’t get a ton of free content updates in that time, they didn’t make it a live service or offer mtx, and they didn’t pump out their massive expansion in an unreasonable time frame. They built an incredible game and incredible world, and then they continued development on the game they had poured their hearts into for years and spent the time they needed to create the expansion the game deserved, and at a reasonable price.

It’s good to know I have options! Aster is already the singular solution on Windows as far as I can tell, and for good reason I figure… this is a pretty fringe need. But at least I know I can potentially replicate the setup on Linux - I’ll for sure look in to that.

I’ve watched the other Linus (the one with the tech tips) on a month long daily driver challenge for Linux and I just can’t bring myself to dive in voluntarily for all the headaches and incompatibilities I know I’ll uncover - those presented, and about a thousand others sure to come up for each individual user.

I used to LOVE flashing roms on my devices. Started with my PSP, installing CFW so I could install homebrew. Then it was my phone and I loved the flexibility to do things Android couldn’t do or didn’t want me to be able to do. It was basically a hobby all unto itself, checking for new feature updates, sometimes taking a nightly build to fix a bug, finding a problem and deep diving for the right root application to fix it, whatever the case. Now I do too much with my phone to have a broken user created 5g radio, or GPS is currently broken in this ROM, or my homescreen glitches out when I switch apps rapidly. I just don’t have the patience or time for my phone that I need to be able to trust to work - to not work, and good luck finding the root cause.

Same sort of deal with my PC. I already have a VERY unusual setup to begin with, using Aster v7 to multiseat both my wife and myself on the same computer. It’s over specced to the point that we can pretty easily play games simultaneously without issue. Aster SOMETIMES presents usability issues, but nothing like what Linux would do. And while I haven’t investigated it, I’d bet that it would be a real struggle to replicate this setup in Linux. But my weird edge case aside, I’m fully capable and yet completely disinterested in converting because I just need it to work, for everything I’m doing, and without a 2 hour rabbit hole on why I can’t install this one dependency I need.

I have a couple bootable flash drives laying around and have dualbooted computers in the past. But I just don’t think I could fully migrate today.

I bought a pro license because of basic features being stripped out of home over time - here’s to hoping it’s ONLY home licenses that get abused.

Bioware didn’t make Starfield - that was Bethesda. Maybe you were thinking of Anthem? And fair point there.

I haven’t tried to use it collaboratively, but TickTick is excellent. Ever in need of something that helps me stay organized, I actually pay yearly for the premium subscription even. Really nice interface, and gives you multiple ways to manage your tasks, just depending on what works better in a given situation or for a given individual.

Oh I vaguely remembered it being beyond the ¾ point, but also I wouldn’t have known and it certainly FELT like that was the case when I got soft locked.

While playing Final Fantasy X the first time, I got to Old Zanarkand and inside the dome, I saved behind a sealed door in the Cloister of Trials. I wasn’t savvy to good saving practices and after solving the puzzle, got into a battle I was completely hopeless to defeat. There was no way to walk back out the door from which I entered, the only way out was through; and with my existing inventory, spells, charged up aeons, etc. I absolutely could not defeat the boss.

It was pretty crushing because this moment is so close to the end of the game, but I gave up and had to come back months (years?) later to fully start the game over. I think maybe I played 99+ hours of Final Fantasy VII and then decided to give X another try. The second time, I was much smarter with maintaining multiple save games for safety. Not to be bested again, I grinded up all of my limit breaks and aeons for safety and completely obliterated the boss in one go the next time around.

She’s not - Yvonne is accounting and business, I’ve never heard of her as being remotely involved with the HR department.