X-box / Playstation Consoles - they just follow each other?

Despite all the concern over Microsofts attempts to implant absolute borg like control over 'their' property (basically you pay for it, but they still own it), I haven't seen much in the way of how Sony will make their playstation network a subscription system - ie, after differentiating themselves from Microsoft by being subscriptionless, they simply follow suit on the next console. So, playstation 5 will have online 24/7 requirement?

Basically the corporations can simply wait - they will bring in all the bad stuff - they'll just do it incrementally. Not quite as fast as they would have liked. But ten years from now say they'll have brought in some muted forms of online validation already - then because people are conditioned to those, they'll then raise the idea of a 24/7 online requirement again - and protests will be less than they are now because the company used salami tactics (one slice at a time).

Is 'cloud' the new executive speak to justify any old thing?

They tried it with sim city, saying 'it uses cloud functions - can't just do single player!'. And yet someone showed it could do single player off line.

What's up with microsoft and X-box "oh, were doing the AI in 'the cloud'! So need to be online all the time". Seriously no, you aren't doing AI in the cloud. AI processing is far easier to run than processing polygons.

Say 'cloud' and pretty much everyone will just take whatever you say next as having to be the case.

Wow, a website for people to celebrate how tiny minded microsoft moderators are

I'm looking at this - there's a building in town here with chinese good luck symbols that I thought were swastikas. I was wrong - but this moderator just keeps calling the pic in the guys bio swastikas.


Yet this site is a 'haw haw, lookie the stupid people tink dey were right', while the moderator is being wontonly culturally ignorant in order to 'protect people'

Hey, there might be some books with the chinese good luck symbol out there too - perhaps burn them, for the good of the people?

Then this one, where the guy was soliciting something which is impossible to get, apparently.

All this from a brief skim of the first page?

I'm not laying into how moderators forget they are human and think they are as correct on a matter as some sort of god would be.

No, it's the celebration of ignorance as being right and the one true way that appals me!

The man who is absolutely certain is the man who absolutely does not care what happens if he is wrong.

Yeah, there's other stuff which are more clear cut - but it's all being treated as equally clear cut. Real ignorance there.