Sabata

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

Look at Mr.Bigshot over here with a defined value and data type.

…and may end with a shattered calculator.

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…

Whoever named the penis worm hit the nail on the head.

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.

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.

“Got nothing to hide” - Man wearing pants

My money is on MS kicking the can down the road and adding another year or two to the support last minute, then not fixing any of the issues with 11.

A censorship promoting platform flees censorship?

I got back into programming because I can ask an Ai my stupid questions I’m too dumb to google correctly. I haven’t otherwise wrote code since college and kinda revived a long dead hobby. It removes a barrier to entry that I otherwise gave up on. Been working on a project to teach myself python the last few months, with Ai replacing the roll of google for the most part.

Copy-pasting Ai code still blows up in your face just as much as code you stole from stack overflow…