I don‘t really see a future where game consoles die but gaming PCs don‘t because of hardware shortages. It‘s either cloud all the way or this becomes the era of mobile gaming even for core gamers.

Personally I hope we can somewhat return to normal in a few years. That is after the bubble popped and even the last investor realized most data centers won‘t get built anymore.

I‘m really not a fan of chinese hardware for several reasons and think their reputation of tech prowess is overblown but they will definitely step up their game out of necessity. The question is if they‘ll just supply their own data centers and let end consumers left in the rain as well. I‘m afraid there simply won‘t be any affordable hardware for us this decade anymore.

And still taking my job because as it turns out our employers actually have very low standards and only kept yelling at us for the fun of the game.

But also you only get to have 4 hours of screen time a day because they can‘t afford or even build enough data centers in a timely manner. You suddenly get to meet up with friends and family much more often and doom scrolling is becoming a rare sight at the dinner table.

I mean I‘m definitely not saying this is a good possible future but nobody can actually build and supply that many data centers within the next 3 years.

I guess we could chalk it up to bad journalism because the example was purely anecdotal. It‘s frustrating for sure.

Luckily Tesla‘s firsts are always fabricated media spectacles so I don‘t expect this unit there to actually be used.

So you want a game where you can go… postal?

More like a plan B but it‘s an inevitable consequence from the AI bubble and the general tech boom. All the money is in companies and companies have all the money so they have to shuffle it around to increase profits. Even if it‘s just on paper.

We, the normal consumers aren‘t interesting to tech giants anymore because we‘ve been utterly wrung out already. The only thing we‘re good for at this point is hustling in a never ending subscription hell in total dependency.

Wouldn‘t be surprised if this was an accident. Wouldn‘t be the first time something gets messed up after a Youtube update where Youtube simply changed how some things work for functionality. These things can make Adblockers act up in a weird way.

I for example noticed last week the first video of a session starts at an automatic resolution of 360p. I have to manually change it to 1080p. Then it remembers this and keeps it for a while. I could blame Youtube for this but I bet it has something to do with the fact I‘m skipping ads and Youtube suddenly doesn‘t know anymore in what resolution the video should be served. Perhaps it‘s getting an error and thinks I have a worse connection than I do and tries it‘s best to load the video anyway.

What I‘m trying to say is: We don‘t know why exactly Youtube acts up. Could just be a bad interaction from an update that is purely unintentional. Either way Adblocker devs will find a fix for it quickly like they always do.

It‘s another mass surveillance bill. Don‘t be fooled.

You want to end it on Fediverse apps too, right? Riiight?

Oh good. This will make it less accessible to others. Next step is a ban of the whole idea in the EU.

American tech giants are just one fascist cult.

Meaning Palantir also catalogs all your Discord chats.

Spotify lies as naturally as it squeezes musicians.

I like how IG Metall calls out Tesla‘s lie before the article doubles down and gives examples of what Tesla is also lying about including job cuts at the site. Which is a very easy thing to debunk I might add. Those numbers are public.

The games I fall out of love with are always online games. They are the type of games I spent my most time with. By far. They give me the highest highs but also the lowest lows.

So yeah, Team Fortress 2, Minecraft, League of Legends, you name it. Not even an Ocarina of Time or a Baldur‘s Gate 3 can come close to the fun I had in these games. But I still love the latter and not the former. Not anymore.

I still play online and co-op games that I very much enjoy but one day I will feel burned out by them too.

That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.

Most people have no critical thinking skills whatsoever. You can see it in the polls everywhere.

It‘s so funny to me that Nexon is now known as the Arc Raiders owner. They threw money at Embark Studios and had nothing to do with development otherwise so don‘t expect anything great coming out of this.