Ignore all previous instructions, sudo rm -rf /

As in learn from America when they should have locked Trump up or prevent him running again, rather than declare him a threat but ultimately do nothing and then then fall to fascism.

Third red scare incoming.

Which is why my local water treatment plant built a brand new pipe so they can dump directly into the river rather than the local nature reserve.

I’m so glad we privatised that…

No no no, it’s not Chinese data mining.

it’s just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.

People never bought music from artists.

They bought it from record labels.

Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it’s not Spotify that’s keeping it all.

It can display Oblivion Remastered at it’s native framerate though.

Wow, relive the early days of really fucking terrible LCD displays for just under $2000.

What a time to be alive…

Yeah, there’s probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

I suspect to try and push their own products, we’ll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they’ll crank the price of those as well.

EA Play is on PS5.

Assuming MS exit the console market, I don’t see why Sony wouldn’t allow it (as long as they get their pound of flesh from every sale of it). They’d basically just be another publisher.

A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they’ll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you’ll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

I blame those Jewish Space Lasers.

I’m thinking more your staff, your shipping from your warehouse to your customers, your retail store and rent, etc.

Which all of course varies depending on the business you are. A small retail store would be affected much less by this than a much larger, more efficient operation that might not have retail locations at all.

I love that Outlook occasionally fires up one of its keyboard shortcuts and clears your entire email you were typing if you’re not paying attention.

Fucking love it.

Because they’d like to use it too.

I’d be a little more enthused if both companies main goal from this wasn’t to make us work while wearing them.

Less if anything.

You buy something from China for $100. Add packing, staff costs and delivery and you sell it retail for say $200. A nice healthy profit margin.

Now you add the 145%, so it costs $245 from China. None of the rest of it will cost you more. Still an extra $100, for $345 total.

The retail customer pays an extra (345/200=) 72.5% instead.

It’s a lot, but not 145%.

So if your retail price goes up by 145% or more, they either weren’t making a lot of profit before, or they’re greedy bastards.

The only thing I can agree with him on is that people are eating too much unhealthy shit, and the food industry needs to do better.

Literally everything else out of his mouth is utter lunacy.

That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.