SpaceCowboy

Pffft... flat earth is just something pushed by the map making cartels. If the earth was flat then why is Mexico at a higher altitude? Checkmate, flat earthers.

Look at a globe... when you're going south you're going uphill.

I think you might've replied to the wrong comment?

Unless Sony is planning on selling digital meth LOL.

You're acting like a million deaths is the same as 100,000 deaths. I'm not saying a mono-polar world is sunshine and roses. I'm saying a multi-polar world is worse. I'm giving you numbers to back that up.

It's not like either of us is going to change the course of the world. It will likely go in the direction of a multi-polar world because the US is on the decline. You shouldn't be so naive as to think that you should be preparing to celebrate world peace breaking out when there's a multi-polar world. You should be prepared for world war.

Some the things you listed are just the start of that. Syria was not exactly aligned with the West. It was aligned with Russia and Iran which are pushing for this multi-polar world you seem to think will be better. Half a million people were killed in the Syrian civil war. You should expect more of that in a multi-polar world. Ukraine is another example of Russia trying to become a Great Power in a multi-polar world. It's at least a million dead and counting in that one.

A lot of the sentimental stuff you're talking about was gone a long time ago. You used to get a manual with a game, maybe a map, some other stuff like that. It's been decades since that was a thing. Now you're just getting a storage medium, and when you put it in the console it triggers a download, unless you want to play the buggy version that came out on release day.

Would you suffer the same emotional trauma if you had a leaky roof and your physical game collection got damaged and was unplayable?

Why would your favourite game that was still saved on your console not be playable but putting a disc with the same data on it somehow would be?

You're getting a little too upset over the potential that you might not be able to play some games you deleted.

It sucks that people won't be able to sell or give away games, but it's a little over-dramatic to be upset over not having some box in your attic.

So it's mostly sentimentality? That's just the way it goes with tech, you have to get used to new ways of doing things.

Why I remember as a kid getting pop and chips at the gas station when my parents stopped there to fill up. If I get an EV my children won't ever have that experience.

I don't think sentimentality is a valid reason to stick with old technology.

The concerns about Sony supporting the servers long term and the fact that it's unlikely people will be able to sell or give away their games, those are valid concerns. Sentimentality over technology is silly to me.

There's always going to be capacity limitations, they're bulky compared to an SD card, they can get scratched and who know if some discs will eventually suffer from disc rot as happened with DVDs.

For better or for worse (mostly worse) most games require patches now, so you'll need an internet connection if you don't want to be stuck playing the buggy initial release of a game.

Yeah especially when you're starting from nothing. Chemicals needed to produce chips have multiple suppliers within a small geographic area in Taiwan. There are none in the US. Whelp, guess you need to either figure out how to transport some incredibly dangerous materials across an ocean or setup production of that chemical locally.

So it will take even longer for a chip fab to be online in the US than it would take in Taiwan.

The PS3 was released nearly 20 years ago and no media standard lasts forever. I think if you told them back then that the PS3 strategy would result in their media format being dominant for two decades, they wouldn't have said "ah well forget it, it's not worth it."

Bluray is starting to show it's age. The decision is really between creating a new physical media format or just going 100% digital. From a purely technological perspective digital makes a lot more sense.

The real problem is about trust and licenses. We don't trust a company when they announce plans to go 100% digital on the same week the break access to people's movies in their digital library. And they could set up a digital system that would allow you to sell your license to someone else, so you could give or sell your copy of the game to someone else. But we know that while that's technologically possible, they aren't going to do that.

So it's not a problem from a technology perspective, but it sucks for the consumer because of how they will implement the technology.

It wasn't really a small group of conquistadors that took down the Aztecs. It was the conquistadors along with a bunch of tribes that were willing to ally themselves with some strange men that spoke a different language and had a completely different culture. The conquistadors were able to find allies because of how horrible the Aztecs were.

European history is full of examples of tribes invading from somewhere else. Those invaders were doing so because they had to leave where they lived was invaded by someone else. It's similar in pre-Columbian America.

It's only when cities started having strong walls and organized militaries that the ethnic cleansing and genocide became less commonplace, enough so these atrocities became noteworthy and better documented. Humans are tribalistic and violent, there's no special ethnicities that were above being that way.

What you describe isn't weird for a large corporation. When a corporation is large enough, they're all like that.

Yeah it's super-annoying when they do clickbait headlines that exaggerate some asshole's behaviour. It's a huge let down and then it's a weird feeling like "it wasn't actually that bad" mixed with "but oh yeah, fuck that guy for other reasons".