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[Joats @SAjoats]

Mixtape is a fun look at what it's like designing a story around a soundtrack. Although I like what it is trying to do, similar to a movie that represents an album, the characters come off as unrelatable and the main protagonist as pretentious. Maybe it was the 4th wall breaks...

[Joats @SAjoats]

@Pirat_Nation Yes that's always been the business strategy for AI and most of tech.

Get a large userbase with a free product then Jack up the subscription price slowly so people don't realize they are paying more that the alternative they switched from.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@GamerSan @DannyAraya This is the lie that everybody believes. Buying movies saves you money in the long run because you can always resell.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@nostalgia__jpg The problem is that this takes ownership and control away from publishers.

[Joats @SAjoats]

I'm surprised "Autonomous" vehicles are still legal despite legitimate safety concerns and a growing number of incidents year over year. AVs skip the approval regulatory process and only get recalled when problems occur.
Why do they get a free pass?

[Joats @SAjoats]

@VitoComedy So they have voice actors permission? Or do they own those poor sobs.

[Joats @SAjoats]

So they are going to cancel all the subscriptions before a price increase unless they agree... Right

Or are they just expecting people not to notice small increases and get away with raising the price without proper notification and authorization?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

YouTube Premium is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 a month, while Family plans are rising to $26.99

They also added a feature that speeds up playback during relevant moments to save viewers time

[Joats @SAjoats]

👨 "Those are fake papers"
👮 "Let me check"
👩‍⚖️ "Yes sir, the papers are real"
👮 Goes back to 👨
👮 "He had these papers"
👨 "Yeah, those are fake"
👮 "Yep, and I can't show them to you"
👨 "also he threatened to kill me"
👮 "understood we will arrest him"
🤝

[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

Woah Buddy! Insane LEGO Corruption!

The American Fork Police Department just "accidentally" released 50gb of unredacted Body Cam footage reguarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs, but deleted it to late before the internet grabbed them.

In the media dump the Joshua Johnson asks to see the legal court papers but the officer refuses to show it to him because it would count as a legal service and says it would "place him in a bind"

This police department, Joshua Johnson and Ammon McNeff are all toast. I've never seen the internet unanimously come together in unison on anything like this in my life.

[Joats @SAjoats]

Agressive scraping like this is such bullshittery.

[RPCS3 @rpcs3]

PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.

We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.

These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.

Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.

We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.

[Joats @SAjoats]

Smells like some people at the top trying to form a cartel to boss other people around.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is reportedly attending a private meeting with European Commission officials in Brussels, hosted by Video Games Europe (VGE), the video game industry’s main lobbying organization. Stop Killing Games was not invited.

According to the Stop Killing Games campaign, the group was excluded despite being the consumer movement behind the European Citizens’ Initiative that brought game shutdowns and digital ownership to the attention of EU policymakers.

The issue is not that publishers meet with policymakers, which happens regularly. The concern is that industry representatives have direct access to decision-makers at a critical stage, while the campaign representing more than one million citizens is not in the room.

This is concerning, knowing that Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew helped start the Stop Killing Games movement.

I don't know what the VGE is doing, but they should include both the industry and the people affected by these decisions.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@LudensLudonauta @shadesofsilver Exactly, they try and do business by working with other businesses and publishers, rather than working on a better product for the consumer. It's much easier to "play ball" and have everyone at the top work together. Problem is that Valve isn't on anyone's team.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@StopKilingGames Why care about the consumer when the big players can just form a cartel?

[Joats @SAjoats]

Monopolies don't compete, they eliminate competition. They coordinate with automakers to remove open standards like CD players and aux ports, pre-installing proprietary alternatives (SiriusXM, CarPlay, Android Auto) instead. They use 'safety guidelines' as cover for vendor lock-in, forcing developers onto their controlled platforms like Google Play.

You have to ask, does that sound more like Epic's playbook of buying up studios and removing games from steam, or does it sound like Valve's strategy of offering a competative service that benifits the consumer and open standards?

[Joats @SAjoats]

@TimSweeneyEpic So exclusive games on Epic are a lower price for customers?

[Joats @SAjoats]

@OvereactingMark @GrandPOOBear To answer your question about Journalists. Gamers follow specific journalists they vibe with and use their recommendations. That's the way it has always been. If you don't find someone that fits your tastes that you would agree with, then move along and keep looking.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@OvereactingMark @GrandPOOBear Even if there was 1 game with the highest score of all time. There are 99 with .1 points lower. Score does not have as much weight as it did when there was only 80 total games being released a year instead of 20,000 total games.

[Joats @SAjoats]

@OvereactingMark @GrandPOOBear More games are being released now than 10 years ago.

Let's say 100 games released this year that were 10/10. How many of those do you expect average people to play. Maybe 8?

[Joats @SAjoats]

@jimstewartson The are just sending money between each other like a big circlejerk

[Joats @SAjoats]

@MightyKeef Sorry, I don't think WoTC has made a successful videogame ever. They mostly just get cancled.

[Joats @SAjoats]

Its mostly because these "remake" games are new for 20 year olds and owners realized they can just recycle games every 20 years fora new audience.

[Achara Studios || wishlist REPO MAN @AcharaStudios]

@IGN This "endless remakes" phase of popculture feels like a terminal illness.

we'll choke on our own nostalgia, drown in it

[Joats @SAjoats]

@heyitsrosemulet @SweettoothOni Nothing he did qualifies as "stalking" or "causing a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer emotional distress" because he was proven to be unreasonable multiple times when they just needed to hand over court papers.