I have not played a Forza game since the first one. What did they do to muck it up? I assume the usual live service / micro transactions cancer.

It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.

The disagree is for soft walking things. They give you the choice so people feel like they have one and don’t complain, then in the future they will continue to ask everything anything changes and if you accidentally agree they will never ask you again.

I mean they don’t make it very hard to play their first party Games. Just pay the online free. The main issue is that not all of those games from 1997 are their games. They are just made for their system.

They are that’s true, but it’s because their parents bought it for them when they were young.

I mean I’m pretty sure the massive game sizes we see today are almost exclusively caused by high res textures and assets.

Why not?

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/#running-jellyfin-behind-a-reverse-proxy

At least at a casino you can get something of value. The games effectively reward you in company script.

It’s good they put it up front though. There can be a lot of entitlement with oss users sometimes and setting expectations can help alleviate that.

No shit right.

People need to stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They are not moral and simply respond to incentives.

They earned good will saying black lives matter and now they earn political will by saying trans lives don’t.

They (and every other tech company) have been doing this type of thing for nearly 20 years. You might see some whinging about it in some corners of the Internet, like here, but most people don’t know or don’t give a shit.

It sucks.

Popeye might lend itself nicely to a cuphead like game.

Hardware takes a long time to change.

A temporary patch while we wait for hardware is the way to go.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.

They already fixed it in software we don’t need to prioritize the hardware fix.

Hopefully you don’t live in the US where your insurance company can buy that data and use it to deny you coverage or raise your rates.

They already do it with cars why not CPAP machines.

I get what you are saying but your entire post dances around the actual problem. All of this is fine if there was actually good software. Ive yet to see any killer app or must have software. If there were really good games it would make the hardware short comings less important. Even apple with their typically polished experiences seems to have just dumped their headset on the market and hope for the best.

I’ve been trying fin Droid which works well but it’s definitely a work in progress.

3000s were good and the 4000s were bad value for a long time. I went AMD this generation for the first time. Gott a 7900xtx for a lot less than a 3080/4080. Prices have come down a bit though.

I mean that is true but there is some nuance.

At one time it was a cheap way to protect your site from drive by scripts and make your users help pay for that protection.

They still work in that way on say the comment section of a tiny WordPress blog because the cost to solve them isn’t worth what a random boner pill ad is worth.

The issue now (made worse recently by LLMs) is that more bots then ever are scraping any and every thing so people are putting captchas on every bit of every web app content they have. This increases the work of your users while it only slows down the bots. The hope is that the cost to solve is slightly higher than the value of the data.

I enjoyed the first two. Missed the third one. Maybe I’ll pick it up for a rainy day.

That used to be the case but I wonder if it still is.

Modern software is loaded down with telemetry and crash reporting. So the software itself is likely doing the reporting at this point.

Linux definitely has more weird permutations with regards to software and hardware and would expect it to produce more issues just based on that.