It’s certainly a ways away but Gaben won’t live forever. I’m assuming there’s a clear succession plan in place and hopefully that everyone lined up are on roughly the same wavelength but… well, there’re no guarantees.

Sorry, no. My video drivers fucked up while installing somehow and I had to blow them out with DDU and reinstall everything to get normal functioning back on my PC. I’ve had countless random errors, performance hangs, and more due to just random stupid Windows 11 shit that had to be identified and solved by repeated web searches and in a few cases obtaining and running specialized tools to cleanse my system of the filth W11 is full of.

NONE of this is part of the usual console experience. Exceptions exist, yes. And technical support when they occur is dramatically simpler because they’re all the same.

I think you’re forgetting just how fucking stupid the average person is, and how lazy they are. We’re in the era of cognitive surrender to chatGPT. You think these drooling morons want to web search how to fix a driver installation somehow getting corrupted?

Because a console will still be plug in and play.

“Gamers push back.” Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.

I think it was a CoD that big but it might have been some other AAA perennial. Either way, 4K textures are huge when unoptimized and in the era of gigabit internet and digital distribution, devs don’t feel much pressure to optimize.

Good thing she’s such a cutie!

And CoD is 250GB or something.

I don’t disagree, but it’s hard to think of many states that are still around today that haven’t done evil shit. If you’re against the idea of uneven trade and exploitation of developing countries, it’s probably not impossible to find a moral state.

Cool. A federated Discord might be the easiest solution. If you’re gonna self host I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use teamspeak, though.

Project Farm is highly reliable on YouTube. If the exact model Todd tested is no longer available, use your best judgement.

Fluxer is just Discord 2 and likely to go the same way. The website changed pretty quickly but there was an older version talking about monetization models and what was basically Nitro by another name.

If people are serious about wanting to ditch Discord, the answer is going back to decentralized systems, not replacing Discord with a nearly identical app that has the same vulnerability to the owners getting greedy.

Well obviously I’m hinting at an… extralegal solution to the problem. But I doubt anyone would up and do it.

With the way people feel about animal cruelty, the guy will be fortunate if he doesn’t end up in that field himself, if he turns out to have been getting his rocks off by murdering dogs entrusted to his care while taking public funds for their care.

But then again, I would’ve said the same about child cruelty but you look around and see all these nutjobs protecting pedophiles so maybe I’m off base.

Hopefully they can account for all of the dogs being dug up and discovered. I was under the impression cremation was standard for euthanized animals. Certainly, all of my family’s dogs and cats were cremated when they passed. I suppose that might be expensive if they don’t have some sort of agreement with a local crematorium and lack an incinerator on site.

Randomly burying dogs in unmarked graves just seems sketchy, though.

You don’t see an issue with a no-kill shelter, which takes in funding because it’s a no-kill shelter, killing the animals under their care?

Yes. If being evil was what defined whether a nation was failing, I’m pretty sure the world would have nothing but failed states.

How can you possibly believe that morality has anything to do with whether or not a state is stable?

Way too small to be a coyote. Even the smallest coyotes are at least 3ft/1m long and weigh around 30lbs/13kg.

And you could have looked up information instead of vomiting nonsense everywhere but instead we’re here.

I just figured that since you’re such an obvious expert on the subject, you’d just know.

The collapse is already in process. So I guess that’s one nice thing - it’s already here, you don’t have to be worried about it beginning. Trump 1 destabilized a lot of things combined with COVID and Trump 2 following a limp Biden admin has finished the job. Pax americana is dead, and the world as we knew it relied on that status quo.

I don’t know what’ll follow, whether in America or abroad, but we’ll all still be here and life will keep going. Don’t let it keep you down. If reading the news keeps getting you down, then stop reading the news for a while. Filter your feeds to show only happy things, or just disengage from social media entirely. Algorithms are designed to drive engagement and anger is proven to be the most reliable form of engagement, so social media is just an anger factory anymore. Disconnecting from it for a while can be good for your mental well-being.

There’s still plenty of joy and hope and happiness to be found in life. Sometimes you might need to turn down the volume on other things to find it, though.

They’re all positioning for government bailouts anyway. Whether Trump or a neoliberal lickspittle, they know they’re pretty much covered. All of the important c-suite people will be perfectly fine.