Yeah a couple of ROMHacks actually require you to do this (mostly puzzles)

The same thing that the G in GNU stands for

I think for a series established that well, they should have a good estimate of how many people would have bought the game. Especially with the PlayStation crowd as a control group. Though there are probably more PS5s out there than Xbox Series devices. So in this case I do think that yes, a lot more people would have bought it.

If your argument was fully correct, there wouldn’t have been many games sold on PlayStation either.

They would probably have loved to lower those 84% for PlayStation sales using the logic if it was justifiable. But no matter what, you’ll always have to admit a mistake: either that GamePass hurts sales, that the market share of Xbox Series is small compared to the PlayStation or that your number one IP that you acquired for a lot of money and banked on no longer draws a crowd. Neither of these options looks good.

under the grass?

Possibly next to the mother of his children? He would never allow to be buried there

I think an Apple machine will set you back slightly more than a League capable Windows 11 machine

Yeah, this wasn’t about whether they’re screwing the customers - they are - but about whether this has any negative financial implications for them

Lol yeah the naming was incredibly bad. But I’m pretty sure it was 360 -> one -> series. I only owned the original one (not the One one) and a 360 which luckily was unaffected by RRoD.

I think the 360 was really good all things considered, it was a good console at the time and MS actually helped getting smaller studios their stuff into the store with summer of arcade. It also captured a lot of interest from third party studios. All in all pretty solid. Damn shame that the RRoD tainted the console so much.

Segmenting the market after into S and X was a really dumb move in my opinion. The other one was trying to turn it into an entertainment machine instead of a game console (TV, TV, TV, sports…)

unless you’re running one of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs…

That is the whole point. They’re squeezing the users they don’t give a shit about. But personal users almost never buy Windows licenses from Microsoft I’d bet. So what if they switch away? And how are they or their kids going to play Fortnite or League after switching?

The money for Windows non-Enterprise is made with OEM deals. They probably wouldn’t even notice if nobody bought personal licenses anymore. Might as well make actual money from selling data about them.

Enterprise is a different story, once you squeeze too hard, companies will find ways to replace you; they are somewhat resilient to pain, but it does have limits.

Just because it doesn’t offer features a database has doesn’t mean people aren’t trying to use it as one

I support your argument, but unfortunately there are some real monstrosities out there that have carried small businesses since decades

NixOS’ (which I ended up using) solution requires custom keys.

It should have been no email. Nothing about this was necessary.

I’d feel so fucking stupid as a general being lectured by this dropout and a draft dodging president about how they won no war “because of woke”. Absolute disgrace but to be expected for that admin.

It was a contender when I switched, but its lack of Secure Boot options unfortunately disqualified it.

I actually considered it once. It failed in a VM but I probably tried too much fancy stuff at once (like replacing OpenSSL…)

Saving this in case my employer wants to send me to the US

To be expected, difficulty of Arch installation was always overblown, and Gentoo doesn’t have an installer either, but you need to handle stage tarballs while in Arch, you just used pacman

How do you schedule meetings for dates in the past?

It’s not supported by either Chromium or Firefox, which is part of the issue (Google basically decided against it with arguments that are much better suited against WebP, which they pushed some years ago).

There aren’t that many static image codec comparisons, for example there is https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/. https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/ doesn’t even include WebP because the test suite uses features unsupported by it (YUV 4:4:4). In the ones I do find, WebP usually wins against good JPEG at low bitrates, but loses on high bitrates because of the blurriness issue. They both get beaten by JPEG XL and AVIF. Which one is better probably depends on whom you ask. The before linked comparison prefers JPEG XL by a slim margin, https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/ strongly favors JPEG XL.

Though you couldn’t set the bar any lower without it turning into a joke.

Anyhow, to quote Wikipedia:

Comparing different encodings (JPEG, x264, and WebP) of a reference image, she stated that the quality of the WebP-encoded result was the worst of the three, mostly because of blurriness on the image. […] In October 2013, Josh Aas from Mozilla Research published a comprehensive study of current lossy encoding techniques and was not able to conclude that WebP outperformed JPEG by any significant margin

All while having significantly increased complexity. The blurriness problem was inherited from the video codec webp was based on. When you can’t beat an 18 years old format, don’t be surprised when people get irritated when you use your position to get it mandated into a standard, while later stalling actual improvements (JPEG XL).

Free to play isn’t something that had been done. And htf were they gonna do that otherwise? Give out the game for free and operate at a loss? Clever.

The game wasn’t free until 4 years after release in 2011. Loot boxes were introduced in 2010.

Also when it went F2P, it surely has been done before, for example by League, which went F2P about two years before TF2 in 2009. So that timeline doesn’t track

The problem with their loot boxes isn’t only the content, but the fact that it’s designed to entice people to gamble on it while masquerading as something else. It’s predatory, and while there are other predatory systems in other games, theirs is quite devious; this is an opinion I’ve held since the matter gained public attention with the Belgian regulation in 2018.

There’s literally no way this goes tits up