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People: Six Flags Is Merging with Company That Owns Cedar Point and Knott's Berry Farm in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] VM_Abrantes@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lagoon: sweating profusely

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] VM_Abrantes@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

I remember hearing that Harmonix was also acquired by Epic Games and there was a lot of speculation of a collaboration to reboot Rock Band using the Bandcamp library.
One of the lead developers at Harmonix was asked about this on Reddit and they only replied with an emphatic "No."
Seeing this now brings the bigger picture into focus.

Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] VM_Abrantes@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Hell, with all of the features that are being removed these days, there's no justification for the price.

Now that LG is out of the market, I had to get a Nokia smartphone just to get an external microSD card slot and aux port.

$1000+ phone with capped internal memory for the purpose of pushing subscription cloud storage? Or a $300 phone with expandable physical storage?

Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending in c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

[–] VM_Abrantes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was under the impression that after the success of Spider verse that Sony was going to invest more in Miles Morales than Peter Parker and that the MCU can keep doing what it's doing.