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All I’m saying is if you feel that way about a black box then I’m curious what you’d say about the PlayStation since that is clearly more fitting to your original comment. My identity isn’t under attack either, couldn’t care less what you stick under your tv or what you think of what’s under mine.
GT7 competes with Forza Motorsport, not Horizon. Motorsport is due for a new release this year, let’s see how that compares.
Sony has no answer to Forza Horizon—open world arcade racer.
Forza Horizon 5 is the highest rated racing game of all time on Opencritic. Sony has no open world racing game at all so it loses by default in this space.
No one is having issues understanding the scale of the acquisition—a $70 billion dollar price tag kinda makes that obvious to everyone.
The question that myself and others in the thread have been asking without getting a clear answer is how could this acquisition make Microsoft a monopoly in the gaming space?
Even with the scale there doesn’t seem to be any legitimate path to Microsoft becoming a monopoly: video games is a $200b a year industry. Activision Blizzard’s 2022 revenue was $7.5b and combining that with Xbox’s $15b revenue still doesn’t even surpass PlayStation’s $24b. Is that a monopoly? I don’t see it.
You must be an LLM with no concept of aesthetics since most people agree the PS5 is an ugly monstrosity. Unless you are living in a dorm, it looks out of place in most adult living rooms. Meanwhile the Xbox is a simple, modern black box, literally the exact opposite of how you’re trying to paint their hardware and trust me, I’m no Microsoft fan. Give me a break.
Xbox has always had more comfortable controllers imo. This gen it’s closer because PlayStation finally copied the ergonomics from an Xbox controller.
Xbox has the highest rated racing game (Forza Horizon 5) which is one of my favorite gaming categories.
I like gaming on the couch. All my friends are on either Xbox or PC and, seeing as I don’t want to game on a PC, Xbox is perfect. Quick resume, SSD, and enhanced backwards compatibility make the Series X the best console I’ve ever had. This definitely reads like an ad lol but figure I’d give you some insight into why people still buy Xbox.
> Windows allows you to…change scrolling direction
Within the last 5 years this wasn’t always the case since that’s when I last setup a Windows machine and this definitely was not a setting and I had to edit the registry. Trust me that was not my first choice—I would have much rather used a setting like you can on macOS for scroll direction.
Of course that’s not to say macOS is perfect either. Sounds like they are just now getting around to adding a setting for mouse acceleration. Now, this has always been possible with a “simple” (when compared to the multiple registry edits I had to do on Windows) terminal command—no need to resort to a an additional utility as you imply. Obviously both of these “hacks” as you say are not anything regular consumers are going to be able to do.
With all that said, macOS is closer aligned to how I would do an OS “out of the box”.
Ahh interesting so it’s not enabled by default?
The lack of mouse acceleration in Windows is what make it feel, to me, clunky and slow. I know it’s a function of what you grew up with/are used to but it’s interesting to see. Personally I like being able to flick my mouse across the screen without having to pick up my mouse—enables faster work.
On the flip side, this is exactly how I feel with Windows in order to get the base OS usable.
As someone who came from a self-taught backend background (Python), Svelte is way easier to learn, read and write than React (to me) due to requiring was less boilerplate. The example in the “Developer Experience” section of this article was all I needed to see to ditch my attempts at learning React and go all-in on Svelte.
Let’s entertain the idea and pretend they “eliminated” Sony with this acquisition and, against all odds, all those Sony gamers jumped ship and moved over.
Well, I guess that would make Microsoft quite the monopoly then, right? Oh darn, everyone seems to have forgotten about Nintendo who sells more consoles than Sony and Microsoft. Oops, everyone also forgot about Steam with hundreds of millions of users who is also releasing consoles. Last, but certainly not least, Amazon just entered the streaming game space and, based the CMA’s recent definition (https://www.vgchartz.com/article/457194/eu-official-cma-over...), that’s 200m new streaming game subscribers.
At the end of the day this acquisition will suck for Sony gamers just like it sucked when Sony acquired developers and made their games Sony exclusives. This won’t make Microsoft a monopoly in any quantifiable metric, so I see no way the acquisition gets stopped by any logical judge.
If you disagree and think this can make Microsoft a monopoly then show me the numbers because I see 0 paths forward for Microsoft to do that without acquiring or eliminating Sony, Nintendo, Steam and Amazon. I know Microsoft has deep pockets but they are not that deep.
“Sony has created or acquihired many of its first party studios” so you admit Sony is acquiring studios too—why is it only bad when Xbox does it?
Different steps to achieve the same outcome (buying a game company). Why should I, as a consumer, give a shit on the “how”?
Don’t move the goalposts, this isn’t about shifting a “few Xboxs” this is about PlayStation going out of business because of the merger, which is obviously an impossible claim by your own admission.
Interesting that you switched to “we” and “our” pretty quickly in this comment when describing the work…
> if you think traveling solo is fun, well you're being sold bullshit at best, worst you're acquiescing to a terrible experience and trying to find joy in it
Maybe, just maybe, people experience things differently than you, ever thought about that?
So you’re advocating for a world where articles are only written by people who hate the content? What a strange, sad take.
You misread (I also did). They are saying wasteful water use for agriculture is wasteful, not agriculture itself.
How is this relevant to what they said? They are not one of the two parties involved so they don’t fall into the “other side”, you’re just trying to dilute the argument.
Hard no on yet another adapter.
It’s not odd at all, it’s a common saying in situations like this or even less “serious” situations.
For those wondering what kind of vegetables fall into this category:
- Arugula (also called rocket)
- Bok choy
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Chard
- Collard and mustard greens
- Daikon radish
- Horseradish
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Radish
- Rapini (broccoli rabi)
- Rutabaga
- Turnip
- Wasabi
- Watercress
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/crunchy-and-cruciferous-y...
For OG sriracha or some knockoff?
There is no EV that met my requirements: 500hp luxury coupe.
Looking past my anecdotal experience, there are many other contributing factors to why people don’t want an EV. Yes, high purchase price is a big driver, but things like a lack of charging infrastructure, battery technology not being ready yet (big agree from me on this one), and people just straight up preferring an ICE are not far behind.
To generalize and say that anyone who isn’t buying an EV is doing so because they can’t afford one is factually wrong.
Source: https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EPIC-En...
I bought a $50k+ vehicle recently and it’s not an EV by design. Am I poor?
The US is currently on shoring a significant amount of manufacturing, need new builds to support this.