. I don’t know why they weren’t.

I don’t know for certain but I have guesses. They probably thought they could make more money from a more closed system. Some middle manager probably had a kpi that benefitted from incompatibility.

The up-front cost of a console is probably cheaper, barring putting some labor in and getting lucky on sales. You’re right about that.

A PC has more utility, a larger library, and no subscription fee. That $80/year PsPlus subscription eats into the savings pretty fast. And when your playstation is end-of-life, it’s far less useful than an older PC.

I’m sure some PC-building nerds would be happy to help put together a cost effective machine for you, but sadly I’m not that kind of nerd. I splurged on a pre-built machine when I had a nice job.

Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of “easy” and “cheaper” haven’t been true for years.

Microsoft could have done like a … Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could’ve made steam. Except they couldn’t because they’re a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.

Fuck em. Fuck them all.

Not going to buy a PlayStation.

I imagine in a few years they’ll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.

Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don’t need all the bells and whistles.

We don’t need this at my job. Management specifically forbid us from writing integration tests at all. And they don’t even know what unit tests are (not a joke) so that’s not a problem.

I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.

I’m reminded of that post that showed all the people in the “boycott cod” group playing call of duty.

The bulk of video game players seem to be feckless marshmallow eaters.

I’m happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I’d have to make a lot more money.

Wages are not up. I’m not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I’ll think about it.

What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.

Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.

I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.

You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.

There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

Oh, I left it for a while and it loaded. There wasn’t a moving progress bar or animation, so I thought it was frozen.

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Played a bit. Hard on the phone !

Doesn’t seem to work on Firefox android. Just a still image on clicking the link

If I’m not playing something fun in a few minutes, I’m probably going to bounce off. I’m not here to watch a movie.

I don’t want to watch a long intro. I don’t want a lot of cut scenes and exposition up front.

The dark souls games have a little cut scene that you can skip, and then you’re off to playing. Perfect.

Recall is one of the reasons I switched to Linux. It’s been fine. (Pop!_os). Plays all the video games I care to, runs a web browser.

Cars ruin everything. The primacy of cars is upstream from a surprising amount of problems with modern life.

Off the top of my head …

• free public health care for all.
• forgive all medical debt
• free public education for all, including college.
• forgive all student loan debt
• universal basic income
• more public housing. Homes are owned by the people who live in them, or the state. No profit seeking private orgs.
• close the “buy borrow die” loopholes, where people get untaxed loans to access their wealth without paying taxes
• more tax on the wealthy
• look into making property tax progressive like income. That is, the first $nnn of your house is untaxed, the next chunk at some percent, the following chunk at a greater percent, and so on.
• all Republicans removed from office. They are barred from government positions for life, as well as any private role with decision making power.
• break up mega corps. Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Their current leadership has their wealth seized, and they are barred from leadership positions for life.
• invest heavily in public transit and safety improvements to existing roadways. Cars are literally killing us as well as sapping our resources.
• mandatory profit sharing for employees.
• mandatory pay transparency
• maximum pay gap between roles. No more janitor making $7/HR while the CEO makes $300/hr
• accounting hijinks to pretend like your org made no profit, or “they’re not employees they’re contractors” are punishable by seizure of all wealth and a prohibition from similar roles for life
• come up with something so venture capitalist bros aren’t deciding the future, if the above doesn’t somehow fix it.

I’m never going to buy a PlayStation outside of maybe a yard sale second hand situation. Nor will I ever pay a subscription fee. So if they don’t want my money, fuck 'em.