absquatulate @ absquatulate @lemmy.world

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Problem is folks won't move, they're too entrenched. Look at twitter, it's still going ok despite having been a cesspit for years now. Or reddit, where some moved, but they moved to yet another enshittified platform: Discord. The amount of crap people ( especially the ones on discord ) will put up with is immense before they even consider switching.

Are HMDs really more repairable? Most recent phone they had that tried to be repairable was Skyline and even there it was pretty limited. And btw that one didn't have a jack either.

I'd be tempted to say this is good news, but I bet it'll end up being just another tax on poor nations.

Edit: amusing how these days "all major nations" does not include US anymore

I know it's cool to hate on this game, especially with it being so mediocre, but to me the number is fairly meaningless by itself. I wonder how that 2 million budget compares to other large releases ( say Starfield, since it's pretty clear that bethesda also pumped a lot of money into the "gaming press")

It's not just perception, it's mindless tribalism and it's a form of bigotry in itself. It's no better than doing things to "own the libs" or whatever.

And the irony, some express this attitude on lemmy, which unlike signal is an actual platform, not a chat app, and with tankie roots to top it off.

It is what it is, I suppose.

Why should it matter if the new users are all magas or not?

Isn't this the rule with every civ launch? They're all somewhat half-baked on launch (although 7 admittedly looks quite a bit less baked than the others).

That said, I feel Civ formula seems to be in decline. To me Call To Power was peak civ ( yeah, fight me ), but while 3,4 and 5 were great "second-bests", I couldn't really get into 6 and I'm not really planning on playing 7 ( not with this 3-age format anyway ).

Seventh mullet...locked!

I was wondering when microsoft would start putting the screws to steam.

Mark my words, soon it'll be a requirement to have the xbox app to run your steam stuff ( or smth similar )

Plastic may be so, but glass recycling has been a thing for decades (depending on where you are), aliminium recycling is all well, same for paper (if grease free) There's also wooden alternatives for a lot of plastic/silicon stuff, and wood can be reused/burned/mulched.

So in a way it IS your responsibility - to give up plastic

This is so strange. Wasn't it not long ago that studios were crowding into very specific release windows ( usually november iirc ) so they could maximize initial sales? Maybe the digital release era has changed things. I mean, I get it if your game was in the same niche or smth, but "companies might tank" seems a little much.

Either way, if this is true, eoy 2025 is in for a dry spell when it comes to new games.

Edit: Also I find it hilarious how all these "industry analysts" keep popping up suggesting ominous things despite Rockstar not saying a peep about the game besides the trailer. Almost as if they were paid to do it.

Funny, I went blind into RDR2 and, not knowing about John's story, the epilogues felt so weird and out of place. I still can't really get into his story, maybe because on a subconscious level it feels like it broke the closure I had from Arthur's. But yeah, RDR2 really is a fantastic game. They nailed pretty much everything.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, this pretty much confirms that the leading parties have been colluding to manipulate elections. The ideal situation would have been him getting his ass whoopped by being voted out. On the other, there was a non-zero chance that he might actually have won.

Either way, the shitshow is not even close to being over. These parties make up 32% of our current parliament, and they're likely to grow after this stunt, so we'll have to deal with this crap again during the next election cycle, or sooner.

This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.

Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.

110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.

PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit.

Again, I thought this was a national strategic resource, regardless of profit. Over here in europe's armpit the national post has been running at a loss for nigh on 40 years, and it's still kept afloat, for better or worse.

I would be tempted to say that it will now turn to shit, but in Discord's case it was pretty shit already.

The game is not without its flaws, but goddamn if it doesn't look, sound and feel fantastic.

Can't say I'm surprised. There were credible rumous that the US pressured our gvt to release them. Word on the street is that they "traded" handing these two over in exchange for the US shutting up about the arrest of the russian puppet candidate. These both happened in the same day, so there may some truth to that. Honestly this wouldn't feel like that bad of a deal - one manchurian candidate for two instagram pimps. It's immoral, cowardly and corrupt, but these are the times we're living in.

Just remember this every time a US official blabbers stuff about other countries' election interference.

Times square? Damn, I thought they were strapped for cash and barely profitable.

Good for them I suppose, but just remember that corps are not your friends. Even GOG is part of a stockmarket-listed entity that has fiduciary duties and can turn to crap in an instant. Keep your games offline and archived folks.

That moment when you're too far right for the far-right.

This feels like Romania, due to the general architecture and the fact that Uruses are goto cars for the "nouveau riche" over here.

Anyway, tell her to take great care OP. A 20yo in an Urus on romanian roads feels like a recipe for disaster.