I was surprised how much I had to scroll for this. I thought a lot of people still test with it. E.g. I was born 10-ish years after DSotM was released, listened to it first in my teens, but it has been my go-to album for every audio upgrade ever since that.

This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It’s me. I’m the one conspiracy thinking.

That’s some quality reasoning and conspiracy thinking 👍

Judging by all the vaguely hostile comments, you seem to have struck a chord here.

Poor Volta.

Didn’t know that, thanks.

It’s kinda tough sell without wireless for such price, for me. Though I guess it’s maybe a tough fit with their modular design ambitions, and corners have to be cut somewhere to keep their higher costs down.

Wirelessly.

Or you switch to your bluetooth buds during a wired charge.

I’m all for audio jacks, but have been using a phone without one for 4 years now, and there are so many options to not be incovenienced.

Also I don’t use my audiophile headphones with the phone at all - DAC on it just isn’t good enough to get most out of then, prefer to use them with my desktop PC amp only.

Who TF is their target audience?

Useful idiots

with BOMBS 💣

“Up yours, woke typists!” in a Kermit Peterson voice

And it’s only on their premium phones.

It’s like quitting cold turkey - removes the temptation to use these apps.

Data hoarders defunitely would. Trust me, I’ve got one 14TB HDD just for movies, another 8TB that I now use mostly just for backups, and that gets me probably on the lowest steps of the ladder of people who regularly collect data.

Also easy to use some Debrid service that would download and store it on the cloud, where you could inspect the files without it all cramming up your local disk space.

Lol, the Orange box was my first purchase that installed Steam too. Technically should’ve done that with HL2, but I played it way after release, and sadly all I could afford at the time was the pirated version. But having sinked in so much dough through Steam afterwards, I doubt Valve would care.

Wow, I’m at ~$3800 and have 535 games on a 15-ish year account, you’ve done good for yourself. I’ve also brought in some games from humble bundles, but if I have to guess these total 20% of my purchases at most.

In Asbest, Russia, Making Asbestos Great Again

It may have not caused that much panic, but Amplitude consistently put out interesting ideas and enhancements to the Civ-likes in their games, so no wonder Firaxis might use these as templates and negate any unique features their competition might have over them. Plus, the Civ genre has to move in some way, anyway.

Oops, you’re right, corrected.

Or 1994’s Colonization?

Haven’t played Humankind yet, but Amplitude’s previous Civ/4X-like “Endless Legend” was amazing and very fresh take on the genre. And it looked like Firaxis were already trying to copy some of it in Civ 6, so I’m not surprised this trend continues.

Drunvalo Melchizedek. Indirectly.