I go back and forth on this. Clearly there are downsides to a service being provided by a government agency. But someone has to be in charge of it, and every option has downsides. Obviously a for-profit private venture is the WORST option. The current system of volunteer/nonprofit is great, but lacking in stability, funds, and power to push back against copyright. You could argue that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, I just think it would be nice if my tax dollars supported vital services like Internet Archive or Wikipedia.

we should invite hatman to beehaw

I hate that we have to live in this world where something as vital as archiving the internet is a volunteer-based operation that requires permission from copyright holders. In a better world, the Internet Archive would be an international enterprise funded by mandatory contributions from UN members, and IA would have open license to archive everything. Maybe they wouldn’t allow regular users to access archived items that have active copyright, unless the items become inaccessible.

it doesn’t appear that PSSR (which I cannot help but pronounce with an added i)

I’ve taken to pronouncing it as “pisser”

Two things:

• 1: I’m pretty sure this violates our one-month moratorium on US presidential election posts
• 2: ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

just a cesspool of rizzless dudes trying to impress other rizzless dudes with how edgy they can be by shrinking their worldview.

Our descent into cyberpunk hell continues

Fair point. With that in mind, my new prediction is that Trump’s DOJ will start a new case against Google, and then spend two years tripping over their feet before landing at the exact same point.

eeeexactly. Love when a corporation induces artificial scarcity and it comes back to bite them in the ass. Now granted…most people that want to play bloodborne on PC probably already paid for the PS4 version, so all Sony is really missing out on is EXTRA money. Or maybe they’re just hoping Bloodborne Remake 2028 will be a PS6 system seller.

wow good thing Russia won the US election to end sanctions, then.

shadPS4 emulator is coming to the rescue, don’t worry. I feel like we’ll see the whole game playable at 60fps in that emulator within a years’ time, Sony be damned.

Yeah, it’s like they are creating a GOG seal for games that are basically only available because of the special work that GOG does.

sorry i don’t know star trek, so i do not know who this woman is (fake nerd, i know). reverse image search only narrowed it down to star trek, and there are too were too many different star trek shows to figure it out without extensive research. please feel free to impress the class below with your star trek knowledge.

It doesn’t load in my Lemmy app, but confirmed it does work in a browser.

This ain’t a photo of my own chonks. your beanbag is probably the better choice. my own cats prefer a papasan chair and a window ledge, respectively. lol

here’s a link if you want to see the comic in full-size: https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGcMV-uEWsAAKKN8.jpg

For the chonks, of course

Counterpoint: both of those ideas being patented meant no competitor could use them while the ideas were relevant. And in both cases, the patenting company made like one promising example of the patented idea and then barely used it after that. Wouldn’t it have been better for consumers if we could have had loading screen minigames back when long loading screens were still relevant?

I completely agree. In my memory the third panel doesn’t exist.

well no, actually. I was referring to the liberals who sat at home during Trump’s first presidency while children were being separated from their families and locked up in cages.