Gotta admit, Beamdog does share love throughout their catalogue.

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Quoting: elmapulfor example, in my country, if i count air tv and cable tv, we had 100 animes broacasted in total across 3~5 decades, there are 10.000 animes on my anime list alone (not to mention its an incomplete list, it dont have the indie non official touhou animes for instance), crunchroll dont have everything, but at least it has 700 animes any given month.

This is a really good point, tbh, and re-enforces why monopolies are bad - if they control what content you watch, you're severely restricted as a focused client of that service. But while dealing with multiple streaming services feels bad, they're still actually really cheap compared to what we used to pay for scheduled television, and they allow a huge degree of control over what you watch.

My primary gripe is really just finding content sometimes. And a minor gripe about how different services look different. And handle end-of-show credits. And how quickly they stream the next episode before I can find the remote control to turn off auto-stream. So frustrating.

Okay, so a few gripes. Still better than a monopoly though.

In Germany there was Sky for soccer/football. Bundesliga and Champions League... all you needed in one small package if you wanted to watch every game.

Then they had to split up the rights, because it was claimed that competition is good for the customer. Then the rights went to Sky for the Saturday games, but the Friday games were on Eurosport. And some games were exclusive to DAZN/Amazon or whatever. Total clusterfuck and more expensive than before.

Yeah, my point was aimed at scheduled content, but in my head I'd excluded sports for some reason. Sports feels really, REALLY overpriced to me. I pay £21/month for all the tv and movies in the world, but I have to pay nearly £30 a month for the F1??

I suppose it's not targeted. I get all the football, all the golf, all that other stuff I'll never watch. I pay that nearly £30/month for pretty much 2 hours of telly a fortnight, which is a shockingly frustrating model. I guess if they did it any other way, we wouldn't have 22 millionaires kicking a ball around a field.

Unfortunately, I think it'd be the other way around. If they were to be targeted, potentially with football package being cheaper, the amount of people paying only for football would increase, where other less common sports would suffer to get revenue from TV royalties.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Don't know what you are all on about onlive is where it's at..... Oh wait it died just like all the gaming streaming sites will or it fragment just like streaming TV Netflix used to have everything now there are exclusives and you need multiple subscriptions to see everything

Yeah. On one hand, monopolies are definitely bad. On the other hand, I went from a £6.99 Netflix sub to:

Netflix family: £9.99
NowTV + Sports package: around £25 in total, per month
Disney: £7.99
Prime: £7.99

And of course, my cabled TV connection, which includes my 300mb internet and a landline I never use: £70

Like, yeah, monopolies are really, really bad (just look at Microsoft), but how much would Netflix have had to put up their prices, per month, before people complained? Because even taking out NowTV, if they'd DOUBLED their prices, it would still be cheaper for the consumer than dealing with Netflix+Disney+Prime.

That said, before streaming services existed, I paid Virgin for their "Everything" package and it was just over £100 a month, which included Sky Sport and Sky Movies, and was therefore much cheaper than all this multiple-streaming-service juggling!

And don't even get me started on my £16.99/month spotify family plan.

With inflation going through the roof, at least we can save some meals we'd have at a pub lol and we can still say it isn't as bad as train tickets, though xD

In my case, don't even want to think in the amount of money I end up spending on the likes of Linux Foundation, A Cloud Guru, HyperSkill... Or even in Cloud solutions like DigitalOcean, AWS, etc.

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Quoting: scaineYeah. On one hand, monopolies are definitely bad. On the other hand, I went from a £6.99 Netflix sub to:

Netflix family: £9.99
NowTV + Sports package: around £25 in total, per month
Disney: £7.99
Prime: £7.99

My solution to that problem: rotation. View stuff on one. Cancel, subscribe to the next and view there, cancel and so on until I'm back at number 1. Won't work for your sports stuff, but hey, if you want that, you're bound to get cheated. :tongue:

Also, glass fibre internet now and cable tv: cancelled.

It's a good idea, but that requires effort.

I came to realize we can't enjoy or have everything, so decided to get one service/subscription and enjoy it as much as possible. By the time there isn't anything I want to watch there, maybe your suggestion can come to play.

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How did I miss this? The game captivated me, and scared me, when I first played it. Definitely would recommend to anyone interested in point & click games.

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Another project that Google will abandon.

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Quoting: LiamMcBrideIt wouldn't surprise me if the chip shortage is to blame for it being delayed, I'm guessing it's going to be about as difficult to find as graphics cards are right now because of that

It is the sole purpose of it. They mention it on the email sent to people that pre-ordered it. The shortage is affecting other big companies too, e.g; Nintendo recently reduced their expectations to create/sale hardware on 2022 by 20%.

The irony in this story, is that the IT industry spends trillions of $/£/€ in resiliency, high availability, failover… you name it. Yet we rely on TSMC, as a single point of failure, for over 50% of chip manufacture.

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Don't worry, it is not March, nor 2023, but 02/2022 so Valve will definitely release the Steam Deck :D

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Based on recent blog posts, accusations, etc, I wonder if Pop_OS will eventually try to get this patch merged upstream.

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Quoting: kalinI tried popos and it was the same garbage as ubuntu. After some update the system got broken. From my experience manjaro is far better choice then anything Debian based. Turd is a turd no matter how much chocolate topping you put on

Ubuntu/Pop_OS != Debian and Ubuntu/Pop_OS < Debian

But I get your point.

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