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.

AI videos suck ass

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.

And crucially:

You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else then you’re halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss it.

Who TF is their target audience?

Useful idiots

with BOMBS 💣

As long as you make an upgrade that’s equivalent or better than the current console generation, you’re then basically good-to-go until the next generation of consoles comes.

“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.

It’s a joke that the long-haired person might be trans and had their testicles removed previously.

I’m not sure that was the original joke, but works quite well.

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

I bought a wireless magnetic battery recently, and what quickly turned me off was that it charges at ~2/3rd efficiency (so effectively I have only 2/3rds of my powerbank capacity) and speed compared to its wired mode, even though it’s fast wireless and a solid brand and build. Also heats up my phone battery way more, so I just snap it to my phone and use the short and unobtrusive usb-c cable to charge it instead.

Now, if I was changing phones every year or two and I didn’t care about keeping its battery life - sure, I’d use the wireless charging without worries, although it will still be slightly slower than wired (but still fast charging anyway).

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?