I will never forgive EA for destroying Maxis.

Kind of yes, but actually no.

We just see that debt now, its explicit.

EA … was subject to a leveraged buy out, that they sought out. They did this… because they needed cash, now.

What that means is that their internal financials were an absolute shit show… that they had, up untill that point, basically just legally lied about, hid, downplayed.

They fluffed up their balances and returns and cashflows in ways that are legal to do, but if you actually do due dilligence, you could read the writing on the wall.

Its basically the same as any other US company that got bought out / sold itself to private equity in the last 10 or 15 years.

Difference is, EA is so huge, it had to be bought out by essentially a sovereign wealth fund.

All games with kernel level anticheat, that isnt’t open souce.

There, fixed it for you.

Kernel level AC is literally a root kit, in some cases also a boot kit.

It has never made any sense to allow this shit on your computer. Sorry if marketing convinced you otherwise.

Anyone who did not see this coming is an idiot.

EA is… in a loooot of debt lol. Thats why they needed a buy out.

Oh my bad i forgot to add masochist to my list

Thats honestly hilarious.

Like a joke in a Coen brothers film, ahahah!

I am in this picture and I don’t like it.

Which reminds me!

… time to piss.

Mhmrm.

If you are still using Windows 11, for enterprise, and things like this surprise you… you are an idiot, and are bad at your job.

Yowza, fuck.

Hope nothing fractured.

Just… yeeesh. Dang.

I wonder why that could be, rofl!

Surely MSFT would always be clear, transparent, and forthright with the public, ahahahaha!

To be fair…

This is ‘windowslatest.com’.

Totally agree with you, but… the bias … was foreshadowed, lol.

If you want to bulk up a bit more, I suspect you’re already good at jogging. Do that a bit more regularly, and then also, pushups and crunches and squats, basically.

I’m sure an actual body builder type person or comm could give you more detailed advice, but broadly… if you want more pecs, use em more often lol, pushups with proper form, or other excercizes that target them. Pullups for traps and delts, I think?

Ah, sorry, I’m just explaining the joke then, woops!

(cough maybe trying to trigger any console fanboys cough)

In fairness to yourself, Venus has long been known, by many human societies and cultures, as something approximating ‘the morning star’.

Your experience of being confused, or perhaps awestruck by it is thus… exceedingly human.

Take it all in.

The beauty, the colors, what the wind and rain and sun feel like on your skin, the cries of the birds and cicadas.

…We are from this ‘outside’. It is where our father’s fathers and mother’s mothers all grew up. Yes, we invented cvilization to shelter us from its cruelties… but it is also very beautiful and therapeutic, in ways we still cannot simulate with our fancy tools and toys.

Here.

Someone who put it into a much more beautiful prose than I can:

Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot.

C Suite and most of management are so fucking full of themselves, they do not realize how incompetent they are.

For them, its mostly just about feeling big, important and in charge, able to excercize power over their minions, blame them for their own failures.

They’re basically cosplaying as businessmen/women at this point, the actual work is ancillary, the more important thing is the lifestyle, the performance of being better than others, the performance of ‘im an important business leader’.

These morons are broadly comically inept at doing their actual jobs, the things they are ostensibly paid to do. Any objective outside observer could conclude this. These clowns ae just addicted to feeling important, superior, better than you. They forgot what accountability and consequences feel like.

Did you ever have a furby?

As agameanonymous says… there are many… unsettling quirks about having one long term.

I had one.

Woukdn’t stop fucking yammering, clattering its beak, clicking its eyes.

Took it outside, doused it in fire accelerant, burned it till it stopped making noises.

One can unintentionally spread misinfo, but sure, I hear you.

‘Dubious claims’ is maybe a less harsh phrasing.

Consoles are usually just weird, cheap, locked down, underpowered pcs, that only play certain brands/formats of games, and have unique cases, lol.

It basically means ‘thing that is (usually) for your living room what plays video games and such’.

The woe of mortals is a shared delicacy, some other mortals appreciate it as well.