If Microsoft increases the price of Game Pass Ultimate to add Call of Duty I’m going to cancel my subscription. Just add a new tier called Game Pass for Suckers That Buy The Same Mediocre Overpriced Game Every Year and include Call of Duty on that.

What he’s saying is that major studios are locked playing chicken with each other, and that the industry is going to remember the 1983 crash fondly in comparison with what’s going to happen.

This should have been a priority pre-launch and I’m going as far as to say the game shouldn’t have launched without it. I don’t understand why Bethesda gives so little respect to modders when modders have to a large degree been the main responsible for Bethesda’s success. Doubly so in a game like Starfield whose base design seems to have been thought as a sandbox for mods.

If that’s the case it’s a particularly stupid MBA. Between the companies part of social security and healthcare, mandatory vacation days, virtually unlimited sick days, maternity leave, paternity leave, the ridiculous amount of vacation days, and strongest enforcement of overtime pay, the effective cost per working hour in Munich is not going to be much cheaper.

Most stories fall into one of a few archetypes at least since the time of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

It’s like the joke about the invoice charging 0.10$ for a screw and 100$ for knowing which screw to replace.

Coding is easy. Software engineering not so much.

Where have I seen this movie before? I think the other dude also claimed to have syncretized nationalism and socialism (and the second half is as bullshit now as it was then)

At this point Activision could release Ray-traced rotating turd with microtransactions to get new colours for the turd, and as long as it was labeled Call of Duty it would sell at least 20 million copies.

What you are saying is that in domestic violence cases we should ask if there’s an ever-so-slight possibility that the soup was a bit cold. It doesn’t fucking matter, Ukraine is a sovereign country and has done nothing against Russia’s sovereignty and that’s the end of it - unless you want to entertain Hitler’s excuses to invade Poland over their alleged policy towards Danzig/Gdansk too

That’s also how the most damaging attacks on proprietary software work. At some point all organizations need to trust their members and co-workers need to trust each other - I can’t think of a way to be more miserable at work than having to second guess everyone around you.

AI stands for “Absent Indian”.

You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.

¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting

Talk for yourself. For example, I’m forever grateful to the suckers trusting souls that effectively paid to alpha test Cyberpunk 2077 and gave enough money to CD Project Red to fix it before I played it.

If we ignore the costs, wouldn’t it be mostly a game of probabilities? If that’s the case it would be a matter of repeating the treatment often enough to reduce the probability of the virus returning to effectively 0.

Higher interest rates means investors are being more conservative with investments, so companies that relied on external money injections are in a world of pain. The same applies to subsidiaries of larger companies.

Gaming companies are particularly vulnerable to this since games have much bigger lead times and usually have much bigger teams than most other software.

That wouldn’t solve the patent trolls issues, only getting out of the United Corporate States would.

I didn’t, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.

And you don’t see Mozilla’s reliance on financing from its main competitor as a huge issue?

And thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall:

The achievements being broken in the Epic Store version points to this too.