An anti trump Republican is probably better than what a special election would bring though.

A lot did at some point in the shutdown.

This is actually a fairly well understood psychological phenomenon that management tends to ignore. Offering a clearly insufficient gift is far worse than offering nothing at all. I’ve worked at a place that did a similar thing when they were having retention issues, it’s what lead me to leave the company.

The EU is working it’s way towards digital ownership. Gdpr and dma are steps in reducing corporate power and granting ownership over identity.

Costs of goods hasn’t been a meaningful part of final cost of a product in a long time. Companies have been using minor cost increases to justify major price increases for a while now.

A product sold at a loss to attract customers who hopefully buy other products with higher margins that result in a net profit for the retailer.

I think comparing it to a console is the wrong mindset. It’s a computer first that can also be a console. It’s also a pre built Linux based computer you can have a higher degree of confidence that things just work even after updates. It’s a legitimate competitor for a new windows PC as much as it is a console competitor.

Digital ownership is probably going to happen, but it’s going to take a generation of politicians to die off. Once we get more people that understand computers and digital goods aren’t magic, there can be change.

Days is exaggeration, but there does seem to be mounting evidence that Putin may be looking for a way out of the war over the next year or so.

A shit load of bullets would destroy a solar farm.

The big difference is the compatibility is actually there now. Also, controller support is a lot more common for PC games now.

Most criticism of valve on Lemmy reads like blatant shilling.

This list is a bit old so many games aren’t supported on the latest android versions, but there are no micro transactions for any game on it. https://nobsgames.stavros.io/android/

There’s no way a game that people have been waiting over a decade for is ever going to live up to the hype.

Honestly 20 different companies would probably suck for the consumer. That’s 20 different storefronts to compare, 20 different libraries to manage, potentially 20 different sets of logins, 20 sources of data breaches. It’s unlikely they would adopt an open standard to allow a shared library. Maybe you have a 21st company that makes a product like heroic launcher. You’d likely run into regionality issues where a particular store is unavailable, so you may not be able to play purchased games. You would have all sorts of odd exclusive dlc and pre order bonuses so a cosmetic item you like could be locked to a store you haven’t used. Multiplayer likely wouldn’t be global cross play between all companies, you likely get some set of 20 companies working together for multiplayer. Some games may develop a good scene available to a single store, requiring a game to be repurchased. Exclusives or timed exclusives would be annoying to track, as each store would likely have different catalogs.

That’s far to generous to other companies, they were far more like the WiiU.

The big subs were full of bots, but for some it didn’t really matter. It a post was a bit but it was still funny on memes or funny then it’s fine. I don’t care if karma farming bots were the majority of posts so long as it’s still good content. The content does seem to be significantly worse now though.

It’s absolutely a generic open world game, bit that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The formula is fun if it’s done well, which I think it is for Horizon Zero Dawn. The combat style is also uncommon and provides a satisfying loop of stealth and bullet time mechanics.

IR cameras are good at counting bodies.

It think it has to be 2007 just because there are games that didn’t crack the top 10 that year that would be goty in other years. It’s also a huge year for multiple platforms, pratically every major franchise had a good release that year.