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This, and as far as I can tell, the only way to avoid being called a RINO is to completely eschew any kind of critical thinking and absolutely toe the party line regardless of how asinine or nonsensical.

And the really annoying ones hide the “this will become a hybrid position” deep in the copy. It’s almost like businesses know a lot of workers prefer remote roles…

The housing crisis won’t end until (among other things) corporations cannot freely own limitless numbers of single family homes. We will see perpetual renting because it’s effectively passive income for the corporations, and they have deeper pockets than 99.9% of individuals.

As companies own more and more, but don’t sell, supply dwindles, and the bubble never bursts.

When did it die?

Unless the Electoral College magically goes away, this will be a rough election for a majority of Americans. Lots of long-standing issues are coming to a head with the realization that we’ve already been fascist for a while.

Streaming.

It’s the new cable, in that it sells to customers based on intentional market fragmentation. It’s actually a worse, because anything you “buy” on a streaming platform is actually just leased.

Far easier said than done.

This is the right approach, but also want to mention, some sites actively block VPN IPs. Sometimes I see 403s which don’t persist if I switch servers.

Most definitely. I don’t think personally I would have an interest in using GFN, but I just didn’t understand what it was at all.

Makes sense. Yeah, I can see advantages for people e.g. on a laptop but with a good enough network infrastructure to make it work.

Thanks for the details!

Ah interesting. So rendering isn’t done locally?

In that case I wouldn’t even expect it to have a free tier since there are significant costs.

What advantage is there to using GeForce Now instead of Steam itself?

That’s not bait btw; I’m an all-AMD Linux gamer and I’ve literally never used GeForce Now.

They entered multiple industries and took losses to rise to the top and outlast the competition, in many cases. Now that they’re running what are practically utilities, they see there is no money in it and pull out.

Modern tech industry 101, and yes, it’s dumb as fuck.

I’m not sure that’s actually true. I’m not a lawyer but I suspect it would take more than an internet comment saying “I did it.”

Also, the elephant in the remains in the room: discussing piracy is not piracy.

“ChatGPT, solve this problem for me.”

“As an AI language model, username checks out.”

At a time when AAA often sucks so much, it sounds really out of touch to say your overpriced game is “quadruple-A”.

Xfinity “10G” energy

One thing to keep in mind that may be relevant: copies of non-digital things are different than digital copies.

Digital (meant here as bit-for-bit) copies are effectively impossible with analog media. If I copy a book (the whole book, its layout, etc., and not just the linguistic content), it will ultimately look like a copy, and each successive copy from that copy will look worse. This is of course true with forms of tape media and a lot of others. But it isn’t true of digital media, where I could share a bit-for-bit copy of data that is absolutely identical to the original.

If it sounds like an infinite money glitch on the digital side, that’s because it is. The only catch is that people have to own equipment to interpret the bits. Realistically, any form of digital media is just a record of how to set the bits on their own hardware.

Crucially: if people could resell those perfect digital copies, then there would be no market for the company which created it originally. It all comes down to the fact that companies no longer have to worry about generational differences between copies, and as a result, they’re already using this “infinite money glitch” and just paying for distribution. That market goes away if people can resell digital copies, because they can also just make new copies on their own.