“You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.”

Wait, really? Last time I looked all the main providers had removed it, and the only ones left looked like they were hosted on a toaster.

Might have to look into that when mine comes up for renewal.

That’s the future we all wanted. Going to work all day so robots could sit at home and play games.

Most VPNs don’t allow that, and those that do look shady as fuck.

16GB

I often have to kill it because it refuses to load things on new tabs.

I do use a VPN extension with it, so it could be that, but the result is the same.

You mean the slopomatic made up looking article that ran everywhere despite looking as genuine as a three pound note? The one with real “it’s true my uncle works for Bill Gates” energy? That article?

They’re doubling down. It’s a special CPU for more AI slop.

China, not Russia.

China got most of their oil from Venezuela and Iran. If they want any in the future they’ll have to play nicer with Trump, and promise not to take Taiwan.

In any case it sounds like a reason to actually read what the oauth login screens are actually telling you…

Oh, you mean the bits in between Gwent.

It’s pretty one note. Put up shield. Roll around. Hit enemy. If shield gone, reapply. Works from the start of the game to the end. Except ghosts because you need to use your magic on showing them to make them vulnerable.

But if they sold you a pair that lasted for decades, you wouldn’t need to buy any more.

I’ve moved onto earbuds. Earfun Air for a staggering £22. The sound genuinely isn’t bad either, I’ve no idea how you can even make them for that. Slavery, probably. Still, £22 is £22.

Because MS will throw any amount of losses at this to keep themselves in the game.

Plus making games deliberately incompatible with the GabeCube will be trivial if it comes to that.

Valve can throw a lot of resources behind what they’re doing, but it’s a drop in the ocean compared to what MS can spend. At the end of the day Valve can only really match current consumer pricing, and even with 16GB RAM and 8GB GPU, that isn’t cheap.

Yeah, if the Series S could have run my Steam library, I’d have got one years ago when it was cheap.

You think the average person will buy a more expensive box that doesn’t play COD, FIFA, etc?

Does 10/10 mean it’s got RAM and drives accessible without needing to disassemble the whole fucking thing?

Nice to see both aren’t soldered onto the motherboard, but we’ve still gone backwards in the last 20 years.

“I want my country back…”

Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.

They’re clearly going for the same thing on all devices at some point. There’s a lot of money to be made locking shit down and keeping your users hostage.

I died sitting in an uncomfortable chair. I’ll have to pick it up again when I’m in the mood.

Hades. Hate roguelikes. Quite enjoyed that.