We’ve been gaslit by pro-acquisition people over the last two years that “capitalism wont do the thing that it always will.” We have been spun a tale about how this merger will result in improved job security and that regulators like the FTC should be defunded for daring to oppose it. Dissenters got dogpiled.

You missed the point that the intent of Ubisoft’s direction is to remove the alternatives: You either pay for a subscription to eternally rent the game, or you simply never play the game at all.

Remind me how I can play Castlevania Rebirth in 2023. You know, since we have more options than ever now.

First of all, you okay, buddy? You’re awful wound up.

Secondly, in what possible way are they wrong? Are you seriously saying that it’s just as possible to go to a music store or video store and buy a DVD/CD/Blu Ray as it was 10 years ago? You seen a mall lately? Been to a Best Buy to peruse their “media section”?

Corporations as of late have a greater disdain towards workers and even consumers lately. They just want a well-oiled machine of buying and consuming; quantity over quality, hence why they want to push and embrace plagiarism technology. The digital format gives them a lot of control over the products we thought we…

Its almost like we should just pirate everything Ubisoft (and every AAA publisher) ever makes.

Fahrenheit continues to be perfect for weather specifically, which is why we cling to it:

0F - “It’s really cold outside”
100F - “It’s really hot outside”

For all other temperature work, I agree. We ought to switch to Kelvin so that everyone is just slightly irritated all the time.

LOL, no, that’s almost 20%. And that’s exactly my point. In the past, we had big public works projects to bring things like electricity and telephone lines to rural areas because it was considered good for society, but not something that private companies would ever invest in. Internet access is a major component of…

I genuinely feel that most people at this point just don’t care about ownership. The other problem is convenience.

Yeah, figures. I went to a Best Buy for the first time in around 10 years a couple days before Christmas (was doing a video for my channel at Easton Town Center) and it was a bit of a shock to the system. When I used to regularly go to the same location in the 2000s there were rows and rows of DVDs and those…

Bad idea when people are finally starting to realize your favorite media can forever disappear on the whims of random CEOs

I like how she’s mistaken Trump’s weird can’t-fail popularity for her own. Sure, the MAGA morons would probably forgive Trump for giving a handy to a dude in the middle of a triple-X theater. God’s plan and all that. But Boebert’s no Trump; she doesn’t have his power. A more conservative district is not going to be…

I once worked as an executive at a software company that prided itself on its dedication to user privacy. Imagine my frustration when board members would periodically want to meet with my teams and I to wax poetically about how they wished to.....monetize user data.

So Square Enix, whose entire marketing strategy is going to TEDx conferences to look for random keywords they can slap onto their quarterly earnings reports will... continue to use this as their entire business model.

If they’re going to just have prompts hack out a game for us, publications should just have prompts hack out a review for it.  Imh opinion.

Why is it whenever something enters the public domain, the first thing it spawns is a cheap horror version? It’s fucking lazy and makes me think our excessive copyright laws aren’t such a bad thing after all.

Yeah, nothing like being accused of being “consistently low in testorone and full of bullshit” by someone who worships a dumbfuck and buys all the vapourware BS coming out of the idol. And by someone who use anything to defend said idol - except facts and reality, because those things do not support his idol - quite…

They all have the same posting style as Musk.

What’s hilarious is, the commenters on here who are knocking Jalopnik for criticizing Musk, questioning John Oliver’s reporting, or defending Musk’s views and statements - aren’t even Elon Musk fans most of the time. They’re conservatives who agree with most of what he thinks and says, so an attack on him is an attack…

Ignorance is not a defense.