Why don’t yall put yall backpacks under the seat instead of the overhead bin like the flight attendants tell yall?

Not even Rockstar Games can secure perpetual licenses, which all but confirms this game is a plant of some variety. You just don’t get this treatment as an “indie project.”

My thoughts on Mixtape as the target audience for it… I only finished it because my chat and I were making fun of it. Pros: -There were a few cute/fun moments, such as flying around over nostalgic areas -I always love seeing the world before phones Cons: -Every character, especially the MC was insufferable -The only “agenda” in this game is actually one I really dislike, anti-education. Hating learning and productive hobbies like playing sports wasn’t a reality for most people in the 90’s -The tongue scene was disgusting on every conceivable level -The MC’s obsession with making the perfect mixtape honestly felt like a mental issue by the end. I’m not a doctor, but there was something very OCD-feeling about it -I love older music and I hadn’t heard most of the soundtrack -I played this because I ADORE Lost Records and I thought this would be similar. It was not.

I made this argument a few years back - I called them the “second tier cities” - and I’m glad to see it’s reaching a wider audience These cities mostly avoid the governance problems that seem to plague the major US cities and their amenities now (largely) rival the super stars Unless you need a very specific career, you can do very well basically anywhere now in the US

They have subways in places like Seoul that are clean and sparkling and safe, and those transit systems cost a fraction of what NYC’s subways cost to maintain. The NYC subway has stations that are visibly rotting despite the MTA’s enormous budget because of corrupt public sector unions and a wasteful municipal government. Everyone who rides the NYC subway tolerates an occasional frightening, dangerous or offensive encounter. Maybe you have to flee a car because someone is screaming or is defacating on the floor. Maybe you get groped or masturbated on. Maybe an aggressive panhandler wanders through getting in people’s faces. It’s all fine because you didn’t get murdered and murders on the train are statistically rare, right? This is the richest and most expensive city in the world. We shouldn’t have to live like this.

Someone has made a Discord server to track down the Steam activity of Garry Newman, so that people can possibly acquire the famous "Yes, I am the real garry!" achievement in Garry’s Mod

me: hey can I see your menu real quick restaurant website: pickup or delivery me: no need for that, just need to check one thing restaurant website: PICKUP OR DELIVERY

This capture card has virtually no latency. This thing was literally such a worthy purchase at only $30!

unpopular opinion maybe but i think spotify wrapped & apple replay should come out in the first week of the new year and not on some random day in november/december

Frankly, I think it’s good to show, from time to time, how evil many Euros are to working class Americans when they visit.

Valve just wiped out $1B of market cap from the CS2 economy. Our analysis shows they also left $1.5B in revenue on the table over 4 years by refusing to adopt onchain royalties, and that this could have been totally avoided. Valve did this to force more of the game asset inventory back into the native marketplace as trading fees were being captured by 3rd party venues. In 2023 we produced a detailed case study looking specifically at this problem in the CS:GO economy, and explaining how building an onchain economy could fix this. Our conclusion: @valvesoftware left ~$1.5B of revenue on the table over 4 years by not baking enforced smart contract royalties into their economy. Check out @Delphi_Digital's full report: members.delphidigital.io/rep… For over 5 years now our team have been strong proponents of onchain economies, investing over $50M of our own money into trying to bring this future to life. Put simply, an onchain economy unlocks: • Programmable royalties that create substantial long-term value capture for both players and developers • A lower cost, higher transparency marketplace technology • Provable digital scarcity (item histories, battlepass grind, unique game assets) • Residual value for all purchases giving players true economic agency • Significantly higher spend ceiling from onchain whales far larger than their web2 peers • Enhanced analytics via onchain data (active users, marketplace revenue, economic insights) • Evangelical forces as players can share in the success of the game ecosystem Over $100B is spent annually on video game items and cosmetics, yet players are still treated with utter disdain from developers who take them for fools and sell them the same skins in new titles year-on-year. Even in Counter Strike—one of the most open economies in gaming—Valve presided over a $6B market cap only to obliterate player trust by decimating user inventories that had been built over years investing in something they believed to be a durable asset class. Because the maximum trade value in Steam is capped at $2000, the high-end skins trade had been forced to move off the native marketplace. With an onchain economy, users could have seamlessly exchanged either $1 or $1B in a given transaction. As we become an increasingly digital species, it is imperative that we recognise virtual economies as legitimate forms of value. I firmly believe that the surest path for them to reach their fullest potential is to tap into crypto—a monster pool of capital that is native to the web—and lean into the very robust assurances that can be unlocked by onchain economies (royalty enforcement, asset uniqueness, digital item histories, etc). As it stands, there is no incentive for developers to do this. For them, they want to resell you the same skin year on year with each game release and ensure there is no way for you to unlock residual value through selling items or accounts on external marketplaces. The great challenge is proving that by building onchain and having game items live in the same economic environment, not only do developers capture more value, but the sum of all game economies can be greater than the parts. The single greatest proponent of this is the video game industry titan @TimSweeneyEpic, who has acknowledged that this future of interconnected virtual economies could well prove to be an optimal economic model (matthewball.co/all/sweeneyst…). Given that Epic Games already forced consoles out of digital isolationism by pushing for cross-play, it’s my great hope that they manage to do the same with game economies. Whilst he has expressed doubts about whether this needs to be onchain or via shared industry standards, he sees the value in unleashing economic agency for players and breaking down the imposed economic walls that have become the status quo in gaming. x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/… The destruction of the CS2 economy should serve as a wake-up call to both players and developers. Game publishers can keep extracting value at the expense of their users, or they can build onchain economies that create alignment and trust. The first path erodes player confidence, and the latter could unlock the greatest era of wealth creation and player agency in gaming history.

Which one is the BEST browser?

IS THIS REALLY THAT EVIL

honest question you're 22 and you value work life balance why??

another AAA studio gutting movement to cater to people that play games 1 hour a week that will never run into people utilizing movement tech anyway

5 years later, pains me to admit getting rid of the headphone jack was correct