So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.

But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.

A 5% refund?

That’s almost more disrespectful than nothing.

You can’t.

Age verification is not compatible with any remotely acceptable version of the internet. It’s an obscene privacy violation in all cases by definition.

Any implementation short of a webcam watching you while you use the site is less than trivial to bypass with someone else’s ID while opening numerous massive tracking/security holes for no reason.

But you don’t get every single new game with GamePass, either. You get a mediocre set of stuff published by Microsoft with some occasional AA games and a random selection of indies, some of which are actually good, but also aren’t that expensive to just buy and own instead.

See also Door in the Face, which is very similar and one of the ways anchoring is used in practice.

IDK how I feel about rules and what the specific rule change allowing it was. I definitely don’t love shots that close to the groin.

But the sport is trying to hurt your opponent. Blows trying to wear them down are a deliberate part of it. I think there’s a level of “if the rules allow it, it’s fair game”. Is an elbow to the butthole actually worse than a knee to the face that knocks you into next week? You’re participating in a brutal sport.

If they actually get implemented? There’s a good chance your prices from anything that touches China will increase by most of the listed tariffs. Since it will disproportionately affect China, it’s possible some stuff will eventually pull manufacturing somewhere else, but that isn’t going to happen overnight. Moving manufacturing is not fast and no one else is equipped to just flip a switch and take over for them.

Your income will likely not increase 60%.

The thing with market cap is that if it’s not tied to actual revenue, it can go down just as easily as up.

Customers need to be willing to spend enough money on it to pay off the massive infrastructure costs or the bubble is going to burst.

lol I use video of my TV to blow up my brother’s phone with sports highlights all the time. If you crop them they don’t look that bad.

Open absolutely cannot mean a lot of things, and there is no possible legitimate definition of open that could ever in any context be used to describe Windows, with the sole exception of “open to bad actors”.

It’s a locked down, restrictive, broken pile of shit.

We’re not. The point is that Microsoft is lying and pretending Windows isn’t a locked down pile of shit.

It doesn’t resemble open in any legitimate interpretation of the word, though.

Even if you hack your way to a tolerable experience, they can and will randomly revert changes you make on a whim.

It violates the 13th Amendment against slavery

Uh?

The games won’t work. Games that are PS5 and not PS4 will not work correctly with hardware that is inferior, because they’re built and tuned to one specific hardware profile. You can’t just “render at lower resolution and settings” without active dev involvement. Hyper optimization literally to the point of very specific clock cycles of very specific sequences of instruction calls is the entire value proposition of a console. The build will not function properly on hardware that can’t match it exactly.

Low end games that don’t need the hardware will already work on a handheld PS4 because they already have PS4 versions. It is not a PS5 if there is one single PS5 game that doesn’t work exactly identically to an actual PS5.

Xbox series S plays the exact same games as the series X because Microsoft refused to allow games that didn’t work on the shitbox, leading demanding games to skip the entire system instead. There’s a reason Sony completely dominated this generation in sales volume, even for multiple years of supply chain disruption when Xboxes were freely available and PlayStations required months of wait time. It’s because the entire premise of the series S is a deranged idea with no redeeming factors.

It can’t offer downscaled graphics without developers actively making changes to support it. That’s not how console builds work, even if we pretend the GPU is all the power draw you need to eliminate. If there’s one single PS5 title it doesn’t support, it is not and cannot be described as a PS5.

At some future point, it will be, for sure. But it draws 200 watts, so you’re going to need to improve the efficiency by a factor of ~10, costs haven’t decreased like normal due to a bunch of global factors, and it’s looking like we’re getting closer to the point of needing new techniques to continue shrinking. If you wait long enough it will be an option, but you could very reasonably match the PS4 and scale up production in the next year or so if you wanted to.

The PS5 Pro runs everything made for PS5 without compromise. It takes absolutely nothing from the developer to work with any game that is available for PS5. This is not some optional trait. It’s mandatory for calling it a PS5 not to be overt fraud. Every PS5 game in someone’s library must work, without exception, for a new device to be a PS5. If it literally requires a checkbox from the developer, it is not a PS5.

The Xbox series S is the entire reason the entire console family is a shitheap no one will even consider buying. A cut down version destroys the entire ecosystem.

It does have to be.

The entire point of consoles is standardized hardware. If it requires a single line of code from the developers anywhere in the process, it doesn’t play PS5 games and you don’t have the library you’re advertising.

The second there’s a single instruction you can’t replicate the same/better clock for clock performance in, it is not a handheld PS5. Especially when anything that doesn’t need the power has a PS4 version.

There’s no chance.

Steam Deck isn’t remotely comparable in performance to a PS5.

PS5 isn’t practical.

Just do a handheld PS4. That’s achievable and opens a huge library.

I love how you spam the same copy pasted stupidity everywhere steam is mentioned without knowing what abducted means.