That’s a great example of the exception proving the rule: companies across all industries do shitty things on the regular, but incidents like Jimmy Kimmel only happen when you get a once-in-a-year massive swell so big that even I heard about it, and I don’t even live in the US.

Your example doesn’t prove that the buyers control the market, it demonstrates just how weak that control is and how big a backlash is needed to get even a tiny change made.

Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?

I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.

are you a bot? I ask because that response was grammatically completely coherent and intelligent-sounding, but the entire content bore no relation to reality. I mean there’s not even anything to argue with, it was just straight up 100% wrong.

The fact that he’s both willing and able to do this, is the one single biggest argument in favour of abolishing billionaires.

just don’t buy the games that use it

This is called the “Free Market Fallacy”, and is always a terrible defence of any shitty practice, whether it be games or vehicles or banks or HOAs. The market just isn’t liquid or efficient enough for that to be a reasonable position.

There’s a sequel novel to the UK time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart on kickstarter, where all the future pop culture references that Gary Sparrow used to make start to catch up with him as he gets older.

Posts like this are proof positive of Dead Internet Theory, because surely no human could be this oblivious to an obvious joke

Mr Brains Pork [redacted]

Aside from all the other issues surrounding it, every demo I’ve seen so far is creepy uncanny valley stuff that I found unsettling and wouldn’t want to be playing.

I’m surprised it isn’t working, because the last seven times the US tried to bomb a country into liking them were all huge successes.

He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.

You do realize you’ve proved his point? In Europe there’d be no “just as they are moving”, the cars would have already moved by the time the ambulance reached them.

The irony is that I typed JIRA in lowercase and my phone autocorrected it to JIRA

I’m amazed they had 1600 employees to begin with. I guess it takes a lot of resources to make something suck as hard as JIRA

Neither of them are fresh out the box clean installs, they are what they are.

But anyway, I’ve been trying to engage in good faith but you keep being obnoxious on every single post you make, so it’s Block time

I very specifically said “my windows machine from 2011” because it’s still in use.

it doesn’t account for modern computers doing more now than they did then.

We know they do more, but most of that “more” is bullshit bloat and sloppy engineering, neither of which we asked for.

When I boot up Windows 11 and start no programs, somehow there’s already over 8Gb RAM already consumed, the CPU shows 8% utilisation, there’s 244 processes running, and it still took every bit as long to get there as my Windows 7 machine from 2011. That’s what the rest of us are talking about.

What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

Literally my entire point was that people are offering some strong opinions without having read the complaint, and here you are demonstrating exactly that.

As a general rule of thumb if something sounds stupid then it’s probably been reported badly with some key information missing. I’m betting the music industry press reporting will be very different from that of a site called “gamesindustry.biz”.