And there is nothing wrong with that, nor is there anything wrong in admitting your mistakes

The email: Spencer writes,

Over the past 5-7 years, the AAA publishers have tried to use production scale as their new moat. Very few companies can afford to spend the $200M an Activision or Take 2 spend to put a title like Call of Duty or Red Dead Redemption on the shelf. These AAA publishers have, mostly, used this production scale to keep their top franchises in the top selling games each year. The issue these publishers have run into is these same production scale/cost approach hurts their ability to create new IP. The hurdle rate on new IP at these high production levels have led to risk aversion by big publishers on new IP. You’ve seen a rise of AAA publishers using rented IP to try to offset the risk (Star Wars with EA, Spiderman with Sony, Avatar with Ubisoft etc). This same dynamic has obviously played out in Hollywood as well with Netflix creating more new IP than any of the movie studios.

Specifically, the AAA game publishers, starting from a position of strength driven from physical retail have failed to create any real platform effect for themselves. They effectively continue to build their scale through aggregated per game P&Ls hoping to maximize each new release of their existing IP.

In the new world where a AAA publisher don’t have real distribution leverage with consumers, they don’t have production efficiencies and their new IP hit rate is not disproportionately higher than the industry average we see that the top franchises today were mostly not created by AAA game publishers. Games like Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, Candy Crush, Clash Royale, DOTA2 etc. were all created by independent studios with full access to distribution. Overall this, imo, is a good thing for the industry but does put AAA publishers, in a precarious spot moving forward. AAA publishers are milking their top franchises but struggling to refill their portfolio of hit franchises, most AAA publishers are riding the success of franchises created 10+ years ago.

If they could tell an install is pirated then they would lock it down

They either count all installs as legitimate or pirated copies are not picked up by their telemetry

OP if you're serious about this email me at entrapment@fbi.gov

no raindrop feels responsible for the flood

Although you might feel like you don't have an impact, you are not blameless, when you buy and rely on things that harm the environment you create demand for them, and you make the companies that pollute more successful

Well it's not mathematically possible

The formula is p/(2^n)

P would be the number of people you start with, and n is the number of games.

If you start with the population of the US, 350 million people, you can only do this for about 28 matches before you run out of people.

Relevant bits

YouTube TV launched in 2017 for $35 a month, but the base package is $72.99 after the latest price hike in March 2023. Google's "$600 less than cable" claim was challenged by Charter, which uses the brand name Spectrum and is the second-biggest cable company after Comcast. The National Advertising Division (NAD) previously ruled in Charter's favor but Google appealed the decision to the NARB in August.

"Charter contended the $600 figure was inaccurate, arguing that its Spectrum TV Select service in Los Angeles only cost around $219 a year more than Google's YouTube TV service," according to a MediaPost article in August.

A Google ad claimed that YouTube TV provided $600 in "annual average savings" compared to cable as of January 2023. A disclosure on the ad said the price was for "new users only" and that the $600 annual savings was "based on a study by SmithGeiger of the published cost of comparable standalone cable in the top 50 Nielsen DMAs, including all fees, taxes, promotion pricing, DVR box rental and service fees, and a 2nd cable box."

How does he fuck up people's lives?

Dies at 46 after a minor cut gets infected

Practical engineering is much better imo

Spotify is the only subscription I ever pay, even though I'm an avid pirate and I don't have any qualms about pirating music, I love the Spotify algorithm so much, it introduces me to new music all the time which is something I love

If piracy is moral and ethical and enables us to share knowledge, why do private trackers gatekeep this knowledge?

Because thats not how most people see it. It's just a way to watch movies (or download stuff) for free. Private trackers ensure a higher quality experience

Piracy isn't some high philosophical debate, it's seeing something you want and making a copy of it.

This is definitely a chatbot response posted as a joke for those of you who couldn't tell

I don't know any conservatives irl who have complained about this, has anybody actually met someone who said that to you in person?

This just feels like people are trying to make something out of nothing to stay relevant

Good bot

Holy shit dude you are awesome, thanks alot!

Not exactly, you can read piss shit fuck, however other words like maybe removed, removed, removed, removed may be censored

Edit: didn't think this one through lmao

W hor e

Bi tch

G**k

N**er

For me personally i find that i play pirated games more lften than the ones i bought, i hate having to use the launchers it is a complete pain in the ass, they all require updates everytime i open them, they're very sluggish and often try to shove ads and offers down your throat (with exception of steam). I own the dishonored series legitimately but i still play the pirated version.

One of my favorite games is Titanfall 2 and i don't play it anymore so that i don't have to put up with the cancer of the EA app

It is how it works...

Add 2018 between brackets at the end of the headline for clarity

Ninja 400 for 6000 and that's basically the honda civic of motorcycles. Very reliable even after being crashed multiple times

I don't really get why the authors ideals and beliefs matter. For for-profit stuff, it does matter because I don't want to be supporting someone with that lifestyle or someone who actively wants me dead.

But for the open source stuff, he's not making any money off of me. And it's pretty safe since other people are vetting the code and they'll complain if something malicious is happening. In other words, since I am not contributing to the developer, his ideals don't really matter to me

"r/humanporn"

I got a Zenfone it's got a headphone jack a pretty good fingerprint reader, and because the screen is pretty small the battery lasts an ok amount of time (1.5days maybe)

Thank you very much

-from infinity

I think the mechanism in your brain exists

Think of a song that you find pretty sad, overtime the more you play it, it loses it's emotional influence on you. Therefore I think it is indeed possible for the emotions in a memory to weaken overtime and eventually, whether for better or for worse, disappear entirely

Atheist are not the same thing as agnostics...

Thats what this Spencer guy says in the email:

Over the past 5-7 years, the AAA publishers have tried to use production scale as their new moat. Very few companies can afford to spend the $200M an Activision or Take 2 spend to put a title like Call of Duty or Red Dead Redemption on the shelf. These AAA publishers have, mostly, used this production scale to keep their top franchises in the top selling games each year. The issue these publishers have run into is these same production scale/cost approach hurts their ability to create new IP.

PBS spacetime

Smarter everyday

Practical engineering

Youve never been thanked for being a teacher?

Jellyfin is a 100% free and open source, but you can only stream stuff you already have downloaded, so you don't get that love tv stuff on Plex

Personally I don't use the love TV stuff, and I prefer jellyfin because it's free and open source with no Plex pass bs

Tyson chicken is garbage

Still I'd like to have a choice in the matter lemmy.ml unfortunately also has a lot of blocked instances, and alot of the other instances are overloaded right now. I'll probably wait a week or so until this craze blows over and sign up w/ a newer and smaller instance

I have

240g ssd

500g boot drive m.w

2tb barracuda

12 tb server drive (got it for abour 120)

Op i had minor constipation and when i saw this i literally shit myself laughing lol

In this case the jpegs themselves change everytime you zoom in, so you zoom in a little it loads a new set of higher quality Jpegs.

Do you remember the tool you are talking about?

Mullvad vpn has an ad blocking feature Although ive never tried it

This may be a dumb question but where do i click ro download the apk?

Predestination!

I love their algorithm