Best World Cup ever. Storm delayed games, hydration breaks, fans refused visas, Iranians treated like vermin, referees refused entry, cops kicking off over players taking pictures with kids, Infantino crying it in for Argentina and now a pedo bending the rules. Good job👍
if i spent months in the rainforest looking for rare species only for someone to steal my photos and repost AI generated versions of them i think i would actually become the joker
Apolitical gamers are really being forced to learn previously niche, left-wing-coded concepts such as rent extraction & enclosure of the commons because of Playstation
SEGA let suburban white kids with YouTube accounts tell them in YouTube videos that Sonic’s Japanese roots and hip hop/black crossover style in the 2000s were “boring” and “cringe” and since the 2010s we haven’t had any seasonin’ in the franchise.
un país que no tiene ni agua corriente, ni electricidad y una de las tasas de analfabetización más grande del mundo con medio pie en octavos de final. increíble lo de argentina
this is just a small glimpse of what Palestinians go through 24/7 for the last 8 decades .. I hope the world is exposed more to what israel is doing to Palestinians beyond the singular abstract of the genocide.
For anyone upset about Sony’s move to end physical media,
I’d suggest heavily supporting Stop Killing Games
This initiative is literally fighting to protect exactly what these companies want to destroy. It aims to force publishers to ensure you can always access and play the games you paid for—even after they stop supporting them
Final update: here's the footage from after the AI short aired at Annecy. When creating art we have to think of the mediums we use and the message that is conveyed. In this case, one cannot critique fascism while actively engaging (and supporting) it via the medium used (a LLM).
I'm talking to people - Sony is currently being inundated with emails and messages behind the scenes from smaller publishers and devs voicing their displeasure over the end of physical games.
I'm actually kinda shocked just how much internal backlash there has been to this.
Doubt it'll make a difference, this was apparently a decision made by the money men within the last two months, is 100% influenced by component costs & manufacturing (AI ruining everything again)
They know nobody will buy a $1000+ PS6
They have calculated that the only way the PS6 makes business sense for them right now in terms of margins is to kill both the retail and resale market. Furthermore, they figure people are invested enough in the ecosystem that they're locked-in for life.
They fully expected a huge backlash and took it into account, but they think the anger won't amount to much in terms of real financial losses and are willing to take the PR hit.
Of the 15% of the current PlayStation audience that buy physical, they expect only 2-3% of people not to move over to fully-digital upon being forced.
The money saved by getting rid of the retailer cut, and lost on the reseller market eclipses that 2-3% and makes up for their miniscule profit expected per PS6 sold. (they will not sell it at a loss, but are willing to only make as little as $50 per unit sold)
The only way they'd ever reverse this decision is if the 2-3% of physical audience they expect to lose is instead around 8-10%+
As much as i'd love to see everyone come together and somehow force their hand with a mass boycott, I doubt it will happen.
They have been wanting to kill physical since around 2020, the AI RAMpocalypse has forced their hand.
cutting physical media cuts costs only for the company. they get to save on production, design, shipping and still charge the same thing with nothing being passed on to the consumer