It’s true that magic can be science in the movie’s universe (I think Midi-chlorians are still canon, and I guess technically, any form of magic would just be part of the natural world in the universe in which that magic exists, and so would be subject to science), but I don’t think that makes it science in *our*…

Star Wars is not science-fiction. It barely has any fictional science, it’s mostly magic, and it also doesn’t play in the future, it’s historic (the opening scroll clearly says “a long time ago”). So on this technicality, only one answer can be correct.

I guess the common way people use the term “capitalism” isn’t to mean “any system in which people trade with each other”, but one where free trade is itself seen as having some form of intrinsic moral value, independent of the results it produces.

What are you even going on about. Nobody said that MP3s were a scam. I don’t remember anyone calling Steam a scam, or online shopping. You’re just making shit up.

But that already exists. If you log into the Sony store, it already knows which games you own. If any other store wanted to grant you access to games (or content) you bought on Sony’s store, they could - but they don’t want to, because it makes no business sense.

People aren’t saying that capitalism wasn’t always bad, but that capitalism itself is now dying (or, more probable, committing suicide).

Capcom is doing just fine on their own. Now if Nintendo bought Konami’s IPs, that might be something interesting.

“afraid of trying something new”

“default to a negative connotation”

Cryptocurrencies are, and will remain, a niche thing. NFTs have the chance to gain mass popularity if they’re integrated in games that millions of people play.

“I also think it’s weird how ANGRY people get about them.”

“they’ve been milking that same cow”

That’s probably it. I don’t see why else you would buy pay this much for one studio and one game. Sony needed a bargaining chip. EA and Epic were too expensive.

In general, I seem to be noticing a lot of similarities between movies, even from different directors. It’s not just that they constantly reuse the same actors, it’s also the language, they all use the same English words, such as “and” and “tree.” Almost all stories seem to take place on earth, too. This rabbit hole…

I’m super confused. I specifically responded to every point you made (e.g. pointing out that mining cards are not a bad buy, because they’re usually undervolted, used at a constant rate, and thus less stressed than cards used by gamers).

The thing you’re missing is that mining-exclusive GPUs stops non-miners from buying these GPUs, but does not stop miners from buying all other GPUs. So the only effect this has is that the GPUs non-miners can buy are even more limited in number.

“Correlation is not causation”

“That’s really the only ideal solution”

“This video card mark up is not gonna last”

I think Germany should have a 130 kph speed limit on the Autobahn, but only for foreigners. Every time something like this happens, it’s some stupid rich jackass specifically going to Germany to pull a stunt like this.