i have a shitty little AOC 20 inch monitor that doesnt even have any physical controls on it,connected via a Displayport to VGA adapter, and a big 27 inch dell monitor connected via HDMI.

the shit little monitor always wakes up like 2 seconds after the PC does, the dell takes for fuckin ever. often just waking up in time to see the OS login screen.

but like, man, like… its totally new, like, and like, totally amazing man. you just, like, cant comprehend, man!

the 1% is the people who say “well, sure, 99% is a scam, but theres a legit 1% thats totally real!”

Do you think I’m some STD-ridden guy?

Who do you think would say such a thing?

1. a partner that loves and respects you.
2. an STD-riddled guy.

imma say Number 2 for 1000.

also side note.

Yeah, he put it on… but did he leave it on? was it one he tampered with? His reaction makes him 100% not trustworthy.

“the ads help us make more money above and beyond all the apps who’ve paid us to pre-load their shit on our product”

i dont have an LG, but I’ve only had to firmware update 1 TV in like… the past 13 years, and that was because it had a horrible issue with the image vertically splitting in half and green corruption across the bottom. Which makes you think hardware failure, but it wasnt, the firmware update 100% fixed it for the rest of its life.

So unless you are facing a major, catastrophic issue like that, I’d say fuck updates.

For now. That can change at any time with an update.

Exactly this.

“Smart” TVs never go online, never connect to anything but power and an HDMI, and quite frankly…if it didnt risk causing warranty headaches, I’d open teh fucker up and unplug its wifi antenna too.

Always use an old PC/Laptop/Raspberry Pi/whatever to get them online/on youtube/streaming/etc. You have full control over those devices, and can update them as desired and modify them at a whim.

Fuckin hate smart TVs. a bunch of fucking spyware and adware that just makes the device run hotter and die sooner.

This is the cyberpunk future that the 80s kids were so hyped for.

Youtube: “People are blocking are ads and costing us money, what should we do?!”

The People: “Police your platform and stop advertising scams, hate speech, pornography, and all the other shit.”

Youtube: “I just have no idea what to do, so I guess I’ll just invest millions/billions into making ads harder to block, and make the ads longer and unskippable. You know, Just make the platform almost completely unusable without adblocking”

The People: “YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, JUST POLICE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM ALREADY. IF YOU DID YOU WOULDNT NEED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT”

Youtube: “Oh, btw, heres another PragerU video thats 3 hours long and talks about how the black man should be grateful for the white man uplifting them via slavery, followed by a ad thats basically a woman fingering herself to advertise chinese AI girlfriends”

The People: adblocking intensifies

Sure, Buddy.

Sure buddy.

Keep it up, maybe you’l get to pay a license fee for repeatedly posting, too.

Of course, buddy.

Sure buddy.

nope. Just a frustrated, blueballed gamer sick and tired of shit ending in clifhangers with no finish.

Doent help that valve have openly admitted in the past that they have little interest in making games outside of experiments to play with new technologies, who cares about the players invested in the narratives they’ve created and refuse to bring any conclusion too.

Really?

I don’t recall having to pay a fee every time I redownload or reinstall my game…ever

real disappointed all that HL3 hype a month or 3 back ultimately ended up being a big fat fart of nothing.

“The litigation will progress until Valve obeys” sounds an awful lot like extortion.

They are clearly trying to double/triple dip on shit that already been paid for and licensed.

Whats next?

Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?

Shit like this aint meant for you and me.

Its meant for big industrial scale data whores, like Palantir, and youtube, and CIA.

They better be getting a fuckin paycheck too.

Don’t get to steal peoples work, then go “oopsie”, slap their name in credits, and think alls well.