CMB (🦥)

Can stop, will stop. Check out @LongWalkPodcast & @this_pod, because why not? - he/him

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

PlayStation Store former Vice President claims video games won't become cheaper by going 100% digital🚀

“The video game industry is not incentivized to create products whose price is determined simply by their production cost.

The preferable approach is to maximize revenue whenever possible.

The selling price will remain fixed, regardless of whether the game is sold in physical or digital format.”

This is Sony’s all-digital future

Pay more for less quality, no ownership, no ability to trade or resell, no options, no soul, and no respect from the company towards customers.

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

PlayStation will be introducing regional pricing starting August 20🚀

Regional pricing tends to mean higher pricing, so enjoy your all-digital future😅

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[Retro Brandon ➡️ Pax West @NovaBran]

This fight isn't about physical vs. digital.

It's about consumers vs. anti-consumer practices.

I genuinely don't think the people defending Sony's decision are weighing the long-term consequences.

- Lose the trust of your most passionate fans—the collectors, influencers, and lifelong supporters who buy the most hardware and software—and you lose far more than a few sales. You lose your biggest advocates.
- Blindside retailers and partners, and don't be surprised if those relationships become more complicated going forward.
- Push everyone to digital, but offer no meaningful consumer protections. Can you lend a game? Trade it? Gift it? Preserve it if your account is banned? What guarantees do you actually have?
- Tell us digital is cheaper for you, then charge us the same (or more) anyway. If manufacturing, shipping, distribution, and retailer cuts disappear... where are the savings? Especially with dynamic pricing entering the conversation.

This isn't about making anyone feel bad for buying digital. Buy digital. Buy physical. I don't care.

What I care about is choice. What I care about is ownership. What I care about is consumers having rights instead of corporations having all the leverage.

We don't owe loyalty to shareholders. We should be standing together.

Because this isn't just about PlayStation. Every publisher is watching. Every platform holder is watching.

The standards we accept today become the standards the entire industry follows tomorrow.

Hold the line, people.

[Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyOL]

you'll always hate someone. you'll just keep moving that line.

[Adam @allaroundadam21]

This is Brian. A 2K employee.

Brian says ‘exploiting’ the game to unlock what we’ve paid a premium for is bad for the system. Yet Brian, and many others at 2K, see no issue with offering pay to skip tiers or locking content from past games.

Don’t be like Brian @WWEgames

[Stellar @StellarArtoisGB]

Did you know 😏

He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever.

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour.

When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling.

His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

[Doobus Goobus @DoobusGoobus]

Ads on something I got for free: oh alright you lil scamp. Gotta fund it somehow!

Ads on something I already paid for: death penalty, immedietely....

Like have some perspective guys.

[Su’a Kristopher Cravens @SuaKCravens]

My mom is starting to act like this and it’s honestly crazy how time flies and life works… My dad was the big strong Samoan superhero with the jet black ponytail working out in the garage… Now he’s all skinny & gray and only wants to eat oatmeal. The little kid in me gets real emotional when he acknowledges the facts of life and the harsh reality that they won’t be with me someday … So please while they’re still here , LOVE & SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY WHILE YOU HAVE THE CHANCE 😭🙏🏽

[⛧maidenn⛧ @MaidenEngland96]

The police

[Minnesota House DFL @mnhouseDFL]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

An elected Republican legislator in Minnesota ⬇️

[YGF @YGFDoodles]

No we're not going to memory hole the fact that the end of Flash was so universally hated that countless people immediately worked to preserve every flash file they could find. Newgrounds even made its own Flash player so all that media would never be lost. Nobody celebrated.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Jesus literally staged a protest
IN
THE
TEMPLE.

Flipped some tables… and drove out the folks pretending to be holy.

It seems pretty clear that one of the most offensive things to God is when people use religion to cover up their greed and bigotry.

Rebuke it. In the name of Jesus.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

yeah, imagine that

[jamie @gnuman1979]

That's a great idea, thanks ICE

[B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny]

I made this meme just for this occasion, but feel free to steal it

[risa 🎭 TEAM COMEDY! @CRISPn_n]

my husband just said "the clock of my life started when i met you" and then started kicking ball around the house like it wasnt the most romantic thing that anyone has ever said to anyone something something

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

“So you’re telling me the people that are causing the death and destruction of the planet are all congregated in one place tonight?”

[Science Cowboy 🦉 @aadityad9]

Ornithologist here. Birds only do this when they want 15 beers.

[CMB (🦥) @ChrisTheOkay]

@JakeWallinger Dull surprise