Blackmist

It's all fun and games until it reaches City 17.

People never bought music from artists.

They bought it from record labels.

Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it's not Spotify that's keeping it all.

It is, and more than that it takes way too long to build. The time for it was 30 years ago.

I noticed that during the 80s and 90s it "wasn't safe", and during the last 20 years it was "too expensive", but now you see a few powerful people advocating for it.

And I can only assume it's the same big booming Brian Blessed-esque voice as before: that of the fossil fuel industry.

They know they're on the way out, but if they can make people bicker and argue and spend all their money on nuclear, which will likely take 20 years to actually come online, they can carry on guzzling dinosaur juice, while simultaneously nixing any large eco friendly plans under a giant banner of "the nuclear is already on it's way!"

Yeah, but a clumsy Soviet Union and a massive fossil fuel lobby put paid to that in the UK. 5% of our power comes across the channel from France...

Do we really think people voted Trump based on eggs? I think we need to read between the lines here.

It can display Oblivion Remastered at it's native framerate though.

Wow, relive the early days of really fucking terrible LCD displays for just under $2000.

What a time to be alive...

I had the point near the beginning of the file thing once and it was a really shitty file that only VLC could seek in.

ffmpeg fixed it, but I've no idea how because ffmpeg command lines are some arcane black magic shit.

I used to love magazines, with their coverdisks full of goodies.

But the internet banished them. I stopped buying once I realised I was reading things I'd already read about online 2 months ago...

Monthly print can't really compete with instant.

Well, he's right on that at least.

The UK uses gas rather than nuclear for non renewable power.

It's much easier to turn up and down than nuclear.

Plus we build so few new houses that this is unlikely to be a massive issue, although home batteries and increased electric vehicle charging could be a good place to dump "excess" power.

Yeah, there's probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

I suspect to try and push their own products, we'll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they'll crank the price of those as well.