They make DRAM modules. There’s a built in incentive to pump up the idea that prices aren’t coming down, so you might as well buy now.

Is he saying the atmosphere is a shared resource that no nation should be filling with pollution?

It’s fascinating how close he is to getting it, while the world knows he never, never will.

Word is Josh Sawyer started working on a Fallout game, but couldn’t get Bethesda to let him call it “Fallout,” so things were reworked into a completely standalone game.

Now that MS wants more Fallout, they pressured Todd to loosen his grip, and the Sawyer game is back to its original intent. It’s still in development, but it has had some time to get actual work done, so it’s closer than if they just started last week.

Again, lots of whispers and rumors, so take that with as much salt as necessary.

No, no. Just announcing the policy makes Pete feel more like a man’s manly man.

It really is all about trust. Of all the digital storefronts, Sony is the only major one I can think of that has actually reached into people’s libraries and pulled things out[1]. So far it seems to be limited to movies and TV shows, so it’s not a perfect 1:1, but they are the worst company to trust on this.

Buying from any digital store with DRM is a risk. Some have failed completely, but the big three of Sony, Valve, and MS are unlikely to go under any time soon. By establishing a precedent of tying your access to their behind-the-scenes licensing agreements, Sony’s model is more risky for consumers than the others.

1. Ok, Amazon/Kindle was actually maybe the first. I haven’t heard of that happening for a long time, and obtaining another copy of a book is trivially easy, but they get a dishonorable mention.

Other examples are welcome, I’m always willing to put another company on the naughty list.

1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.

The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.

Turns out getting kicked in the head for a living is associated with making other bad decisions.

I haven’t actually fired it up in a while, but Gedonia might be up your alley.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/

Looks like a sequel is currently in early access, too.

…or like literally not ready, as in “you’ll need a 6090 Ti”?

Squat on the inkpad, perp.

Active Time Battle (ATB) was under patent until 2010.

Games are just software, and software patents are definitely (and unfortunately) a thing.

Guess I’ll have to limit myself to the 10,000 other games to play on PC, then.

There are reports from every state, including Hawaii.

https://www.bigfootmap.com/

Some obvious jokes, but somehow there are true believers across the continent.

There was a full news cycle of tech folks talking about how “they are so in demand, they sold out instantly.” Build the hype with free press.

Valve has enough experience with this to know exactly what they were doing.

They really are good at painting out wire work in movies these days.

The real version isn’t a ton better, but his head is less slumped over, and may have just been caught mid-blink.

There’s enough other evidence that he falls asleep during meetings that there’s no need to exaggerate this one.

Edit: This is why this comm has rules. Links to trustworthy news sources, not just random unverified dunks.

Didn’t JD also endorse some AfD chuds in Germany last year, only to see their numbers drop even further?

They also have a browser extension to put some additional info right on the steam store pages.

Not the entire price history, but it will show the lowest ever price, and the last time it happened. Even if Valve puts a 30-day history on the page, this would still be useful to know if a game ever gets discounts deeper than whatever it had most recently.

Hopefully the story or progression is engaging enough to keep my interest.

The devs have promised that the story and progression will be getting a change from previous entries. The past few have gotten some flack for just throwing all the currency and all the cars at you without much challenge to it. Recent editions are bordering on being a car-collector-simulator as much as a racing game.

Personally, I’ve loved them all for just messing around and driving hundreds of different cars, but a bit of change in formula would be welcome, if they can pull it off.

In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.