The short term benefits are the reason they’re doing this in the first place.

Immediate revenue and growth is the goal, long term business viability and consumer base is an acceptable sacrifice to meet that goal.

Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits

Calm down MacOS hasn’t done shit to make it better. They decide what you do and don’t get, daddy apple already made the decision and you have to deal with it.

“We did the thinking for you, and you’ll like it.” Might as well be their slogan.

I wanna try it ALL.

Russian forced are mechanized and entrenched, depleted uranium self sharpens on impact, yielding far better armor penetration than previous technologies.

The problem is that people throw around “fascism” like my 70 year old mom uses the word “communism.” She couldn’t even define the actual meaning of communism let alone her use of the word.

In the common internet usage fascism just means “anything authoritarian and to the right of where I stand.” It also has the issue of making people think that the problem is with left versus right politics when authoritarianism can and has existed everywhere in the political spectrum in history.

There’s no way in hell that paying steam is more expensive than buying dics, putting your game on those discs, putting those discs in cases, and then paying to ship those cases all over the world.

Know how I know? Because businesses do whatever is the most profitable, and clearly digital distro is cheaper since we’ve been pushing for it since it was invented.

There really doesn’t seem to be one, honestly.

We employ helicopters and fixed wing to monitor, hunt, and if need be, destroy submarines. Destroyers are also competent submarine hunters.

Nothing about what you’ve said is inherently “false”, but you’re not accounting for the ways we fight submarines (mostly aircraft.) Cruise missiles and boomer submarines are a threat, but the technology has been around for long enough that if subs were to become some super weapon because of it we’d have seen it by now. They serve their purpose well, and we have more than a few ways to defend against them (once again, mostly the aircraft from those carriers you insist on pretending are going the way of the battleship.)

Go look up the history of Naval ASW, from the VPB squadrons that flew Pioneers and Catalina’s in WW2 to the modern platforms that VP and HSM squadrons use. It’s a really interesting progression of technology.

Probably not as much as the money they derive from the live service model.

Businesses do what makes them the most money.

What about the cost of disc media that’s absolutely disappeared? That was a huge chunk of the overhead. Logistics to get the copies to all the stores, etc.

Now it’s just electricity and servers to download from.

Do you ever notice that no one ever talks about all the advancements that saved money? Of course not, cause then they’d never be able to justify continually hiking the prices up.

Star Trek DS9

Anyone know where to get Babylon 5? I’ve heard a lot of sci Fi I love is inspired by it and wanted to see it.

It’s free on YouTube but idk if the quality is better.

The show is over 20 years old, now.

I hear that one a lot honestly, wonder if I should skip SG-1 and go straight for it.

Submarines can’t win a war at sea alone, and we have ASW capable aircraft flying constantly for surveillance against them. We’ve been doing it for more than half a century now.

The reason aircraft carriers became ubiquitous was because aircraft are the most effective means of deploying weaponry. That hasn’t changed. They can also project power inland as well as engaging surface and sub surface craft.

Nothing about warfare technology has been drastically altered enough for submarines to be the primary fighting force. They have a job that they’re damn good at, but aircraft are more multirole and far quicker.

I was gonna say, I just finished Enterprise and she directed at least two that I recall.

Idk how you’ve managed to not hear about it. Or see it. Shit I don’t even watch the videos and it’s all over my YouTube.

Yeah the Microsoft QA team is probably the only one that’s ever touched the game.

It doesn’t.

Basically the space flight mechanic is somewhere between Mass Effect: Andromeda and CoD: Infinite Warfare.

You use your galaxy map fast travel to go anywhere and can only fly the ship around each small “instance.”

Planetary landings are restricted to POI’s or you can land on some random spot, but the planets are broken up into chunks so you can only walk around so much before having to go back to your ship for another fast travel moment.

It took me awhile to figure that out.

Holy crap you know I think you might be onto something