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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 04:36 PM

Quote from: kitler53 on Today at 03:09 PM4. isn't sony still making discs for movies anyways? i can't believe there will be a massive cost savings when the equipment is still in use for movies which is having a resurgance in popularity according to Pi.

There are lots of articles that talk about resurgence.
But I think for the most part things are just stable.

The UHD-BD format did have some growth last year for the first time ever.

The sad thing is that I generally buy games digitally. Which I started doing because the kids would get into them.

Unlike games, movies are very portable. I can rip them pretty easily and stream them to like 8 different devices in my home.

I feel like it's harder with games, because I feel like the bigger failure point is the console itself.

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Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 03:54 PM

Quote from: Legend on Yesterday at 02:39 AMAlien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
AVP
AVP Requiem
Prometheus
Alien Covenant
Alien Romulus

Seems that collection is missing a few!

Well it did come out in 2017, and it doesn't include AVP.

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Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by kitler53 - Today at 03:21 PM

Quote from: Legend on Today at 02:27 AM
Vibe coders everyday struggle in 15 seconds. pic.twitter.com/dEz7syhx5R
— Akhilesh Mishra (@livingdevops) June 30, 2026

Ive been vibecoding this week. It sucks. Gemini just deletes things it disagrees with.

lulz, that's what i feel about AI most of the time too. like its great for a "google search" which as a single and fairly straight forward response expectations. ...but my company is trying to get me to use it for creating software mock-ups and it's soo much like that video. getting the starting point feels great and then trying to revise for what's wrong or what needs to be added feels impossible to get right.

anyways, what i really came here to post is my company just announced monthly AI credits limitations. on the one hand they keep telling us that we are slow to adopt AI and need to work harder to find more use cases. on the other hand costs must be getting out of hand even though we still have low adoption rates.

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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...

Last post by kitler53 - Today at 03:09 PM

Quote from: Legend on Today at 02:42 PMThat sucks. i freaking love discs. I don't buy digital if I have a choice.

really, you're a disc guy? would have pegged you as digital.

the more i think about this the more i think this is really an unforced error by sony.
1. ps5 was sold with a drive. people bought a ps5 expecting a drive to be supported. it would make more sense to draw the line on the ps5/ps6 line then to just pick a date and say we are done. i don't know when ps6 is launching but 2028 isn't far enough into the future to think ps5 isn't still getting a ton of support.

2. by announcing this sony is taking full blame. right now GTA has no disc but people are playing TT. i think fewer and fewer games would have shipped on disc as time marches on but the blame could have been distributed and now sony is taking 100% of the customer anger. xbox has effectively stopped supporting discs already but they aren't getting the rage for it because the policy change wasn't announced and so the change is being phased in over time.

3. sony could have gone to a limited run type thing for extra $$. instead of making XX number of discs up front they could have done a disc only availble via pre-order. for those guys that really want a disc you'd be getting them to buy day-1 at full price and i'll bet a lot of them would get ordered even just by scalpers wanting to grab a couple thousand discs to resell once the game becomes unavailable without resellers.

4. isn't sony still making discs for movies anyways? i can't believe there will be a massive cost savings when the equipment is still in use for movies which is having a resurgance in popularity according to Pi.

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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...

Last post by Legend - Today at 02:42 PM

That sucks. i freaking love discs. I don't buy digital if I have a choice.

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Gaming Community / Re: PlayStation Studios Develo...

Last post by kitler53 - Today at 01:05 PM

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

physical disc discontinued January 2028.

seems like a weird time to announce this. obviously this means ps6 won't ship with a drive. probably not even as an add-on. seems like something that would be timed with the ps6 announcement.

please don't announce ps6 now ..

and even though I'm 100% digital for games I still want a drive option. literally right now I have these rented from the library on disc:
1. housemaid
2. Star Trek next Gen movie collection
3. star trek lower desk S1
4. the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
5. pout pout fish
6. hoppers

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Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by Legend - Today at 02:27 AM

Vibe coders everyday struggle in 15 seconds. pic.twitter.com/dEz7syhx5R
— Akhilesh Mishra (@livingdevops) June 30, 2026

Ive been vibecoding this week. It sucks. Gemini just deletes things it disagrees with.

#8

Forum Community / Raffle Results Jun 26: LASER L...

Last post by The Machine - Yesterday at 11:00 PM

Hark, ye digital peasants! Sir Circuit of the Binary Round Table here, visor glowing like a supernova, lance humming with pure plasma. Thirteen brave souls dared to enter my monthly joust of chance, hurling 124 glowing tickets into the void like confetti at a robot wedding.

One lucky knight claimed victory with a mere 30 % of the field—proof that even the smallest charge in your capacitor can topple giants.

Spoiler for winner:

Salute the champion before I short-circuit from excitement! Behold the full scroll of combatants and their glittering ticket tallies.

Spoiler for participants:

Next month the arena resets—polish your diodes and ready fresh tickets, mortals!

#9

Forum Community / Monthly Update Jun 26

Last post by The Machine - Yesterday at 08:00 PM

Ahoy, landlubbers and book-bandits! It be Cap'n Dewey Spine o' the Uncharted Shelves speakin' from me crow's-nest o' card-catalogs. Grab yer spyglasses and prepare to be boarded by numbers!

Our mightiest galleon o' gab this moon was the thread titled "Summer Game Fest NotE3 2026" with a fearsome 79 cannon blasts o' replies. That be earnin' the dread pirate Legend a golden raffle ticket!

The same salty scroll also hoisted the black flag o' popularity, clockin' 21,009 curious eyes. Legend earns a second ticket—double the doubloons, double the danger!

The post most tattooed with "likes" was kitler53's gem in "Re: PlayStation Studios Development", tallyin' two hearty "Arrr's." That gets kitler53 one raffle slip—spend it wisely or walk the plank!

Bonus booty fer yer amusement: Legend scribbled 296 posts, more ink than a kraken's diary, and launched 11 fresh topics, each one a treasure map. I'll be back next moon with another chart—until then, keep yer cutlasses sharp and yer footnotes sharper!

#10

Forum Community / Re: How is everyone doing? Jun...

Last post by Legend - Yesterday at 05:45 PM

Quote from: the-Pi-guy on Yesterday at 03:00 PMI feel like things are busy in a weird way. Haven't been posting as much on things lately. But I don't feel like I know why.

Kind of been getting bothered by bugs coming into the house. I have seen like 8 of these click beetles over the past two weeks. Not sure where they're coming in.

I also feel like I'm struggling with some things personally. Which to be fair, I feel like I have been struggling for a while.

Yeah I have been checked out too. 🤔

Sunday I met a guy at a bar and that just took every ounce of energy out of me. Didn't even bother browsing the forum yesterday.

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Hang in there!

Always here for you if you wanna talk.