COVID also inflated a lot of tech stock massively, as everybody suddenly had to rely a lot more on it to get anything done, and the only thing you could do for entertainment was gaming, streaming movies, or industrial quantities of drugs.

Then that ended, and they all wanted to hold onto that “value”.

It is a bubble, but whether it pops massively like in 2000, or just evens off to the point where everything else catches up, remains to be seen.

“The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” are wise words for anyone thinking of shorting this kind of thing.

Oh it’s made plenty for Nvidia.

IIRC the Xbox 360 used to do a thing where you’d put your old OG Xbox disc in, and it would download any extra code it needed to run. Most of these older games would be under a few MB of actual code.

Pretty sure the PS5 is powerful enough to run PS1 and PS2 emulated, and probably have a good crack at running PS3 games as well, although a lot of the good PS3 games got a remaster for the PS4 gen anyway.

I think the only thing stopping really us doing it now is the PS5 drive can’t actually read CDs. Plus I think they want to test each game before release and sell us them on PSPlus tiers.

Yeah, looking at the prices, it’s about right for what it is.

Suppose the upshot of using a generic component is you could also attach it to a PC.

Looks like the long term goal of them is to stop selling discs altogether. I couldn’t even get BG3 on a disc when it came out, and I think Alan Wake 2 was the same (only physical copy I can see is the deluxe version with both AW1&2 on it).

I see the mythical digital savings never made it to us, to the surprise of absolutely fucking nobody. I wouldn’t mind if they actually put games on a discounted price after a year or so, but you can still see several year old games at the full original retail price.

Why can’t you just plug in a random-ass USB 4KBR-disc drive?

Or sell one that we can use to bring in games from PS1, 2, 3, 4 and 5? And state that the drive will be able to be used going forward, into the next gen and beyond.

They’ve got a rich gaming history at this point and they don’t care because they’d rather sell you an $80 digital copy that they can take away at any time and you can’t trade it in or really own it. And it’s the same with PC games as well, courtesy of Valve and then everyone else.

If the future is digital, we need laws that allow us to transfer ownership of digital content. It would have to be secure, obviously. Not just “steal somebody’s console and trade all their games in”.

When you browse Netflix, they use different thumbnails for the movies depending on the profile they’ve made for you. Even if it’s as blatant as “white person from the movie”/“black person from the movie”. If you ignore a movie for long enough, sometimes they even swap it out for a different image to trick you into watching it.

I’m amazed that YouTube doesn’t try and do this somehow. Instead, every video somehow has the same stupid thumbnails of arrows, meaningless text and gormless faces, and I hate it.

But then I block all ads anyway, so it may be that they’re actively trying to make me go away.

Fuck off old gen, we hate you now. Fo rizz no cap etc.

By the time the generation after them get to working age, somebody will have invented the Swype keyboard for office use.

It will always be in uppercase unless you press the “no cap” button.

Can I interest you in a FCVTRHJR HDMI cable?

Maybe we can have normal priced graphics cards again.

I’m tired of people pretending £600 is a reasonable price to pay for a mid range GPU.

As in as soon as companies realise they won’t be able to lay off everybody except executives and personal masseuses, nVidia will go back to having a normal stock price.

Rich people will become slightly less grotesquely wealthy, and everything must be done to prevent this.

If your business model allows somebody to game you like that, you kind of deserve it tbh.

It shouldn’t be based on plays. It should be based on money made from a customer and divided between what they listened to/watched. But then you wouldn’t make as much money from the people that forget to use their subscriptions, which is probably a huge chunk of their revenue.

Would a DVD shop be ok with me taking a portable player in, watching a movie, then putting it back on the shelf?

I live in the East Midlands, so I’d agree. Just about everything around here is a former something town, be it mining, manufacturing, whatever. Anything that isn’t is some picturesque place is a scrabble of smackheads and vapeshops.

Really need to start giving tax breaks to big companies to build their shit in unpopular places and have good public transport so people can get to it.

I can’t begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they’ve lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn’t be easy to say goodbye to that.

It’s easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don’t use.

Anybody that’s ever spoken to a salesperson knows that they’re talking out of their arse most of the time, and I doubt this is an exception.

He’s said this because he thinks that the people he’s talking to will give him more money if he does.

If it was happening at all you’d have seen proof by now. Like people pulling apps apart and finding proof, not just “I spoke to Bob last week about cameras and now I’m seeing ads for cameras”.

The truly terrifying part is they don’t need to listen to your conversations to know what you want.

If you’re upset over this because you’re genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you’re entitled to. Chances are there’s something you can claim.

Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.

Is that a great idea? Most of the New Towns became shitholes.

I know somebody from Skelmersdale, and the only place they’d been that was worse was Blackpool.

If I remember correctly, the problem was the scheme explicitly forbade the council from building a replacement house.

I think that was later changed, but by then the damage was done and the housing stock was decimated.

I do think you should be able to buy a council house that you’ve been living in if you want, but at the full market rate of building another equivalent home, and it should be enforced that they do build another. If a council currently has no plans for building more, then tough titties, you’ll have to go on a waiting list.

Although that’s mostly because physical media sales are in the toilet.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-fall-and-slight-rise-of

While Blu-ray and HD-DVD were arguing over what comes after DVDs, they were both consigned to the dustbin. And while I like to not be reliant on subscription services, I’ve got to say a bunch of files on a Jellyfin server is much more convenient than a shelf full of plastic and foil discs.

With modern internet speeds, there’s no reason you can’t have full UHD-BR quality streamed over the internet.