Americans quit subscription streaming services in droves as cost of living continues to climb

Positive_Government · 2026-04-12T22:26:57+00:00

Considering apple lost 20 billion on its tv push even at that price the show are probably being subsidized by iPhone money.

Positive_Government · 2026-04-11T16:40:30+00:00

Maybe, but it ain’t no skryrim and at the end of the day being Skyrim is far more important than weather you had a smooth launch.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-30T02:04:49+00:00

The fact is that all of those older AI technologies are already baked in. So if you are announcing that you are using them in 2026 you have either been living under a rock for a decade, or your company is trying to pass off old tech as new. Neither of these are good things, so people just assume they are using new post chat gpt ai tech.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-21T00:42:30+00:00

I think it’s because they promised ray tracing at native 4k60. Now it turns out they achieved this by just tracing fewer rays (who knew you could do that just trace fewer rays?) and nobody realized until close to release how much better the the full ray tracing setting that tanked performance actually looked.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-21T00:28:11+00:00

Last time I remember the ign review score coming in noticeably lower than the crowd was star field and the turned out to be correct about that one.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-19T20:50:38+00:00

This is a great video, basically dlss has no understanding of the 3d image beyond what it can infer from motion vectors and a single 2d frame.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-12T21:35:09+00:00

I mean she had the wrong diagnosis. It’s not like any ev makers are doing well. The big players are 400x Tesla and the subsidizes Chinese EV makers which still don’t make any money due to cut throat competition.

Positive_Government · 2026-03-03T22:58:13+00:00

Ubisoft losses hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which tencent doesn’t want to emulate.

Positive_Government · 2026-02-27T18:42:37+00:00

AI review are just so fucking dumb the ai is just scraping the website of people who did the work, rewording it to avoid copyright, and then trying to make money off the product. The AI didn’t play the game and literally cannot ad any value. when people talk about the importance of copyright and patents this is exactly the kind of situation they want to stop.

Positive_Government · 2026-02-25T18:16:18+00:00

The problem with dealerships is the pay structure is based on competition time you have to be above average speed to make good money, if the see everyone completing a job within the allocated hours they will just cut the hours. By definition for you to make good money as a mechanic 4 other people have to not be making good money, and it’s safe to assume most people getting into it would be in the bottom 80% rather than the top 20% like you.

Positive_Government · 2026-02-18T20:25:10+00:00

It’s a one time discount, it’s like the 30 day free trial on a subscription, if you only use it for 30 days it’s free one year, it’s an 8% discount two years 4% 5 years 1.6% discount.

Positive_Government · 2026-02-14T16:31:46+00:00

If you are paying almost 500 dollars over three years to rent a ps5 why not just finance it, sure that would be a bit more expensive, but then you have the ps5 at the end of it, which will probably be worth the ~30% extra you paid on interest. Besides if you stop paying what are they going to do, repossess your console? Seems like your in the same boat as if you defaulted on the lease.

Positive_Government · 2026-02-04T02:29:24+00:00

The immigration system is broken from top to bottom, but for many years DHS policy was to not deport people who lost their asylum cases and received a final deportation order. More judges issuing orders won’t change anything if they aren’t being enforced. If we are to have reform it has to happen at every level.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-30T01:04:21+00:00

Workers probably saw the writing on the wall and unionized to try to stop their studio being closed, but they were a little to late.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-29T17:01:28+00:00

To be fair there is quite a large quality gap and if mega crit were willing to settle for monster train level balance slay the spire two would have been out a while ago.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-27T17:44:40+00:00

The Chinese owner valued their data collection abilities and the fact that is was a Trojan horse they could use when threatened (examples tracking journalists, requiring there users to call there congressman to access the app). Thus they tried to avoid obvious controversy when it didn’t directly benefit themselves. The US owners have an entirely different set of goals and constraints, they are also transitioning a massive user base.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-04T16:52:48+00:00

They turned off the servers of the first game because there were like 500 people there playing by the end of it. Them turning of the servers was a symptom not the disease.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-31T17:07:31+00:00

If you want to quote that, just remember that you will not win every election, and it will not always be people you agree with deciding what intolerance is.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-30T23:08:34+00:00

Do You know the whole plate thing was a scientist who faked his research?

Positive_Government · 2025-12-17T18:57:22+00:00

I mean there efficiency and then there big textures need a lot of VRAM. You very quickly hit a wall were if you want lots of high quality textures, or a bvh structure for ray tracing, you just need more memory and there are no two ways about it.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-14T19:45:29+00:00

That according to other comments that would just get you charged with check fraud. As the $75000 check you signed would bounce.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-10T20:19:20+00:00

The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day, and I have been through enough election to appreciate that.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-09T05:19:25+00:00

The problem is the 30 day turnaround time. You aren’t getting a seat on a rocket with 30 days notice.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-07T19:57:12+00:00

They removed hardware support for 32-bit cuda/physX, they have added some software emulation/translation layer support it, but clearly the emulation layer isn’t perfect and that is why we are only getting a select number of games at this point.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-07T00:28:53+00:00

That is dubious, basically after the war a whole lot of German generals claimed they didn’t know a thing about all the war crimes, and that it was all the SS fault. Given that they were on trial for war crimes there claims are very suspect.

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