No no no.

You don’t get how bad this is.

Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,… but this… this is a power play, a naked power play.

It isn’t even about money, because when you do what they just did… the definition of money, property, what a ‘sale’ is… that all changes.

They’re changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.

Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?

This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.

This is how you set a precedent for digital property rights… in a primarily digitized economic system.

They’re just straight up telling you they own you, and every appliance or car or whatever mfg’er will point at Sony as the precedent.

This is double funny right now as uh… Private Equity more or less just… pulled most of their ‘investments’ out of about half of US AI datacenter build outs.

Just literally directly because they ran out of other people’s money.

They’ve all been seeing like double the desired outflows, capital flight, that they can handle, and they’ve just literally been rewriting their own rules on the fly, all while acting like everything is fine.

… this is gonna make 07/08 look like the fucking prologue, the goddamned tutorial level.

Gotta teach em to lock their rig when they’re not using it somehow.

Though I’m still a fan of the ‘take a screen shot of the desktop and then remove the actual dekstop’ approach.

… hrm… it probably wouldn’t be that hard to make a version of ‘hollywood’ thats augmented by something like a cron job that just checks to see if its open or not, and reopens it if it isnt.

… the matrix has you …

You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot … and/or BitLocker… have had various NSA backdoors for years.

Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.

They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don’t like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.

You can’t build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren’t supposed to know its there will figure it out in… not actually very much time.

There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.

Google locking down Android is the same thing.

I mean literally yes, but, it could not exist in any meaningful way without Proton.

Thats why I say its really built around Proton, they started with Proton and then said ‘how do we make an OS that will work with/around this’ and landed on Arch.

The whole point of it is: Be a functional, efficient, fast, Linux OS that primarily plays video games.

Thats impossible without Proton.

Got it, understood, you can’t read.

Sorry about that for you, good luck with life.

No. We are not.

And no, they are not.

You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

That they are in the position where they even need to ask is an admission that they are sell out traitors to the inherent responsibilities and duties vested in them by the voting public.

They are frauds and failures, the only correct thing they could all do is rescind all permits for any data center contracts, and then resign immediately.

Anything less than that?

Run them out of town, outta the entire fucking state.

Hey I mean…

I think Itch.io at least deserves to be another goofy little goober in the corner.

Well the original GTA stock market did not let you take real money out.

That would have been completely insane.

Basically only EVE online, I think, has anything close to that, kind of, its complicated.

But the point I’m getting at is… they had a game mechanic that, if you were clever, could make you in game rich.

They destroyed this mechanic, and replaced it with ‘if you want to be in game rich, give us actual moneh.’

Lately I’ve been running into this wild thing where… they just cannot fucking understand nested arrays.

Here, we have an array called points, its made of vec2s, vec2 elements can also be accessed as an array or via vec2.x or vec2.y

Alright, now, figure out how to compute the distance from the last point in the points array to the first point.

… and it will give me something like:

points - points

… and then I headdesk and explain to it what i just said.

and it will go oh!

points - points is incorrect!

points - points is the corrected version!

… and then i will tell it those are literally the same thing and cannot possibly be both correct and incorrect simultaneously.

… and then it will either actually crash, or basicslly say ‘yep, sorry, im stupid’… and then crash.

… fucking what? This is what Ford has been using to make all their software with the last year?

God fucking damnit.

They really must have actually scaled them back in some way, to just stupider models… 6 months ago… they could handle that no problem, and get tripped up on legitimately more complex things.

… oh well, im never gonna directly pay for any of this shit anyway.

Tippmann really are the GOATs of just like… the ‘I like to go paintballing everyonce in a while’ demographic.

Yeah, yeah, other people make fancier pantsier shit… T98 is the goddamn AK47 of markers.

Maybe one of the actual last examples of American manufacturing one could actually be proud of.

I mean yes, true, but:

More dangerous

More expensive

Easier to track who purchased/likely owns one

More complex to use.

… if you get caught marking up a camera with paintballs… or frying it with a laser…

Which person do you think is looking at more potential fines and jail time?

Whats less expensive and easier to dismantle and throw away or otherwise dispose of?

A fairly decently powered laser?

Or a Tippmann 98?

Ahahah!

No, no… you can’t read that well, can you?

Try again buddy, go … slower this time, understand how qualified statements work, and keep in mind the entire context of what I said.

You’ve concluded that I said a whole bunch of things that I did not say.

Apparently I’ve triggered you quite seriously… I wasn’t intending to, but uh… yeah, try again, try to read the words that I actually said.

I appreciate the perspective and refinement of the idea.

Yeah, I’m in the crowd of like, bought a Madden game once, had decent fun with it… and then realized the business model is just ‘add two features, take 2 away’, every fucking year and the whole thing is a scam.

I’m looking for actually new kinds of gameplay, something novel, or maybe a hodgepodge of mechanics tuned or arranged in a new kind of way, or like, absolutely perfected.

Either that or compelling stories and characters, or something with a really distinct art/graphical style.

Like uh, Clair Obscura arguably checks at least most of those boxes for most people… Elden Ring is basically the ‘perfected’ version of Dark Souls, etc.

But yeah… either disingenuous or just truly stupid, as you put it.

Oh my god one of you actually showed up!

I’d ask you what its like to so thoroughly lack self awareness, but unfortunately, you wouldn’t be able to tell me, by definition.

Also just no, your ‘facts’ are bullshit.

You know what category of games consistently earn the most revenue?

Mobile games. Cell phone games. That’s over half of the money getting spent on video games.

The majority of gamers, people who play video games, people who spend money on video games… they play gacha games on phones… they’re not perennial Madden/FIFA/COD players.

So if you don’t have a gacha game waifu… you’re actually in the minority too.

So yeah… fundamentally ignorant, extremely overconfident… wanna check any more of those boxes, buddy?

Just imagine me bouncing a ball off of your forehead repeatedly, I’m sure that’ll put you in the right mind state for this.

Hah!

Well shit, I was not aware of that.

… that’s uh, funny, I guess, in a more modern context, with more temporal distance.

But, Minnesotans are bleeding again lately, due to armed tyrants, so I guess in that sense, its less funny.

Thou Shalt Always Kill

Very early on they had an actual player investible and influenceable stock market, in Online.

They shut that down quite quickly though.

Because you could make money too easily.

Shark Cards only baby!

Fuck our interesting gameplay mechanic, strip that shit out, MTX, make RockStar into the comically evil tech corpos they mock in GTA V’s own story.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Keep in mind…

0 actual gameplay footage, so far.

Zilch, 0, Nada, None.

Also, … it wont even be capable of hitting 60 fps on a PS5 or Xbox series fucking whatever.

It might even be locked at 30.

https://me.mashable.com/tech/52061/gta-6-performance-details-console-frame-rate-capped-at-30fps-pc-version-to-improve

https://wccftech.com/gta-6-skip-60-fps-entirely-insane-detail-ps5-pro/

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/112410/gta-6-may-be-locked-at-30-fps-even-on-a-ps5-pro-says-analyst/index.html

… where the fuck is the baffled Jackie Chan meme when I need it?

Yeah this shit makes no sense to be excited for, unless you basically have oppositional defiance disorder, and you just enjoy being snide, in a group.

Literally… Back a few years ago when that idiot hacked into RockStar and leaked the alpha build of GTA6… (and was then immediately caught because he is an idiot)… thats it. Clips from that are the closest to actual gameplay anyone has ever seen.