Well of course not, there can’t be players for a game that hasn’t been released after 12 years.

Don’t forget ‘far too inconvenient to correct now’

Senators can fuck off.

Because only criminals would value their privacy, right? /s

Well, at least that club room comes with plenty of space to stretch your legs.

No one should watch Ironheart. Who hurt you?

Games with online-only requirements. All of them. Piss off the whole gaming sphere in one go and start recruiting.

Should be a very final ruling.

But more importantly, is anyone other than the AI bubble going to be able to buy any of it?

Because fuck you, I want those extra pennies for my next yacht, that’s why - almost every CEO and investor on the planet, probably.

Good. Fuck UbiScam. Kick the Guillemots off their GenAI throne and let Tencent gut their legacy.

Using AMD VCE, I’ve been able to do the same with a remux, taking it from 33GB down to 5GB. My first attempt on that one got the file size all the way down to 3GB but there was some rough artifacting on the studio logos at the start and intro credits. I decided the extra 2GB was worth it for that minor bump. Bizarrely, the rest of the film seemed fine but I could have missed something since I didn’t bother with a full watch.

Spoken like someone who has no clue how to use Handbrake.

I’m starting to think Sony is too dense to make money at this point.

You could consider running your collection through Handbrake. It’s pretty easy to shed 90% of video file size while barely losing any noticeable quality.

This couldn’t be less the judge saying ‘I really want you guys to beat the shit out of Facebook, but we have to do this properly and you guys suck.’

You’re conflating. While I don’t disagree that Valve is soaking up money, and when it fleet-of-yachts money, it’s just as sickening as when any-and-everyone else does it. Where there’s a difference is in the ‘How’. While I have my problems with Steam, generally speaking, they offer a good service. They provide servers and bandwidth while selling games far cheaper than their closest competitors, by one means or another.

There’s also how they’re using that money as a company. Right now, I can think of three different lawsuits Valve is involved in just off the top of my head, all of which are fighting to worsen the hobby for gamers and Valve is opposing. Obviously, it’s in Valve’s interest as a game’s marketplace to keep gamers throwing money at them, but the ‘Why’ matters a lot less in this circumstance that the ‘What’. Even if it’s not the express purpose, Valve is the only company I know of that’s putting in any amount of effort to defend consumer rights in the gaming space. Everyone else with money comparable to what Valve has are too busy trying to exploit the market or diminish Valve’s share while providing nothing as close to as good as Steam.

News that has come out since your comment involving Valve includes an agreement with Facepunch Studios to make Source 2 available to public without any licensing fee under the name of s&box. While it’s obviously in Valve’s interest to increase the possible amount of games that will be sold on their platform, and Facepunch have done a significant amount of heavy lifting in making Source 2 both available and useful to the masses, that’s still Valve doing their part to make the gaming community a better place and provide an alternative to the (in some people’s opinions) over-used Unreal and (horribly untrustworthy) Unity.

As Zorque has said before me, Valve aren’t angles, but I truly believe Valve is bringing a net positive to the market, unlike any other company with comparable bank balances.

Not that odd. Valve doesn’t have mass layoffs because they don’t over-hire. Beyond that, it’s salt in the wound towards Sweeney’s inability to compete.

Without any kind of internet connection, it’s a pretty safe bet.

Both of those are funded by the French government, a government that is open in its support for the Chat Control proposal. I have no reason whatsoever to believe either of those is secure in the slightest.

It sounds like those features mean a lot to you. Especially brightness, apparently. But they mean little to me. I have no use for fast charging so long as the battery has enough capacity to last between charges. Smaller bezels mean nothing when the camera leaves a massive hole in that larger screen. I already own a high quality DAP, so I don’t need top of the line audio, just something I can listen to quietly on my studio-spec headphones. And despite brightness being so precious to you that you felt compelled to name it twice, I work nights, am nocturnal and my eyes are sensitive to light. Additional brightness means nothing when I never need it above 50%. I need utility, not boardroom-approved statistical refreshes.