dormedas @ dormedas @lemmy.dormedas.com

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Fuck the cybertruck but I agree. To me, it looks like a firm layer of ice and a distinct lack of tires which can handle ice or chains failing that. Cybertruck's weight is doing it no favors here either, and the load helped pull him down the hill. Chains would have made a huge difference in this condition.

If you expected Analogue to have a reasonable amount of product (ready for release or otherwise), you have not been paying attention.

Fair, and I don’t mean to sound or act like it’s already over. Reading it back now, it does, but I did mean it to be more of a … wake up call (?) that judges’ orders probably won’t mean much. That the danger is here, with us, in the present.

Perhaps my perspective is better explained as “He will do what he wants. Until he is forced not to.”

That force could come from politicians, people refusing to execute his dictates, or - as seems more and more like the only way out - from revolt.

If you took that to mean I do, you’ve misinterpreted. The judge lacks an enforcement mechanism. That sucks, but it’s the truth.

What do you mean? Judges don’t have any authority in this new fascist America. He’s not gonna comply.

The little leaf does indicate account age.

Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.

Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.

Updated servers and other services.

The science actually says that 60 hours a week, when maintained, is less productive than 40. You can gain productivity in the short term by mandating overtime, but the limit is around two weeks. You also pay for it in lost productivity the following weeks anyway, so it’s more a shifting of productivity.

If he actually cared about productivity (which is related to service/development and eventually profit), he wouldn’t be saying this falsehood.

For context: I was very young around the NES & SNES era, but a lot of kids back then went to play at other kids’ houses. Not every household had one, but one of my friends would and I’d want to go play at their house because they had one. In this way, 30 million NES’ could reach far more million people (kids), leading to modern nostalgia.

Personally, my grandpa had a NES and I ALWAYS wanted to go to his house to play Duck Hunt.

I’m working my way up the generations and I need to replay Alola in the Ultra games since I only had Pokemon Sun before and had different livingdex rules when I played it. A bit unfortunate for time-sake, but I really liked the Alola games. Good luck on your dex!

To add some naming inspiration, my friend and I like dumb nicknames like:

Blingo Splorp Gunch Slizbop Boizo

You sort of need to keep track of creature count but I feel like the game should do that for me, and not in a menu.

Makes you wonder how these CEOs are “so good at business” when they make stupid business decisions which were obviously avoidable. You can’t be excited for Trump as a CEO knowing full well it’ll harm your business and then complain.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are both WAY slower than Platinum. In particular there’s just a delay between every action and Pokémon losing health in battle is excruciatingly slow. Mostly fixed in Platinum.

Scarcity and some artificial scarcity called grading. Take for example Pokémon vintage trading card game packs. Base set has a bunch of print differences but even buying a normal unlimited version pack is $300-400. The value of a Charizard, if you pull it out of that pack, is ~$200-400 raw. However, if you grade it and it comes back a 10, it’s suddenly “worth” $1000+.

This is not quite as prevalent in video games but it is happening. The price of popular Pokémon games that are complete in box are sky high because someone somewhere wants to buy it and submit it for the chance it’s “worth” 10x the price.

Pricecharting.com is your friend. Patience is a virtue.

I read an article testing the same disc drive in multiple PlayStations and they continued to work. My guess is that Sony pays for console X to be able to use a disc drive when one is inserted, and then pays for console Y when one is inserted. They probably can check the ID of the disc drive, but they also probably don’t care that much.

but just like installing a PS5 disc drive, a PSN outage would have prevented first-time setup of something that simply does not require an internet connection.

I want to address this section by the author. Should any old disc drive work offline? Yes. Do PlayStation’s? No.

In the interest of saving money, Sony doesn’t pre-pay for the Blu-Ray Disc Association License, so they use the internet to know when to pay the license fee on behalf of the user. So from a legal standpoint by an entity which does not want to get sued, their course of action to save money requires this.

This would basically be my reply as well. Companies are in the game to make money, and setting up all this infrastructure, not to mention maintaining it, is NOT cheap.

You apparently can transfer saves on PS4/5 offline. For PS4 they can be copied to a USB drive, but more to your point here, the only way to copy PS5 saves around (besides PS+) are to do console backup and restore processes and then during that process say you want to take save games wholesale (and then restore them wholesale). That’s definitely greedy bullshit.

I don’t know what more to say, consoles are walled gardens that consumers pay to be in. Within those walled gardens, the company dictates the rules. There’s plenty of good arguments for using a more open platform like PC. Not the least of which is that PlayStation has had an abysmal console cycle for trying to prove their console is worth purchasing - what with it having basically no exclusives that won’t eventually come to PC, first-party or otherwise.

From the consumer’s perspective, at its cheapest, it’s $10/month to play with your friends on PlayStation, be able to claim new games monthly which are good for as long as you are paying the subscription, and have cloud saves (among a few other minor benefits).

No service can guarantee uptime, that’s just the reality of it. This is the largest PSN outage in 14 years. Most outages have not been this long or widespread.

Napkin math shows their uptime to be ~99.5% in the 18 years it’s been operational. Not that good nowadays, but not something you can’t sell to people.

Walled gardens and all. That’s the cost of doing business on PlayStation. Perhaps we’ll see some pushback from developers to PlayStation that might carve a path for sidestepping PSN services if the developer wants to.

It’s important to note, though, that PSN (and Xbox Live, and Steam) does provide useful services to developers in exchange for that cost of doing business.