Is it a collection of games or more of a mashup? Ie, do you get a menu where you pick one of many games that are independent of each other, or is there an overall narrative (or something) that ties them all together like the NES remix packs?

Imo work hours should result in equity and a say in how the company is run. Maybe a split like half the votes come from shareholders and half comes from the workers. And if the company does share buybacks, the worker share increases.

Or unionize and make it known that if the company is purchased, the union will walk out or start their own.

Could add a reference to the coup against Xi, too. Dunno if it’s true, but it’s probably something whoever is in control of the CCP would want to censor either way, at least until they are ready to openly replace Xi if it is true (though even then, they probably won’t be calling it a coup).

I have a Logitech mouse and keyboard. I don’t use their software even though it’s free. Other than the shitty switches, it’s a good mouse. Actually, the wireless connection isn’t great compared to the G7 (I thought I was getting frame stutters at first until I realized it went away if I plugged my mouse in). And the battery not being easily removable is dangerous, as mine was swelling when I opened it up to replace one of those shitty switches a few weeks ago.

But if they do try it, they’ll probably be quickly dethroned since mice and keyboards aren’t exactly difficult to make and even today the wear and tear is because they wanted to save a buck or two on switches (or were tricked into thinking crappy switches were good ones).

Maybe they just thought they had a monopoly.

More about monetizing everything, preferring services over products, designing for maximum profit, making anti-piracy a higher priority than performance (when pirates just remove that part entirely and end up with a better experience than paying customers), etc… they aren’t necessarily trained to produce bad content, but the bigger publically traded studios generally seem to be going down the enshitification path while smaller studios or teams continue to put out fun games that don’t just feel like a money sucking machine with a video game mask on.

Business majors confused that the things they were taught in school are failing to generate piles of cash.

There will be a point where APUs will make dGPUs obsolete. Their advantages are huge and it’s just the raw power and bandwidth that needs to catch up. Things like lower latency between CPU and GPU, and the big one: being able to use a shared address space. I don’t think even today’s APUs generally do that and instead set aside some system RAM to act as video RAM, but that setup involves a lot of copying data back and forth between video memory and system memory. If they both can just access the same memory space, that no longer needs to happen at all.

So it’s just a matter of fitting more compute cores on that package (which isn’t limited by chip size with chiplets) and scaling up the memory bandwidth until those advantages above reach parity with a dGPU.

It was good at the time because it was an improvement from the feudal system that basically said the king owns everything and allows subordinates to manage things for him with more layers down to serfs who were bound to the land they lived on. The people benefited because initially ownership spread out and different owners would compete with each other to attract workers or renters.

At this point, the issue is that things are getting consolidated and looking more and more like the feudal system, only with corporations at the top owning most assets instead of kings (which also creates a layer of indirection obscuring the true owners behind the corporations, other than some of the more attention seeking ones like Musk, Gates, or Bezos).

The exploitation of the colonized people and stealing their resources acted as a multiplier to this. Supply increased, so prices decreased for demand to meet the new supply.

Woah, really? I had just noticed that the play button is replaced by an update button when there’s one pending and was a bit frustrated because my gap between playing paradox game sessions is long enough that it usually says my last save might not work.

How is it for figuring out which version you need to go back to? Like would it be enough to use a file timestamp to match it to the version you would have used at that time?

I mean, the earliest corporations were colonial expeditions, so it would depend on your definition of “benefit to society” to say if that was really a good thing.

My take: emulators and in platform competition should be fair game. An ecosystem monopoly is still a monopoly.

I believe they meant what happens on the steam side, not the gog side.

You could sell it anyways then buy something else that might have a better chance of rising. No guarantee that it will work out, but also no guarantee that EA stock will ever get to the point you’re hoping it will. Thinking you need to hold it until you get your money back is literally the sunk cost fallacy.

And I just looked at their stock right now, if you bought it right at the all time peak, you’re only down about 15% right now.

I’ve got a game that I purchased on Steam during a sale that sat in my backlog for a while before I went to install it. But checked the reviews again first and saw complaints about the EA launcher and realized “oh no shit, it’s a star wars game, of course that’s EA” and installed a different game instead.

I was then just tempted by a massive sale on mass effect complete edition (actual name might be wrong, but one that includes most or all of the games in one package). Like it is pretty much at the automatic buy level, but again looked at reviews and saw complaints about the EA launcher and moved on instead.

Though now I’m wondering if there’s a workaround or something to de-EA their games.

Zsnes had/has some tools similar to that. Can’t remember if there was a diff (I might not have realized the usefulness of that at the time and skipped over it), but I do remember using a search function to see if I could find values from the UI.

Some of those Hades hours were from me. Just have two achievements left but one of them will require skilling up a bit.

In this case, I’m not even convinced by complaints about the cut because tencent owns 15% of remedy and probably used that to influence the decision. Though I wonder if remedy shareholders could sue over such a bad decision that’s more about benefiting epic than remedy (though failing to benefit both).

Yeah, while I wouldn’t be against decent competition for Steam, exclusivity deals aren’t something involved with that. I’m not sure MBAs even know how to compete with Steam.

Though maybe, at some point, some capitalist will realize that there’s a ton of money to be made from providing good products where the primary design concerns aren’t about maximizing profit or ensuring future profit can be made.

Plus I don’t think that there current engine is broken beyond fixing. It does some funny things on occasion, but (from what I’ve seen) it mostly has to do with edge cases allowing objects to overlap and then how it tries to resolve that when it detects it. It’s possible that some minor changes could fix it.