Bronzebeard

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Digital data is just 1s and 0s.

On and off. If you turn that laser on and off you're transmitting binary information. The receiver can interpret that. We already do that with fiber optic cable, basically. This is just removing the wire.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You're effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Truly a master of efficiency, right there.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Them being uninsurable in some states definitely isn't helping with demand. And Tesla refuses to accept them for trade in.

They know they're dumpster fires on wheels. They cut every corner possible and you can find hundreds of videos of them just falling to pieces

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Some of them are, which is even more confusing.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No it wasn't. We were taking about streams monopoly status and epic being one of the few alternatives.

YOU were the one trying to deflect the conversation into business viability. Which your entire side tangent really only reinforces how obscene the monopoly hold off stream is, that trying to break into the market is so expensive.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Well yeah, fighting for market share against an entrenched monopoly isn't cheap. That's not a reason to cheer on the monopoly though.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 10 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

It's limited time, but also the selection these last few years has felt very uninspired. Everything is extremely derivative and been done to death.

There was a mass consolidation of developers/publishers recently, on top of further extended development cycles that has really limited any kind of variety we might have seen.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee -2 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

All retail establishments utilize loss leaders. It's not some underhanded duplicitous tactic, it's just a common business strategy

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee -2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not sure what you're responding to, but it wasn't anyone I said

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