Thanks. I’m still learning how to make and edit videos.

I was fortunate enough to get a PS5 in early 2021 (at retail price). So I’ve had it for over 3 years now. But it’s just now gotten easy to find them in the past year, so I get how it feels like it just came out to some. It’s been great to play my PS4 gamea on it with Boost Mode enhancements. But as UE5 games and others using more modern engines finally have started to come out, it’s just became pretty clear to me the base model is just not quite powerful enough to keep up with where gaming is headed over the next 5 years. I’m ready for an upgrade

PAX is probably the closest thing we have left in the US

…but it does look pretty nice

I don’t know if this can really be called “HD-2D”. This seems more like “2.5D” with the amount of 3D graphics in use

A few, but you’re going to see a flood of UE5 games soon

Snaps are crap. Not using them is one of the main reasons I’m considering switching to Mint

Whaat? That’s crazy. I didn’t realize that

This is great news. Being able to tap into hardware acceleration for AV1 will be crucial to it taking off. And all 3 of the major GPU vendors have support now.

I truly believe there were only 2 factors that mattered in its death. First and foremost was the massive amount of debt the failure of the Saturn had left Sega already trying to recover from. If they hadn’t had that to worry about it would have been financially successful as it stood.

The second factor was more insidious. Sony did such a good job hyping up the PS2 that people really believed it would be way more powerful than the DC. Yet the DC could produce better graphics than the PS2 at launch. But that’s not what the public perception was. I worked at Electronic’s Boutique during the PS2’s launch, and no matter how much I tried it was impossible to diffuse the hype around it when I would try to convince people there was no need to wait and they should get a Dreamcast today rather than waiting for the PS2. But it was a lost cause most of the time. And ultimately those people are better off with how things eventually played out

You could also make your Chao fight each other, kinda like a Pokemon battle. Required two VMUs hooked together

I used to have Chao fights with my friend at lunch in high school. The VMUs totally worked

It’s possible. But I know in the film industry they will sometimes spend just as much on marketing as they did on making the whole damn movie now. And their budgets are generally reported separately

The OP article also mentions that they are expecting to sell 11.6 million in the first year. They’re gonna be fine

Then there was probably another 50 mill or so put into the marketing and advertisement on top of that

It’s because the US doesn’t have anti-monopoly laws. We have laws that you can’t abuse your monopoly powers. And in this case, it was easier to prove against Google.

But it’s still bullshit. Vertical Integration is just a vertical monopoly

https://www.removepaywall.com/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/epic-google-trial-verdict

So we need git add . && git commit -a here really

You need the “Userland” programs. Basic things like ls, cp, cat, etc. Usually it’s GNU core tools, but there’s also BusyBox or BSD equivalents.

It’s not FOSS, but Google’s adding this feature right into Photos

Standard practice at game stores for over 20 years. They do this to prevent theft. Before this policy got instituted we’d have angry people showing up with empty cases because someone slipped it out of the box and then out of the store