He's never going to get this past the regulators. Financial break points and buffers make sense, every financial crisis and crisis of stability has taught us that. If you continue to build too big to fail systems, it's going to be a complete disaster. Deposit institutions shouldn't be involved in speculative investment banking , which is what high yield usually is. You can't pay high yields if you aren't in turn doing any sort of high yield activity with investor deposits. Or without any sort of prop trading. Which he's sort of suggesting this is going to be. Some of this sounds like it's going to break the Volcker rule.
Not to even mention this might not qualify for FDIC protections.
For almost $100 bucks at release (over $100 for any deluxe version), I personally expect finished products without excuses. The odd bug is of course not an issue, but I'm not a beta tester at that price. At $20 or $30? Meh. $89 and up? No dice.
I'll remain on the sidelines until the issues are resolved and see if it grows into a quality replacement for the first one. Hopefully on sale someday. That's for sure my stance. These game releases are getting less and less exciting, because we are seeing more and more issues at release. I'm not ready to admit it's excusable.
There will be a total of three of them available on the market, and they will be one billion dollars after all mark ups and navigating the scalper marketplace.
I'm struggling to think of a time, where a thought popped into my head of something I'd like to print, that I went to printables/thingiverse and something wasn't there. Literally never. And I've thought of some pretty random shit...
They've had that standby mode for a few years for sure (I mostly use PS, but Xbox will have the same). I don't know why though, for whatever reason after a while it just stops working. Might be the routers cycling or whatever, but it'll stay on standby forever, but when you login there's still a sea of updates and most stuff is unable to be played. I hear you on the multiplayer requirements and whatever too, personally I'm never a multiplayer. I'd accept the risks of a game being out of date if it just allowed me to skip updating.
My biggest, biggest pet peeve of the PS4/PS5 era, is this. I'm in my 40s, I'm a senior management level professional, I'm on some boards, I've got very young kids. The amount of times I get to sit down and just go ahhhhh and fire up the PlayStation, number in the very low single digits each quarter. This means my PlayStation has to update what feels like two hundred thousand things, and I just want to play a god damn game. Nope, I have to update the new system software, have to update the games update, something for the sound, it literally feels like it never ends. So my three free hours turns into me throwing the controller and just moving on to something else more often than not, only for the cycle to repeat. It's infuriating.
I think you are going to start seeing an ad exodus from social, that's my prediction. Connected TV ad spend is going to be what catches all the ad dollars in 2024, especially if Netflix and Amazon start sliding towards exposing their viewers to more ads. Social media is going to start its long decline as a result, turning into pay to play as they all try to survive a world with declining ad revenues.
The level of ad dollars flying away from Twitter this year has been staggering. Elon has come back from a lot of shit in the past, but I don't think he'll ever be able to recover it from this, it's just going to be a long circle downward. He's truly lost the plot on this one, and the world's already moved on. Truth be told, I haven't understood Twitter for years anyways, but that's just me.
Ad buyers are demanding accountability for their spends. They want to see justifiable results from their campaigns, so that means heavy measurement that can attribute their spend to quantifiable lifts. Meanwhile, over at twitter? You have a billionaire having a mid life crisis and sticking his thumbs in his ears going lalalalala, pissing off his entire user base and basically taking stances on his platform that no reasonable ad buyers can realistically support. Also doesn't help when your user base is quickly turning into mostly far right wing maniacs. Not going to survive this new age of advertising, when that's pretty much your whole funding model.
I'm not. I'll just wait for the playoffs, as the regular season is next to pointless, and the rules all change in the playoffs. So it's pretty much meaningless, other than making the playoffs. If I was an NHL GM, especially a Canadian one, that would be my prime focus. Just do well enough to make it, and find a way to stash a whole bunch of studs on the IR, until just before the playoffs. And be way over cap.
I only grabbed a 5800x3D at boxing day last year, because I'm running an AM4 board and it was one less thing I'd need to update, well that and I'd have to also buy all new ram and buy in at the peak of pricing.
If I was building from scratch today, I would unquestionably do an AM5 build. If I had an AM4 board and I was otherwise happy with my RAM setup, it's still a pretty tough choice. You aren't going to get as much time out of it at this point vs AM5, at least I don't think. It also means your next build is going to almost for sure need to be entirely a new build, save for the case, the power supply (if it's big enough) and maybe the storage (which hopefully will be larger and cheaper by then). The hard part, too, is they are already talking about a release window for AM6. So maybe AM5 doesn't last as long as AM4 does, making this all moot. But you'd probably still have a refresh window with AM5 at that point, and not be totally obsolete.
I think a DDR5 build at this point is the way to go, but I'd highly recommend getting a bigger power supply for future proofing. I'd also consider a slight bump in the video card. Definitely get a bigger power supply though, as I made that mistake doing a 2020 build, only could get a 2000 series NVIDIA GPU at the time, so I just stuck a 650W in as that's all it needed. Then once shit calmed down, I decided to catch the 5800x3d discount wave with a 4070ti and I had to get a new power supply. Spend the extra 50 bucks now, rather than spending $150 down the road and cursing yourself the whole time as you have to essentially rewire your whole setup. I wouldn't go lower than 850W these days, and that's going to be overkill for your setup right now, but it likely won't always be.
You'll also need more RAM soon enough too, but that's easy breezy down the road, allocate your money to something else right now. Just make sure to get it on two sticks and if your motherboard has four slots (pretty sure it does), you can always grab two more matching sticks on sale down the road. Problem solved.
Oh, get a better hard drive than that too, there's a reason it's so cheap (PCI3). Just grab a 1TB for about the same price, but a PCI4 one. This is also something thats super easy to update down the road, and you don't need to worry about for a bit, as 1TB will probably get you through the next year at least.
I'm never buying a smart watch again. I bought into the Moto360 hype back around this same period. The watch was slow as molasses and basically next to useless. The battery wouldn't last a full day either. You'd look down to tell the time, and it would be blank. So phone out of the pocket, which is what they are supposed to help prevent.
It was the watch that made me realize that I'd rather just have an actual watch. The battery completely gave out on it sometime in 2018, and it looked like a PITA to fix, so now I have this really attractive gold watch with a nice band that's completely useless. Won't be handing it down to the grandkids, that's for sure. I've got a nice real watch now, and they can have that.
One of the biggest problems with AI that I find right now, is it outright will lie to you. I've been getting more and more in depth with it, and the more I do, the more bullshit I'm finding. Early days though.
I can barely get a phone to last three years, let alone seven. The way we use these devices anymore, there's no way in hell it's going seven years without some sort of maintenance and upkeep. The battery won't last that long, and by year six the thing will be chugging like a commodore trying to run Android 19. I respect the promise, but don't trust Google with their track record, and very few people will limp these devices into year seven, and they know it.
What was the very first thing Android 14 marketed to me on install this aft? Google Podcasts...
I stand corrected, it does look like it's $68 CAD on Steam. I could have sworn it was $89 at some point, but obviously am wrong on that.