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Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games

Hey everyone, I’m a big player of Space Games of all forms, and this mini-genre (or ‘theme’, if you prefer) really has a TON of range and depth, and is a very fertile ground for indie and unique projects. I was recently playing a game called Avorion, after owning it for years without ever really engaging with it, and...

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E:D has the basics of a good game, but never builds upon them. FDev is deathly afraid of player agency. They want you to play like it’s on rails in a single player game, but have it an “MMO” for the PVP.

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Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.

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Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.

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The potential problem is they waited too long to make season 2 and killed the momentum. Wednesday on Netflix is in the same boat.

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Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

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Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.

But Google screwed the pooch.

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Yes, but the bulk of the dev team is working on The Witcher 4.

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Only if you sold it. Back when cassette tapes first came out, the mystic music industry sued, and the Supreme Court ruled it fair use. So VHS tapes were under the same umbrella. We wouldn’t get that same ruling now.

Holy hell, that was one hell of an autocorrect on mobile.

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Remember, no business is required to tell the truth. Had a pipeline go through my backyard and you would not believe the lies that company told. Glad I lawyered up instead of believing the lies.

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Way back in the day, my best friend had a family friend that owned a computer software store. He rented games and gave us copies of the latest and greatest copy programs with a wink-wink and a nudge-nudge.

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It’s the 90s webguru all over again!

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They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.

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It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don’t want to.

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Including cell calling?

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There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they’re out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they’re trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.

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That info can go stale quickly as content licensing changes. I’ve ran into that plenty.

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I’ve seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.

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Would Israel get their hostages back in this cease-fire agreement? No. So why would Israel agree to it and allow Hamas to regroup and rearm?

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Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.

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Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.

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They are examining it and evaluating how much this is just for Hamas to regroup and rearm. But I suppose most here would cheer unabashedly for yet another Hamas rocket attack on Israeli homes.

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This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.

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It’s like the writer knows nothing about Ukraine and Russia and the politics around them, but is just in a massive hurry to piss on Israel.

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Looks a lot like Palia. Can’t wait to play it.

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Attacking piracy AND competition in one fell swoop! Capitalism!

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Think that is just a Google thing. I took, got sick of it and use Duckduckgo instead.

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There are lots of streaming platforms, but no real competition. Because the studios and networks hide behind the streaming services and price gouge like crazy. They know people will blame the streaming service.

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The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.

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My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings as programming.

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He published STOLEN documents. If you want to participate in Civil Disobedience, you have to accept the consequences. He’s not in it for any cause other than fuck you.

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They can ask, but no one is under obligation to comply, just like the US asked and were rejected. If I personally published stolen classified material that would embarrass or materially harm a foreign nation, I would expect retaliation of some sort.

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But you’re not thinking of the CEO’s next yacht! Or the shareholders!

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We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.

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Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don’t rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you’re lucky if you have two options.

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NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!

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From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to launch in the same areas for home Internet. They’re trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn’t in my area. Asking friends, I’m finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)

Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...

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Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, “We don’t support that.”

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Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you’re in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down “The year of Linux desktops!!!” But that isn’t it at all. It’s those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn’t there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn’t dead, it just doesn’t get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I’ll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.

Lord knows I’ve tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You’re infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn’t understand in the slightest.

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And you’ll get the same story.

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Those are the costs of doing business, and can be greatly exaggerated. And other counties produce profitable drugs even with price restrictions. We’re so accustomed to price gouging, that we don’t recognize it.

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It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.

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A TOS isn’t legally binding.

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When I was a broke teenager I pirated games. But back then there wasn’t any online play (80s).

Now I primarily pirate movies and TV shows. And most of that is ripping DVDs and Blu-ray discs, which I still buy when I really like something. Then supplement with torrents.

But I’ve never debated the ethics. Was it Thoreau that said something that the effect of, if you engage in civil disobedience, even against unjust laws, you must be ready to accept the consequences.

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Odd, normally Wall St is all about slave labor.

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For the NHL and MLB you’re just fucked. Those leagues completely failed negotiations. Maybe Amazon picking up a big chunk of Bally’s will get us our teams on Prime. Maybe.

In general, all the major sports leagues (except maybe Premier League) are firmly stuck in the past and view cable as great. Maybe we’ll see some better options when each league re-negotiates the TV deals. But even when that happens, expect the NHL to fuck it up somehow.

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Talk about title gore.

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That was it, thanks!

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