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  • What’s really interesting to me is these numbers:

    OS Total % of Players Monthly Change
    Windows (Total) 92.33% -4.28%
    Windows 11 64 bit 66.85% +10.57%
    Windows 10 64 bit 25.36% -14.89%
    Linux (Total) 5.33% +3.10%
    Arch Linux 64 bit 0.34% +0.15%
    Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 0.27% +0.13%
    Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 0.14% +0.06%
    Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 0.07% +0.02%
    Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 0.06% +0.06%
    Manjaro Linux 64 bit 0.06% +0.06%

    From this, it’s roughly that Windows 11 + Linux = (-) Windows 10. So people really are pissed about migrating to 11, and leaving in droves. 5% of the market is huge. This is not being ignored my Microsoft. Rough number I see is there are 14M Steam users in the US. 5.3% of that is 742,000 computers. 742,000 points of entry into OneDrive, Office, Xbox, and of course Copilot that will never be exposed to them. That’s millions in potential revenue lost.


  • It’s fine. It’s not going to get any better with age. Look people will say it’s crap, it’s shit, it’s horrible. It’s not. It’s just, fine. It’s not amazing, it’s not groundbreaking, it’s just plainly fine.

    The real issue is that they obviously had a lot of really cool ideas that were all left half finished or cut it out for the sake of simplicity. We can’t have advanced mining, that’d be too complex. We can’t have too many story lines, it’d confuse people.

    So, treat it as it is, it’s an okay game, it’s fun, it’s just not going to be RDR2 or Cyberpunk. I’d say it’s solidly worth 30-40 dollars. Pick it up if it’s on sale.




  • Christ, you’re offended by me saying it was a joke that no one got hurt by? The most you were inconvenienced was hitting delete, and that offended you? That’s your bar for offense there. One joke ad hitting your inbox one time offended you. This is why we’re made fun of, this right here, why people say we can’t joke anymore and this gives them credibility in that statement. There will always be someone who cannot simply move on. It always has to be a big thing that personally offended you. It’s MildlyInfuriating, not I’m offended by a soda can.





  • God she’s just not likeable. I’ll admit that she was great in White Lotus, but it’s because she was seemingly just playing herself! She did a great job at being an unlikable brat!

    We just watched “Anyone but you” as a joke, and man what a shit job she did. Ironically she did really great at the beginning of the movie, by the end it was just a trainwreck. Funny enough, I also dislike Glenn Powell, but that movie made me like him more. It was a shit script and he honestly did a pretty good job with it. While there are many better than him, it does take talent to take a shit script and try to make something of it.

    But I mean, her boobs were nice in it. So I guess that’s enough for Hollywood to say that it was in fact a movie.




  • I just don’t understand. Their engine powers the vast majority of AAA games, and a huge chunk of non-AAA. I know they charge for this engine. How the hell are they strapped for cash. And before you comment, I know the answer unfortunately.

    They had fortnight. A competent executive team would see that as a fluke that is great, but not dependable long term, and plan for investing that money back into the business but always prepared for the popularity of Fortnight could dip, but it wouldn’t matter because the core of their business would carry it.

    Instead, it sounds like they had a standard executive team, where they thought the money from fortnight would last forever, it would never die, and line would only ever go up. They stupidly made a bunch of wrong decisions, and are now all shocked pikachu that Fortnight’s popularity is waning after almost a decade. So of course it’s the workers who should be fired now, not the executives, no of course not.








  • I mean it’s simple. It was a ploy to attract younger people into working for them, for long hours, less pay than they deserved, and never once to think about a union. All while they did everything they could to flood the market with more talent to deliver down costs.

    Amazon and Microsoft never once gave a shit about women coders, or impoverished urban kids coding. They wanted to boost the number of coders to make the job normal, a lower salary that now you’re fighting over everyone else to get. And here we are.

    Them removing the fun is just the final step of the plan. No more charade. Get your ass in here and work, and after you’ve given up your nights and weekends you better say thank you.