MentalEdge

Huh? Like just sitting there?

Or is it running a heavy background task like trickplay generation? You can disable trickplay (scrobbling previews) if your system isn't beefy enough to keep up with them.

I run video game servers on my system, and while stream transcodes used to interfere with them, even that was fixed my assigning JF and the games to run on separate CPU cores.

What do you mean "but"?

This doesn't produce anything. It removes jobs instead of creating them. And by the end there is one less company in the system.

I wrote in response to you saying this is what they "should" be doing. That it would either work, or not.

But this is working sustainable businesses being butchered for their value on the meat market, rather than operated long term.

It most certainly isn't what they "should" be doing.

If this is the best way to make money, the rich will continue to do it instead of starting new companies. That is not going to have pleasant long-term effects on the world.

Then you need to look into how private equity works.

They buy mature companies, often with borrowed capital, and then place the debt on the purchased company. They essentially make companies take on a massive loan to buy themselves from themselves, except the private equity firm ends up the owner.

The company then goes into overdrive trying to pay off the debt, while the firm makes changes intended to make the company "more efficient". All while paying themselves "consulting fees" and "bonuses" for stepping in and "helping" the company do better.

This usually means mass layoffs, dumping assets, paycuts, restructuring...

Best case scenario, the company was already failing, and now it fails faster.

Worst case... The company was doing perfectly fine, making a sustainable living for its employees. And then it gets purchased by a private equity firm.

Suddenly everything is on fire. Not a single penny can go unpiched, workplace comfort unsacrificed, or employee unoverworked. And that that is the new norm, is the good ending.

Private equity makes money by killing the golden goose, and then finding another. And then another. And then another.

What the money in our pocket allows us to afford is not the same as what our health and planet can afford.

Causing that disconnect by supplanting secular consideration with economic consideration is one the reasons so much evil is done and accepted in the name of profit.

They are countries that do not have PSN access. As Sony wants to make PSN accounts mandatory on PC, they got in hot water for selling their games in countries where you can't legally even have a PSN account.

In response, they blocked sales in all those countries.

Sure they do. Just not often enough.

Ok?

I'm saying is that modern game engines and rendering tech allow a lot of the things that are good about these games to be turned up to eleven, both in terms of gameplay and art.

Helldivers is still blocked for those countries. They just dropped the PSN requirement.

I don't entirely agree.

Say what you will about what it did with the characters, but Sly 4 took the level design and art to new heights, and that was thanks to modern advancements in graphics.

Rift Apart does the same for Ratchet and Clank.

Apparently windows doesn't like it, but it can be done using Rufus or WinToUSB.

Should be. A USB drive is a storage device like any other. Shouldn't matter that it isn't connected via SATA or NVME.

That's nice.

Even for the rest of us, I think it's just good for a person to experience other versions of "me".

I'm a white dude, but games can give me hints about what's it like to be someone else, and it doesn't have to match my reality in any way whatsoever. Even more than books, games immerse me into the perspectives of others.