You can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black.

but we don’t even want it to begin with

Yes, that’s why you want the black one.

Hey if an A100 goes up on a used site for 400, I’ll buy it.

But then the gold rush ends and everyone has piles of shovels, your shovel investors get mad and demand a new CEO because they thought shovel demand would be that high forever.

And you’ve pissed off your loyal hobby shovelers who have been with you for decades.

I honestly don’t know how they’re so disconnected from reality. To in the same statement within 2 paragraphs say they both want to be more focused on the gamer, and immediately then say “More GenAI, more recurring payments, more Games as a Service”. I just, I don’t know man. I don’t want layoffs but man they really just don’t get it do they?

Yeah so, we know gamers have hated our stuff because of these horrible shitty practices - but, and hear me out, what if we did that stuff even more, don’t even mention things like great stories and fun worlds or anything gamers have been asking for, and also laid off most of our staff and forced return to office too?

Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a “radically new” value-creation model and become a more “gamer-centric” organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.

Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.

“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.

Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues

That’s true, the totally real guy did go to the back, make 5-6 bags of nuggets in the 4 fryers which take about 5 mins each, and no one else who worked there stopped him or called him out on it.

Like seriously, unless it was a supervisor/manager (unlikely), they would have just been kicked out of the store.

No way. Don’t believe this. Worked for 5 years at a busy McDonald’s. There is NO WAY an entire bag of nuggets would just be ready somewhere. We kept two trays going, each one had about 20 nuggets or so in it max. If this was lunch rush they might have 40 nuggets up at once, but then they were so busy they just dumped them all here.

If it was down time they may be a few available, like 10-20 getting old they need to get rid of anyway. Fine. That’s plausible.

Even end of day you don’t have a bag of nuggets of waste. Of you did your supervisor would be pissed at you for mismanaging your rotation so poorly over the day.

Zero way this is real. Dude clearly dumped a few on top of a full bag to get internet clout.

Lovers in a dangerous spacetime was a ton of fun! Very adorable, simple mechanics, plays on one screen, and not too hard. Also came out over 5 years ago so win win

Hear me out, maybe we need to teach the kid that hitting isn’t okay even when they’re hungry

Asus has always just chased after the short term goals. This reminds me when they suddenly made android tablets, and mini pcs, and every stupid tech fad. They’re always after the latest fad, they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.

I’d have to check, I’d say slightly above average. All of my appliances and HVAC are electric now, and I have a fair amount of other electrical use. If we include the EV, well above average. I don’t expect to ever get 100% off grid, but I wonder what percentage makes it worth it

I’ve been wanting to, but I only have one southern-facing roof and I can only get a few panels on there. Do you think it’s worth it for partial power?

Yeah I tried tabby too and they had like a mandatory "we share your code " line and I hoped out. Like if you’re going to do that I might as well just use claude

I’ll bite. (Note I do notice you do have a 12 day old history, and we have had a wave of spammers trying to incite bullshit, so we’ll see how this goes)

So, why play long games? Why read long books? Why watch long movies?

For me, I like a good well-told story. A game like Red Dead Redemption 2 has such a good story that it is worth investing 120 hours into. It’s protagonist, Arthur Morgan, is so well written that he is arguably the most well-written fictional character of all time. Over the course of 120 hours you get to know him so intimately that you truly feel like you know and understand him, and over the story that will both make you laugh and cry, it culminates in an amazing climax, truly a story that could only be told over 100 hours.

To answer your other points:

For me personally, I tend to look at things in terms of costs and benefits. Through that lens, most games seem like a bad deal

This goes counter to what you said at the beginning, they are actually ridiculously cheap compared to other forms of media. Going to see a 2 hour movie now costs about $18 in the states, that’s $9/hour. RDR2 was $60 and for only the first playthrough of 120 hours that’s $0.50/hour of entertainment value. Now, take playing it multiple times and it’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. (arguably the hardware to run it needs to be calculated in, but it depends on preferences etc etc etc)

When I was in HS, I had a band. Has that type of interaction simply been replaced by video games?

No. Apples and Oranges.

I really want to understand the interplay between video games and psychology.

I like good story telling. I like being enveloped in my media, and feeling truly immersed. Gaming does that in spades.

Cuz it seems like FPSes are dominant whereas not too long ago they were a single niche among many niches.

Maybe in your friend group they are, but in the circles I’m in it’s simply not true. Everyone is different. Everyone has different preferences. I just played Dispatch over the weekend, a fun 8ish hour romp that also made me both laugh out loud and well up with tears, it was an adorable game. I see 98% positive ratings on it with almost 100k reviews, so I don’t think we need to jump to “FPS is dominant”.

Not a happy place to be for sure

I hear the first screenshot.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

And neither are supposed to be punishable by death.

Thanks!

Interesting, how’d you do this?