I used to back in 2004-6, as my PC was too weak to run GTA Vice City. The vast majority of those cafes (Lan houses, as they were called) disappeared here in Brazil.

Chrome running with a single tab on the google homepage eats more RAM than most AAA games of 2007

According to this, bookings between 1.58 and 1.65 billion US dollars are expected, which corresponds to a decrease of 14 to 18 percent compared to the same period last year

This is something I’ll never understand about the stock market. Revenue falls 14-18%, stock falls 70%.

Users under 13 years of age are migrating from the hits of 2025 to newer and permanently available games that generate less money per hour. This is reinforced by the revamped recommendation algorithm: It favors games with high long-term engagement and displays titles that monetize in the short term less frequently.

They’re aiming for long term. Lose some revenue now, but ensure it lasts much longer, the “would you rather have 100 now or 1000 in a month?”

Fuck Roblox.

Not to defend them, just that we don’t really know what they intend, what they’re really trying to do.

They want profit. Maximum profit, preferably by the end of this quarter. Failing that, they want monopoly power. The fact that M$ is going all in on AI (it already spent over 150 fucking billion dollars on it as capital expenditure) with nothing to show but “trust me bro” revenue and empty promises should be all you need to know about how far up their own asses the higher ups are.

When they went on a studio acquisition spree, it was with the intent of gaining market share. This was back when cloud gaming was “the next big thing”, but that it has mostly disappeared from headlines should make it obvious that it was not “the next big thing”. Sure, only Google Stadia was shut down, but you don’t hear much about GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna or even Xbox Cloud. “Cloud gaming” was nowhere near as big as they hoped and is unlikely to be, even with the absurd prices of electronics thanks to the AI craze.

We are talking about the M$ which is actively sabotaging their own mainline programs for greater profit extraction. Win11 is a mess of unwanted ads, worse than Win10 ever was. They bundled copilot everywhere - teams, office, even fucking notepad - in order to artificially boost adoption numbers.

All of the decisions that put focus on profit extraction come from higher up. None of them come from Joe Software Engineer, who has to do what the boss says or pack his shit and look for a job elsewhere.

By 5, I’ll be wishing I didn’t have any more. By 10, I’ll be wondering how I’m even alive

New tariffs USA arriving against those countries in 3, 2, 1…

Either that or several military threats.

They were also the ones that brought USA into Vietnam in the 1950s…

Nobody knows what language they speak, it lacks vowels. Also, it’s western spain 🙃

If anything, your hate makes us stronger.

You may want to recalibrate that, you’re looking awfully weak and french

Not a number, just a comma with a hole

I’ll never understand people that use social media sites or chat servers for porn, other than trying to circumvent blocks and age checks.

Just… Where are you getting your content? Discord?

The battery? Was that the first discovered jailbreak hack? Because by the time I got a PSP (~2012), the jailbreak was “copy this program to your card and run it on the psp”, which was about as idiot-proof as a jailbreak can get.

On the other hand, I did jailbreak my nintendo switch with the shorting on the right joycon using a bent paperclip. Lucky I didn’t brick it, though until it booted back into life, I was sweating!

This just in: Andrew’s name will be legally changed to Bernie, in order to better conform to his new beta status in prison

Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is YES

The whole culture seems sexually repressed, if you look at it. The internet loves to joke about holding hands being the culmination of porn, but it feels like they treat anything beyond touching hands as sexual

Might as well rename lemmy into crossings

Anyone who didn’t get in on the first hour and sold 3 hours later, tops, was bound to lose money.

“If a girl losing virginity before marriage and marrying someone else is normal, then why not a girl falling in love with someone who raped her”

The first thing that comes to mind is because women are fucking human beings and not objects whose value is inversely proportional to how much dick she’s taken.

Ugh, this tutorial takes forever to complete! >:(