This is a common problem in the evaluation of almost everything I find. I always assume that any technology will improve with time whether in ways that are perceptible or imperceptible but increase efficiency. Most people seem to be unable to make that assumption and simply judge things as they are at the very moment. I guess it is somewhat pragmatic but it is unreasonable, every technology, even the most primitive we still find ways to improve.

In the sense of renewables, it will soon be common sense and economic reality that it is superior to non renewables, if not for the fact that extracting the resource is a much more passive and less labor intensive activity than extracting coal or oil out of the ground. We were held back by the cost of the tech but advances in efficiency and recycling of materials has made them the sensible economic choice.

But the oil mongers won’t go out without a fight: where I live they are putting a tax on the sun itself because imagine someone just being able to generate their own energy off the grid like that, anarchy!

Oh no chemicals! We should indeed not consume chemicals, which is why starting today I will no longer consume anything that has water in it.

It’s only obvious because you already know what a beaver looks like.

Isn’t that Cascadia?

I mean that would be my instinct but what if they have like a pressure point there that requires a specific amount of force that happened to be approximately the same as a light tap?

Tap it or punch it? I mean there’s a difference in both movements and intensity.

This is what happens when the judicial branch becomes the legislative branch. Honestly I don’t know why people blame Trump for the political shit show happening in this country. The ones to blame are congress, they gave away all their power and enabled everything that’s happening.

Trump is nothing but an opportunistic feeder. Probably not even the worst we will see.

I know, we shouldn’t subsidize either.

If that’s true how come we need to subsidize it in order for it to be adopted?

Overall reviews: Mostly Positive Recent Reviews: overwhelmingly negative

Review: this is the worst piece of shit ever made the devs should be hanged!!!

Playtime: 2006 hrs on record

I know people are morons and I’m a contrarian so I will almost always assume the least popular thing is better, but less convenient somehow

I’m a console gamer, I’ve never cared about my library to the point I actually threw away games from previous gen’s once I got the new console. That was me as a kid mind you. Nowadays, I just don’t buy games at all thanks to gamepass. So yep it kinda tracks, at least anecdotally.

Munitions go bad, weapon tech improves. If you are not constantly on the cutting edge then you are outgunned and outmatched.

Those are all still here in one form of another. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is as strong as it’s ever been. But you do point at how this will go. Soonish there will be less overtly AI products as we realize that it is not the be all end all, and instead it will be yet another technology that we can use to achieve various goals. But moving forward it will probably be embedded in the background of most things, as it had been for almost a decade before gen ai.

Yep they definitely missed the boat on that one. Which is why I think they are so keen on turning Xbox into a platform. With how PC hardware is going, they have a chance to take back some market from Valve and maybe convert people from Playstation as well. The risk here is that they can’t sell the “consoles” at a loss, so they will be undercut by Sony by a significant amount of money. But their answer to that is probably “it doesn’t matter, everything is an Xbox now, the console is for the enthusiast market”.

Bold strategy, we’ll see if they can pull it off.

They were thinking about that back then, various people have said it, but I think they were constrained by costs and technical limitations. Bill Gates certainly wanted Xbox and windows gaming to be a unified platform. I mean look at Valve, they had the Steam Machine ages ago and they flopped, but you can be sure that they will be much popular this time around.

Ok, so you think the mass market likes buying used stuff? Because as far as I’m aware the average consumer would rather buy a new lower end device than a used higher end device.

But yes the next Xbox has already been teased as running an AMD chip that will be sued across form factors , so you get where they are coming from. They are not about to let Valve and Linux run with the PC market, which continues to grow while the console market continues to shrink.

That’s not the next Xbox I mean, but it’s a glimpse at it. It’s clear that the direction this is going is that Xbox moving forward is going to be a Steam competitor and a launcher at the same time. The next Xbox console will be a prebuilt PC. A literal prebuilt PC running windows that can play Steam, PC games and Gamepass at current Series X quality or a little bit better priced somewhere between $700 to $900. Maybe a Series S type performance for $400-500. Build me a PC with similar performance at that price. You can’t because the GPU market is insane. I’m not saying there’s no pitfalls, but if they pull it off they will sell these things like crazy.

I bet you money right now that the next Xbox will be the best selling Xbox ever.

The personal touch was underpaid workers doing cookie cutter work that was hardly better than AI does but more expensive. I don’t see actual talented artists complaining all that much about AI it’s always the assembly line video game artists or even worst some furry fucker who didn’t even have their own style to begin with with. Ie the people who AI was created to replace because they bring nothing to the table.