Microsoft is unbothered by all of this because the Xbox project was always an effort to PC-ify the console market. They just assumed they’d own PC gaming. Aside from that little hiccup, it’s gone swimmingly.

Side note, but it always baffled me why Microsoft went into consoles. They owned windows, where everyone was playing PC games on. They could’ve made something like Steam, if you ignore that large companies like Microsoft seem incapable of delivering good products. Don’t even both with the hardware expenses.

I read about that. I can only assume there’s some soulless goons in the middle who gets a bonus from some poorly thought about metric, and they’re going to chase that even if everyone else suffers.

If Sony just sold PC ports, people would be happier and Sony would be making money.

It’s not bad but it’s not as good as its inspirations- sekiro is much more satisfying.

Most people don’t care about things. They just want the convenience. Eat the marshmallows now. Getting a stomach ache later is some future problem.

Different parts of NY state are all very different. Even different neighborhoods within Brooklyn can be very different costs and experiences. I live here but would not willingly choose to live in the suburbs around the city.

In the city, you’re likely not going to find rent under $1000/month. Make a budget spreadsheet. You can cut some corners - my phone bill is $20/month, and I eat a lot of rice and beans to keep my food budget low - but some stuff is just expensive.

You’ll probably need room mates.

Look for colleges first, if that’s a goal. Some have housing assistance.

I often find it’s hard to really capture lyrics just writing them out.

"The weather never really matterered it was just something there was to talk about

We fall into patterns and habits and there’s not much we can do about that

Rearrange the room again I want to live somewhere as small as i feel when i fall asleep or wake up"

Little known band joyride! is a consistent favorite of mine.

https://joyride-sf.bandcamp.com/album/joyride

I don’t know how many people have the absolute position that it “can’t be used as a tool to improve anything”.

There’s a lot of “it’s risky and expensive and anti-labor, so I don’t think we should be pouring all this effort into it”

Capitalism. The people calling the shots and keeping the profits are not the people doing the work.

It’s bad and will continue to be bad for everyone except the top layer of rich people.

I think most people are so disorganized in their thinking, they can’t “prompt” well. There’s a lot of unclarified assumptions and leaps in how many people communicate

I have a game of ttrpg Vampire the requiem and one of the guys insists on saying variations of “I’m going to suck that guy” straight faced (heh).

Right? But it was so … Short sighted, to think it would last forever and you’d never need to organize.

I remember an old coworker said he was anti union. “I’d just find another job if I didn’t like the one I had”, he said. Bold claim.

Criminal penalties for decision makers. Jail time. Disgorgement of profits.

I believe you even though that’s kind of sad. I’m not sure which of “they thought this dead animal picture was good” or “they don’t have friends to take a better picture” or “it didn’t even occur to them to ask a friend to take a picture” are worse.

That could be. I’m not sure how the “many women don’t like these pictures” fact didn’t override that, though.

When I was on the dating apps I got a friend to take some photos of me in the park

Probably similar to how a lot of incels and manosphere duds get advice from other men instead of women. They’re in a little bubble. Maybe they don’t respect women’s opinions.

This is refreshing. I’m so tired of right wing people being like “the government can’t do anything right and I’m going to prove it by sabotaging and starving the government”.

Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.

The song game. I feel like a lot of people have come up with it naturally.

One person plays a song. The next person has to then play a song with some sort of connection to it. Like, you could follow the velvet underground’s “Sunday Morning” with Nirvana’s “Lithium” because it has the line “Sunday morning is every day for all I care”. Any connection is valid so long as the group accepts it, but I prefer lyrical ones myself.

That’s it. You go around until you lose interest.

I like it as a way to share music, because to do well you typically have to actually listen with their song.