There’s a much much bigger indy market now. I’m sure people will still be playing games, just not AAA games they can’t afford on hardware they definitely can’t afford.

**trillions

There’s just a general downturn in the economy. People don’t buy video games when they’re struggling to pay for groceries.

That and MS probably wants to throw more into the AI money pit.

I haven’t been exposed to shit. Have you not been listening?

I don’t think you’re listening.

You’re on the internet, you’ve been exposed to foreign propaganda. If you’re conscious of it, you’ll be able to better spot it.

If you insist on being so naive and pretend everything that makes you outraged on the internet must be real, you’re open to manipulation.

How cute, you’re a millennial and so you think that makes you special. You’ve been exposed to imagery of a war on the other side of the world and so you think it entitles you to be an asshole to people where you live.

It may be hard for you to accept, but you’re not all that much different from the boomers. Just mindlessly consuming things on the internet that make you angry. Not giving any thought about who is making you angry and for what purpose. Boomers tend to gravitate towards the Russian propaganda, while you gravitate towards Chinese and Iranian propaganda.

The only thing that I find offensive about the Iran conflict is that western lives and resources are being wasted fighting people we have no reason to hate.

The Iranian regime is making you hateful. It’s easier to convince people of lies than it is to convince people they’ve been lied to.

My conversations with younger generations are basically identical to my conversations with boomers. Same tendency towards conspiracy theories, same distrust of any media source that’s not conforming to their feelings. Your generation doesn’t make you anything special.

Are you so naive as to think the Lego videos were the only thing they’ve produced? Iran is behind only China and Russia in terms of internet propaganda operations. It’s fairly trivial to count the number of accounts on social media that are active every day, but coincidentally not active at times when the power’s out in Iran. They operate troll farms same as China and Russia does.

How do you think the Lego videos came out of nowhere and got picked up by the algorithms? Upvoted by the troll farms.

I’ve seen some strange activity on Lemmy like the exact same content being posted from multiple accounts. Always pro-Iran and anti-Israel.

You’re being incredibly naive if you think they just put out some cute little Lego videos and nothing else. You’re the target of an information warfare campaign, and it seems to be working. You need to think a little more about what content you’d expect troll farms in China, Russia, and Iran would be producing.

There’s a difference between justice and revenge. There is no such thing as revenge against a country. Germany still exists today even after the horrible crimes committed by that country in the past.

You’re being told by Iranian propaganda that you’re supposed to hate a country. But hatred doesn’t make you strong, it only makes you stupid and gullible. Willing to die just to serve the interests of some psychopath.

It would be worth it if Elon Musk would move there.

That just indicates nobody is beaming an uncompressed signal directly at use. Something not on a tight beam directed at us would disperse and get lost in the noise. A compressed data stream would be indistinguishable from noise if since we don’t know the compression algorithm and with any kind of interference at all there wouldn’t be any way to distinguish it from noise.

Getting a radio signal basically requires there to be an alien race that knows we’re here and wants to talk to us.

I think you might’ve replied to the wrong comment?

Unless Sony is planning on selling digital meth LOL.

You’re acting like a million deaths is the same as 100,000 deaths. I’m not saying a mono-polar world is sunshine and roses. I’m saying a multi-polar world is worse. I’m giving you numbers to back that up.

It’s not like either of us is going to change the course of the world. It will likely go in the direction of a multi-polar world because the US is on the decline. You shouldn’t be so naive as to think that you should be preparing to celebrate world peace breaking out when there’s a multi-polar world. You should be prepared for world war.

Some the things you listed are just the start of that. Syria was not exactly aligned with the West. It was aligned with Russia and Iran which are pushing for this multi-polar world you seem to think will be better. Half a million people were killed in the Syrian civil war. You should expect more of that in a multi-polar world. Ukraine is another example of Russia trying to become a Great Power in a multi-polar world. It’s at least a million dead and counting in that one.

A lot of the sentimental stuff you’re talking about was gone a long time ago. You used to get a manual with a game, maybe a map, some other stuff like that. It’s been decades since that was a thing. Now you’re just getting a storage medium, and when you put it in the console it triggers a download, unless you want to play the buggy version that came out on release day.

Would you suffer the same emotional trauma if you had a leaky roof and your physical game collection got damaged and was unplayable?

Why would your favourite game that was still saved on your console not be playable but putting a disc with the same data on it somehow would be?

You’re getting a little too upset over the potential that you might not be able to play some games you deleted.

It sucks that people won’t be able to sell or give away games, but it’s a little over-dramatic to be upset over not having some box in your attic.

So it’s mostly sentimentality? That’s just the way it goes with tech, you have to get used to new ways of doing things.

Why I remember as a kid getting pop and chips at the gas station when my parents stopped there to fill up. If I get an EV my children won’t ever have that experience.

I don’t think sentimentality is a valid reason to stick with old technology.

The concerns about Sony supporting the servers long term and the fact that it’s unlikely people will be able to sell or give away their games, those are valid concerns. Sentimentality over technology is silly to me.

There’s always going to be capacity limitations, they’re bulky compared to an SD card, they can get scratched and who know if some discs will eventually suffer from disc rot as happened with DVDs.

For better or for worse (mostly worse) most games require patches now, so you’ll need an internet connection if you don’t want to be stuck playing the buggy initial release of a game.

Yeah especially when you’re starting from nothing. Chemicals needed to produce chips have multiple suppliers within a small geographic area in Taiwan. There are none in the US. Whelp, guess you need to either figure out how to transport some incredibly dangerous materials across an ocean or setup production of that chemical locally.

So it will take even longer for a chip fab to be online in the US than it would take in Taiwan.

In its latest report, the independent commission called for Israel to cease committing violations and crimes against and affecting Palestinian children and for the end of Israel’s continuing presence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,

So they’re demanding that Israel surrender?

The biggest thing blocking peace is making non-serious demands. Israel lost the propaganda war, but won the ground war. Continuing to be in this alternate reality where you believe Israel has lost because the internet is telling you so is not going to lead to any kind of peace agreement.

The UN being non-serious about this means there will just be a continuation of a war in which 98% of the casualties are Palestinian. But it’s starting to feel like everyone in the anti-Israel hate group wants this war to go on forever despite the fact it’s mostly Palestinians dying. It’s sickening that Palestinians lives are being as canon fodder in a war they obviously aren’t ever going to win for the sake of producing more content for internet hate groups.

Obviously there needs to be a serious peace plan, but that’s not going to come from the UN if they’re committed to being non-serious about this. And it’s definitely not going to come from the US because it’s a non-serious (but dangerous) country now. Maybe the EU could step up, but they have other problems.

So Palestinians are stuck between Iran which is using them as canon fodder against Israel which obviously has way more military capability. Then there’s a whole bunch of idiots (including in the UN) just throwing out some “hot takes” that accomplish nothing.

The PS3 was released nearly 20 years ago and no media standard lasts forever. I think if you told them back then that the PS3 strategy would result in their media format being dominant for two decades, they wouldn’t have said “ah well forget it, it’s not worth it.”

Bluray is starting to show it’s age. The decision is really between creating a new physical media format or just going 100% digital. From a purely technological perspective digital makes a lot more sense.

The real problem is about trust and licenses. We don’t trust a company when they announce plans to go 100% digital on the same week the break access to people’s movies in their digital library. And they could set up a digital system that would allow you to sell your license to someone else, so you could give or sell your copy of the game to someone else. But we know that while that’s technologically possible, they aren’t going to do that.

So it’s not a problem from a technology perspective, but it sucks for the consumer because of how they will implement the technology.

The problem with constantly lying to people to keep them voting for your party is eventually people that believe those lies might get into power.

What you describe isn’t weird for a large corporation. When a corporation is large enough, they’re all like that.

Or they have the blankets configured in an L shape so you see the man’s chest, but not the woman’s chest.