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  1. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Thinking of C5s, here's the back end of one with a little extra zip!
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    Mr_Mistoffelees, 19 Feb 2025
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  2. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    Dangerous OranGutan Experience?
     
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  3. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    Unlike @Gareth Halfacree, I am carrying around Apple devices - in fact three of them on a daily basis - and yet I still feel no qualms.

    Show me a major phone manufacturer whose factories have fair and ethical employment practices similar to what we enjoy in the UK/EU (shorter working weeks, no back-to-back shifts, etc), and I will show you a product that no one will want to buy because it costs too much.

    And secondly, while Jobs was indeed a bellend, to my knowledge he didn't help install any puppet fascist dictators into arguably the most powerful office in the world by basically buying an election.

    Elon Musk's Darkest Timeline is not recent. It's nearly 8 years to the day since he called someone trying to rescue children a paedophile. It has been nearly twenty years since he bought his way into Tesla and forced out the original founders out.

    Just sayin'.
     
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  4. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    I don't know how much credit I'd give hime for that - I think a lot was down Project 2025 and the efforts to subvert the electoral college system, although I'd happily give him credit if he was ever to see justice and that be the final nail in his coffin.
     
    David, 19 Feb 2025
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  5. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    He helped fund the “America PAC”, which in total spent over $200 million. He was also the sole source of funding for the “RGB PAC”, to which there was a single donation of $20.5 million. His involvement in America PAC was widely known, but his backing of RGB PAC wasn’t made public until after the election because it was set up so close to election day.

    Musk didn’t fund Trump’s election campaign alone, but he undeniably poured a significant amount of money into it.
     
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  6. play_boy_2000

    play_boy_2000 ^It was funny when I was 12

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    I was merely making some social commentary. I think everything seems to be trending towards enshittification and we are all opening our collective wallets to fund it because the underlying product is sufficiently good that we can't help but look the other way.
     
    play_boy_2000, 20 Feb 2025
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  7. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    Dumbo hasn't been the same since he lost his gig at the circus.

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  8. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    TheBlackSwordsMan, 5 Mar 2025
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  9. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Someone kindly updated this banner:
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    Mr_Mistoffelees, 5 Mar 2025
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  10. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Do I need a ticket to enter?
     
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  11. Cookie Monster

    Cookie Monster Multimodder

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    No, you pull lots.
     
    Cookie Monster, 5 Mar 2025
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  12. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Come one, come all?
     
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  13. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Is it a religious event?

    Come all ye faithful..
     
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    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    Will there be biscuits?
     
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  15. Byron C

    Byron C AKA “Sticky Equilibrium” on weekends

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    You just had to bring biscuits into it, didn’t you… [barf]
     
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  16. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I keep getting backlink "data" press releases1 from some outfit that has, apparently, assembled pricing data using a site called pricecharting.com. I can only assume pricecharting.com is an LLM or a random number generator, 'cos this is what they sent:

    upload_2025-3-6_10-36-40.png

    I had one a few weeks back from the same outfit with pricing for games rather than consoles themselves. That was just as terrible.

    $991 for a Game Boy Color? If you're spending more than £100 you're being ripped off, unless it's minty boxed. $4,306.46 for a Neo Geo? One sold in February, boxed, for £385.20 - free delivery, even. Nearly $2k for a SNES? Pfft. £150-200 boxed. And so on, and so forth.

    Even *if* the prices were right (which they are very, very much not) there's a fundamental flaw in their process: the "increase" assumes that inflation doesn't exist. Sure, if you bought a Panasonic 3DO in 1993 for $699 and sold it (somehow) for $1,589.25, you'd have enjoyed a 125% increase... except that $699 in 1993 dollars is $1,536.69 in 2025 dollars - 'cos inflation. So, actually, your 3DO increased in value by... a whopping 3.42%. Wowzer.

    I've asked them nicely if they can stop sending me the output of an RNG and calling it data.

    1: Backlink data releases are where a company gathers data and sends them to journos asking that if they use it they mention the client as a source and, ideally, add a link to the article. Backlinks generate traffic, but they also make sites look more legitimate to search engines. They're the lazy version of infographic releases, which are the same thing but they compile the data into a pretty picture instead of a boring table.
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 6 Mar 2025
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  17. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Urgh, I feel quite bilious now.
     
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  18. The_Crapman

    The_Crapman World's worst stuntman. Lover of bit-tech

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    Are they not just prices adjusted for inflation? Sort of a "you think console prices now are bad..."
    No, it's not. Ignore me, nothing to see, I'm not even in the book.
     
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  19. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    [​IMG]

    AI... it's the future[tm]...
     
    RedFlames, 10 Mar 2025
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  20. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Google surpasses itself...

    Tried the same in DuckDuckGo, with and without AI features on and, it just offers a number of different currency conversion sites.

    I'm not going back to Google, as my default search engine...
     
    Mr_Mistoffelees, 10 Mar 2025
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