Sleep State S5: alcohol induces intermittent sleep where the monitor keeps coming on and the turning off for indeterminate amounts of time during the night.

apt-get install warm-milk

for debian users

I mean yeah it should ask you if you’re really part of that trip before adding it to your account but it is at its core user error.

Right, their DRM is minimally invasive, which is right in line with their argument that piracy is a service problem. If they offer a service where you can pay for games, have them licensed to a user account, and make the experience flow without interruption, people will accept it.

I was really mostly joking and what you’re saying is accurate.

This just in: Steam is actually a form of DRM.

Just in time to make sure Hawk Tuah girl legally gets away with the pump-and-dump rugpull.

Everyone saying she needs to go to jail?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Yeah, that’s never going to happen with these kind of people in charge. Expect the shitshow that is the casino of crypto to get a whole fuckload worse.

Nintendo is a proper shout out.

A Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom aren’t the prettiest games but they have two very big deals about them.

1. Stylization. Games with a specific art style tend to age better than ones with ultra realistic art styles. Team Fortress 2 aged better than a lot of things because it leaned into the Pixar-cartoony style. ABotW and TotK both have their own unique style that will age incredibly well.

2. Instead of the focus being graphics, the gameplay is the core loop. Tears of the Kingdom especially deserves accolades for how well the entire system of combining weapons and items just works. Who cares about the graphics, the crazy shit you do in the game isn’t causing the game to crash or fall to pieces. The game expected this, it was built to handle this, and this is proof that it was way more important to the developers than the graphics.

To be faaaaaaaaaaaiiiiir, a lot of that was tied up in the switch from overhead isometric view to first-person view.

Fallout 1/2 didn’t focus on graphics, they were in many ways point-and-click adventures. A lot of things you had to hover over for “flavor text” and every once in a while something only four pixels wide exists that you need to notice.

So the gameplay actually actively eschewed graphics in favor of things like flavor text and reading.

Further, the switch to first person broke the SPECIAL system, because how to you even manage a gun skill in a first person shooter without it feeling absurd? It made sense in isometric, even if it was often frustrating to miss an enemy when you had a 79% chance to shoot them in the balls. Putting that in a first person when you mag dump into someone standing right in front of you and half your shots feels a lot less realistic, and can quickly become frustrating in a more fast-paced first-person-shooter environment. The SPECIAL system feels absolutely slapped on as an afterthought in Fallout 3.

Also, the writing in Fallout 3 was that shitty Bethesda writing. The writing was just subpar compared to the prior two installments. Especially the fucking stupid ass end of the game.

I’d say a lot of those complaints were driven more by the perspective switch than anything else.

I don’t know what you’re talking about, old games were just as fucking janky on release, and most of them took years of modders fixing all those issues for them to get better.

Fallout 1 & 2 - janky on release

Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 - janky on release

Morrowind - janky on release

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Chernobyl - janky on release

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - janky on release

All of these were capable of being installed and “just playing” them on release. There were countless bugs and janky behavior and that’s normal and we’re now spoiled by day 1 patches. STALKER 2 has been out a month and has had three major patches for bug fixes. STALKER Call of Chernobyl probably could have used the same but in 2007 the infrastructure to push quick updates just wasn’t there yet. Steam had only released by Valve in late 2003, roughly three and a half years earlier.

I’ve never had Balatro crash or do anything weird on me, either.

Don’t you miss the days when you just installed the game and just played it?

I don’t miss them because they’re still here!

Owlboy!

I know what you are but what am I?

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Exactly, they’re in the “growth” part of the business stage, where they get investors giving them money because of the explosion of user growth. In other words, the explosion of available eyes to put ads in front of. They’re literally investing based on the growth of the user base, which is tied to how much ad-buy can be involved.

They literally owe money to *checks notes… Blockchain Capital. A bunch of fucking cryptobros venture capital firm.

Enshittification is coming, people are stupid for falling for this again. I’m sick of fucking hearing about how all-volunteer created & funded Mastodon isn’t as slick as the fucking venture capital funded Bluesky. “It’s too hard to use!” Wah, go cry about it into a corporate teat some more, sucker.

EDIT: Working now! Article is up!

Every other page on Tom’s Hardware is loading for me just fine but this article is just pulling up a completely blank document?

If disagreement about strategy was the cause for Intel’s decline you’d have to ask yourself just how effective the board of the company is/was.

There’s also very little evidence that whatever Tan’s strategy may have been was any better. Just evidence that they clashed about strategy. It doesn’t mean his would have done any better at all.

His own strategy could have turned out the same or worse just as much as it could have turned out better, since we have no knowledge of what his actual strategy was.

Absolutely, and it’s very good design.

But people can fuck right off with this “Linux can be used by everybody” shit, because apparently remembering to type in a password is too god damned confusing for most.

Man you gotta stop making assumptions about other people.

1. I have numerous computers and only one of them has Windows on it, and even that one is set up to dualboot with Linux. I live and breathe Linux daily, friend.

2. I live and breathe Linux so much that I set it up so that I don’t have to touch my phone, because I fucking hate phones. I guarantee you I spend way more time on the PC than on a phone.

3. I have network-level blocking to prevent a massive amount of data entering or leaving my phone and PC.

I’m a Linux user by default, and I think what Microsoft is doing is anti-consumer so I don’t really give a shit if they make money off it or not.

Taking a financial loss because you fucked over your customers is how capitalism is supposed to work. All this talk of entitlement forgets that I paid for my fucking OS. It doesn’t matter if the OS isn’t their moneymaker: if it isn’t that’s more reason for them to stop fucking their customers for a quick buck.

Also, finally, if Microsoft really cared about their OS and licensing, maybe they should have updated how their licensing activation works at some point in the last 20 years so the massgrave exploit would stop working.

This is just funny.

You expect them to work for you for free?

Install Linux today. Stop making excuses.

Oh yeah, nevermind, I’ll use the free operating system made by people who are working for me for free. Or wait, is that entitled, I’m confused.

Pick a fuckin lane, dude.