Sabata

Being complicated will keep the Facebook moms, and my casually racist uncle away.

Got to scare the norimes. It would be news worthy if there wasn’t a fuck ton of porn instantly.

Every metal one I ever had has at somepoint had the board fall out of the housing and get lost. They never survive the keyring.

It’s almost like human communication is not supposed to be a product or something…

This is why people don’t take Russia seriously.

the point I’m going for is that Mac is also for nerds,

Don’t you find them extremely restrictive and hard to repair? I know they want the walled garden, and absolutely don’t want anyone opening up a Mac/iphone and changing hardware other than a Apple tech. That removes all the fun from tinkering with and customizing your stuff.

As an IT professional, Macs are used by people that couldn’t figure out Windows. Linux is for people that understand enough about Windows to live in constant fear of the next newsworthy workday.

You can’t really get addicted to fedi

Phew, I was getting a bit worried.

If she’s not running on your hardware, she only loves your for money.

representing World of Warcraft’s expansions

adds a $90 pay to win mount that gives you half the functionality of an entire major city.

Blizzard milking the whales while delivering a reskin of a mount? Very on brand and representative.

Was saying $90 USD. Did they also do individual gatcha pricing or just regonal?

I don’t expect him to live a full term even if he’s not assassinated, and Vance is a fascist without dementia.

Some tech scantions from when the war started went into effect. Allowing access to Russians is now a complicated legal risk. Even Linux was forced to block devs.

Honest explanation of perspective from a PC gamer deciding weather or not to buy a game I think a dev should know:

According to the game’s Epic Games Store listing, Red Dead Redemption will cost $49.99/ £39.99 on PC, despite first being released in 2010.

I don’t think a game I played over 10 years ago is worth paying $40 again without some good value added to it. What makes this worth $40 to me as a consumer who enjoyed the original? I don’t see enough value to justify it.

It’s also a coin flip if the port is good, functional, or will have arbitrary technical limitations like no modding. I also don’t want to get screwed over and inconvenienced like the last time I gave them money. They are removing value from an over priced product by slowing it down and treating you like.

If I think a game is worth pirating, I am most likely willing to buy it or a future product from that dev if the situation was different or the product was better. Hell, I pirate games I intend to buy to make sure there not absolute dog shit and technically functional. I personally don’t thing its worth pirating Red Dead even without DRM, I already played it years back and I suspect Rockstar will make this version worse than the original knowing how they done things in the past.

I’m assuming I’m going to have to create an account, consent to spying, not own anything, install additional software to allow me to login and launch the game since they don’t like the one I choose, figure out compatibility, be exposed to predatory monetization, install a root kit to make sure I’m not bypassing monetization or cheating, worse performance, wave legal rights to contracts, deal with too little or too much moderation, and it still may be a turd that disappears 5 years alter after all of that. None of this is fun and removes value form the fun I would expect to purchase. I’m offended they think any of this shit is good. This is what will get PC players to hate your business. If you do this crap and you can only justify it to share holders and not customers, I want you to fail.

Corporate developers make games as an investment product and not a creative product. Denuvo is in the business as a designated ball squeezer that takes the reputational heat for a greedy dev that needs 0.3% on profit chart. We are not Denuvos customers. Denuvos customers are soulless board members creating investor profit by betting their reputation is still good enough to start enshitifying without immediately getting customers to jump ship.

Having a talking head come out once a week to make an offical statement calling people literally every insult in the book for saying “Game looks like shit and this dev has a track record of being shitty, save your money” is going to start a fight.

Pirates & gamers

Lets blame 100% of the demographic we are fucking over. No wonder they get along so well with big devs.

Is this a business entity wearing the skin of a human, or a clown wearing the skin of a business?

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The guys using FOSS Ai would be the same guys using an operating system without an hostile Ai built in.

Hardware and content is still the big issue. The good porn games still suck in VR, and there’s not a lot of them. The equipment is just too inconvenient.

Your hands are occupied, your positions are restricted, your tethered to the PC, and I don’t want to get a thousand dollars of delicate hardware nutted on. It’s just not there yet.

“Got nothing to hide” - Man wearing pants