I cancelled my YouTube subscription when they increased the price by 50%, and I’m never subscribing again.

I haven’t bought a full price game in decades, unless it’s an indie/under €30.

I’m finally building up my PS4 game collection, for ages I had 2 games - RD2 and FFXV. Yesterday I got this in the mail, I paid less for those 4 used games than what Sony is asking for a digital copy of FFVII Remake in their store…

Definitely, we’re at a point where geometry isn’t a key factor in rendering times - at least for a decently optimized game (I’m looking at you, Cities Skylines 2 and all your teeth).

Games are going ham with the lighting - ray tracing and all that jazz that help with photorealism.

There are workarounds that have been used for a long time to “mimic” these effects but with a big quality Vs speed trade-off. Since computational power is now so cheap (or used to, before ai…) they’re removing those crutches and using techniques that give better results, but it’s definitely marginal improvements.

But even then, the oil billionaires are the ones making bank, good old broke Joe is the one spending his last cents at the pump so he can get to work…

Project Freedom is escorting ships out of Hormuz right? Didn’t we just get news yesterday of a ship being hit by a projectile from an “unknown source”?

So they figured ships can still be shot at even if you surround them with escorts, huh?

Geniuses, these guys.

Ah, but that’s jail time if they prove it.

Ok but I mean, how many of those birds are pigeons and rats? That’s a service…

Edit: i was incorrect. Mist, steam or fog are no longer water vapor (ie, water in gaseous state), but condensed water droplets.

Care, that birth control won’t work without the missing string.

I’m not a fan of white skirts but that one I’d try…

There are definitely worse worlds than one where UBI is what comes out of the AI race… One can dream.

Inb4 no one contributes voluntarily, so they make it mandatory.

I can see the headlines: US invents taxes.

NGL, was expecting a rickroll.

The US is irrelevant in these conversations.

It’s a global imperative, as well as in most nations own security interests, to become independent of fossil fuels.

What needs to be agreed is how the willing are going to fight back against the oil baron’s billions, because they’ll do anything, anything, to remain relevant and profitable.

Not sure about public domain. Perhaps a non-commercial license would be best - this way fans can carry on the work, but others wouldn’t be tempted to profit off of the IP.

How I love the tag feature!

See you around!

Good strategy, use few words to keep people guessing if you’re that dimwitted, or just being paid per post by your masters.

God forbid you try to explain yourself and confirm which one it is.

Yes, not even inside games.

When we’re out of the house like during vacations, the kid will automatically warn me when I forget to turn on the VPN because of the ads he gets.

What?

The government is doing its job, protecting consumers from predatory and monopolistic practices, and you’re crying “oh no, the poor billionaires”??

Quick google search says they sell like 600 million tickets a year, so it’s still $1B per year. They only had like $3B in profit last year, won’t you think of the shareholders?

Yeah? Well when you PRESUME you make a pres out of u and me.

On point with the video, it cracked me up. Well played.