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Umm… I am an American, and never said anything about hating the place. I dislike the American attitude I encounter daily that everything happening here has more importance and everywhere else is irrelevant.

FWIW, Apple has 28% of the global market share compared to Google at 70%. By the numbers, one is far closer to being a monopoly than the other.

40%+ of the world

That’s dillusional American-centric thinking. Apple only has a 28% market share globally while Android still dominates over 70%.

I haven’t bought Elden Ring for this exact reason, but I love watching other people struggle and then succeed at it.

I have one friend who uninstalled Elden Ring completely after they reduced the difficulty of the new expansion DLC because he felt like they watered down his achievement of beating it.

Ultimately games are a form of art and their designers and developers have the ultimate say in how accessable (or not) they want to make the experience. I have also seen games with way too much ease of play features that completely destroy any challenge to the point of making it unplayable (looks a Ubisoft).

Researching games before you buy has become a critical skill to avoid feeling burned, because social media does an amazing job of selling you games through FOMO.

That’s a lot easier said than done. There’s a reason property in that area is relatively more affordable than in other parts of the state.

Can he even reach the bumpers on a controller?

It’s actually a “test things first and have a proper change control process” thing. Doesn’t matter if it’s open source, closed source scummy bullshit or even coded by God: you always test it first before hitting deploy.

Fearing for their safety on an Australian tour? No, if you read the article the response is all political and Australian politicians were calling for the band’s deportation.

VLC can play analog tape?

Yeah, we’ve got ammo vending machines in grocery stores, I’m just waiting for the disposable single-use SMGs in vending machines.

I’ve used an Intel V8 NUC with a discreet AMD GPU for years to do all sorts of self hosting. It makes a fantastic Plex server as it can transcode really fast.

Yet another hilariouschaos troll community to block.

Yeah, that seems to be what most people are saying.

I’m not touching that game personally: I read their EULA and it includes the sale of analytics data to 3rd parties.

Oh yeah hold on, lemme just pay my rent and credit card bill with Monero, oh right! They don’t accept any form of cypto

You have to buy new character classes with premium currency, and they’re not what I would call “micro” transactions. Technically I guess you could earn them through play, but you’d have to willing to grind a lot.

Yes, exactly this. I have a 20-something friend I made through online games who was trying so hard to get me to install this, and he had never even heard of Nexon.

No, it only looks like the matrix screen saver to normal eyes, but when you’re wearing that hacker mask, you can actually see through the code directly into the pipes of the Internet.

Yeah, totally agree, they have become a monopoly, which I think is part of the problem that led them cutting corners and de-integrating their supply chain.

Vertical integration with a supplier that used to be part of Boeing helps make it safer. The whole problem is Boeing has moved further and further away from their suppliers, to the point they don’t pay them up front for development, and they’re literally making their contractors fight each other to come up with the cheapest possible parts.

Anything that moves the needle back the other way is good, but they still have a long way to go.