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Quoting: Mountain Man$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

Even that isn't enough. Businesses like that have no right to exist. They should have seized the entire thing and shut them down.

I'm really torn over this. On one hand I'm pretty pro-capitalism

Quoting: eggroleWhy, oh why, did so many of us allow money worship to be such a central focus... :(

Yeah, I, too, used to think that consumerism (over-consuming/producing) or something is to blame for many of our society's woes. But over time I learned that capitalism is the system that incentivizes breaking any guardrails ("lobbying", illegal bribing, monopolization, public opinion manipulation, promoting polarization, promoting other kinds of distractions, destabilizing states) and if you add enough guardrails to stop that, there is nothing left to justify still calling it capitalism.

Capitalism is also inherently anti-democratic - those with more money/capital have much more of a say in society. And why do some people have more than others? Even if their recent-most earnings (of power) are by-the-rules (who made the rules? - the ruling class), the origins of those differences of capital (why they got a million loan from daddy and you didn't) always trace back to historical injustices and abuses of those who couldn't defend themselves.

In my country, the wealthiest people today - are those who were close to wealth in the 90s (buying up businesses and resources). Those who got wealthiest in the 90s - were those who stole the most public resources at the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And the people with best opportunities to steal - were those who were near power in the Soviet Union...

So capitalism isn't, strictly speaking, the feudalism of old (born into the status of your ancestors) but it might as well be feudalism in a trench coat and in those fake glasses with a mustache attached.

I think blaming our current state of affairs on capitalism is an extremely weak position. It wouldn't matter one iota what economic system is in place if corruption is allowed to flourish. In capitalism or socialism, you'd see the same bribing, fraud, neopotism, etc that you see today. Think about the bailouts circa 2008 (and beyond). That isn't even close to capitalism. I'm reminded of the saying "capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich". Heck, even Carnegie said "competition is a sin".

In the USA we have social welfare, a socialist military, extreme restrictions on business, etc. Now, I'm not against any of this. I'm no full-blow laize-fair advocate, but (at least here) we don't have anything close to what Smith or Ricardo described in their seminole works.

I DO blame over consumption. Those people that get ultra wealthy (on top of the corruption, which should be public enemy #1) got there because millions of "little people" gave them their hard earned money. Maybe you could argue that people will only buy what they think will improve their lives, but I think that comes back to a branch of corruption. The media portrays a lifestyle of luxury that will make you happy. They sell their wares with beautiful people and promises of fulfillment, but it is all hollow. Not long after you purchase something, the newness wears off and you are back to longing for the next thing. If you're interested check out Propganda by Bernays for a really easy read and a good look at how this works.

I've checkout out of this system by-and-large via a general boycott. I barely spend money on things I don't need and then try to support companies doing things I like. IMHO this is the only way to bring about any kind of social change - by essentially crashing* the (global) economy. Accelerationism in short. I believe that the people are completely able to build a better (hopefully more local) system and keep corruption in check, but right now there is no incenetive to break from the line. If the economy were in shambles, I think a lot of the distractions and bullcrap would fall away and people would be motivated to build something (whatever it is they decide - not for me to say) better.

And even given a crash and rebuild, it will only be a matter of time before corruption bleeds in again as people get fat and happy and content. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".

* General boycott leads to lower revenue leads to layoffs (yes this will be economically painful - that is the point) leads to even lower revenue leads to a deflationary death spiral.

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We don't need "the AI bubble to burst", because like it or not, AI has its advantages... Some of those advantages advantages are nefarious, some genuinely useful to productivity and / or society.

What we need is a solution to the component shortages and the most obvious solution is a new player. If all the manufacturers are turning away from the consumer market, that leaves the market open for one or more new players to enter the market and scoop up all that money.

Heck, I'd do it myself if I had the capital and the connections to make this happen!

On a separate note, I'm going to be very, VERY surprised if the Steam Machine / Steam Frame (stupid name!) / Steam Controller (2026 version) and upcoming Tenth Generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft aren't affected by this... At this stage, I fully expect them to be significantly delayed or suspended until further notice.

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" That, and hardware costs due to AI increasing too."
i said it!
AI will screw everything even piracy!

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It's worth mentioning that there's also "Super" LTS kernels: [https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start](https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start)

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Great news, it will be interesting to see how the community does creating 4k and higher resolution models for this classic.

I'm assuming the mods will go here? https://gamebanana.com/games/22970

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I'm tired, boss...Extremely tired...

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Quoting: matiaslavikIt's true what they say: AI is really transforming the game industry!

... In a year or two, we'll only be playing software rendered pseudo-3D games, because nobody can afford modern hardware.

I'm imagining future generations using the last remaining cheap Chinese handhelds that don't support usb-c charging plugged via ye olde HDMI to whatever dumb TVs are left running at that point. They're telling their grandchildren fairy tales about path tracing and large bodies of water.

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Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

That'll teach me for skimming. Anyway, good luck finding 390 TB storage lying around, last I heard orders are backstopped 'till 2029.

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Please be good, please be good...

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Quoting: matiaslavikIt's true what they say: AI is really transforming the game industry!

... In a year or two, we'll only be playing software rendered pseudo-3D games, because nobody can afford modern hardware.

I'll just go back and play games from the last 40 years before this AI craziness started. Should keep me busy for a while.

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Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

"Slightly" more than my home lab.

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While trying the link I get this:

"The website you are trying to access is blocked in compliance with a court or administrative order."

(translated by Google into english)

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Quoting: WorMzyI hardly think Valve's lootboxes are to blame for the US' unhealthy obsession with guns, but I'd agree that they encourage gambling. In the same way that e.g. Pokemon card booster packs do, at least.

Quoting: scaineSure, go after loot boxes, they're rotten to the core, mostly. Although as someone has already pointed out, it would be nice to see some consistency - also get rid of Magic the Gathering packs, Pokemon packs, Pannini packs, or anything else that's marketed to kids that is a lottery.

This is what I find so absurd about this lawsuit. Back in the earlier nineties, I was working at a comic book shop when the collector card craze started to heat up (which attracted the speculators). Both adults and kids where buying up packs of sports cards and other collector cards, hoping to get one of the deliberately-made-rare cards in that randomly purchased pack of cards. Often times, if they did get lucky, they would immediately offer to sell it to the store they bought the pack from. It was no different than the lootbox phenomenon -- with the stores selling the card packs and serving as the marketplace to sell the rare ones.

No effort was made by any level of government to control this on moral grounds. I find New York State's stance on lootboxes to be hypocritical.

Keep in mind that this was before the early days of the World Wide Web revolutionizing the Internet. Magic the Gathering entered into this market at the height of the card speculation craze. In a small city with a population of just under a million, we had nearly 100 collector card retailers. When the speculation bubble crashed, it crashed hard. Businesses went under. The speculators then moved on to collecting toys. And so it goes ...

Don't get me wrong, I kind of hope that the lawsuit does shutdown the lootboxes. I wasn't all that impressed with these early analog equivalents either. They left a swath of destruction behind them when they inevitably broke.

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Right now, in Canada, the 512gb Oled version is available.

Edit: curiously, the réservation servers are now overloaded...

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Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

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retro inspired pixel games for life! I'm 100% okay with that.

but also: (insert my obligatory i-hate-ai-its-ruining-everything)

but also also: this device always seemed cursed from the get-go to me. Along with a few other indie handhelds. For this one specifically: why are you all trying to reinvent the wheel from scratch with a tiny team of people (majaro gaming edition?) when you could just parter with steam and license their steamos and let their virtually infinite resources and people do all the software work for you?

but also also also: as liam mentioned, if it ever does come out, the specs will be so outdated they'll either have to a) price it so low that they lose money on each sale? b) develop an entirely new system with new chips and etc... option a is untenable and what's the likelihood of option b?

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Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

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Quoting: rea987Someone must backup this site. Surely some of the games they will cease to provide will be lost forever.

How big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

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Someone must backup this site. Surely some of the games they will cease to provide will be lost forever.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Mountain Man$150,000 seems too small of a penalty. They should have added another zero.

Even that isn't enough. Businesses like that have no right to exist. They should have seized the entire thing and shut them down.

I'm really torn over this. On one hand I'm pretty pro-capitalism

Quoting: eggroleWhy, oh why, did so many of us allow money worship to be such a central focus... :(

Yeah, I, too, used to think that consumerism (over-consuming/producing) or something is to blame for many of our society's woes. But over time I learned that capitalism is the system that incentivizes breaking any guardrails ("lobbying", illegal bribing, monopolization, public opinion manipulation, promoting polarization, promoting other kinds of distractions, destabilizing states) and if you add enough guardrails to stop that, there is nothing left to justify still calling it capitalism.

Capitalism is also inherently anti-democratic - those with more money/capital have much more of a say in society. And why do some people have more than others? Even if their recent-most earnings (of power) are by-the-rules (who made the rules? - the ruling class), the origins of those differences of capital (why they got a million loan from daddy and you didn't) always trace back to historical injustices and abuses of those who couldn't defend themselves.

In my country, the wealthiest people today - are those who were close to wealth in the 90s (buying up businesses and resources). Those who got wealthiest in the 90s - were those who stole the most public resources at the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And the people with best opportunities to steal - were those who were near power in the Soviet Union...

So capitalism isn't, strictly speaking, the feudalism of old (born into the status of your ancestors) but it might as well be feudalism in a trench coat and in those fake glasses with a mustache attached.

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It's true what they say: AI is really transforming the game industry!

... In a year or two, we'll only be playing software rendered pseudo-3D games, because nobody can afford modern hardware.

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They really missed the boat.. even if this comes out I can't imagine anyone really wanting it now, and even if it came out a year ago its questionable if this device was going to see any level of success.

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To be fair it felt unlikely that this thing was ever going to ship on time and if it did the hardware would have already been not in step with some of the larger handheld brands. The specs felt old just as they were announcing it.

Not to mention ARM gaming is coming on at an insane rate and the chipset's are more suited to mobile gaming. Im not sure how fast a Snapdragon Elite is in comparison to an X86 APU of comparable cost but given the huge never ending global demand for phones/tablets we see these chipsets getting upgraded & refreshed faster, like real upgrades not like AMD who change the naming convention and keep the last GPU inside a slightly updated CPU.

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Unfortunately this is the first I've heard of this site —not that I'd any personal power to stop their demise

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I can't wait for the day that the AI bubble bursts so that everyone can go back to enjoying new hardware again without worrying about components. Also, for those that build PCs, it'd be nice to go back to the days where RAM, SSD and other components were affordable instead of the high price markups that we see today.

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It's GoldenAxe with He-Mann..... and yeah, I'm gonna buy it.

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Happy belated 4th anniversary for the Steam Deck and while the situation is terrible with AI companies sucking up the hardware resources, I hope that the Steam Deck will continue to sell whenever it becomes available again. Still one of the best PC handhelds to this day despite showing it's age.

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If it'd burst yesterday, it'd be still too late.

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This is high up on my wishlist as well. Love a good snowpiercer game.

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GOG is "whatever works" + "whatever sells" + "whatever doesn't anger regimes with markets we can potentially tap into".

A whole different preservation ball game, not even remotely comparable.

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