People never bought music from artists.

They bought it from record labels.

Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it’s not Spotify that’s keeping it all.

It can display Oblivion Remastered at it’s native framerate though.

Wow, relive the early days of really fucking terrible LCD displays for just under $2000.

What a time to be alive…

I had the point near the beginning of the file thing once and it was a really shitty file that only VLC could seek in.

ffmpeg fixed it, but I’ve no idea how because ffmpeg command lines are some arcane black magic shit.

Yeah, there’s probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

I suspect to try and push their own products, we’ll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they’ll crank the price of those as well.

EA Play is on PS5.

Assuming MS exit the console market, I don’t see why Sony wouldn’t allow it (as long as they get their pound of flesh from every sale of it). They’d basically just be another publisher.

A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they’ll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you’ll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

I love that Outlook occasionally fires up one of its keyboard shortcuts and clears your entire email you were typing if you’re not paying attention.

Fucking love it.

I’d be a little more enthused if both companies main goal from this wasn’t to make us work while wearing them.

That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.

Here’s the thing. If you watch that, Netflix know your IP. If you’re on an Android TV box, Google will know your IP.

Odds are your phone is on the Wifi. Linked through IP. Now you get ads for Stranger Things on your phone. It doesn’t need to listen because everything is so leaky. You are linked on so many devices.

Does it freeze up all the time like in the Digital Foundry video?

If not I’m wondering if it’s that stupid shader compiling thing that has plagued PC games all generation.

I once asked somebody for a spreadsheet (they were trying to import the data into my software and it was failing), and got back a .doc file containing a screenshot of Excel running the spreadsheet.

I was in awe of how somebody could misuse so many pieces of software at once.

Indeed. What you are looking for is a spreadsheet.

Don’t overcomplicate things.

I would think most consumer drives will be OK with that, but it varies, and the race to make things ever cheaper has only increased that. AFAIK, the more data they try to pack into a cell (SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC), the more likely they are to be affected by unpowered data loss.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

What kind of storage do they use? Because SSDs left unpowered will lose data.

If they even try that it will look like that car chase scene from The Blues Brothers.

The rules will really change when the first billionaire on a private jet gets taken out by a DIY suicide drone.

Nah, he just purchased the world’s biggest megaphone from which he could propel his ketamine fuelled opinions into the deep uncaring void of the internet.

The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.