I’m an artist with music on Spotify. I honestly don’t know how I feel about this.

I know Metallica got a lot of shit about Napster back in the day, but I can’t help but feel like they were right. They were (by my recollection) trying to ensure artists still have a claim to their body of work. I know the industry has come so far since then, but it feels like the moment everything started to slowly become “content” and not art.

I just want real people to actually enjoy my music. I don’t expect to make a living or even real money off my music, but I also don’t like someone else making money off my art and using it to train AI models.

I made something meaningful, no one else gets to decide that they wanna commodify it or use it to make slop.

Surprised I haven’t seen Hell Pie here yet. Pretty solid physics and fun mechanics. The humor is a bit crude and sometimes kinda edge-lord l, but the game play is solid.

Ruffy and the Riverside. Really interesting concept with editing terrain and your environment.

Gex Trilogy is pretty good if you’re into old-school platformers. It aged better than I thought.

Megabonk is basically 3D vampire survivors, and that rules.

Switch 2 has a much healthier margin than Switch. Nintendo is actually making money on the hardware this time. They don’t have the lineup or the services to justify the hardware being a loss leader and won’t until probably 2027.

Here’s to hoping the Steam Machine is $799 or less.

Good, maybe now prices for them will finally come back down to reality. $500 for a switch is bonkers and $800 for an Xbox of any variety is outright criminal.

You’re not wrong. That being said, I don’t hate Safari mobile, it’s pretty solid and has great compatibility. There’s something to be said for using the hardware most of the web if generally designed for.

Would love to see an iOS version. I do enjoy the FireFox functionality of seeing tabs on other devices easily.

I just like that I can play PC games on my TV, know that I have hardware that games are built to work on, and not have to get up to turn it on.

That last one is the biggest one honestly.

Bean bunny deserves better. Wildly underrated muppet.

Ok fine

The rise in political violence is caused by the right. If democrats really cared they would’ve stopped this before it got to this point. Too many of them didn’t want to lose their positions of power and let the GOP get away with whatever they want to not lose power.

This is a public servant position, if you want security don’t run for office. They work for us, not the other way around.

No. They can pay for that from all the stocks they own.

What even is the potential point for this? Is it just a suicide cable?

the slow drip of leaks is proving to be an effective strategy. Normally they flood the zone after a bombshell and the scandal gets buried. This time, whomever is conspiring against him is doing a much better job at keeping things tightly wrapped and leaking it slowly to keep the conversation relevant.

This kind of game sounds right up my alley. I would love to help in some way.

Most people will recommend avoiding any “smart” features on the TVs sets and say buy a monitor cause they have no smart features. Rightfully so, TVs can be privacy nightmares potentially.

That said I have recommendations for both:

Midrange TV pick: LG 48B5 - $529 at Best Buy

Fancy smaller Monitor Asus ROG Swift 32 OLED Monitor

Premium TV LG C5 (Available in 42, 48, 55, 65, 77, and 83 inch)

Ultra Premium LG G5 (Available in 55, 65, 77, and 83 inch)

Budget TV TCL QM7K

Budget Monitor Samsung G5 series

Pound for pound dollar for dollar LG makes the best OLEDs and overall TVs. Sony is good but not worth the premium anymore.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaljXUiCaE

Basically anything by Run the Jewels.

Hey maybe we’d know what’s actually going on there if Isr*al stopped killing journalists.

Doom Eternal after completing the game and all the DLC. They put you through HELL (literally) and these levels are a removed at the end and the sigh of relief to see this arc of the story finally come to a close is so satisfying.

Doom 2016 was an overall better game from an atmospheric perspective, and it had better direction overall, but Eternal was just fun and hard. If you can bare it on at least ultra-violence the sense of completion at the end of it all is quite gratifying.

How will red states get funding for anything? Blue tax dollars support all the failing systems in red states to begin with.