The price gives it away

Unless I know the manufacturer, I don’t buy from Amazon either.

It’s 95% junk. Need to start holding corporations responsible and not just going “oh, it’s a third party seller! It’s not our fault.”

They’re taking fuck knows how much in fees, and worth trillions of dollars. Fine them. Massively.

IIRC the Xbox 360 used to do a thing where you’d put your old OG Xbox disc in, and it would download any extra code it needed to run. Most of these older games would be under a few MB of actual code.

Pretty sure the PS5 is powerful enough to run PS1 and PS2 emulated, and probably have a good crack at running PS3 games as well, although a lot of the good PS3 games got a remaster for the PS4 gen anyway.

I think the only thing stopping really us doing it now is the PS5 drive can’t actually read CDs. Plus I think they want to test each game before release and sell us them on PSPlus tiers.

Yeah, looking at the prices, it’s about right for what it is.

Suppose the upshot of using a generic component is you could also attach it to a PC.

Looks like the long term goal of them is to stop selling discs altogether. I couldn’t even get BG3 on a disc when it came out, and I think Alan Wake 2 was the same (only physical copy I can see is the deluxe version with both AW1&2 on it).

I see the mythical digital savings never made it to us, to the surprise of absolutely fucking nobody. I wouldn’t mind if they actually put games on a discounted price after a year or so, but you can still see several year old games at the full original retail price.

Why can’t you just plug in a random-ass USB 4KBR-disc drive?

Or sell one that we can use to bring in games from PS1, 2, 3, 4 and 5? And state that the drive will be able to be used going forward, into the next gen and beyond.

They’ve got a rich gaming history at this point and they don’t care because they’d rather sell you an $80 digital copy that they can take away at any time and you can’t trade it in or really own it. And it’s the same with PC games as well, courtesy of Valve and then everyone else.

If the future is digital, we need laws that allow us to transfer ownership of digital content. It would have to be secure, obviously. Not just “steal somebody’s console and trade all their games in”.

That is a ridiculous price for a games console.

And PC gamers can stop looking smug because GPU prices make that unreasonable as well.

We need to rethink raytracing, because chasing it has just made everything unaffordable.

Hey now, that malware has paid to be the top result! Probably using the proceeds scammed out of somebody who downloaded it.

When you browse Netflix, they use different thumbnails for the movies depending on the profile they’ve made for you. Even if it’s as blatant as “white person from the movie”/“black person from the movie”. If you ignore a movie for long enough, sometimes they even swap it out for a different image to trick you into watching it.

I’m amazed that YouTube doesn’t try and do this somehow. Instead, every video somehow has the same stupid thumbnails of arrows, meaningless text and gormless faces, and I hate it.

But then I block all ads anyway, so it may be that they’re actively trying to make me go away.

Only the first time you visit in a while though.

I think it’s taking you away to a login page, logging you in, then bringing you back.

I can see the point if you were going to ask or answer a question, but 99% of the time you just want to see how somebody else didn’t get their problem solved by some random Indian guy who people assume works for Microsoft, who think the solution to everything is running “sfc /scannow” which has replaced chkdsk as the command most likely to take a long time, do nothing, and make the question asker go away without a solution to their problem.

The man’s a consummate bullshit artist, but I can’t deny he used to be one of the best. Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Fable…

The last 10-15 years have been a bit of a write-off, but before that, even when he was shitting out games, they were still better than most people could even dream of making.

Sorry, best we can do is still be in early access and already trying to sell the DLC.

They’re speakers, they’re supposed to be loud.

I started using subtitles years ago, and now I can barely hear without them.

RSS is what we had before algorithms that just pick adverts and far right fuckery.

Fuck off old gen, we hate you now. Fo rizz no cap etc.

By the time the generation after them get to working age, somebody will have invented the Swype keyboard for office use.

It will always be in uppercase unless you press the “no cap” button.

Can I interest you in a FCVTRHJR HDMI cable?

Because they’re also drug users.

I assumed this was a chat between two men tbh

There was definitely a lot, south America in particular, with psychopaths like Pinochet put in charge.

Gosh, who could have been behind that?

I guess we’ll never know for sure!