You definitely have a point… if US was the only country in the world and Uber did not provide a much better service than our local taxis. I mean yeah the local ones are cheaper but considering overall service, fuck no.

For me, one of the major advantages of Game Pass is publishers are absolutely refusing to put local regional pricing nowadays. Games at 60$+ cannot be bought by anyone with middle class salaries. Now with push to 70-80 usd+ for AAA, even AA games getting to 60$ it is impossible to buy in my country.

So why should I get a single game at those prices when I can get few hundred at similar pricing? It’s MSs problem that they are willing to put their games day 1 on GP not mine. I don’t care whether games are getting “devalued” or whatever, I’m simply getting what I paid for.

Also, people do tend to buy games standalone and I really can’t see that going away honestly. I can’t see games ever going subscription only or anything like that.

I know, I know lmfao. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to leach the hell out of this until it goes away.

Forza Horizon is good for that experience

Game pass is awesome. Played a fuck ton of games at that price. Hope it stays forever, especially with that stacking model lol.

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Have the primary contributers moved to CoMaps as well?

Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on

I really want to see an LLM vs LLM chess match. It’ll be messy as hell.

Who?

This is right-hand propaganda

Unironically the “Men will do X besides going to therapy” meme

Good god about time

Tbh out of the big corpos MS has been one of the least anti-competitive in the past 10-15 years. They like to push their own services with ads within their own services yes but that’s not really anti competitive in the truest sense, every company on earth does that.

The biggest one I can think of recently is them having lower rates for Windows Server on Azure vs other clouds. Compare that with companies like Apple, Google who actively attempt to put down other services.

IMO Nadella has been pretty decent in handling that part of MS. Though I don’t really have an answer to your Defender question lol.

Dude’s having an interesting life trajectory

A company with fuck off amount of legal power?

Facebook gaming was a small “phase” in gaming but it was really fun and social. I had a blast playing games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Restaurant City

Been hearing this for the past 3 years

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Yes, the government is going to get you by installing spyware in a game launcher that nobody uses. You won’t care a shit about or vet at code level any of the 200+ closed source games you will play in your life because they’re all fine in your fantasy land, but one game launcher is out to kidnap you.

Bro get a life, it’s not that serious. Evil app store lmao as if they’re out to murder you and your family