Seriously. I have some DDR3 RAM and a motherboard with processor laying around somewhere that I recently was considering digging out to make a second computer out of as a home storage/media server/pihole analogue, and I bet I could still get low quality settings on most recent games to play nicely with whatever parts I can scrabble together.

Yeah, consoles are normally (except when an idiot is in charge at Microslop) what they call a "loss leader" - an item that you sell at a loss because you'll make up for it in other purchases now that the customer is in the store.

With a console, the idea up until recently had always been that you lose money on the console but make up for it several times over with game sales, generally making it more affordable than a PC of similar specs.

There was a period of time where you could build a PC with better specs for the same price as a console, but hardware prices going up in the past 10-15 years meant that that really hasn't been the case for a while.

I think a lot of the conversation around exclusives comes from the standpoint of what keeps a console player from switching from one console to another (whether that's a PC, a PS5, an Xbox, etc.), so PC exclusives don't really factor into it because PC players are almost always a PC gamer plus a console player rather than somebody who is switching from a PC to a console.

That said, I think a lot of people in the industry (and console gamers) really underestimate the vastness of PC exclusives that exist thanks to the indie scene. Most people will think of PC exclusive genres like RTS games, but few people think of ~~Bloodborne~~ Nightmare Kart or all the tiny indie RPG/horror/etc. projects that come out all the time as a reason to switch from a console.

Didn't JK say that the closest thing to a self-insert in the books is that reporter? You know, the one that takes pictures of teenagers in the bathroom while disguised as a fly on the wall?

Why does that sound so familiar? 🤔

I swear Pornhub has released a similar report in the past that did check out the same way. And the same with gay porn.

Republicans don't believe that FtM people exist. In their minds, they're just delusional women who wish they were men, but it makes perfect sense to them that women wish they were men. It would be weirder to them to hear that not all women wish they were men. It's completely part of the sexism and patriarchy.

The reason that they're so obsessed with trans women by comparison is that it goes against their entire worldview. A man who wants to be a woman? Why would anyone ever want to be a woman?! There's also the bigotry and everything else, of course, but the fact that it defies what they see as the natural order or hierarchy of the sexes drives them crazy.

Por qué no los dos?

Opt out on one account, use another as poison. If you're gonna do this, I'd say move all your code to a new account and use the older account to poison - that way they can't filter the bad out by account age.

Fair enough. Have companies up there talked about "surge pricing" as well? I remember from this past summer companies like Wal Mart were talking about using electronic price tags to update prices in real time at different times of day and different seasons depending on demand. Given examples were things like increasing the price of water and ice on hot days or ready made meals around lunch and dinner time.

Here's the thing: You live in Canada, where consumer protection laws mean something and the law isn't largely based on which side of a case can burn money the longest on court fees and outlast the other side.

Here in the US, companies doubling the price of something just so they can mark it as on sale for 50% is illegal, but still happens all the time for big sales like Black Friday. Hell, Amazon does it to people with a Prime membership in order to recoup what they spend on the free shipping - double dipping with your subscription fee and increasing the price on things. Airline companies and hotels will increase the price of a flight or room on a specific day based on how often you search it up (if you allow cookies, that's how they track it. You can look up the same page in a private window and get a totally different price for the same flight or hotel room).

Sony just announced a few weeks back that they were going to roll out "dynamic pricing" for PlayStation games.

Apparently turkeys eat ticks. We just need to keep the wild turkey population up and they'll help cull the infestation.

You were thinking logically about a normal production chain. In that case, QA or whoever says "This is wrong, rework it and correct the issue" and that's that. With AI, it does the whole thing over again and may or may not come back with the same issue or an entirely new one.

I think people also don't believe at all that he's actually backing away from this in any way, shape, or form. He'll go ahead and say that he is, and then later this week he'll bomb an orphanage or something and claim that talks with Iran have fallen apart and how unreasonable they're being because he gave them such a great peace deal, blah blah blah, etc.

Just like how he could've ended the war in Ukraine in a week if they had just taken his generous peace deal of ceding a bunch of land to Russia.