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Well since the Magnavox Odessy isn’t pictured I’ll have to pick the halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360. So many awesome memories of halo 3 online, cod black ops. GTA… Man.

You also don’t own your games on disc.

Did you not read the last part about Gran Turismo?

The game is unplayable without a download digitally accompanying the disc. Without that download the game is unplayable.

Sorry, I don’t see an issue here. Everyone is perfectly happy giving Steam loads of money for games they’ll never physically own, but when it comes to consoles, suddenly we’re supposed to make a stand?

No. The overwhelming majority of game sales are digital downloads.

If you think having a disc somehow solves this, try playing Gran Turismo on the PlayStation 4. Sure, you get a disc, but you still have to sit through roughly six hours of downloads and installation before the game is actually playable.

The lack of a disc isn’t the issue.

Tchaikovsky!

Also also. You have a 17 year span of time for 13 people that died in a plane crash. That’s less than one person a year on average. I’d say that’s pretty freaking safe compared to other modes of travel like automobiles or through The Warp.

God, I hate these arguments.

“Look at all these things that happened! There must be something more to this! It’s too much of a coincidence! CONSPIRACY!”

Did you know shark attacks increase alongside ice cream sales? By that logic, there must be some secret alliance between Big Ice Cream and the shark cabal.

Or maybe both go up because it’s summer and more people are at the beach.

The same thing happens with plane crashes involving wealthy people. Rich people fly far more than the average person, and they often fly private aircraft, which have a higher accident rate than commercial airlines.

Not every cluster of events is evidence of secret black-ops CIA assassinations. Sometimes a correlation is just a correlation, and sometimes a streak of bad luck is just a streak of bad luck.

I see that “GTFO” is a major portion of your vocabulary.

I recommend reading some books. I’d start with green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss. It’s fairly complicated. It has some rhyme schemes that can really mess with your head.

Thank you. The website was so vague and op just assumes everybody just knows this obscure title. And it is obscure. I only learned about this games existence from the avgn episode.

Right. Corporations do not pay taxes on income; they pay taxes on profits, and the tax code gives them significant flexibility in determining what counts as profit. Loans are not taxed. “Buy, borrow, die” is legal. We have weak antitrust enforcement. Politicians can trade stocks despite occupying positions that give them access to information the public does not have. Competition in many industries has declined, reducing incentives to prioritize consumers. We even have private healthcare.

So what is your point?

Companies, especially in the tech industry, have historically operated at a loss during their first several years. Even after becoming established, a 4% profit margin is often considered respectable. Revenue and profit are not the same thing, and investing heavily for growth is a normal business practice.

I was talking about people criticizing LLMs while clearly knowing very little about them. The bandwagon effect on this platform is strong. Many people dislike LLMs, call everything “AI,” and often do not understand the underlying technology, the economics behind it, or the fact that there are multiple companies competing in the space. I push back when I see criticism based on misunderstandings rather than facts.

Tell me you don’t know nothing about business without telling me you don’t know nothing about business.

No no stop. I know what you’re thinking. You don’t, relax. Take it easy.

Yes, you are correct. Many companies, especially in the tech industry, lose money for the first three to five years after opening.

What you have below are people who do not understand basic business concepts, such as the difference between revenue and profit, let alone capital investment.

You are also contending with people who hate something they do not understand. They call LLMs “AI,” dislike Sam Altman and OpenAI, and often do not even realize there are other companies and models that, depending on the metric, can outperform ChatGPT. They are hating for the sake of hating while disguising it as enlightenment. It is quite frustrating, and I push back against it whenever I can.

At the end of the day, people need something to hate, and right now LLMs and data centers have become convenient targets.

That is not to say there is nothing wrong with the industry. There is. Data centers consume enormous resources, and the constant drive for profit creates plenty of legitimate concerns.

My point is simply that many of these people do not actually understand what they are arguing against in the first place.

O… Gmail.

But I’ve had it for so long. I was literally a beta tester way back when.

On the other hand I have an android phone so it’s Gmail or bust. There’s no real way to use an android with it. And since I need email for extremely basic correspondence I don’t bother moving to a different one.

Ya that sucks. Various businesses and organizations probably have contracts without work to use exclusively their software…

Well that was definitely brief. 😅

Who the hell uses Outlook???

Not sure what this is. Can you provide a brief synopsis?

I use Waterfox for almost everything because it has that Chrome feel and speed to it.

I do, on occasion, use Edge for websites that do not play nicely with Firefox. Most of those tend to be government websites, which unfortunately I have to deal with from time to time.

Dude. It takes like 10 minutes for the full migration. Export your bookmarks and import them to any other browser other than chrome. Jeez. Preferably Firefox.

Speak for yourself dude.

Samsung is one of the biggest single entities on earth. They paid out two billion in class action settlements on their shitty ice makers alone and recouped their costs by selling the same shitty ice make in repairs.

Samsung’s reputation cannot be hurt. Their pockets are bottomless and they have a hand in every single industry on the planet.

Rossmans case won’t even go higher than lower management.