Just to poke the hornets nest: if CDs and Blu-ray discs are a crappy medium, moving forward, what would you suggest to be the replacement?

I’m all for physical media, but current optical media is more than a generation past obsolete and needs to be replaced.

Proper Alfonse

Cyberpunk 2077 ultimate! I finally got it. Thanks to a steam summer sale! Hooray!

But they made the line go up!

At severely reduced wages, of course

Hey, JavaScript has been around for over 30 years, and I’m still not calling it a coding language. It will never be more than a scripting language.

I don’t care what fucking wizardy I fucking manage to do with it, I will die on this hill.

Oh, that affordable healthcare and rental assistance hurts so much! You have my vote! Being able to afford groceries tastes so good!

I learned this lesson 25 years ago, and that’s when I stopped paying for any “content”. Rip it or lose it.

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I have to think back to the old time days, lol, but I think it was in November 2015 for the game of the year edition… When they actually sold some physical gear along with a game… It was a gigantic flop, although the physical gear was kind of cool.

Like, it was one of the major game releases that Harold did they beginning of the end for steam for that generation. It was the start of the dark era first steam

It was, like, a game bag, a helmet, and a shitty plastic pipboy or something. There was a gigantic backlash over how incredibly shitty the physical pack was, and how buggy the initial game release was.

I think this was the first signal for the first generation downfall for Steam. It was the first Harold for the first reckoning, first Steam’s first major downfall in 2015.

Thank God, it happened to Steam, and thank God it happened in 2015. If it hadn’t happened to them, and if it hadn’t happened so early, none of us would have survived.

Because they know there is no God (really? How stupid do all of you assholes feel now?), and because it happened long enough ago, they have no fear, and a new economy has emerged. Rough times are ahead, but there, thank goodness, is a future.

A delicious feature where interspecies queers have even footing, so get used to it you fucking dogmatic prickwads! Jobs are jobs!

Common people is about having a person’s co-opted, while 15 million merits is about having advertisements involuntarily pushed on a person. I think the idea under discussion here is a fusion of both concepts from opposite perspectives. I’d say it’s worth exploring in its own episode.

Contemporaneous perspectives have shifted. As they had when each previous episode was written. That’s what’s particularly cool about black mirror. It’s an organic anthology. Previous concepts get revisited as technological terrors evolve (or our ideas of them do).

Edit: spells & grams

I remember this. It was like 10 years ago or so. I had a friend of mine in design school who wanted to use it to make a subdermal PipBoy. I convinced him it wouldn’t be worth it because he’d probably be taking antibiotics and anti-rejection meds for the rest of his life. Also, the flight to Japan and the surgery wasn’t in his project budget. Our professor was also skeptical.

instead, he made an actual PipBoy out of a 3-D printed model and a disused Android phone. It’s was… functional. he made a revised version out of a raspberryPi and an LCD touchscreen. That worked much better. All programmed from scratch using nodeJS libraries. It was pretty impressive for what it was.

I remember that episode. Not exactly what I’m talking about, and I think it’s different enough that it’s worthwhile exploring in a separate episode. Like Fifteen Million Merits.

But you get the idea

On one hand, it sounds like Puritanical bullshit, but on the other hand, I’d like the option.

This sounds somewhat familiar, like something I read in high school when I was very high, and only vaguely remember

Oooo, now that’s different.

If tattoos could move… but only a little… like, just a small, subtle motion, it could give them a whole new mystique…

I think we just wrote the plot for the first episode of the next season of Black mirror

As long as the episode ends with everyone getting naked

animated T-shirt

This seems like a harmless 2026 wish that will become everyone’s 2035 Black Mirror nightmare technology, where your clothing - your entire body - is now covered in a nonstop, blinking, endless advertisement space

Yep! It’s him with Ms. Rachel

I wish, oh I wish, I could say it was mine. But I ripped it from elsewhere.

I ripped it because it was such fucking gold. I had to spread it like chlamydia.

And you have to spread it, you have to spread it too!

CRY! CRY! CRY!

SPREAD IT! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE!