MystikIncarnate

Honestly, I didn't expect that Epic would be okay with this.

It's nice to see, and bluntly, after a game has gone through all the different stages of buying and owning, why not make it free? Makes it that much easier for nostalgia nerds to have awesome LAN parties.

I don't think this makes up for the long list of consumer hostile things that Epic has done, but it doesn't hurt.

The next thing I'd like to see is to have games open sourced when stuff like this happens and the game is well into obsolescence. At least someone can pick up the mantle that studios don't want to have anything to do with, when it comes to making the game compatible with newer operating systems, or alternative operating systems (like Linux, though I think UT supported Linux), or so that it can be built for new architectures like Apple's new arm based silicon.

There's no profit in the game anymore, so just let people have it so they can fix what you don't care about anymore.

I love it.

OP, I hope you know that's his Xbox now. If you wanna keep playing Xbox stuff, you'll have to buy a new Xbox to play on, so George can keep his bed.

I'm a fan of the overhead railways that have gone out of fashion. A few places still have/use them afaik, but I don't think any area has put in a similar train/trolly system in decades.

By moving the tracks away from the road entirely, car people can have their ever important streets (/s) and everyone else can continue unimpeded by vehicles.

I mean, I'd rather have it so that we just replace roads in cities with public transit like LRT, but there's just too many drivers that wouldn't agree with the proposal and so it would never pass.

Actually not a bad idea. Flood the department with bullshit resumes.

I like this idea

Ew, I'd rather not fuck Elon. He's not my type.

Fuck. I can't out-stupid this guy. I won't win.

Indeed. I have absolutely no way of knowing anything for certain.

I'm just screaming into the void from this hellscape we call Earth.

See? This. This is why I don't trust my safety to electronic systems. The fancy computer controlled locks and latches are great when they work. When they don't, shit like this happens.

At least most cars still have a physical connection between the door handle and the locking mechanism. Not Tesla, for no good goddamned reason.

I'd bet that channel "members" don't get ads for that channel regardless of premium status.

IMO, Google made premium, almost nobody bought it. So they went after adblockers, hoping that people would get premium to get rid of the ads. People most just Adblock harder.

While this is happening, one exec is peering over the fence at twitch. Where they only way to get away from ads without a pretty good Adblock, is to subscribe to the individual creator.

So they make "memberships" to channels a thing.

Almost nobody buys that either. So they go... What if, even if someone is premium, we give them ads, unless they're a channel member.

Genius.

Paying to block ads per creator/channel/whatever, is a special level of bullshit that twitch has always had.

The system is working as expected. The companies are trying to find the best way to extract the most value from you using their platform.

I chalk most of the shit that makes teams horrible, is closely related to electron and their whole web app as a desktop app bullshit.

Buckle up, because they're doing that same enshittification to outlook next. It's already begun. There's a "new" Outlook. FML.

I'm betting that this is exactly what happened. That girl, in all probability, has been treated like meat most of her life. There's a nontrivial chance that she's a victim of some kind of abuse.

So having a real connection to someone who doesn't just treat you like meat, and is only interested in what she can do for/to them, is probably very different than the interactions she normally has.

It's sad, but likely true.

I'm not American, and I can't vote in US elections. Bernie Sanders is one of few US political figures that I respect the opinions of.

I don't know what Pelosi is smoking, but it has to be some good shit.