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  • 667toGames@lemmy.worldI'm tired of every game being live serviceEnglish
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    Planned obsolescence hidden behind a “feature”.

    In ten years, when they want to pull the plug on this game, they will cite dwindling users and “exorbitant” per-user maintenance costs.

    They don’t want playable legacies. They want something they can leverage for nostalgia marketing in 20 years, and if you break out the original game, they won’t make any money. Production companies want you to buy what they are offering today, because it pays for new yachts.














  • 667toSpace@lemmy.worldCould we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?English
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    The satellites would still orbit the Sun, so you’d get a look at anything opposite the ecliptic at whatever its orbital period is. The parallax at those distances (seems like) is so great, even with long collection times you’d have probably years worth of exposure before a target moves out of the primary “lens”.