The acquisition was finalised in late 2021. No, Kim was stupid entirely by his own power.

That entire situation was ridiculous. The major points:

• Yes, that contract was stupidly favorable to Unknown Worlds. It was negotiated by none other than Chang-ham Kim, CEO of Krafton.
• Kim later realized that and wanted to back out of the contract because it would’ve made him look like a pushover. He employed the help of ChatGPT, which told him that it was a stupid fucking idea.
• He went ahead with the plan anyway. He fired Unknown Worlds’ three co-founders for made-up reasons and appointed Steve Papoutsis as the CEO
• He tried to sabotage the game’s development by disrupting communication between Unknown Worlds and other departments, to push the early access launch beyond the window where the 250M could be earned.
• Obviously it went to court. Krafton tried to change the story about the reason the co-founders were fired based on information that they discovered afterwards (they kept backups of documents, which Krafton argued was industrial espionage), but the judge was having none of that chicanery.
• During discovery, the ChatGPT logs and some conversations were revealed that personally implicated Kim.
• The court ruled in Unknown Worlds’ favour. The judge ordered Ted Gill to be reinstated as CEO (the other two co-founders chose not to return) and the bonus window to be extended by several months to account for the time that they didn’t have conrol of the company.
• As a last fuck-you, Papoutsis prematurely announced Subnautica 2’s early access launch. Gill had no idea about the state of development.
• Subnautica 2 then went on to be a massive success, Krafton has joined EA and Activision in the doghouse, and Chang-ham Kim is now known to be both a pushover and a fucking idiot.

Thigh-high socks

They’ve even put programmer socks behind subscriptions, world is a fuck

Mostly I can only describe it as “game no worky”. Steam pretends to launch a game, then nothing happens. My hypothesis is that Steam does something to the runtime environment that fucks with some games.

One other thing that I’ve noticed is that on Wine/Proton environments launched from Steam, the lettered drives (aside from C:) are mounted as some kind of overlay filesystem. Writing to them (e.g. by an installer) causes data to be written into memory, not to the mass storage where the drive targets are located.

This worked perfectly, thanks a lot! I’ll update the main post.

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When the small intestine has to be temporarily removed during surgery, surgeons use a tool similar to a coat rack to hang it. Afterwards, they just shove it back into the gut and let it wriggle itself back into shape.

why not just disable SISR and go along with that?

Because I want to use all inputs on my controller, and (so far) only Steam Input allows me to do that. Without Steam Input, the SC is comparable to an Xbox controller.

I’ve tried most of the methods in the article, to no effect.

I’ll try it as soon as I get home.

It makes sense, since Wine uses SDL2 to emulate XInput.

(edit) I’m cautiously optimistic. I’ve just tried this on my work PC (without SISR):

SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES='0x28de/0x1304' wine control joy.cpl

…and XInput doesn’t detect the SC. It should still receive inputs from the emulated device since it uses different a different PID/VID.

Mine was also shipped by GLS (before the entire system fell apart) and it allowed me to change both the delivery date and address.

To be fair, it was really stupid of Valve not to anticipate a massive interest from both customers and scalpers. The internet collectively went crazy like a hamster on coke when the hardware announcement dropped. They should’ve had the reservation system and per-account ordering limit in place from the first moment. Not that it would’ve prevented the unmitigated clusterfuck of logistics companies.

Valve is also the only party that has the size to put pressure on the logistics companies. A couple hundred dissatisfied individual customers hardly amount to a rounding error for the likes of UPS and GLS. Pissing off Valve, especially before the major release of hardware, is not something they can afford to do.

Are there any good indie games on the world’s largest video game store? I dunno, are there any leafy trees in the Amazon?

From what I’ve been playing: Stardew Valley, Factorio, Vampire Survivors, Derail Valley, A Hat In Time, Project Wingman, Frostpunk 1 and 2, Portal 2 (technically self-published), Signalis. Voices Of The Void will eventually have a Steam release. All of those games work well on Linux.

It’s the vocabulary of utterly deranged sociopaths. Your life will not be improved by this knowledge.

• ROI: return on investment.
• “hodlers”: some cryptobro once mis-spelled “hold” as “hodl”. Because cryptobros can’t ever be wrong or make mistakes, it was retroactively turned into an acronym for “Hold On for Dear Life”. Outside the circus tent, people use it to mock them.
• “bearproof”: “bull market” and “bear market” are terms from stock trading for circumstances where the valuation of something rises or falls respectively (because a bull attacks upwards and a bear attacks downwards – again, sociopaths). Therefore, a “bearproof” investment promises to resist bear markets and only ever rise in value, inevitably followed by the value crashing to effectively zero.
• “To the Moon”: a common catchphrase, used by crypto scammers, to indicate that a shitcoin will have an extremely high value Soon^TM (spoiler alert: it never happens).
• “Diamond hands”: someone who holds onto their investments even if the market is unfavorable. The opposite is “paper hands”: someone who sells an investment as soon as the value falls even a little. Used by cryptobros to manipulate their audience.
• “Line go up”: infinite growth mentality. Stonks.
• NFT: oh boy.

Insane NFT potential, 100x overnight ROI guaranteed for hodlers, bearproof investment #tothemoon #diamondhands #linegoup

(I genuinely feel sick after writing that)

One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty.

Satisfactory is rainbow sprinkles compared to Factorio’s crack cocaine.

Games the size of Destiny just don’t last this long.

Warframe is still going strong. Much of that is the result of competent developers and managers who don’t absolutely suck dog eggs.

Potion of Ventricular Tachycardia (grande)

Comedian suffers culture shock and downs an American quantity of Cuban coffee