This doesn’t kill the crab

If the Big 3 suffered consequences, they would be the Bug 2 or the Big 1 by now.

Funny typo aside… I think that’s what should have happened. Let natural consequences follow poor business choices.

OP: “Hey, check out my website idea! It’s still a work in progress, but let me know what you think!”

You: “If it’s not 100% perfect with verifiable sources for every single fact ever then you suck and should feel bad until I’m happy”

Properly regulated, i.e. closing up all the loopholes.

I guarantee if vehicles were properly regulated here, and the Big 3 here had to suffer actual consequences for their piss-poor choices, smaller cars would be a more popular choice.

You expect effort in a greentext post?

I come here to laugh at the idiots on 4chan, not think.

This is 4chan, women’s feelings were never part of the equation.

Jesus fucking christ. Our govt is run by elementary school bullies. And they’re just getting away with it.

That’s a valid point.

Willfully ignorant people like that, yeah I don’t disagree.

If you use a company-provided computer for work, then it’s safe to assume they’re already doing that.

¿Por que no los dos?

I mean, if it’s a company-owned laptop, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. I bring a personal laptop to work for browsing and YouTube and whatnot, attached to a VPN.

Is this for real?

the PS5 has what? maybe 15 exclusives? less? whats’ the point? There’s nothing out on the PS5 that makes me say “I need to own this console” especially when many of their “exclusives” are now available on PC.

Last time I booted up my PS5, I was teaching my son how to play Minecraft on PC. I was going to hop into the world he had made on my PC from the PS5…and that’s when I discovered Sony locks out all network multiplayer behind PSN, even just over LAN.

At this point, I might just sell the fucking thing. My PC (5800X3D/7900XTX/32GB) can run PS3 games just fine via RPCS3 with a Dualsense controller, and that’s 99% of the reason I paid for PSN. But even then, playing PS3 games on the PS5 is just streaming from rackmounted PS3 hardware based in some Sony datacenter. So I’m not even sure why I still have it. I don’t play on it enough these days to justify paying nearly $30/mo for PSN when I can just get PS exclusives on Steam and buy cheap PS3 games on eBay to rip and play on my PC.

The PS5 has incredibly capable hardware, but it’s so locked down that it’s impossible to enjoy anything about it without paying for PSN.

Console price increases

Game Pass/PSN price increases

$80+ Nintendo games

Micron axing consumer RAM sales

Nvidia cutting consumer GPU production

Gee, I wonder why…

Hopefully they use it as a lesson in consent. And leave it at that.

I don’t know enough about England’s politics to form an opinion on how they will actually end up botching it, but I feel like it’s going to be botched.

Note - That’s why I said “average console modder”, not “average person”, the two are very much not the same 😂

Here’s a great example of a trimmed Wii board project

I see what you’re going for, but for the average console modder, it’s far easier to just trim the “wrong” motherboard than transplant the relevant chips onto a custom substrate.

Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard, much like the OG “fat” PS2 had built-in PS1 hardware.

In fact, some custom Gamecube builds eschew the GC motherboard altogether in favor of a cut-down Wii motherboard, modified to boot directly into GC mode. It’s pretty cool.