“Fuck it we ball”? I don’t know that one either. Are we doing something to a ball or becoming a ball? Oh, or maybe we are going to a ball, like Cinderella?
Curious or interested, sure. But a fan? No, that’s terribly depressing. All anyone outside of the studio has witnessed so far is an advertising campaign. There’s nothing wrong with being a fan of things, but someone being a fan of this is just someone being manipulated by marketing.
The ‘mechanics’ of notifications, infinite scroll, public by default, algorithmic sorting, etc all carried everywhere on a rather large mobile device are all quite problematic. Social media without all of this would be far less addictive for most people, both children and adults included.
Yeah bluetooth sucks everywhere. I have a Bluetooth mouse that works fine on Windows and Linux, but macOS just can’t handle it. Pairing any kind of controller with Windows that isn’t specifically certified by Microsoft can also be a nightmare. Don’t even get me started on Bluetooth headphones paired with an iPhone and the weird shit that ensues when you try to answer a phone call five hours after you happened to listen to some music.
I can’t speak to whatever your field-specific desk-apps are, I’m not in the desk carpentry business.
There’s loads of spec-fic and comics etc from both during and after the Cold War about what if the US loses/lost the Cold War illustrated with the Statue of Liberty having the torch replaced with a hammer and sickle or the book she’s holding is changed to be a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao or whatever. Just do that.
If you value your time you should switch to Linux. Yes there’s a brief adjustment period, but especially now, that period is very short and well worth the initial effort. It’s not 2005 anymore, Linux has less jank than Windows or Mac OS now.
Or even just pay attention and stop looking at their goddamn phones in the middle of their fucking STEM classes. They ran a text-generating algorithm with shitty sci-fi novels in its ‘training’ database and the algorithm generated text similar to those same shitty sci-fi novels. This isn’t exactly difficult to understand stuff.
It might depend on where you live and whether Valve can legally get away with the price fixing this UK case is accusing it of or not.
To give one example, the base price for the standard edition Cyberpunk on the PlayStation store is CAD60 (ultimate edition CAD95), on the Nintendo eShop the ultimate edition is CAD100 (no standard edition is available), and on Steam the standard edition is CAD80 and ultimate is CAD110. Interestingly, base prices on Epic and GoG are lock-step on the standard and just $5 off on the ultimate edition with Steam’s prices.
Maybe there is price fixing going on after all, but perhaps Valve can only persuade publishers to fix the PC prices, hence the cheaper game prices on consoles.
“Fuck it we ball”? I don’t know that one either. Are we doing something to a ball or becoming a ball? Oh, or maybe we are going to a ball, like Cinderella?