That’s why my TV doesn’t have internet access. I just bought a cheap laptop and plugged it in. It’s probably cheaper and runs software better than the cheap ass hardware they put into TVs.

As a purchaser of many games online, that makes sense to me. Especially for younger people growing up with this kinda stuff it would be nice to differentiate the two.

Just remember that every time you see this, someone has to go home and tell their family that they don’t have a job anymore. Or someone has to explain to their landlord why rent will be late. These aren’t just statistics, they’re people.

And remember that every time this happens, it’s literally just to save more money for the “important people” and shareholders. And I guarantee we will see a price bump in Disney services before the end of the year for the exact same reason.

Very similar when it comes to the core principles behind it. The UI is very different, but it can essentially do all the same things and even shares some file formats for projects.

Personally I use OpenMPT and have been since I was a kid. It’s an open source tracker that is surprisingly powerful if you can get it to do what you want. It’s similar to trackers like ProTracker from the old school days but more modernized and easier to use (mostly). It’s not the easiest software to use but it’s what I’m used to. But if you are set on ProTracker you might be able to look up stuff about OpenMPT (or any tracker for that matter) and some of the information might translate over. I know this might not be helpful, but I hope it helps with a starting point at least.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think most gamers actually want to kill people. I prefer no real world consequences when I shoot people.

Well if you didn’t put PSN on a single player game you wouldn’t have this happen. I was gonna buy it day one until I heard. Instead, I’m just focusing on my backlog that’s been piling up and I’ll just get it when it’s on sale

Also remember that PSN isn’t available in all countries. So if you’re in one of those 100+ countries you can’t even play it if you buy it.

I highly recommend the game, but I totally get you. I didn’t buy it for years for the exact same reason. Eventually it was on a good sale when I was between games so I got a chance to play it. If you’re an anime fan you will probably love the game. And if you’re not, it may be cringy as fuck on occasion but you’ll probably still love the game after getting sucked in. But if you end up never playing it, that’s totally fine too. I’ve found in life that you don’t need to watch every movie and play every video that are highly praised. I still haven’t played the Mass Effect games even after owning all of them for 5 or so years.

Regardless of the circumstances and if it’s true, it’s good to know that they can disable your car whenever they want. In all reality it was probably just because the cyber truck is a train wreck of a vehicle.

My first instinct was “hey I can’t see the top of the tape, can you send me a better one?”

I’m also procrastinating at work, so that’s probably why I’m in the mindset. I’m supposed to be doing an elevation certification but I don’t wanna.

I’m 90% sure I’ve seen this picture. Where I work we do shit like this all the time to get elevations when excavating. I almost shit myself when I saw this meme. I was like “why is a work photo in this meme?”

After never hearing of this before, my initial thought was that it was gonna be live action which would have been super disappointing. But now I’m actually excited (If I still used Netflix, that is)

Shall we add it to the list, then?

Also, that’s what difficulty settings are for… Which the game has.

After Starfield my expectations are so low that the only way I’d be disappointed is if it’s worse than Skyrim. And Skyrim wasn’t even that amazing in hindsight.

My favorite part is that bout 5 miles down the highway they have fibre optic. They’ve been “installing” it for about 4 or 5 years now. They’ve had the spool just sitting outside for half that time.

I just wanna blow shit up and have a good time. I like a challenge for sure, but what they did was just silly. I remember getting back online a couple months back and realizing all my favorite guns had half the ammo and felt like I was shooting bugs with a nerf gun (pun intended). I played one mission and got so frustrated I quit and haven’t played since. Instead of buffing the weapons nobody was using to make them more fun, they nerfed all the fun weapons so all the weapons felt like ass.

I remember reading a while back that they nerfed the grenade pistol so it only had like 2 or 3 shots per resupply. As the only guy that probably ever used it, my only thought was “well why the fuck would I even bring it than?! What the fuck do you expect me to do with two fucking shots in my gun?”

As someone that uses Starlink due to nothing else being in my area, I hate everything about this. Sure the convenience of having internet wherever I want is nice, but this still sucks. Especially since I’m a huge space nerd so this shit just hurts my soul.

The only thing that would make me not want to play games made by EA more than I already do is if they started making games with AI. Besides a select few games, most of what they make is already soulless cash grabs. This would make it literally a soulless cash grab in every way.

Also the technology they talked about is either none existent or not nearly as great as they “showed.” Hence why they had to fake it.

I don’t even buy from Amazon anymore. The fact that everything I want to buy has 4.5 stars or higher is already suspicious. I’ve seen reviews for stuff that aren’t even related to the product along with garbled reviews that were obviously generated by AI. I’d rather just go to the store than trust anything on Amazon. And none of this even scratches the surface when you realize Amazon sells things that are straight up dangerous. From faulty fuses that could burn your house down to auto cleaning litter boxes that will kill your cat. All from drop shipping companies you can barely pronounce.

Edit: Oh yeah and don’t forget Amazon bribes people with gift cards to make positive reviews and they delete negative reviews. You literally can’t trust anything on the entire site anymore.