… I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They’re good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.
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Absolutely no reason to put one in a new laptop.
But not all computers are new.
What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?
No turbulence while taking a piss or shit
Train bathrooms seem specifically designed to discourage using the bathroom while riding a train.
Also I had a laptop die from the constant vibrations destroying the hard disk drive.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’English1·6 天前Microsoft does not make processors.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Epic Games Store is Removing a Game (Dark and Darker) from Players' Libraries due to legal troublesEnglish11·6 天前Yeah, I read the other guy’s comment. That is already one step too many. I still had to click, for that bait.
OP: put it in the fucking title.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Epic Games Store is Removing a Game (Dark and Darker) from Players' Libraries due to legal troublesEnglish251·6 天前Put it in the fucking title.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’English21·6 天前It’s already serious business in laptops and desktops. Just exclusively for Apple’s awful little incompatible fiefdom.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’English13·6 天前DirectX was always about displacing consoles. Alex St. John was talking about it in 1994.
The task is mostly complete. Software has won. The surprise is that Microsoft really hasn’t. They assumed they’d dominate whatever computer-ified market emerged… and that assumption is getting shakier every year. Windows suuucks. Linux is already a better way to run most programs and games. Even x86 is not a sure bet, and whatever ARM does to unseat it, that’ll transfer smoothly to RISC-V.
Everything old is new again. “The best Macintosh is an Amiga.” The best WinTel box might be your phone.
Something happened here.
(Centurii-Chan)
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?English2·11 天前what’s an Xbox even for anymore?
PC-ifying the console market, same as always. A task it has almost completed.
Sony exiting the console market would be failure. They’ve been using the PS1 playbook five times in a row - seven or eight if you count handhelds - and it’s worked, at most, thrice. Sony’s ideal market has games developed for a specific platform, and occasionally ported outside it, so each vibrant fiefdom has its own identity and culture. That made them a mountain of cash on PS1 and PS2 and then nearly killed the PS3.
Developers’ ideal market is making the game once and selling it to all customers. Platforms are an obstacle. Sony’s ideal was fucked as soon as RenderWare looked the same on any console or PC. Microsoft got the message and made the 360 a generic compiler target. Sony almost shipped the PS3 without a real GPU. It took them years to stop fucking around and offer libraries to make their tiny special supercomputer act like any other computer - and that got them better ports, and made them more money.
What followed was two and a half generations of lockstep releases for near-identical AMD laptops. You can buy the blue one or the green one. Yet I don’t think Sony really internalized what’s happened until the Helldivers situation. They suddenly demanded every PC player get in their console ecosystem, because they recognized how much money they could make being a generic publisher, and it scared the shit out of them.
Microsoft exiting the console market would be… what they’ve been planning for a decade, probably. Somewhere after the Xbox One, I mused that they could upset the console race by not releasing an Xbox Two, and just treat the upcoming PS5 as a slightly broken PC. They seem to be getting around to it. Albeit with a side of releasing a Steam Deck competitor, because they love showing up late to a trend.
Not to be confused with the Venetian defense, where you drop a mortar on the knight’s head.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?English4·12 天前Again, not even Atari itself went away entirely. A crash means line go down. It’s not a sudden and definite end.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?English2·12 天前This user struggles with absolutes.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?English41·12 天前It’d be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.
Which can happen.
Theaters sure aren’t doing well. Movies soldier on without them, but with vanishing distinction from any other form of streaming video. When the superhero genre wanes, it might not be because some other bajillion-dollar trend overtook it. People can just stop caring enough to justify budgets with nine digits. What comes after that is a fallow period. Many large investments fail, capital dries up, a few pricks make headlines for declaring ‘movies are over.’
There’s been several times that making money on music was not a reliable business model. The industry flipped out about piracy… on cassettes, and then also when MP3s came along. Fortunately they solved that through commercial streaming services which also don’t pay artists anything. And now you can install a program that invents and records pop songs, just for you, in about as long as it takes to play them.
Even in '83, it’s not like Atari died. They had two more consoles that decade, plus a handheld. They marched on into the 1990s and then died. The crash simply meant a whole form of entertainment was no longer an expected feature in people’s lives.
Subscription MMOs have dwindled. The RTS genre crashed.
Warframe is… special.
Did you make it thirty hours in? Congratulations, now you can create your character.
They rehosted the image as “F-35Gulliver.jpg”.
You can miss that the people standing around this stadium-sized single-pilot aircraft are as tall as the buildings in the corner.