The trend seems to be that capitalism works great for new and emerging markets. It incentivises optimization, and businesses will naturally try to min/max profit. Once the product/service/resource is ubiquitous enough to be nearly mandatory, the min/max of capitalism tends to push for conglomeration. Once that happens, number must go up, so they cut corners and dilute their own service or product to enshittify it to extract more profit.

I say once a service/product/resource is a staple of the society and effectively mandatory for a person to have, a free, socialized, option must then exist. It must meet the minimum demand for a person, while still having better/higher tiers available- but the encroaching free option is then the main driver of competition.

Right now, a lot of capitalism markets don’t have any real competition, so they have no real incentive to genuinely improve.

This flaw in teleportation logic hinges on the assumption that there is an absolute reference frame- which as far as I’m aware there isn’t. There is real science behind teleportation, and from what I’ve seen the frame of reference of the origin is what determines the endpoint. If you COULD manipulate the frame of reference as well, you could teleport a small rock an inch forward, but with the frame of reference of a near lightspeed object to create a crazy projectile.

Basically, you’d still need to follow the rules of conservation of momentum and energy, or it could be broken.

Keep in mind it may not strictly be content posting, but also vote manipulation. If you have a message you want to push, you can just upvote favorable messages to try to make whatever agenda seem a lot bigger than it really is.

On the other hand… Mississippi Herpes Monkeys is a pretty good band name.

If they sold tickets to watch, I would be extremely tempted to go.

Two eggs, two sausage links, and a fruit smoothie consting of a banana, apple, orange, grapefruit, and lime, with some kombucha and maybe frozen berries.

Microsoft’s strategy has never really been to compete on quality, it has always been to be the only game in town. Microsoft loves to buy out the competition and kill it so they’re the only real game in town and then passively milk it forever as a captured market. Zune never really took off because microsoft didn’t actually care about music players, they just didn’t want the iPod to be the defacto option. Microsoft didn’t make Bing to be the best search engine, they just didn’t want google to be the default. They don’t really care about making edge the best browser, they just want chrome to not be the default. The list goes on.

When Sony made the PS2, some countries had import laws where a game console as a luxury item would be prohibitively expensive, but computers were not. So Sony made a PS2 linux version so it could “Technically it’s a computer, not a game console” to sidestep the law. Didn’t really work, and they dropped it pretty hard. They didn’t really want to be a computer. They tried again with the PS3, but they didn’t really care about making a linux console, so it had basically zero support.

Now Microsoft saw Sony making a game console, but it could sorta be a computer. They were scared that Sony may make office applications as “games” and threaten the PC market. Microsoft couldn’t just buy out Sony to make them stop, so they decided to enter the market with a far superior machine that was priced super cheap for what it was to try to bully Sony out of business. It was never really about the games, it was about trying to bully potential competition. It didn’t matter they didn’t make money, it was a bill to pay to block competitors.

They’re just competing to make sure that future PlayStation systems don’t just add PC features until people wonder if they should even buy a computer and a PlayStation if the console does everything they’d need a computer for. Also people tend to favor the xbox name and branding over windows, so they have incentive to keep the brand alive even though they really do not care at all about gaming.

Enchiladius

I’m starting to think that the AI hype bubble isn’t really meant for consumers. We’ve mostly killed off jounalism and news, review publications are all either dead or bought and paid for. Ads are all blocked and influencers are managed. Reviews and social commentary are tricky to engineer at scale, unless you have a huge AI farm to generate a ton of fake conversations to steer people to decisions.

Now that the tech is available to everyone, it’s an arms race to build a bigger one than your competitors to make it appear as though your ‘side’ of whatever you’re pushing is the more predominant perspective.

Adding AI crap to products is just the cover story to justify the giant costs to have your own private propaganda machine.

Nah, cancellation resources are always minimal. Doesn’t make sense to pay for serious hardware to please people on their way out the door. Every service I’ve ever had to cancel has always been a maze and generally more annoying, slow, and cumbersome than the signup process.

I wonder if there are any horror movies about fan death as the theme.

I just got a new GPU, and they gave me a coupon for the game for free. My system should be able to run it great, but I’m not even sure how good it actually even is. All the reviews I see all look like paid reviews or early access folk, or people that claim to love it to justify their overpriced rigs.

I loved 1 and 2, and then the series went downhill for me. Now I guess I have 4 but might wait a while to play it because I know a ton of patches are coming. Besides, there are a ton of other great games on my backlog that I’d much rather play with my limited free time.

Well, if there was an AI bot swarm to try to affect public opinion, and they needed to generate profile pics…

Is this a trend now? Who inscribes bullets? This seems a little too, “We need to really spell out the motive to people so they know exactly what to think about this.”.

I’m kinda curious now how you even go about inscribing a bullet. I feel like a hand tool would just not really produce a legible result, and I’ve never really even heard of a machine for it. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but really rare to see and kinda weird that the last two high profile shootings had inscribed bullets to really drive home the point.

So, back to cartridges. Honestly I’d be totally fine with that- but the issue isn’t quite with my end. Some game is made, and is sold for $70. A disc costs under a dollar to produce. A cart is significantly more, and digital is just paying upkeep on a server. Digital has the highest profit margin, and carts the lowest. Discs are great for physical distribution.

That said, I would totally love collector editions in the form of a figurine with storage media built in.

This is what made me laugh about when drones first became a thing and everyone thought it was for spying on people for lewd reasons. Like, the Internet exists, and there is a LOT of porn on it. Never once have I watched porn on the internet and thought, “You know what would make this better? If it was shot from about 800 feet away and 200 feet up from a really obnoxiously loud device from an arguably worse camera.”

There’s no rule saying whales CAN’T play basketball.

“Great shot kid, that was one in a million!”

Oh, so the long weekend isn’t a holiday to celebrate labor? I think we need a holiday to celebrate labor. Let’s have another day off for labor.

Florida man