LurkingLuddite

The plan was to take power and use the gestapo like ICE to scare people into staying in line.

My question is, why are people staying in line?!

So do mine for similar reasons ifyouknowwhatimean

Alternative? Sure. Though why?

If ethernet works, you’re just using a more expensive option to go with fiber.

Unless you need something unique about fiber, like distance (which can still be dubious for consumer grade hardware), or a non-electrical based signal (dubious requirement in most cases), then you’re just throwing money at being able to say you use fiber.

Fully agreed with that.

In fact, such regulations really need to go a lot further and make illegal straight up unnecessary subscriptions, too. If something doesn’t need actively maintained things outside of the actual product for it to function, then it doesn’t ‘need’ a subscription model.

I mean the question got an answer, so either feeding the trolls, or popcorn moment.

… Either way I’ve got my popcorn.

Given all the fun I’ve had over the years with far less powerful systems, it’s not exactly a deathknell to gaming if it turns out that way.

It just better be the deathknell for terrible mobile game microtransaction structures and p2w schemes if mobile devices become the new norm…

The sucky thing is, it could be a modeling issue, but the answer would have to be a model that agrees with all observations. For example, it could be that spacetime can get permanently warped such that gravity-like effects remain, but then how would a model represent that? If the model represents it as a field that is held in effect by some localized particle, then that ‘something’ might still be called “matter” even though it could be nothing more than an artifact of that particular model.

For a similar happenstance with current models, see the “graviton”. If spacetime ‘changes’ due to the presence of matter (at least, insofar as locality and position itself is real) and nothing more, there might not actually be a graviton to discover, yet that’s what the models demand to become closer to observed reality.

“Dark matter” is not its own idea. It is literally the name for the unknown observed effect, NOT an explanation for the effect.

Most physicists hate the term “dark matter” too, because it sounds like an explanation when it is literally the opposite.

“Dark matter” could be one or several things at once, because it is the name for the observed phenominon, not an explanation for it.

We know something is there, we just don’t know what. That je ne sais quoi is what’s called “dark matter”, which again, is not an explanation of anything, but the name of the observed phenomenon.

It might not even be matter at all, though observations like what’s cited in the OP lean toward it being something that exists as opposed to a difference in the mathematical models, which should apply to all of spacetime in order to be called accurate. Since it is a local effect that we see is different in different areas, that makes it far less likely to be a general disagreement.

“with foresight”

My brother in christ, they put an “AI” shithead in charge. They practically by definition cannot have foresight.

Gaming is in a great place. AAA gaming is not, because of-fucking-course corpos don’t understand art.

It’s working great to convince moronic executives to leave Windows when it fucks up majorly due to AI coding, which is a win for everyone.

Or mumbling to itself, “what the hell is this human putting in my face? What does this giant animal want with me?”

WoW is 22 years old.