My love and appreciation for Japan grows stronger everyday. They are our closest friends and allies and together, America and Japan can be an unstoppable force of economic and defensive prowess. Can’t wait to go one day!
The last couple of years and the radical change at basically every facet of my life and the life of those around me has awoken a deep sadness and frustration within me with the knowledge that the enshitification of all that was once right in the world is here to stay
Every time I think things aren’t so bad, they get worse. I know entertainment is a privileged hill to die on, but god damn it our games, movies, and shows are all being hijacked by the worst people ever and everyday we own less and less of it. Physical media supremacy ATW
@JeffFavignano Funnily enough, the fact that there is jo huge market for CDs and DVDs anymore is why digital games are so controversial. Streaming services and subscriptions killed movies and TV, and once the license expires, you can’t watch your favorite media. Games cannot do the same!
@IAmLunarLizzy I’m guessing they’ll maybe port old games to the ps5 and the 6, but even still, what kind of strategy is this? Lock all games behind 1000 dollars and minimal storage when they could easily download the classics on a 3 or 4
Killing discs in the middle of a storage cost crisis where you can only fit like four games on a drive to begin with is quite the move. See Xbox just cutting its 2TB model since it costs too much
I haven’t bought a brand new triple A game in years, I made the exception for resident evil 9. This is genuinely the last straw. I want tangibility and the safety of third markets and used games. Why the fuck would you ruin gaming like this
PlayStation is ending production of physical game discs for all new games, starting January 2028.
From that date, new games will be available in digital formats only.
I hear statements like this all the time:
"Why when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it’s christianity. But when a politician talks about feeding the poor, it’s socialism?"
This is one of those ideas that sounds profound until you examine it for longer than the lifespan of a fruit fly.
Take the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). A traveler gets robbed and left for dead. A Samaritan comes along and:
Bandages the mans wounds.
Puts him on his own animal.
Takes him to an inn.
Pays his own money for the man's care.
Then Jesus says, "Go and do likewise."
At no point does the Samaritan stop and say, "Hold on while I petition the Roman provincial government to establish the Department of Fallen Travelers."
Notice the subject of that sentence. It isnt Caesar. It isn't the Sanhedrin. It isn't the Ministry of Compassionate Transportation. It's YOU.
This theme shows up repeatedly. Jesus tells individuals to be generous, to care for the poor, to lend expecting nothing in return, to give secretly, to serve one another, to sell possessions and give to those in need. (Luke 12:33, Luke 3:10–14, Luke 6:35–36, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 6:1–4, John 13:12–17.)
If you actually study the Bible, and not use it as a pithy collection of sayings, you learn that Jesus made it very clear that public service to those in need is part of your worship of God and him. It's necessary in order to be a christian. Outsourcing it to government is not good enough.
Christian charity is fundamentally a moral obligation placed on the believer. I can't outsource the giving and service required of me to the Government any more than I could outsource prayer or belief.
If a politician wants to talk about feeding the poor, he's a good Christian if he's doing it himself, with his own money. That's it. (He should also be doing it quietly as Matthew 6:1 says, but that's a different rant.)
If your definition of socialism is simply "helping poor people" then congratulations: your childish understanding of politics almost eclipses your childish understanding of Christianity.
GTA 6 fans are paying eBay scalpers over retail price for pre-orders, despite there being no shortage
Pre-orders on eBay are selling for over $130, with some standard editions selling for the same price as the Ultimate Edition
To be fair, I’m sure this game is going to be incredible, which makes it even more nefarious that the gaming industry is using it as their Trojan horse to sell to you in the future: expensive, half-baked slop that you don’t really own after $100 and a subscription.
"People will accept it, it's GTA" - Industry analysts have told VGC that Grand Theft Auto 6 having no disc version "won't make much difference" to its sales.
https://t.co/7OYO1s3b5V
@theeadamnagy@SynthPotato Again, basic features that were available for free before being locked behind 20 dollars. I don’t think we should support this game period because of it becomes as successful as Rockstar hopes, it sets a terrible precedent for gaming. Minimize it all you want, it’s a problem.
All the shills for GTA 6 are insane. Y’all are part of the problem and you’re only signaling to these corporations that it is totally fine to price gouge you for an incomplete product because you’ll buy anything to avoid FOMO.