Call your representatives

Hire a lobbyist to donate millions of dollars to election campaigns for your representatives

Real answer. Hoard now. Hope what you have lasts until the baking climate kills you.

Older PCs and consoles are only cheap now because people buy newer stuff.

When the newer stuff becomes prohibitively expensive, old hardware and consoles will SKYROCKET as demand goes up, because nobody is MAKING more.

Hoard tech now. We’re not that far away from 2012 laptops going for $500.

Draw her a little portrait the next day

Doubtful. When they remade FFVII they waved their hands around about there being a menu and said “Look! It’s just like the original!” despite the fact it’s NOTHING like it at all. They’re going to gaslight everyone about their bad, flashy effect game systems rather than give classic fans what they want.

Bingo.

Me: “I want to strategically pick from my attacks and dynamically respond to shifts in the battle with a whole optimized and customized party.”

Square-Enix: “Best I can do is half-assed hybrid character action game or stupid, limited autoplaying AI.”

They’re on that side because they choose to be there. There could be a cure for cancer on this side and they wouldn’t care.

In the modern era they refer to the “salad bowl” rather than the “melting pot” because “melting pot” implies cultural erasure during integration, but “salad bowl” combines while maintaining individual unique characteristics.

Well considering it’s their PUBLIC BUSINESS PLAN, I don’t think you’re gonna have a hard time proving it.

Good. Maybe we can stop using a transient digital bathroom wall as a primary system of information distribution.

Only when you’re talking to a cop.

No, and it’s by design.

You’re gonna lease a tablet and use cloud-based storage services and like it.

The dystopia is here.

The problem with that is Intel is subject to the same bullshit economic assessments as AMD and Nvidia… They’ll just as soon retool for ai as well.

That would be nice. But video cards are a VERY niche piece of engineering. The knowledge of HOW to make them is locked in a handful of people, and the ability to make them locked behind a very niche set of equipment that will ALSO be exploding in cost.

One does not simply start a graphics card company.

A robot will only replace a worker that doesn’t need to have a brain to do their work.

So… Politicians, CEOs, and immigration enforcement are next then?

Came here specifically for this. Not disappointed.