Hypx @ Hypx @kbin.social

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2TB SSDs are going for as little as $60 right now. This isn't much of a problem anymore.

It is shaping up to being another massive bubble...

Three, Elon has sold his soul to the devil and this is what happens when the devil collects his due.

He has metaphorically done this already. He clearly has abandoned any sense of morality or ethics for personal gain. This is true regardless of how he got here. He is just evil now.

Except that they can't. The only thing they can do is to give up on the Series S. Sure, that is a disaster as it means millions of Series S buyers are basically on a dead console. But they're headed in that direction anyways.

If they’d taken the Series S as the base line during development, they would have made life a lot easier for themselves.

The problem is that the baseline is actually the PS5. It outsells both versions of the Xbox by a factor of 2. So the Xbox Series S is an afterthought, and always will be.

Please stop listening to corporate propaganda on this subject. You have absolutely no personal responsibility to solve this problem. The idea that you have to is an invention from business. A way to make it a personal responsibility and not something businesses have to solve.

It did not sell at full price everywhere.

And again, it has to NET $2 billion, not gross. You are simply deceiving yourself if you think it is guaranteed to make money.

Not everything sold at full price. By six month, it was probably closer to 50M. GTA Online has a much higher cost basis. It is not a magic trick to generate free cash. Again, they need to NET $2 billion, not gross $2 billion.

Again, GTA6 really has to match the success of GTA5 or else it will lose money. You don't know if it can.

Actually no. They probably did not gross $2 billion until they sold around 40-50 million copies.

GTA6 will have to fully match the success of GTA5 to be a success. That is the risk here.

That's grossing $2 billion. But they'll still lose money at that point. They will have to net $2 billion, which won't happen until they sell like $4 billion or more.

It will be the most expensive game in history, with a reputed development budget of around $2 billion. Anyone can do the math and realize that it would have to sell in ridiculous numbers to make that up. If it doesn't capture the magic of past GTA releases, it will be a massive money loser.

Eventually, there will something like a 1000 Hz monitor. At some point, it will refresh too fast for the brain to register any difference.

The world is fighting fewer wars than ever in history. That doesn't mean there are no wars, they're just much fewer in number compared to the past.

I'm curious how far you can take this. Can you drink only espressos and still get hydrated?

I've seen these folding phones before, and they have a hugely noticeable crease in the middle. You might as well accept a narrow gap instead.

What's wrong with just having two screens? If properly engineered, the seam in the middle would be extremely thin and barely noticeable.

The biggest advantage is backwards compatibility with existing x86 software. You will lose that with a switch to ARM.

Conservatism in the US is just a white supremacy movement these days. People need to realize that.

The simple answer is to give it all away in some way. The notion that you can personally do good with that money is the delusion of every billionaire.