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echodot, to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...

There’s absolutely no evidence that this is going to be the case. All that happened is that the CEO made a dumb comment and CEOS are always making dumb comments doesn’t mean anything.

echodot, to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...

People don’t really realise that tone of voice is hard to convey in text.

You have to pick your market with sarcasm on the internet, it either has to be super obvious or it has to be in a context in which people are expecting sarcasm.

Also there’s always going to be someone who actually thinks along the lines of a sarcastic comment, and it’s always difficult to tell whether or not they actually think that’s the case.

echodot, to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...

In the past inflation was seen as a bad thing and destabilizing to an economy so governments put actual effort into making it go down. The easiest way to do that is to keep employee wages in line with inflation, but at some point someone, probably with an R next to their name, decided that that was evil socialism, and so shouldn’t be done.

So now inflation goes up and the government just sits there and goes “oh nothing we can do”.

echodot, to gaming in You know what? I'll just wait...

No one would which is why it’s not happening. Even a collectors edition super deluxe version would not cost that much.

All that he’s saying is that by his super unrealistic view of the market the game should retail for about $150 but I suspect that even he knows that it will never sell at that price. Even if he doesn’t he isn’t the one that actually picked the price the marketing team will tell him that won’t work.

This is such a non-story. It’s like reporting every time that a Nintendo executive says something stupid about copyright, they’re always saying stupid stuff.

echodot, to risa in How not to spot imposters...

So you’re after the J then?

echodot, to risa in It's true.

Isn’t she Bashir’s mother?

echodot, (edited ) to risa in Do they ever work at all?

Tea Earl Gray hot, in a pint glass.

echodot, to risa in Do they ever work at all?

It works on swiftkey. Can you replace keyboards on iOS? I’ve never had one.

echodot, to piracy in Once a pirate, always a pirate

I get what you’re saying but copyright is necessary otherwise nobody would create anything. If you can’t get compensated for your work then why put the effort in?

Hollywood wouldn’t exist without copyright and you might say oh well Hollywood doesn’t produce much good, but it does produce the vast majority of media you probably consume. I’m not saying you’re completely wrong but I don’t think you can just go Copyright = Bad, and leave it at that.

I know that’s treason talk

echodot, to risa in Weird, right?

It kind of works though because it’s a prequel to things like TOS and TNG. We’ve already seen those shows, so we know they’re basically wondering around what will become their own backyard in a couple of hundred years. There really isn’t that much that’s dangerous there. Mostly it’s about interpersonal situations and meeting new species for the first time.

It would be fine if Archer wasn’t such a dumbass.

echodot, (edited ) to risa in With all due respect, Captain, I am the head of Starfleet IT, and I have it on good authority that if you try to replicate a replicator, you can break the space time continuum.

If you have enough capacity to power 10 you can’t replicate an 11th because that would mean that you would have more replicators than you had capacity.

echodot, to upliftingnews in Dog leads family to missing cat that fell into 30-metre mineshaft

Very well dog, you may rescue me if it makes you feel better, I’m gracious like that.

echodot, to risa in Sorry, I'm bad at memes.

We all know it’s just rounders but with extra prestige. You’re not fooling anyone

echodot, to gaming in Gatekeeping for profit

I used to work at an airport and they had a internal tracking system for passengers with special requests (mostly for unaccompanied kids).

Anyway it’s programmed in assembly and only works on one particular type computer. Even if it runs on a different era appropriate processor apparently this app won’t work. So there was a buttload of old motherboards in a store room somewhere so that we could just swap the board out if the computer ever died. It’s critical infrastructure that there is no backup for.

So basically I’m pretty sure the way the world ends is because somebody threw away an important floppy disk, and now a nuclear reactor is going into meltdown.

echodot, to risa in Space is 2D, right?

The ships can land and take off at least some of them can but they don’t fly around in the atmosphere they just go up and down they’re either on the ground or they’re in space but they can’t really manoeuvre.

Except for that one episode of Voyager where they just kind of forgot about that, but I think that was hand-waved away by saying that they just made the shields into a bubble and so essentially from the air’s perspective the ship was a sphere. That’s apparently what the shuttlecraft do too, which is why they fall like a brick whenever they’re shot down.

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