MeatsOfRage @ MeatsOfRage @lemmy.world

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I've been thinking about getting the new pixel fold or the Samsung z flip fold. When you open them to tablet mode they're a big square screen. When you clip on a controller it looks like a sick retro gaming handheld because of the screen ratio.

https://youtu.be/giPJ8bjCxN4?si=Mv8-68Dh8_ID9Ct0

Thing is, they don't need to sell consoles anymore. They're in the gamepass business now. This is why they're pushing gamepass on phones, PCs, Samsung TVs and Firesticks. They don't really care about selling you a box under the TV anymore since they're usually sold at or near a loss anyway. They just want you on the subscription wherever you can play it.

They currently have roughly 34 million subscribers (as of February, I'm guessing Activision Blizzard King is going to bump this number up further), let's assume an average of $12 a month. That's over $400 million coming in every month or 1.2 billion every quarter on the books. They don't have to rely on a big game to have a good month.

You're more valuable to them having the gamepass subscription and just playing on your phone over someone who buys a console and purchases 7 or 8 games a year. Articles like this fundamentally misunderstand the current gaming landscape and their business model. They're not losing the race, they're playing a different sport.

Start with a topic you're interested in. For me it's movies so my weekly rotation is The Film Cast and The Big Picture for general contemporary movies. Then Blank Check, The Rewatchables and Unspooled for retrospective movies depending on which ones they're doing.

The trick is to start with your interests and start trying some stuff out. If you don't like a show, just bounce and try another. Eventually you'll find a selection of shows that works for you.

Other interest based podcasts in my rotation that I would recommend:

Music: Song Exploder, Switched on Pop, 60 Songs that Explain the 90s.

TV: The Watch, Prestige TV

Science: Twenty Thousand Hertz

Marketing: Under the Influence

Tech: Engadget, Vergecast

Videogames: DLC, Windbreaker

Curiosities: Search Engine, Decoder Ring

Can we please avoid all the editorializing in AskLemmy. I came to the comments to see an answer to this question and it's all comments about what people think about him instead of actually answering the question.

What else do you put in the snack slot?

Biggest recommendation for the Gemcraft series. I think it's absolutely one of the best TD series and it's on a deep discount right now: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13292/GemCraft_Bundle/

I've experienced this in the past. Luckily the store Winners (a Canadian chain) was good enough to replace the cards.

It really holds up, probably moreso than most N64 games. There's so much fun in the simplicity of wrecking things.

That's fair. Lost had trouble because they were building the track as they went. I still loved the ride though. For me, I don't think every question needs an answer as long as what it creates feeds into the themes of the show. Like on Lost, I wish they never explained the Smoke Monster, it just wasn't necessary.

With Leftovers, I'd say it's ending is the perfect summation of the show and anything else would betray what it was going for. ::: spoiler spoiler It's a show about logic vs belief and that's where it leaves us, do you believe Nora? What happened to the 2% ultimately doesn't matter because the show is about how people deal with the unexplainable. There's no satisfying answer to that mystery. :::

You're not alone in not liking the ending though. I've had this conversation before and it's totally ok not to.

Just a warning, the third episode is notoriously bad and not indicative of the quality of the rest of the show. It's totally skippable.

Sit still so I can smell ya

Man we sure are suckers for this Facebook level interaction bait.

I'm a huge fan of anything Damon Lindelof has been a head writer on

Lost

Watchmen

And my personal all time favorite show:

The Leftovers

He's latest show Mrs. Davis is ok too but not quite as good as his previous stuff.

Another show recommendation that I love to give because no one watched it is The English. It's a crazy stylish western, reminds me of Coen Brothers.

I Believe It's Butter

We're going for less production design and actor salary to keep things cozy.

That's your cool older brother Aquadonnis the Seahorse God and you're just Ben

Around here we love the idea of Reddit being totally devoid of life but the fact is it's still one of the most active public facing sites on the web. The attrition to sites like Lemmy is pretty negligible to the overall Reddit activity and bot AI activity only really affects the largest subreddits which have always been a bit spammy and click batey. The medium and small subreddits are still full of active people. Don't get me wrong, Lemmy is my daily driver for this content but I won't pretend everyone fled Reddit for this.

Additionally, exclusivity with Google isn't necessary just to keep the search results but to prevent their biggest AI competition ChatGPT and their ties to Microsoft from getting access to what is the Internet's largest database of public facing conversation.

I just want queue management back again 😭

Any reason to think this would be a probable takedown? Mods on Bethesda games have historically been a thriving community unless they directly infringe on another company's copyright.

If you're unaware of the recent history of this project, the big Fallout 4 update that came out a few months ago broke this project. GOG worked with them to build an installer that would downgrade Fallout 4 to the required version to run this (hence the GOG logo at the start). Good guy GOG to the rescue.