It’s a 2$ increase from 13$ to 15$. I feel like most people don’t care and it’s more of a boiled frog situation than anything else. I doubt anyone is seriously going to cancel for an extra 2$ unless they were already planning too tbh.

I highly doubt anything other than final assembly with the case is being done. PCB aren’t hand soldered anymore, a machine does all the work. If it was built in the US, it wouldn’t be dealing with tarrifs in any case so clearly, there’s as much slave labor involved as every other product.

Before it becomes an issue, yes I think tariffs are dumb. Its just silly to assume these guys are the only ones doing ethical gameboy gimmick toys and that’s why it’s overpriced.

A quick google actually tells me it’s manufactured in Malaysia so they don’t even do final assembly. PCB is most likely China.

No.

He said “so close, yet so far” which is saying nothing.

Whatever it plays, it’s still just an stm32, an esp and a screen. It’s still just 35$ in parts being sold for more than double the price a phone that can play Wii games would cost. It’s a gimmick. You are falling for a gimmick.

I guess it’s nice to pretend and not even make a point. You have said nothing.

All little mini game boys are a serious rip off. It’s just an stm32, an esp32 and a screen. We’re talking maybe 35$ to build one without bulk pricing. The crank is just decoration, it doesn’t even do anything.

Calling it the Gulf of Iran after the whole fiasco with Mexico would have been pretty on point in terms of joke. Missed opportunity.

faith and all that goes to it

That’s kind of the problem isn’t it? All that goes with it includes a shit load of hate and also raping kids. The Pope and his christo-fascist following are pig disgusting and deserve no respect.

If you don’t want to deal with it, then maybe you can go back to Reddit. I’m fine here, and believe me, we don’t need Jesus.

The faith and the pedos are intrinsically linked because the huge amount the faith spends to protect the pedos.

“Fun”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases

A homophobic and transphobic book club led by pedophiles isn’t “fun”. The Pope thinks your whole instance is a sin, stop defending someone that hates you.

Every penny saved on IT is a penny that can be used for lawyers to defend pedophiles. As God intended.

The suicide probably makes it even more difficult for his family. Poor girl probably blames herself. (She shouldn’t to be clear but still)

Theres literally buttons for all of that and they are owned by Google. The world’s biggest ad company does have something to with the amount of marketing bloat, believe it or not.

Waste energy on pornography

How long before they ban all the open source models and hand a monopoly to the ones they are pretending to be mad at?

They want to treat software like a gun, they certainly won’t let us run any of it on our own computers. It’s a shame to see so many cheer for this.

I’m certain they have a few therapist following them. They probably only mix specific personality types together but I feel that goes out the window when mixing with folks from other countries.

I wonder if they are forced to bath. Like you miss a day and you get a call from HQ.

Well it wouldn’t be like one guy alone, there would eventually be a community. The inhabitants of the ISS aren’t considered lonely really, and it’s similar.

His comic is open source. Might seem like a moot point seeing as how most comics can be seen on the web for free but it lets people use it for other stuff. From what I understand, a few of his comics have been turned into short animations and things like that. Kind of cool tbh.

My point is that once you can’t tell, then you’ll go back to judging a comic how you used to (a mix of art content + message content)

Right now, you first look if it’s AI or not and toss it in the bin if it is. That’s fine but are you going to start chasing down Krita files for everything you see in a month?

We are seriously close to not being to tell if a comic is AI generated, and I’m talking about raw output from a two sentence prompt.

Not the only value, just that it’s the main one. Because we read comics to be entertained, not to marvel at someone’s drawing talent. If comics were only about art quality, then we wouldn’t have stick figure and paint drawings getting upvotes either.

Like I said, having something hand drawn well is always a huge positive, but it doesn’t make up for trite low denominator content.

Good content + art > good content + AI > bad content + art

Going Art > AI no matter what just means you have little perspective and live your life through knee jerk reactions.

If you go just by content, his comics suck, deal with it.

It’s crazy to imagine someone judging something on the value and enjoyment it brings them.