Sony's CEO caught selling more than half his stocks of the company

[extermist]

With everything going on I see Internet usage going down. The Internet is getting progressively more monitored, controlled and exploited for tech companies benefit and enshittificated. It is becoming increasingly hostile to users and starting to turn people away, like the rest of high tech.

I haven't considered that, but I'd like to see what it would look like.

 

[Kovlak]

I haven't considered that, but I'd like to see what it would look like.

We'll be seeing that going forward.

 

[Ir0nicle]

With everything going on I see Internet usage going down. The Internet is getting progressively more monitored, controlled and exploited for tech companies benefit and enshittificated. It is becoming increasingly hostile to users and starting to turn people away, like the rest of high tech.

I see a sizeable number of people going the offline and dumb tech route.

I just want to play games and not have to send a 3D scan of my rectum to verify every time I log on to whatever 3rd party service I need to use. Been slowly working on finding alternatives for social medias, moving to providers that respect user privacy and security, and collecting physical media.

 

[Kovlak]

I just want to play games and not have to send a 3D scan of my rectum to verify every time I log on to whatever 3rd party service I need to use. Been slowly working on finding alternatives for social medias, moving to providers that respect user privacy and security, and collecting physical media.

Me too. I'm going to look into open source smartphones and mobile operating systems going forward.

 

[extermist]

Me too. I'm going to look into open source smartphones and mobile operating systems going forward.

Reminder that there are linux distros that also have ID verification, so better double check before going through with one.

 

[Kovlak]

Reminder that there are linux distros that also have ID verification, so better double check before going through with one.

True. Ubuntu seems to be implementing ID verification. For now, I'm just investigating and seeing how that market evolves.

 

[Ir0nicle]

Reminder that there are linux distros that also have ID verification, so better double check before going through with one.

Not entirely true. It depends on whether if you have systemd as the init daemon. And even that got so blow out of proportion.

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True. Ubuntu seems to be implementing ID verification. For now, I'm just investigating and seeing how that market evolves.

Oh damn that's news to me. Then again, I don't ever look into Ubuntu. I'm on CachyOS anyways.

 

[Kovlak]

Not entirely true. It depends on whether if you have systemd as the init daemon. And even that got so blow out of proportion.

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Oh damn that's news to me. Then again, I don't ever look into Ubuntu. I'm on CachyOS anyways.

Here is a list of how Linux distros are dealing with Age verification mandate:

GitHub - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems

The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

github.com

 

[Ir0nicle]

Here is a list of how Linux distros are dealing with Age verification mandate:

GitHub - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems

The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

github.com

I HATE SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM.
I HATE ENSHITTIFICATION.
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST.
I HATE SAM ALTMAN.
I HATE KATY PERRY.

 

[Spyrone]

With everything going on I see Internet usage going down. The Internet is getting progressively more monitored, controlled and exploited for tech companies benefit and enshittificated. It is becoming increasingly hostile to users and starting to turn people away, like the rest of high tech.

I see a sizeable number of people going the offline and dumb tech route.

I already do that in a way- my primary phone is a classic flipphone that doesn't bombard with updates. However, it doesn't mean the powers that be are doing literally everything they can to force people to put their face into the scanner. For instance, the system the IRS uses now literally requires a smartphone with three utterly retarded verification methods in order to log in and download your tax documents. My favorite way of getting in has to be the video call with a snaggletoothed corporate call center operator that forces you to hold up your Drivers License and Social Security Card in front of your forehead and move them back and forth like you're doing some retard salute. It's like being forced to do the Skroob to download your W2s.

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I HATE SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM.
I HATE ENSHITTIFICATION.
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST.
I HATE SAM ALTMAN.
I HATE KATY PERRY.

I'm pretty sure the devil runs this place, dude. There's a reason we have legitimate cause to say I HATE THE ANTICHRIST.

 

[extermist]

I HATE ENSHITTIFICATION.

Don't we all.

 

[Kovlak]

I already do that in a way- my primary phone is a classic flipphone that doesn't bombard with updates. However, it doesn't mean the powers that be are doing literally everything they can to force people to put their face into the scanner

Countries are phasing out older phone tech. 1G and 2G for now.

 

[Ir0nicle]

I already do that in a way- my primary phone is a classic flipphone that doesn't bombard with updates. However, it doesn't mean the powers that be are doing literally everything they can to force people to put their face into the scanner. For instance, the system the IRS uses now literally requires a smartphone with three utterly retarded verification methods in order to log in and download your tax documents. My favorite way of getting in has to be the video call with a snaggletoothed corporate call center operator that forces you to hold up your Drivers License and Social Security Card in front of your forehead and move them back and forth like you're doing some retard salute. It's like being forced to do the Skroob to download your W2s.

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I'm pretty sure the devil runs this place, dude. There's a reason we have legitimate cause to say I HATE THE ANTICHRIST.

I'm saying it even though I'm not a Christian. This is so bleak.

 

[Kovlak]

I'm saying it even though I'm not a Christian. This is so bleak.

The future seems to be progressive civilizational decay and fragmentation.

 

[Spyrone]

I'm saying it even though I'm not a Christian. This is so bleak.

I figured as much, and believe me I feel ya. My personal beliefs are influenced by Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, various Native American traditions, my views on technology and the mysterious nature of consciousness. I don't think anyone has grasped the whole story yet. As well as some very strange things I've experienced myself. It may not be possible for us to comprehend it.

In the end, I'm begining to think that this is a endless spiral of Hell Simulations that we're stuck in. Far too many things are happening that are really crazily terrifying for me to say that this is anything but a Hell we're living in.

 

[Ir0nicle]

I figured as much, and believe me I feel ya. My personal beliefs are influenced by Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, various Native American traditions, my views on technology and the mysterious nature of consciousness. I don't think anyone has grasped the whole story yet. As well as some very strange things I've experienced myself. It may not be possible for us to comprehend it.

In the end, I'm begining to think that this is a endless spiral of Hell Simulations that we're stuck in. Far too many things are happening that are really crazily terrifying for me to say that this is anything but a Hell we're living in.

I totally feel that way as well. I say that as a Hindu.

 

[Spyrone]

The future seems to be progressive civilizational decay and fragmentation.

Yeah, we seem to be getting the Apunkalypse after all...

Only difference is that I guarantee it will have zombies, too. In fact, I believe Toxoplasmosis might have something to do with how, ah, stupid everyone seems to act now. I'm sure the guy in charge of the DPHHS has it at the very least.

 

[Kovlak]

I don't think anyone has grasped the whole story yet. It may not be possible for us to comprehend it. In the end, I'm begining to think that this is a endless spiral of Hell Simulations that we're stuck in. Far too many things are happening that are really crazily terrifying for me to say that this is anything but a Hell we're living in.

I have done decades of work on this. The truth is there just isn't enough information to have a singular complete view of reality. That's also why religious disagreements often turn violent. With the lack of certainty, destroying the other, seen as enemy, suffices. Seeing who God sides with. Might makes right.

I've settled for myself that we're likely in a simulation like the philosopher Georg Hegel hinted at, and I've seen modern computer scientists expand upon, where humans, and every other being, are sub-constructs within a sub-construct (universe) of a sandbox of sorts for the ultimate organism - Monad, God, Alpha and Omega - to test and experience itself, from which it evolves. Like the relationship between mind, imagination and the body in the real world - you think, imagine and dream and, from that, you act.

And things are getting so dire and grim, in my view, because of the so-called Great Filter Hypothesis, where a civilization to continually evolve needs to reach certain milestones, like achieving a self-sustaining peaceful global civilization. And we've blown that spectacularly and are in a spiral of self-destruction.

So we don't exactly live in Hell, but we're making a Hell of the place we're living in.

But like I said this is just an interpretation of reality.

 

[Spyrone]

I have done decades of work on this. The truth is there just isn't enough information to have a singular complete view of reality. That's also why religious disagreements often turn violent. With the lack of certainty, destroying the other, seen as enemy, suffices. Seeing who God sides with. Might makes right.

I've settled for myself that we're likely in a simulation like the philosopher Georg Hegel hinted at, and I've seen modern computer scientists expand upon, where humans, and every other being, are sub-constructs within a sub-construct (universe) of a sandbox of sorts for the ultimate organism - Monad, God, Alpha and Omega - to test and experience itself, from which it evolves. Like the relationship between mind, imagination and the body in the real world - you think and imagine and, from that, you act.

And things are getting so dire and grim, in my view, because of the so-called Great Filter Hypothesis, where a civilization to continually evolve needs to reach certain milestones, like achieving a self-sustaining peaceful civilization. And we've blown that and are in the process of self-destruction.

But like I said this is just an interpretation of reality.

Pretty much. 'Tis a strange place we live in.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

i would certainly say is it. it pretty much always has.

Nah . That is just pure unfiltered greed packed on a gaming-corpo logo that is called the game-industry . Alternatives were always there and still are there to have with emulators , piracy and indies as the alternatives .

If the offer isnt good , you leave it or take the alternative .

If you are forced to take it then its not an offer , its a blackmail . And we arent forced to play the next gen of gaming .

Capitalism isnt at fault . Its systematic greed and corperatism that corrupts capitalism . To trade is a human-right and shouldnt be despise just because how bad deals can be and are . Thats way too superficial and easy to state .

I dont call someone a horrible person just because he is ill and needs rest with a good chicken soup .

Way too much corperatism combined with unhinged greed and we are now in this cinematic experience called " the gaming crash " .

 

[Kovlak]

Capitalism isnt at fault . Its systematic greed and corperatism that corrupts capitalism .

I see it as a very easy system to corrupt, to subvert. I'm more on the camp that a communalistic social structure would overall be better. Something that focused on the whole, instead of the individual, that doesn't elevate flawed individuals to living gods, creating pockets of hell.

 

[PhaseJump]

I've been thinking of this.

If a crash happens it won't be like before.
Nintendo was able to come in and revitalize the console market because they were able to stay safe in japan. But now that the internet makes everyone and everything connected, if a crash were to happen, it'll likely be world wide wouldn't it?
If that were to happen then who would revitalize the industry?
PC isn't exactly safe from component prices and scarcity either.
Steam can easily face their own set of problems with the steam machine, and let's face it, that's not exactly going to be a replacement for consoles.

It's not like back in the day where PC and arcades still thrived while the consoles died.
There's no arcades today sadly and PC has it's own set of issues.

Your entire premise is based on the "industry" being dependent on "new hardware"

The whole hardware side of it is stalled out already, prices have skyrocketed and won't stabilize for years. So developers will scale down their performance targets to hit the older consoles and lower specs people already have. Online platforms won't go away, and they will scale up with higher demand.

Old hardware isn't going away.


The crash hysteria happening now is coming from long term repeated AAA budget failures being protected from consequences. Now the big publishers are being gauntlet-snapped. All the insufferable developers that burned money and made garbage nobody wanted to buy, or even install and play for free, will be laid off.

If they are talented and motivated, they will move on to favourable regions or cities with tax incentives, create independent studios, and start churning up a skilled scene around them. That's the way it always was.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

If he sold now I assume he expects the price to dip significantly. At which point he'll likely buy more at a discount. It's a sound strategy tbf.

I would hold off buying Sony stock until they announce more about their intended market direction.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I would hold off buying Sony stock until they announce more about their intended market direction.

I know your plan, im buying it right now! Just try to stop me!

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

I know your plan, im buying it right now! Just try to stop me!

Tbf me saying it's not worth buying right now is almost certainly a buying signal