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bestekovon I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry

For basically my whole gaming life starting in the early 1990s, PC games have been ~$50. It is frankly shocking that the price points have been so sticky. $50 in 2000 dollars is $96 today. Inflation is real. It sucks, but that's the reality of economics. It is completely reasonable for video game prices to appreciate along with everything else.

bestekovon Fan built entire Original Star Trek set as a musem

How a star trek super fan inherited the blueprints for the Star Trek set and built a really cool museum featuring all the original series sets!

bestekovon The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971

> The number of people who left cities when remote work gave them the chance should make that obvious

The number of people who left cities is a remarkably small part of the US population and many of them just left high-cost cities for other lower-cost cities.

The steady increase in % of the US population who live in cities (83% in 2023 up from 70% in 2022) [https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/urba...] suggests that yes, Americans do in fact want to live in cities.

bestekovon HP CEO: "Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."

YMMV, but have had pretty good experiences with HP developer and gaming laptops.

bestekovon The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e

ACOUP is very aware of the pedantry part. He is also an avid gamer himself (see his extensive articles about what the Paradox grand strategy games get right and wrong).

bestekovon Why you can't Kickstart a conference

It gets even tougher if your conference or convention does NOT target a business audience (who often can just expense a $500 ticket). For general interest or hobby conferences, you are much more money limited while the costs of venues remain just as high.

It is possible to kickstart conferences, but hard. One that has been going for several years is a bit more of a high-end conference retreat: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wargamergirl/valhalla-i...

bestekovon 60 Minutes asked Google CEO: “Have you killed your cash cow?” [video]

I'm somewhat confused. I've seen a number of comments of late talking about how google search is awful, but I use it 100+ times a day without issue. I tried the search you above "list QUIC implementations" and the top results all seemed reasonable?

1. Github: xileteam/awesome-quic

2. QUIC Working Group (quicwg.org)

3. "Comparison of Different QUIC Implementations" (a paper in a scholarly journal)

4. Wikipedia: QUIC

5. QUIC, a multiplexed transport over UDP (chromium.org)

Note: I use adblock plus which blocks all sponsored search results, so maybe that helps?