Microsoft would love to sell PCs as locked down as Xboxes. That’s the ultimate goal of the TPM.

Xbox has always been a glorified windows machine

Oh sure, that’s table stakes for capitalist economics opinions. What got me is the sheer concentrated circularity of that sentence.

Many observers blame the ‘sticky’ services inflation on nominal wages, which are rising as workers strive to catch up with inflation.

the inflation is caused by people trying to catch up with the inflation?

WfM shows them holding hands with their wedding rings on at the end but no kissing

The ending was infuriating

He also wrote to Truman in 46 asking for help against the French.

Wasn’t Stirner a fake guy made up for Marx to be mad at though?

The version of that Niemoller poem they put on the Holocaust museum removes the first line which is just the perfect encapsulation of not getting it at all

I like Death Stranding but I think it would be better if it were even more of a walking simulator.

Last time I played minecraft vanilla was before 1.0. I exclusively play elaborate tech modpacks now. Most big modpacks at this point seem to have a gravestone mod that keeps all your shit in a block instead of spreading it over the ground and a map mod that marks your death point so it’s easy to collect again. Makes it low friction enough that I haven’t felt the need to completely disable dropping items on death.

I don’t mean that I cheat for postscarcity, I mean that my main form of gameplay is to build vast caverns full of inscrutable blocks of machinery which generate infinite quantities of every item in the pack and grumble when I realize that one part of the block of machinery I need to build requires going to the end, or start editing config files if I realize that the modpack is arranged such that I would have to go to the end twice. I also always play with mobgriefing off and never play vanilla.

I got a fresh aliexpress battery for my SP a while ago, but I end up playing my gba games on my powkiddy v90 instead

Far Cry 3 is one of the only games I ever got to the end of and wanted more, so I went to the options and reset all the enemy bases so I could knife hunt them again.

Most games I play though don’t really have game conditions I would even regard as “end” or “complete,” or if they do I ignore them, like the rocket in Rimworld or Factorio. In Minecraft my self-appointed win condition is typically using whatever modpack I’m playing to make all materials completely infinite and post scarcity rather than exploration. I kinda resent when a modpack forces too much exploration, honestly.

Yes, there’s a lot more to it, like how Biden is also currently perpetrating a genocide which Trump would absolutely continue to do

democracy is when you can choose between the guy who always lies and the guy who can’t string a sentence together

Because she and pelosi are the same person

He was a piece of shit for his entire long career decades before his brain liquefied.

Looks nice, does it have one of those secret touch sensitive zones for controlling brightness? Are you going to keep modding it more, maybe a USB rechargeable battery?