tycoondashie:

the difference being that the PS3 could play games well, from what we know about X1 is that it barely does that and that Sony marketed it as a console with extra features, while the X1 was promoted as a All-in-one machine that also does gaming.

in the end with nintendo is people buy nintendo for the games, like Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc and Nintendo scored big with the Exclusive monster hunter games being on them now, they are extremely popular in Japan.

even then the real scammers in the Gaming industry are Capcom and EA.

You don’t know “scam” until you look at Square Enix, Korean MMORPGs, and microtransaction trading card games.

So basically Square Enix. May it go bankrupt and all its franchises rot in Sora x Riku hell.

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Anonymous said: Your mom's cup size. Go.

Either A or B. Probably B.

tycoondashie:

out dated tech isn’t a necessarily a scam, well X1 is forcing you to re-buy your guys, trying to force a company out of buisiness whilst forcing people out of their jobs, forcing people to pay even to try a game out and flat out abandoning the millions of xbox users who used it for a gaming platform by making it a “all in one” machine which basically amounts to a shit computer

If we’re gonna go on the route of semantics, then XBox One isn’t a scam either. Software is already regarded as a rented product under U.S. law. That means you can lease it out in whichever fashion you want. You’re clicking on “I accept these terms, please buttfuck me” anyway.

It’s also tough to prove you’re scammed by a product you haven’t yet bought.

Furthermore, people forget that the PS3 is also an “all in one” machine that’s practically a crippled computer. Heck, it was ridiculously easy installing Linux on it before Sony fucked that up. There’s even hypotheses running around that PS3 software runs on a custom FreeBSD kernel.

The only one not making “all in one machines” turns out to be Nintendo, but their hilariously underpowered hardware (compared to their competition) make their gaming-centric uses questionable. You’re basically paying twice (or more) the value of their hardware so it can have a Nintendo logo on it.

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40niyr:

The gamer rage over XBox One is a glory to watch, but let’s not act as if Sony and Nintendo are any sort of bastions of openness. The gaming industry has been a journey of disappointment and quality decline for ages now.

I agree, but it’s still disheartening. I know I should expect Microsoft to act like Microsoft, but that doesn’t mitigate my disappointment.

The atmosphere surrounding Xbox One’s key failures feel a lot to me like Sony double-crossed them. At some point during this bullshit, we were this close to both PS4 and Xbox One being locked-down, always-on, fuck-second-hand-markets type of systems, and Wii U honestly can’t compete.

The sad thing is, if it had worked out like that, it would have made both Microsoft and Sony a ton of money, but Microsoft probably underestimated Sony’s insidiousness, and/or miscalculated Sony’s target demographics.

tycoondashie:

40niyr:

The gamer rage over XBox One is a glory to watch, but let’s not act as if Sony and Nintendo are any sort of bastions of openness. The gaming industry has been a journey of disappointment and quality decline for ages now.

Well the WiiU and PS4 aren’t such betrayals nor as big a money grabbing scheme as the X1

How about when the user data of millions of PSN customers got leaked by a trivial hack cause the geniuses working at Sony couldn’t be arsed to upgrade from a Fedora Core version so ancient it makes Slackware look bleeding edge?

Or when Nintendo re-released a million versions of the same handheld devices because sadlifer otaku wanted to play LovePlus in extra high res?

Or perhaps even their insistence to stick to a dying PowerPC architecture that can’t even begin to compete with modern smartphones, couldn’t render 1080p material if world peace depended on it, and yet is marketed as a “next gen” console?

And let’s not even mention both companies’ insistence on using their own custom home-mode connectors and IO interfaces instead of, I dunno, USB and Jack cables?

I’m a Sony and Nintendo customer, but it’s undeniable that they’re greedy whores indistinguishable from M$ in their tactics. The only reason you don’t notice is because the game designers they attract are of a noticeably higher calibre.

The gamer rage over XBox One is a glory to watch, but let’s not act as if Sony and Nintendo are any sort of bastions of openness. The gaming industry has been a journey of disappointment and quality decline for ages now.

Vasileios Pasialiokis: I swear to god, one day, artistic skills are going to be privilege on this website

Vasileios Pasialiokis: and there's going to be websites named like "thisisartisticprivilege" bitching about how society always expects shitty artists to work on and improve their skills or something

Vasileios Pasialiokis: and how job accessibility is horrible for crappy artists

Wes: hahahahaha

Wes: I can hardly wait

Anonymous said: Most times fapped in one day? Longest time w/o fapping?

The most times I’ve fapped in a day is 10 or so. The side-effects feel very bad and I wouldn’t suggest it to any dude.

The longest time I’ve gone without fapping is 12 years, i.e. from the time I was born till the first time I fapped. Discounting that, I’d say a week tops.

MOAR TMI QUESTIONS GIVE ME MOARRR! ASK ME ABOUT MY SEX LIFE, ASK ME ABOUT POLITICS AND ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY AND PROGRAMMING AND MY MUM’S TITS!

“Privilege” for tumblr is a keyword for “shut the fuck up, I don’t like your opinion.” Whether or not this “privilege” actually exists and/or is relevant to the discussion is irrelevant. Heck, if your average SJW had a button that could eradicate all privilege forever, it’s not in their best interest to press it, because their best interest is shutting you up. They can’t do it without their weapon of choice.

You’ll notice this is the exact same mentality religious people love to abuse, but since the internet in general is a very secular, and often atheist / anti-theist place, they know no one will take them seriously. This type of personality will always adopt the terminology they know you care about.

That was fucking awesome.

Yesterday, the universe conspired to ruin my day. But today, the universe has balanced itself out, for I am about to go watch Evangelion 3: You Can (Not) Redo.

I don’t fangasm often, but today I’ll fangasm. Nothing can ruin this day. I’m closing down all instant messengers—heck, I’m unplugging the ethernet cable. My body is not ready, but your body is never ready for hardcore non-con BDSM.

Today is also Tuesday, so it’s an excellent opportunity to go all TMI over my askbox. I’ll answer when I resurface, which should be in an hour or two.

http://40niyr.tumblr.com/ask

yahoo:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! 

We promise not to screw it up.  Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.  We will operate Tumblr independently.  David Karp will remain CEO.  The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve.  Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs.  With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world.  Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month.  On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day.  Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network.  The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.

In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love.  In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences.  The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.

As I’ve said before, companies are all about people.  Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing.  I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them.  That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met.  He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with.  His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.   

Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.

— Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!

* The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the second half of the year. More information about the news can be found in the press release we issued today.

gridde said: Does this mean your blog is on hiatus? If so, that seriously sucks. Yours is one of the incredibly few that actually speak sense and it will be missed.

It’ll probably last one sleeping session. But I’m being cautious in case it takes longer. My immediate and closest family consists exclusively of absolute morons with drinking and anger management problems, so you can see how that can make me intolerant certain days.

I’m trying to play it safe because I might slip some misogynistic BS when ranting about feminism or something on tumblr and then I’m going to have a lot of explaining to do.

Thanks for the compliments, by the way.

Alright, I have a very low tolerance for bullshit now apparently, so no more internet or socialising whatsoever for a while. I’ll see you whenever.

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