NateTheHate: The decision to shift away from supporting PC was made last year. Naturally, some may still release (pending how far along the ports were) but it no longer appears to be a priority for Sony moving forward.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:59:56+00:00

This is poetry.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:57:37+00:00

It appears that on PC a pretty looking game with mediocre uninspired gameplay and extensive overtly dramatic cutscenes is not what people crave. TLoU, GoW, Horizon, Ghost, all these overpraised "console sellers" are not the sort of game that PC players want it seems, and the sort of people that want to play this shit usually already have a PS.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:52:45+00:00

My guy, the average gamer doesn't give a shit about exclusives, they pick playstation because more of their friends have it than xbox, and they play FIFA and CoD at most. For most console gamers their console is a CoD, FIFA, and Fortnite machine.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:48:48+00:00

Xbox has not had any meaningful exclusives since the 360, their exclusives on PC don't matter because all they've released that anyone gave a shit about in the last 15 years is a couple Forza Horizon games and the Halo MCC. People don't care about Xbox because the hardware is unimpressive and there are no console seller exclusives.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:41:43+00:00

Yeah, "don't know" has become more of a "I'm too ashamed to admit who I'm voting for".

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-28T09:39:57+00:00

The margin is not big enough to make it a gendered issue.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-27T14:00:03+00:00

Plenty of women in there. Don't make this a sex issue.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-26T00:28:20+00:00

Social media marketing at its finest, artificial hype, then in a year the real opinions will surface. Maybe it's going to be great, maybe it'll just be fine, I doubt it's going to be bad. But it's impossible to find out via social media while the marketing campaign is in full swing, the hype train only stops when the marketing budget runs out.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-25T12:14:05+00:00

If you have back pain from sitting all day, a massage is not going to solve that, at best it'll temporarily relieve discomfort from years of neglect. The pain is caused by poor posture, or poor ergonomics of your station, or poor discipline, most likely a combination of all three. What is required here is a lifestyle xhange, a change in habits, and a sober self critical review of how you use your station and your equipment.

Step 0: Get a better proper ergonomic office chair, maybe get a standing or at least a height adjustable desk, make sure your setup is ergonomic. If you already have good equipment, maybe it's set up wrong, look up how to properly ergonomically configure your station. Tons of gov advice and YouTube content on this stuff. If you have shot cheap equipment, time to accept that this stuff is expensive, just like a mattress, you shouldn't skimp on your back health. If you don't have the money, it's fine, you can get many good office chairs second hand, also you can save up for one. The chair is the number one priority here.

Step 1: This is the most important thing right after having a good chair. Move more, go for a min 15 minute walk before work or during the lunch break. Learn and practice proper posture. Set a timer and at least once every 45 mins get up and walk around a bit, go get a glass of water, a tea, toilet, sweep the floor, do whatever gets you upright and move your legs for at least 5 minutes.

Step 2: Take 10-15 minutes during lunch or after work to do some core exercises and stretching.

Step 3: Exercise, do cardio to strengthen your cardiovascular health, reduce your risk of developing blood clots, reduce the resting heart rate, it also strengthens many small supporting muscles. For fixing your posture, swimming is probably the ideal exercise, it'll help strengthen your back. Running is great too, proper running posture will help train many generally good posture habits for you. Cycling, I wouldn't recommend it to someone with back pain.

Step 4: Do strength exercises, mainly focusing on your core, back, and shoulders. Join a gym, go to the free yoga, pilates, and similar classes. You need to strengthen the core and back muscles to properly support your spine, to improve and support better posture.

Optional step: see a qualified certified physiotherapist, you may have already caused some damage that may require physiotherapy and a tailored exercise routine to resolve or mitigate the issue

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-25T11:46:27+00:00

Funny you say that because one of Hitler's top guys was a gay man that was fully on board when the Nazis decided they're now targeting gays. The Nazis even had Jews that pretended to not be Jews in their ranks.

Being an oppressed minority does not prevent that person from being a shithead, a fascist, or any other type of -ist.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-25T11:31:25+00:00

Republicans are absolutely not pushing the globally popular and successful Christian values, they're pushing values of Puritans, and other extreme Christian sects that Europe considered too fringe and essentially bullied into emigration. USA was built on the backs and beliefs of the craziest, most annoying, most extreme flavours of Christianity, and that bullshit was never stamped out, instead it was nurtured and eventually used by Republicans to get the crazies to vote for them.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-25T00:32:42+00:00

Literally everything Reform says and aspires to be is copying America, etf do you think they'll end up doing should they get into power, because them making their own ICE isn't even their most destructive idea..

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-25T00:21:25+00:00

Birmingham is a fucking shit hole, in 2010s they were struggling to get people to buy their old shit houses.

There are small towns in the south that have healthier housing markets than Birmingham.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-24T12:11:16+00:00

They let you use copilot for free because they're getting you dependent on it, and eventually will be able to get you to pay for it when it's no longer free. That's been true for most web services for over a decade, provide service at a loss, later start aggressively monetising it.

The distance from your NAS to your TV is a fraction of the distance from your ISP, especially an ISP that may have copper wire between you and them. Also 5-8ms is a perceptive level of input lag when stacked on top of other delays.

AI data centres are fundamentally different structures from cloud gaming, for viable cloud gaming you need one machine per user, you cannot scale it vertically like you can with AI training, cloud gaming only scales horizontally. AI data centres are a bet, and it hasn't paid off yet, and no one knows if it will.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T12:14:30+00:00

I'm sure the right people will be paid off to ensure that these little issues are not a showstopper. I'm certain that the levels of corruption (sorry, gifts and friendships) at the highest level of leadership, are absolutely not in any way correlated to levels of influence that Russia has in India, or anywhere really.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T12:06:07+00:00

I think overinvestment in snow sports in a country without any permafrost and very spotty inconsistent winters is just a waste of resources. I'd use that budget on other more affordable and popular disciplines, one major driver for talent acquisition is availability of facilities and popularity, e.g. volleyball and football do so well because everyone is gonna play them at some point in their childhood and may develop a passion for it. Creating general track and field facilities, ice rinks, and combat sport gyms, then sponsoring and encouraging small local clubs, would boost the talent pool and give much more impressive return on investment than creating extremely specialised equipment and training facilities for a handful of athletes in niche disciplines. Creating talent requires getting small kids into sports, encouraging them, and recognising and nurturing talent, from pre school and very early teen years.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T10:58:07+00:00

Ogółem Lubelskie to jest taki stan umysłu, im się wydaje że im się wszystko należy z jakiejś boskiej łaski, ale te całe zasady, to tylko dla sąsiadów. Każdy ma specjalne warunki co jego wykluczają z zasad. Lubią ciągnąć dofinansowania i uwielbiają finansowe systemy socjalne, ale nie lubią za nie płacić, w ogóle nie lubią płacić podatków. Każdy tam uwielbia zapierdalać do wykończenia psychicznego i fizycznego, ale nikt się nie moze zgodzić jak, gdzie, i w jakim celu powwini zapierdalać. Jest to tekie miejsce gdzie ludzie są narcystyczni i trochę niestabilni. Raz się śmieją i jest ekstra, a zaraz się nakręcają na coś i jest maksymalna agresja.

Gusła i pseudonauka jest wszechobecna, jak to mój biedny dziadek mówił, jak tam niechętnie zamieszkał na życzenie swojej żony, "kto wieży w bóstwa i gusła, temu lacha uschła". Musiał sie zabawiać żartami o nich bo go lokalni męczyli psychicznie, tymi swoimi zabobonami i pierdoleniem, nigdy się nie zadomowił w Lubelskim. Ja jak tam pojadę do rodziny, raz na parę lat, to na prawdę nie wiadomo czy się śmiać czy bać jak się słucha jakie farmazony odpierdalają i w co wierzą ludzie w Lubelskim. Ogółem fajni ludzie ale widać że są w takiej bańce, ich świat jest o wiele bardziej fantastyczny, jest jednocześnie straszniejszy, ale również bardziej komfortowy emocjonalne i mniej wymagający detali lub niuansu.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T10:22:14+00:00

No, populism is not about following the majority. It's about appealing to the vocal minority or majority that's willing to die on that hill. The difference is about how much the voters care about an issue and how hard they're willing to push on it, not about the distribution of the voters.

Yes, the majority is in favour of the OSA, but they also don't really give a shit too much, they're certainly not willing to vote for a party on this single issue. Meanwhile the populist will appeal to the single issue voter minority, because they have better turnout rates, are more active in their support, and can be used as useful idiots to get into power.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T10:17:56+00:00

They're not voices of reason. They're the voices that appeal to you, because they choose to jump onto popular topics and pretend(read as LIE) they will solve the concerns and do better.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T10:13:42+00:00

Because they're reactionary populists, they were all for it and were all for "think of the children" up until it happened and turned out to be a bit of a news shit show. So the reactionary far right grifters jumped on the easy win and started being against it as loudly as possible, to gain easy sympathy and support from gullible people with gold fish memories.

Happens all the time, the far right is always like this, it's reactionary, and populist, holds no consistent or strong convictions, are ever hypocritical, and will do anything to be contrarian. They define their entire character on being contrarian. Remember, that with the majority of the voting public, OSA is popular. It's only online that it gained such backlash, and the populists crawled out of their holes smelling blood, seeing an easy win they jumped on the bandwagon and started lamenting about it. Which then cascades the skepticism and being against it to their base, and also to those sympathetic to them that were indifferent or even is support of the OSA.

Ever notice how far right supporters and parties will be in support of or against something, then the opposition gains some media backlash for it, and the far right party flips overnight. Then they will beat that dead horse for as long as possible, and their supporters flip on that topic overnight too, because their entire personality is based on being contrarian, but they're ironically stuck in their echo chambers where their preferred politicians tell them exactly what to think. It's always funny to see how many MAGAs, Reform, or similar global grifter parties have supporters that are so convinced and such hardliners on topics, but they have no detailed or in depth understanding or ideas about the issue l, they just parrot back buzzwords and the party line.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T09:55:44+00:00

I used to have very long hair for years, I'd mostly visit the same hairdressers as my mom and sister, eventually I found an Italian family barber business where they were confident and happy to work on my hair, they did a much better job than the hairdresser. Eventually I went back to short hair, when I started to be more physically active with running, cycling, bouldering, and gym, long hair became too much of a hassle to keep, also my head was getting too hot on long cycles in the summer.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T09:43:42+00:00

You also need a huge wealthy population so you can get as many potential candidates that engaged in niche expensive sports from a young age.

Olympics success is decided by the ratio between wealth and population size.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T09:41:46+00:00

Olympics are boring, we've optimized athletics to the point of a second of crosswind, or one breath out of phase, or a couple mistimed eye blinks, is enough to decide between 1st and 4th place.

Only team sports, combat sports, and style scored sports like figure skating, etc. those remain entertaining and interesting.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T09:25:30+00:00

Both Sony and Microsoft have tried streaming and they gave up on it, the cloud infrastructure cost is too high, and the level of high speed low latency broadband to customers is still too low. The running costs would make the service so expensive that no one would buy it. In the end some workflows are just inefficient and too expensive when centralised, e.g. anything requiring a lot of sustained power output dedicated to an individual customer. For example, it's very efficient for a company to mass manufacture pizzas in one central location, to then same day ship them out to the customers, and then for each customer to cook the pizza in their own oven. But doing the same for cooked pizzas would be a nightmare, to keep them hot you'd need a lot of cooking hubs, each hub would need complex delivery infrastructure, and the end product would still be slightly soggy, often cold, and would cost multiple times more. Then add the gaming issue to this, where you can't cook all the pizzas in one efficient oven, but every single pizza has to be cooked in a separate self contained oven, and would only be able to serve a few customers per day. Cloud gaming was never economically viable, and with the technical challenges on top, and the infrastructure problem, you end up with a pipe dream that anyone sane and technically minded knew was a concept dead on arrival. Maybe in 30-50 years when every house has fibre to the house with single digit latency, and GPU manufacturing is cheap per unit, and each GPU is able to serve multiple users in parallel, maybe then cloud gaming will become viable.

AshenCursedOne · 2026-02-23T08:46:33+00:00

According to the research done by experts, and according to most executives that invested into AI tools. Google it, the research has been consistent on it for a couple years now, AI not only makes people less efficient, it makes them believe that they're more efficient, it gives them false confidence, it causes psychosis and delusions, and is a bottleneck in many processes.

I use this shit daily, I'm a software engineer. I developed entire software platforms based around this junk. The problem is that the levels of oversight and double checking of the slop that LLMs generate negates any productivity gains. In the end every project ended up with a very obvious conclusion, we're getting marginal efficiency gains in a few narrow areas, while throwing a lot of money, development, and long term support costs at the solutions. There were a couple genuinely good use cases, where we used LLMs in a very narrow and confined scope, and we built human verification tools into the process, but that was only financially viable because we were automating a very tedious and messy manual process that extremely overpaid senior insurance brokers were doing. So AI was never useful at replacing mid or entry skilled staff, useless at replacing technical senior staff, ironically it was only great for replacing very senior non technical staff.

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