SNES was arguably better than Genesis system

The SNES and Genesis were comparable. You could argue one or the other, but it was a tighter race than the Playstation 3 curb-stomping the Wii.

N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1

Playstation had CD-ROM, and that’s all that needs to be said about that battle.

GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

Comparing the GameCube with the PS2, it had less VRAM, less RAM, a faster CPU, roughly equiv video processor. I would say they were about equal, and that’s with GameCube coming out two years later.

The PS2 was also the strongest console to ever fight in any sort of console war, with its ridiculously large library of games. PS2 punished Sega so hard they permanent removed themselves out of the race, and Nintendo had to completely change strategies to fill a different niche and audience, which worked with the Wii. However, that came with the dumbing down of hardware that everybody is talking about. They have been pushing shitty outdated hardware ever since.

PCs literally had “mouse mode” gaming since the 80s. The Amiga/ATARI ST already had them, too.

Consoles have been behind the times for decades.

This has been the plan since Reagan. Fuck up the government, run on a platform that the government sucks (because they fucked it up), allow Democrats to only fix half of the shit, GOP wins, repeat.

Agreed. I’m a bit disappointed that it’s being touted as such. If you need a local LAN option, use VLC Player.

I’m already sick of this phrase. The tech hallucinates too much, and understands security about as much as a whale understands astrophysics.

Hasbro, not WotC. Wizards of the Coast is just an old name that no longer carries any meaning, like Netscape or Obsidian Entertainment.

Hasbro makes all of the decisions now.

WIPO sounds like an racial slur.

Worse, they would make the hardware in such a way that you need special screwdrivers to open it, and even if you get access to it, the internal design is so hostile that it makes replacing parts a 4 hour experience.

Echo chambers can’t have bad news in it.

(elon, vance, trump, hegseth, bessent, rfk jr, bondi, mcmahon, gabbard, loeffler, etc)

I am reminded of that quote from Spaceballs: “Evil always wins because good is dumb.”

But, like, is it really true? Isn’t the exact opposite actually true?

Well, yes, but also that’s very illegal.

Will the GOP hold them accountable and start an investigation about it? Fuck no!

Is it AI generated?

I’m unqualified to try to untangle why Trump’s handlers are doing this, and I generally don’t like to spout off without evidence.

Trump’s handler is Putin, and there’s plenty of evidence.

People and small indie companies have lost entire fortunes trying to enforce or defend completely obvious copyright cases.

Stable Diffusion. Why do you think all of these models exist?

You really trust the US government to control your communications? Especially given the last 20 years?

No, I don’t trust right-wing Nazis to control my communications. And I sure as fuck trust the government more than I trust greedy corporations. The problem is that the corporations have been fucking up the capitalistic/democratic balance for the last 50 years.

The raw SMTP landscape on the internet is such a shitshow. Setting up a SMTP server requires so many goddamn condoms that you might as well just give up and start using some other professional email service. Or you set it up just to forward email to a GMail account, and even then, Gmail bitches about how much spam you’re forwarding it and blocks you for a time.

Capitalism will outlast copyright. They’ll adapt. The rich have existed for millennia and there’s no reason to think they would roll over as soon as copyright dies.

But, the more they push AI as their digital savior, the more copyright-free content they create. AI is just hastening copyright’s demise.

The biggest problem with Ai is copyright.

FTFY. Copyright is a tool of the rich. It is not for you.