Blackmist

Well any political choice will increase the wealth of the billionaire class in general. Any candidate that is a threat to that will be smeared to dust before they get anywhere near power.

But Musk is going for the more direct approach, and tbh I think the second Trump gets power again he'll have no need for Musk and will treat him like the parasite he is. He's certainly done that before.

There's been a two pronged assault on it over the years.

Mostly from websites doing anything to spam up the results via SEO and mass produced articles about product recommendations, that are little more than the top 10 selling items of that type on Amazon along with affiliate links.

But also from within as Google morphed from a search company to an advertising company. Especially once they reached peak saturation and that all important growth must continue. I just don't think the capitalism machine works for these tech corporations once they reach the size of Google. How do you even grow from there? Enshittification and eating yourself is the only possible outcome.

I would think it would still do most of it's business on console regardless of which PC store it launched on.

Lack of a physical release probably hurt more than not being on Steam. When you go pure digital, you miss out on those impulse purchases.

He reminds me more of all those Roger Corman Sword and Sorcery movies from the 80s, like Deathstalker.

The kind of actor who is rugged, generically handsome, but completely unknown and has never done any real acting in his life before and probably never will again.

I love how they look absolutely nothing like Luke and Leia.

It's like they'd already picked all the props out before they started casting, and just told this guy to just get on and paint something.

This might be the only time we'll see somebody complain that somebody is speaking too clearly in a Chris Nolan movie.

I mean the lights dim for the entire neighbourhood when you switch it on, but it works!

Yes, but they're the same sort of people that think Elon Musk is a genius.

Keeping untrusted clients in their own ecosystem is an interesting idea, and would let people access the game without affecting anyone in the "trusted" chain, but you will all be lumped in with the obvious cheaters with blatant speed/flying/aiming bots.

If you were playing without cheats on Linux, I'd imagine you'd stop soon after.

The best idea would be to let people run their own servers and then allow or IP ban cheaters themselves, but I guess with everything needing to make money from skins and paints or whatever the fuck Apex sells, that's out of the question and has been since about the Xbox 360 era.

Yeah, they don't ban immediately. They collate a huge amount of data and then do it in waves.

That way cheaters know what software got them banned, but not the exact behaviour that gave it away.

Careful what you wish for because the next step after killing physical is cloud gaming only.

Not people on Linux.