Fiduciary responsibility or not, Sony is a big company with their fingers dipped in a lot of stuff, and decisions have a lot of inertia. The moment we learned they retooled some factories it was clear this has been in the making for a while and they will not back off. Sony (or at least the playstation division) is compromised and we need to focus on alternative solutions.

Longshot: playing Anno 2070 with the Eden Initiative

Yea I tried to argue against this when she was hired, but holy hell after the past month this reeks of glass cliff. I’d wager by 2028 xbox will be done for. Shame they’re taking so many good names down with them.

Oh god, here comes the Subnautica 3 roguelite soulslike extraction shooter with a battle royale mode! Can’t wait!

Yeah, it appears they’re two distinct statements. One is “people can safely consume up to 400mg a day” and the other is “doing so (drinking coffee) may have health benefits”. Strangely worded article for sure.

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either:

The healthiest way to drink coffee, according to the statement, is to brew it with paper filters or use instant—drinking unfiltered filtered coffee such as espresso is associated with higher levels of “bad” cholesterol—and avoid adding creamers, sugar, or flavored syrups.

Why would the manner in which the coffee is prepared matter - assuming the final amount of ingested caffeine being the same? Maybe we DO need more research into this.

Honestly Forza Horizon 3. I can probably list a heap of issues I have with this franchise, but they’re good driving games and I arrived late to the party wishing I picked FH3 while it was still in its prime. That game has such a vibe.

Apparently some Forza5 achievements in some unpopular gamemode that nobody really bothered with. And some rare Anno2205 ones which may or may not have been unlocked legitimately. All around 0.3%.

It’s not. The tweet may be real but the image is fabulation.

I don’t get it - what’s the market for an overpriced ( even by today’s standards ) non-upgradeable but “build it yourself” desktop pc? Is it because its a prebuilt server? Or just the fancy case?

Overall, 36 percent of Americans said they approve of Trump’s job performance

Crashes to record low my ass. 36% is about as many as there were that voted for him in the first place.

Gave it a try for a couple of hours to see what the fuss is about. It’s not bad, like a cross between a survival craft/ pokemon game / animal crossing, but very casual and dad-friendly. Haven’t seen many bugs but there’s some jank here and there. Story bits are pretty meh and I’m not really seeing it have a lot of staying power, but that might just be me not being familiar with pokemon games.

Wanna bet they fuck it up just like they did the control panel and the right-click menu?

They were convicted but it didn’t stick ( or someone intervened ) and afterwards i’m fairly certain they were set free and allowed to go to florida in an exchange of favours: we give you your guys and you shut up about us cancelling elections ( back then maga was particularly vocal about those elections, for good reason too). And wouldn’t you know it, not a maga peep about the elections since. The tates even revisited Romania to “make investments here”. Isn’t it nice when crooks scratch each other’s backs?

They’re naming the car manufacturer and the camera manufacturer and all its features but why did they not name the fucking car rental company??

I have a feeling this article is aimed at people looking for privacy invading cameras.

I guess they made decent phones so that oppo had a foothold in western markets, but they got their asses handed to them by xiaomi. The moment xiaomi established themselves I swear oppo started phasing out oneplus. This has been a long time coming.

Take it from a guy that also didn’t dig eternal: Played a non hypervisor copy of this and jumped off it pretty quick ( but might revisit ). Gameplay is pretty fun - lots of combos to do with the shield, action is more “up close” unlike the other two. It’s also very pretty and well optimized. The story and objectives though, holy cringe. Like a 5yo wrote it I swear. Don’t even know why they insist on thick story in a doom game. And I hear there’s a dragon at some point. Also the music was pretty meh.

Yeah, because microsoft’s fortunes lie with the couple thousand that didn’t buy this game due to denuvo. C’mon man. It was probably too expensive to keep paying denuvo since they were sunsetting the studio anyway.

Honestly you might find it more accurate to go by gut feeling/trailer or word of mouth. Imdb ratings are good for weeding out the truly bad ones, but for the rest it’s fairly unreliable. You can also see rotten tomatoes, but these days it feels very astroturfed and I haven’t really matched my rating with theirs for all but a couple movies that I saw. Letterboxd is better for user reviews but it’s very hivemind-y because popular opinion prevails kn their ratings.

But “gEtTiNG a bIG sUv KEePs mY FaMiLy sAfEr”.

Nobody’s gonna be safer until you get those monstrosities off the streets.

The sooner people stop hanging on to “physical” ( and move on to more productive conservation initiatives ) the better. Sony’s not likely to budge and frankly the medium has been dying for a while. Now DRM-free digital like gog or pirate copies still has a future I think, but relegated to a niche. I’ve been trying to picture the future landscape of gaming and I fear it’s mostly “forever games”. Both sony and ms have been pushing for live service/mobile crap ( and they still have the power to do it ) because a single mediocre skin or season pass can be as lucrative as a whole game. No need to innovate when you can make billions on slop. Take Candy Crush - it’s what, 20 years old and still brings in billions. Same for roblox, despite being known as a pedo-heaven. Games as an artform looks like an increasingly niche hobby for hipster/aging gamers, because the vast majority of people just love their slop.

It’s now time move on - hoard, archive and maybe still try and push for decent consumer protections.