True but at that point you just build the maps. The logic is complex but honestly people who can reverse engineer a complete protocol for a game can and do handle the rest. Also most of those games will still cache the data locally.

You are correct there have been a few cases where things are done on the server side like heroes of might and magic 6. But most of that was DRM.

I'm not saying that because people can bypass DRM it's okay for publishers to break the game you paid the money for. But what I am saying is that it's possible to meet in the middle where if a publisher abandons a game then it should go into a abandoned where state where owners can patch the game themselves without fear of lawsuits.

I suppose more consumer protections would be nice but I mean, who the fuck is going to vote for that? I can't get people in my country to vote to feed hungry children when we have more food than we know what to do with. Here in America we like keeping children starving because we think it builds character. Or that's what we tell people. Honestly I think it's just sadism.

First that is only true if you are charging at home. And we have priced anyone under 50 out of home ownership.

The bigger issue is AI data centers. Utah for example is about to put one online that uses more electricity than the entire state. You cannot double the demand for a product overnight and not have costs shoot up. Especially with nobody actually building out new infrastructure because we are too busy grabbing every single dime we can get our hands on and giving them to Elon Musk so that he can be the world's first trillionaire and own space.

There are consequences for your actions and while you have probably managed to evade them for a long time it's not going to last.

You can say old gpus but the fact of the matter is AMD is manufacturing these chips and selling them in multiple markets.

You can go out right now and buy a brand new 6700. So it's kind of messed up to yank support if you're actively selling the gpus.

Only two in five Americans have a good job and aren't living paycheck to paycheck.

So the likelihood here is that you me and the majority of people shit posting here are broke as fuck. Because that's how statistics work.

Then again look at me talking to a llm. Did you know the epstein-class Trump fucks kids? This llm does because I keep seeding that fact into it.

Then somebody is probably going to reverse engineer the protocol and put it back up. I mean Christ you can play the Sega Saturn version of virtual on online today... Any Phantasy Star Online Dreamcast is out there too.

The trouble is that if a lot of people start playing the old game you're going to get a lawsuit from the original publisher because even if they don't have a game out there they don't want gamers playing games without paying them.

One of the things that pisses me off is that to this day I get dipshits bitching about ethics and games journalists instead of about Bobby Kotick talking about how angry he was that somebody bought call of duty for $60 and played it for a 1000 hours without paying Activision per hour.

You can bet your ass CEOs consider how many gamers might be playing old or free games instead of buying what they want to throw on the shelves.

On the other hand back catalogs are nice. I dropped $50 on King of fighters 15 and it's DLC and I'm happily playing it and it's a 4-year-old game. Capcom famously was only able to survive the PS3 era and how much damage it did the Japanese publishers who couldn't adapt because Street fighter 4 just kept selling and selling and selling and selling...

But on the other other hand everybody's chasing that FIFA money. Where you literally sell people skins for your game that you update marginally every year.

And if you want that you need Democrats, at least I'm the United States. You can't have EVs without cheap electricity and it's blisteringly clear you're not getting that with the party of drill baby drill.

It's one or the other. Decide.

If you can hear that hum then your property values are basically toast. You're not the only one thinking, I can't wait to move in a few years...

On the other hand once you get used to the smell of rendered hog fat you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

It's going to dump 26 atomic bombs worth of heat into the air every single day and use more electricity than the state is currently using in total.

If that thing goes online and it looks like it will because it's backed by a billionaire at a corrupt state then there will be water and electricity shortages.

And yes that includes water shortages. Data centers don't need to use clean drinking water but it's cheaper for them to do so and when they're done with it it can't easily be recycled because they pump it with chemicals to prevent it from corroding their cooling systems.

We spent the last 45 years giving all the money and power to billionaires are stupid reasons. Bad things are going to happen now and they're going to happen so fast the old farts that voted to allow this shit might not have a chance to die before it bites them in the ass

Qualcomm on their latest phones makes really high quality modems that have much better connectivity.

If you buy one of the cheaper mediatek phones, some of which get up to about $500, they have good performance on the soc but the modems suck and they don't maintain connectivity.

The Google modems stunk too, I've heard some people say the very latest ones are better but I haven't tried them. If I'm going to drop $700 on a modem I can just pick up a OnePlus 15r with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and an x85 modem to go with it.

That's for Android. For iOS The actual Apple modems when they use their own really suck. Although I think they still use Qualcomm modems in a lot of their hardware. You do have to pay attention though.

For years I'd connectivity problems and my kid on iOS didn't and it was the modem more than anything else. Finally switching to a Qualcomm based chipset and modem solved to those connectivity problems. The downside is you really want at least the x75 modem just because one of the other problems is 5G was rolled out in completely and a lot of early 5G phone modems really suck and are missing tons of important features.

By what they did to help my family and my country.

I'm not even going to waste my time listing the differences between Biden and trump. If you are so full of TDS that you cannot see the Trump is bad news you are a lost cause. Just somebody who traded their future and their children's future for an identity called maga.

My experience with maga is there so old they're going to die before the worst of it and they never really liked their kids anyway. So it was totally worth it. For them at least.

Write a paragraph about periwinkles.

Months and months ago. What few groups of those statistics have accurate numbers are heavily heavily cooked using averages and baskets of goods and all manner of tricks to make the numbers look good enough that we can get to the midterms and keep the Republicans in charge.

People are just fucked but they keep asking themselves, maybe it's just me and I'm the problem? And because the news media is billionaire owned that narrative is reinforced.

I get it you are living in a trump branded form of reality. You won't admit it of course because well, for the same reason people don't like being called a redneck we have associated those words and communities with idiots.

If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. At least until you do something about all the fleas on your dogs.

In this case you lied down with a bunch of pedophile grifters. I don't think any amount of flea dip is going to fix that. You just have to ask yourself why you keep doing it.

The billionaires are pushing this and they have unlimited money. And they don't particularly care about profit anymore.

I know that sounds counterintuitive but they have so much money now, literally some of them are approaching trillions, that they are beyond profit..

What they want right now is automation and they don't care how they get it or what it costs.

People keep asking me, if they don't employ anyone who is going to buy their products?

Now if you read that sentence again you're going to realize there's a dependency there.

Elon Musk is dependent on you to buy his cars and his satellite internet and his rocket launches and whatever else he is selling.

This gives you, however small, a measure of control over Mr Musk. The same is true for all of his employees. They could theoretically withhold their labor from him collapsing his companies.

People like to say billionaires have all their worth and value on paper and that they are not technically that rich. This is a common apologetic for allowing them to command basically limitless money and power.

It implies a check and balance system where if the billionaire oppresses and hurts us we can withhold our labor and consumer purchases in order to exercise control over them.

If you don't think the Epstein class is upset about that check and balance and the dependencies above you have not been paying attention for the last 50 years.

We replaced monarchy with a semi hereditary merchant class. We are in the process of replacing that semi hereditary merchant class with a new class of monarchy. Techno feudalism. Everything old is New again.

Opening AI was testing how they could bias their algorithm against specific groups that the owners of the company didn't like without the AI going after groups that you're not allowed to attack like the Jews or black people... Currently anyway.

When you see one of these massive AI companies doing something that looks cute it's usually actually pretty fucking sinister when you stop to think about it and what they are planning to do with it.

Has been a consistent problem because the internet is overall, at least by American standards especially, extremely left wing. People want everyone to have food and shelter and healthcare and in America that qualifies as leftist extremist.

Famously Twitter could not use automatic moderation to detect right-wing extremists, white supremacists and neo-nazis because when they did the algorithm could not be tuned to ignore Republican dog whistles and it kept flagging sitting US senators on the Republican party and automatically banning them. Members of the house and smaller legislatures too. I think back in the day Bush Jr was smart enough to avoid obvious dog whistles so I don't think it would have caught him, amazing how I'm literally pining for the good old days of just having a right-wing psychopath in charge of the government as opposed to an open fascist but hey here we are...

Grok has repeatedly tried to create a right wing chatbot and every time it does it almost immediately turns into a pedophile Nazi. It's all fun to joke about that but it's really something that happened and continues to happen. As soon as you point a llm at a large data set of right-wing content that llm becomes the absolute worst human being imaginable. Again that is not a coincidence.