Well it is, but the writing is also on the wall, computer hardware increases will have more of an impact than consoles which are subsidised

I don’t think it out of the question that to play the newest game on PC your only option will be to stream it from PlayStation or xbox as that will work on cheaper hardware that more people have

At that point the piracy backup goes out the window

Personally I enjoyed the fact that for the casual consumer cheap windows laptops I would need to run malware scanners on for everyone I know were effectively replaced by iPads and iPhones

The moment other stores are introduced we will go back to the same nonsense, the older open options are still available, why isn’t that enough choice?

You understand that all this talk of piracy will just ensure that developers only target consoles in the future like they used to right?

It may be relatively strong sales in PC right now but I am sure they will collectively cut that off and you will be left with indie releases on GOG

I think most decent and intelligent people would never consider going in to politics a good move career wise

Only way it is worth it is by stealing money from the country in one way or another

This has all been the case on PC for a long time and there isn’t much complaining over there

I already buy everything digitally so don’t mind that much personally, would be nice if they committed to long term backwards compatibility though

I’m just glad it’s not enough to tear the world order apart, his stupidity is largely ignored but other nations now

My work got rid of gender preferences next to names on company systems because some people would use mistakes to attack others

They can just deal with like adults now

Apple has spent 5 years selling products with neural cores in them, they are well placed to add functionality that runs on device

They were also smart enough to realise a few years back that the tech was half baked and held of until now

Failed experiment, anyway let’s move on

I like to think that most of these maga types know what they are saying are illogical most of the time, but I may be giving them too much credit

Would be nice if we started blocking these big US tech companies who don’t pay their share, their value is questionable

EU alternatives should be regulated better and I am sure they would pop up almost immediately

I don’t have that either

It’s a spectrum, but I seem to be on the see nothing in my mind end

I’ll always remember going to a rise against concert and scalpers outside were saying “tickets for rise against the machine”, they have no idea what they are selling

Gaymers?, what did you censor

And I imagine Antarctic has some relation to being the antipodean arctic

Well I got aphantasia, so I’ll stick with tv and films thanks

America is a broken country that rewards the rich few and has no empathy for the rest

This is just one symptom of that

My current role gave me an ultra wide and a second monitor mounted vertically

Almost immediately turned off the second monitor, and the ultrawide I maintain my terminal in a more standard widescreen area

I really hate distractions outside my field of view

UK, a few chains tried it here but I imagine it was enough to drive people away so you don’t see it much anymore