So all this is supposed to be part of what lobbies do - provide subject matter input, recommendations, and direction to lawmakers, so that said lawmakers can make better laws. This protects the lobbies’ interests because they aren’t forced to do unreasonable shit just to comply with nonsense laws.

BUT Citizens United happened, and now lobbies are for funneling money to politicians so that they will produce laws that benefit you, as a company/org, and not the general interest.

On your TV?

Great read. Thank you for sharing!

Honestly, I think gaming is done with new live service offerings.

Live service used to be a way to get a core-complete, feature-limited games in front of players earlier than if they were fully baked. This was actually good for everyone, as player feedback often guided roadmaps and changes. But now everyone expects every new game to be better than Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. on day one. This just won’t ever happen.

Also, the gaming community of today is OBSESSED with popularity numbers (steam concurrents and twitch view count, mostly), and if players don’t see that everyone else is playing a game then they won’t play either. This is fucking dumb, but we are where we are.

And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate. They bitch about being stuck with CoD, then shit on anything that could someday compete with it. It’s baffling.

That’s becoming my takeaway here as well. Don’t jump into any live service game early, because it might get rug-pulled right as I’m getting into it.

Of course, if everyone took this approach then no live service game will ever take off, which kinda feels like where we are anyways.

I can do this all day.

Let the enshittification begin!

Sony really learned nothing from Concord. Incredible.

Xbox consoles are generally not good 4k/UHD Blu-ray players. I tried using my XSX for (physical) movie watching for a while, and my experience was poor enough that I went out and bought a dedicated Panasonic player instead.

Not all discs would play in my XSX, picture was often noisy, and I ran into a fair amount of audio issues up to and including no sound at all.

👶&🍐

I can’t wait for this stupid fucking bubble to pop.

8bpp ewwww too

4k’s bump in resolution is nice, but the biggest benefit is the improvement in color (HDR or Dolby Vision).

I’m already over this piece of garbage. We all know it was appeasement at best and outright bribery at worst. And we also know that absolutely nothing will be done about it. So let’s just move on to the next atrocity.

Neither? If you’re going to rate every movie 5/5 then there’s no point in rating movies. Just watch them and enjoy them.

Do you think your mom will get us a Bigfoot from Pizza Hut tonight?

Watch the regular season finale of Steelers versus Ravens. Then watch basically any playoff game except for Seattle versus San Francisco.

Everything on that list has been an instant classic. Just amazing games top to bottom.

Did we just forget about healthcare subsidies??

Geez. I’m fucking tired of these do-nothing Democrats. Gonna charge into another shutdown only to fumble the bag AGAIN and come away with nothing.

Of course, the alternative is literal Nazis, which really tells you how cooked our system of government is now.

Michael Salazar claims that his subscription to a 247Sports e-newsletter qualifies him as a “consumer.” But since he did not subscribe to “audio visual materials,” the district court held that he was not a “consumer” and dismissed the complaint.

I will never understand the internet’s hive mind hate boner for this game. People bitch about CoD, Fortnight, and having nothing new to play, but then something new comes out and it’s immediately a failure since it didn’t instantly pass CoD’s player count.

The damn thing has been out all of like 36 hours. It’s like everyone in the gaming community has the attention and patience of a Netflix exec now.