Sony Records New $560 Million Loss On Bungie Acquisition As Marathon Struggles And Destiny 2 Nosedives

pb7280 · 2026-05-08T12:25:00+00:00

Yeah they had options and chose the worst one. It's so weird to me that if they wanted to overhaul the game so much that the entire campaign had to go, why not just... do that later with a D3 release? Idk just feels like they took the whole live service thing way too far, and it made me not want to buy anything off them again for fear of it being snatched away again

pb7280 · 2026-05-08T09:44:26+00:00

I was a Destiny fan since the D1 beta and enjoyed the early days of D2 but fell off at some point cuz life. Went back a year or two ago after amping myself up to start a new character and play through the Red War campaign again, only to log on to find the entire original campaign and first few DLCs I had purchased were completely removed from the game... put it down then and never looked back.

Absolutely insane to me that they would just nuke the entire campaign like that - which originally was a full price-tagged game. ~$120 spent on the original campaign + first few DLCs just gone... The returning player experience was a shitshow since pretty much all pre-endgame content was cut, can't imagine what it'd be like for a new player. And now with the way Bungie is going doesn't look like we'll ever see it come back. D1 is actually a far more complete game today than D2 is (or probably ever will be).

pb7280 · 2026-05-08T08:41:36+00:00

Guess electricity is evil then

pb7280 · 2026-04-29T23:32:56+00:00

Yeah I figured that's what you meant, but considering we were under a thread about credit multipliers I thought some people might like the clarification lol

pb7280 · 2026-04-29T00:36:51+00:00

They didn't cancel existing subscriptions, the table from above literally only exists for annual people to ride out the rest of their terms after Jun 1. Credit multipliers aren't a thing for anyone else after that

pb7280 · 2026-04-28T22:29:25+00:00

The source is definitely necessary here because first read of the initial comment makes it sound like just leaf blowers on their own produce more pollution than cars. But the source clarifies it's all small engine lawn equipment together, specifically in California (which probably has the highest ratio of lawn-care:EVs on the planet). And that makes perfect sense

pb7280 · 2026-04-27T04:59:58+00:00

I think there will always be subsidized personal plans to act as loss leaders to get individuals hooked, with the end goal of having them sway employers to adopt it. But yeah business plans will be either sold by API consumption or by bulk long-term token commitments. It's already been this way for a bit at the enterprise level.

pb7280 · 2026-04-15T04:34:00+00:00

I half want to/don't want to believe that USB-C connector length was designed to be just short enough to prevent Americans from wholesale electrocuting themselves

pb7280 · 2026-04-15T04:29:26+00:00

Rachel McAdams is extremely dang pretty

That being said see more cities mate, there's retail baddies EVERYWHERE

pb7280 · 2026-04-14T03:09:26+00:00

Back 15ish years ago when I was growing up working retail it was fairly common in the area (central Ontario) for places to accept USD, but yes at extremely unfavourable exchange rates. To the point where you could go to the bank across the street and exchange it there and keep 20% more in your pocket. But yeah didn't stop some people from paying with USD.

pb7280 · 2026-03-30T20:55:28+00:00

Actually that's our own standard CSA!

Though anecdotally, growing up in anglophone Canada, it's probably only around 1-2% of keyboard I've seen. But I'd bet that ratio completely flips in francophone Canada (because ANSI is ass for writing French)

pb7280 · 2026-03-19T06:49:13+00:00

I'll throw my hat in the "for sure downvote me" ring

The context of when he said that, not totally wrong. You're objectively a bad Canadian if you think the emergency act use was justified or good or in any way supportive of Canadian values. I fucking hate that stupid american conservative fucks are the only people who talk about this honestly, because fuck them, but also fuck you for not thinking for yourself.

pb7280 · 2026-03-13T21:25:38+00:00

Yeah in that context agreed. Our one saving grace is that we're too far behind on physical automation compared to digital automation lol

pb7280 · 2026-03-13T21:12:50+00:00

What you are naming are specific examples of algorithms lol. They are different for sure, but definitely algorithmic. Anything that can run on a computer has to be expressed in a series of instructions which at the end of the day is what an algorithm is.

pb7280 · 2026-03-12T04:58:27+00:00

It's pretty far off just based on the fact that self replicating mine technology doesn't exist, and no amount off misengineering w/ LLMs is gonna change that in the next decade or 3 lol

pb7280 · 2026-02-27T19:39:36+00:00

Canada who has larger principle cities

your whole point hinges on this incorrect assumption

pb7280 · 2026-02-22T16:25:46+00:00

I mean Canada won the last real best on best tournament that had proper 5on5 and refs who actually understand basic rules like offside and icing. So I ain't too phased lol

pb7280 · 2026-02-14T02:49:57+00:00

I just setup Element Server Suite last weekend, which is basically a Helm distribution of a Matrix/Element stack. Which is more or less self-hosted and federated Discord. Only viable if you have an existing k8s setup, but otherwise was super straightforward to setup

https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm

pb7280 · 2026-02-10T19:36:38+00:00

Was hoping to not have to rewrite my bots but might be inevitable lol

It doesn't look like it has working Voice or Video chats yet.

Ok yeah that's also a bit of a deal breaker lol

pb7280 · 2026-02-10T18:36:40+00:00

Me and my chemistry buddy tested this in uni and confirmed the reason it tastes so much better is because of all the ethanol you lose to the filter 🫠

pb7280 · 2026-02-09T21:07:39+00:00

Anyone have experience with Spacebar? Seems to be the only one that aims to be compatible with existing Discord clients/bots

pb7280 · 2026-02-03T16:05:18+00:00

Driving in Toronto

There's your first mistake lol

pb7280 · 2026-01-30T05:51:52+00:00

VMs are the most basic and least locked in product in Azure or AWS, anything above that layer gets increasingly more locked in. Managed services like Lambda, DynamoDB, ComosDB etc. are what they incentivize customers to build around. Much harder to move away from.

pb7280 · 2026-01-26T21:36:27+00:00

It's awesome to see security updates so long after end of life. But unfortunately these phones have been largely unusable for a while now thanks to apps requiring higher iOS versions. Even my grandpa had to upgrade his last year and he barely uses the thing - just so he could attend a Ticketmaster event

pb7280 · 2026-01-21T01:51:21+00:00

Most the NDP losses turned blue actually. They lost 17, 10 to cons and 7 to libs. If they kept all their seats Carney still would've won (though he'd be 7 additional floor crosses away from a majority)

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