warm

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Consoles are a dying breed, especially Xbox and Playstation. Almost every exclusive ends up on PC anyway now, even then I personally don't think there's any game worth spending this much on hardware to play. There's literally no point in buying an Xbox or Playstation unless you really really don't want to bother with a PC setup.

I bet the market will end up as just PC and mobile. I mean the PC market share has already overtaken consoles.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 9 points 2 months ago

Not even close. Your GPU decimates it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 19 points 2 months ago

Nah, they took the fun out of it to sell skins.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

They are doing their jobs. but with limited manpower they have chosen not to stretch themselves even thinner by physically chasing a phone. As the article says, they try to be smarter about it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago

Location isn't that accurate, the phone was probably just traded in a car or in the street.

So the police get a call from the phone owner "yeah my phone location is on X street", the police get down there, then what? Let's say it was in a house, it's rows of houses in London, do they knock on every door there and ask "hey have you stolen a phone?" in hopes the guy admits it? It could have been traded already so a description of someone might not be good enough.

I just read the whole article and it just re-iterates what I have just said. They recover a small amount of the phones because of how quick they move them after they have been stolen. It even says that the criminals "wrap stolen phones in tinfoil to block its signal".

It's easy to sit in your chair and say "just go over there and arrest them", without even taking a moment to understand the logistics of tackling it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago

Then I don't understand why you got defensive... whatever

[–] warm@kbin.earth 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Replied to the wrong comment?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

GTA 5 was highly anticipated, even before anyone knew anything about online. GTA 6 is highly anticipated for the same reason. It's a massive IP and most people just play the singleplayer anyway. Just because you and your friends don't really care, doesn't mean it's not going to be the biggest launch of the decade (well, in history probably). I'm skeptical myself and will see what it is like once it comes out, but I can't say I'm not interested in another GTA game.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who is to say it was at an address and not just sold/handed off in the street? They don't just take the phones to a house and pile them up, they will be sold on through fences rapidly and if they can't reset them to resell to someone, they get sold for parts (hence why this one ended up in China).

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With infinite budget sure, worth a shot, but it would cost a lot more than the price of the phone to track it down.

Realistically speaking, there isn't enough personel or funds, so it isn't worth attempting to chase the phone down. These phones move fast through fences, they aren't just taken to one address and left there. The criminals could and probably do have 'faraday bags' to block signals from phones as they move them, only ever taken out to sell them along.

All the police can do is record any data they do get and compile it into a larger investigation with the hopes of attacking the head of the snake (but what even is that?).

[–] warm@kbin.earth 24 points 2 months ago (11 children)

To be fair, what are they supposed to do? The phone will be handed off a bunch of times within hours of it being stolen. You are not getting your phone back unless the thieves are caught in the act.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

There are a lot of 'fake' 120Hz+ TVs you have to watch out for though. The real ones are expensive.

The point being really, most people dont upgrade their TVs at all, for as long as the picture is good. Consoles have the hardware todo 120Hz right now.

Thats another good point, when you are sat so far away from the screen, the resolution becomes less important.

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