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“You’re all buying it regardless.”

What’s “short” about the short-sightedness, though? I’ve been a Game Pass subscriber for something like 8 years and it’s still crushing it as far as services go - probably moreso now than any year prior.

Will it last / remain a good deal forever? Nope. But nothing does/is. Might as well enjoy the great variety of games I’d never purchase (like Blue Prince, Arcade Paradise, Shipbreaker, South of Midnight, Expedition 33, etc.) along with the convenience of access to games I totally would pay for (like THPS 1+2, Gears, Diablo, etc.). Plus the built-in rewards subsidize like 1/4 of the cost.

When (not “if”, when) they jack up the price to a point that’s not worth the games or I don’t have enough time to play to justify the spend, I’ll just cancel.

What the fuck kind of headline is this? Do they employ editors at checks link THE NEW YORK TIMES?

I can’t figure out what the Switch vs Switch 2 comparison is supposed to be telling me.

Yeah, from that perspective this reads roughly like when the Zoom CEO started forcing his own people back into the office. Basically tells the market that your company has no real faith in the claims it makes about its products.

It’d be interesting to see a histogram of release (s1) years for these. At a glance, it looks like there’s some major recency bias at play.

Wholly agreed. There are no ethical billionaires. Fight me.

FTA:

1. 60fps
2. Added the Dark Rot from Hellblade 1
3. Photo mode

Really?? All the AI note takers I’ve seen suck farts.

Sounds like a(nother) Teams issue.

+1 to both of these!

John Carter was accused of being too derivative, but hilariously its source material (the book A Princess of Mars) was the great-grandaddy of science fantasy as a genre. So JC is derivative of a bunch of movies that got their ideas and inspiration from APoM.

Ocarina of Time

Alternatively, when you get hungry in the evening, just have “go to sleep” for dinner!

The article doesn’t actually cite compensation as an issue. The actual issue is lack of skilled talent, which is due to a couple of things including

• These jobs require relevant skills; can’t just hire someone off the street as you can in the service industry.
• The US spent ages telling people that they were idiots if they didn’t go to college, which pushed people away from trade skills
• The Trump administration made aggressive cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers

FTA:

Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.

So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.

My work recently gave me an iPhone - first one I’ve ever owned - and the lack of a 3.5mm jack just fucking sucks. It makes everything so much less convenient. Bluetooth is so much slower to get going than a simple plug-in pair of cans (or even buds), and then that’s another thing with a battery that I have to rely on.

Such a garbage decision. Now I understand what fashion truly is, I guess.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Microsoft doesn’t expect anyone to pay $80. They expect people to sub to Game Pass instead.

Crazy that this wasn’t included in today’s showcase.