I heard FAT12 had it beat for raw performance.

And if games were an $80, one-time purchase, nothing-more-to-buy, multiplayer-over-TCP/IP-forever investment, yes, you're right. I have no problem paying even $100 for such a game.

Except most of them are not. There are a handful of exceptions (Elden Ring, Baulder's Gate 3, and so on), but the majority of games are $60-$80 for the standard edition but $100 or more for the deluxe edition, and then there are the season passes, battle passes, in-game purchases (they're not 'micro' anymore...), lootboxes, multiple in-game currencies, and the fallout76 mechanic of "pay for your purchased items to not lose the stats you bought them with" mechanic...oh, and all of this only lasts for as long as the company keeps the servers up - even though one can technically play FIFA 21 in offline mode, one is stuck with their current roster and cannot unlock additional players through gameplay.

So no, $70 isn't a problem for a complete video game, like what was being sold in the SNES era. FIFA 08 was the last release of the game to include all of the players in the box. The estimate to unlock every player in FIFA 25 is 100 million in-game coins, which cost about $50,000.

So yes, video game prices ARE gouging players right now...we've just somehow accepted that $80 for an incomplete game is the same as $60 for a complete game, as it was before video games became casinos on the internet.

Seriously. This is the South. Put a bounty on these things, with no bag limit, and local hunters will pursue them to extinction. Get the major cowboy boot companies to chip in with all skins going to them for their "Florida Man" production line. Compensation can be a little cash and free boots for yourself and the wife. And all that snake meat will surely be good for something. In 5 seasons, they'll declare a snake genocide.

I don't think anyone considers Slashdot to be "social media "....seriously.

I don't do social media either....no FB, twitter Tik......nothing.

Do you not interact with any human beings?

Well, yes.....mostly my friends and while we do all have phones, we don't have our noses stuck in them 24/7....

What got me was...."Are there that many people that actually USE a cell phone up to and more than 2 hours a day?!?!

Seriously?

This all sounds great!!!

I"m sure someone will get in there, however and bitch that this won't help promote EV adoption and keep ICE on the roads and somehow lead to the end of mankind......

Oops....I'm sure they'd term it "human-kind".....

Because Corel doesn't aggressively market the fact that WordPerfect 1.) still exists, 2.) is less expensive, 3.) is much faster and more stable, because 4.) it's not sold as SaaS, and 5.) it can open and save Word documents natively.

Unfortunately, even if they did, there are too few people who perceive WordPerfect as a "big name" anymore; nobody wants to be the first to shift away from Office or Google Docs and be the office that everyone hates sharing documents with, so it's a classic case of "everyone uses it because everyone uses it"

Because that's now how property works.

AI-enhanced robotics will replace humans on a number of manual labor positions, but adoption will be a matter of scale. Because mobile robotics will always be expensive, they'll only be adopted where each can do the job of 10+ humans on a near 24 hour basis. Farming is a good example of where mobile robots will eventually be widely adapted. They'll pretty much pay for themselves on very large farms. But your plumbing contractor will never reasonably be able to afford them considering how much work each employee gets. You can only work on one toilet at a time, one house at a time. The scaling simply isn't there for small businesses with skilled workers. Same thing for small to medium scale construction contractors. You might see robots supplementing men on big city skyscraper projects, but not doing home renovations or pouring a new driveway at someone's house.

You don't because you have passed laws almost everywhere that prevent it.

Yeah, I know the guys videos on the walkable cities...definitely a big leftist from CA.

Some stuff is interesting, but he's a bit too preachy.

Yes, there are zoning laws in places...because we WANT them that way....I don't want to buy a nice house and then have apartment complexes built right near me or govt projects...which raise crime and lower home values....who wants that?

My point is....the US is large enough to where if you want a walkabout, urban city...we already have them, you can move there and be happy.

If you want to live a more suburban life,, have your home values protected....you can do that too.

and again...you can even live rural.

You seem to be arguing that there should be free for all EVERYWHERE and allow no separation of choices of types of living conditions or cities....which happens with no zoning.

Why do you hate choices like we currently have in the US?

Ignorant American is ignorant about their ignorance and proud of it.

News at 11.

Snot nosed, big headed foreigner thinks their shit doesn't smell and knows what's best for everyone in the world....

Film at 11....

You think it's not possible to manage a 15lb brisket on a bike?! Are you unaware of the existence of children? They often weigh a lot more than 15lb, and adults routinely put them on bikes. Are you also unaware of the existence of cargo bikes? They frequently carry loads *way* in excess of 15lb!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsamfirke.com%2F2019%2F09%2F1...

(You also seem to be imagining some kind of weirdly strict puritanical world in which people don't get shopping delivered to their homes, don't jump in a cab for a journey home with heavy bags, etc

Not just a brisket...geez, that's just one of the most PITA parts of the grocery list I can think of....but on trips like that to Costco, I will often get a case of Coke Zero, maybe a case or two of beer (If I'm low on home brew). I likely will be buying other groceries, potentially a 40lb bag lump charcoal too, etc.

You can seriously fit shit like that on a bicycle AND...drive it on streets in the US??

Why would I want to spend MORE money for delivery...for delivery charges and tip....on top of my grocery bill? I'm actually trying to stretch my food dollars.

And hell, I'd rather pick my own food out....I don't trust some drone to pick out the best and freshest veggies, best looking meats, etc.....

If it works for you, great, but that type of lifestyle comes nowhere close to supporting the lifestyle I am used to and VERY much enjoy....

Everyone needs a degree now because we watered down high school and made it worthless, then we banned companies from using IQ tests to select workers, and so the college degree became a stand in for "He's probably smart enough to do this". But now we're watering down the Bachelor's Degree, too, because it's unfair if everyone doesn't have a college degree or some nonsense.

That is flat out wrong. The goal was specifically to replace human beings in a wide swath of positions.

What makes AI unique is that, unlike say, the spreadsheet, it wasn't created to make workers more productive with some skill training. It was created to completely replace a major chunk of knowledge workers, maybe most of them. And it will. AI is a jobs extinction level event. Manual work will be unaffected... AI can't fix your toilet or lay mortar in a construction site, but it's going to be the asteroid that kills off most coding jobs, financial analyst jobs, and a huge chunk of administrative jobs. The software dev positions that remain will mostly be for maintaining AI. All that "learn to code" advice from just a few years ago? Unless you're going into a hyper-specialized software field, requiring years of education and training, you're pretty much going to be obsolete, soon. And I mean soon as in "this decade", not some ambiguous date down the road. So not only will fields like software completely change, but the education ecosystem that served them is going to undergo a serious culling as well. No more coding camps, boys.