What a twist. In the 90s, the internet forced countries to wake up to the new modern era. It was a combination of American companies wanting both to expand and provide goodwill.

And now, this new era is going to tell American companies to fuck off.

Windows with a hand crank saved me when I was stuck in a car as a kid. Now you get out, you gotta smash it.

I was so happy when I saw some modern KIAs use analog controls.

Then I checked KIAs reliability and safety score and died.

$125k over five years is stupid. That’s $25k a year for five years.

GoDaddy made 4.481B last year.

For math nerds, that’s 179,240 times the penalty.

They moved into “dumpster fire” territory significantly more than “fucking amazing”, sadly. Like one good expansion, three bad updates and two bad expansions, one good update.

Don’t forget Path of Exile.

Id argue a bunch of early access games that get constant updates are Live Service games too.

And indie games like Terraria and Minecraft were the best examples of live service.

Would be better if you can earn skibidi toilet emoji dances for Kratos

While playing the single player masterpiece which was God of War, I absolutely thought: “The only way to make this game better is if I had the luxury of buying a battle pass to grind for seasonal cosmetics along with a dozen other people.” 🤤🤤🤤🤑

As an American, I can say fuck America because that’s my god given right.

The right to shit on your country is the most American thing ever.

What a take: learning a language makes you a tankie.

This guy absolutely harasses people in the real world.

Gotta rise up to that Firefly/Serenity lore.

Gateway learning.

I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.

And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.

Rough.

I wonder how easy it is to spin up your own instance. Or course, that’s out of reach for most non-technical folks.

I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

“Go big or go home!” The CEO says as they fire 70% of their staff and now have to take a vacation to recharge at their summer beach house. His major concern? His severance package is only $3 million when his last place gave him $12 million. But this next coke-fueled idea will absolutely get them back to the top!

Thank you! Felt like I was I playing a different game than everyone else.

Everyone mocked Starfield’s Neon for being Discount Cyberpunk. But at least they played it as straight as they could. Like, I could believe people live there and had a life.

It felt like Outer Worlds kept trying to make jokes about how cruel capitalism is versus tell a real story. Like, “Oh boy time to go increase shareholder value!” Or “I love Space nuts. I have to say that or I die.” Like wtf, where’s the subtlety?

It’s not Borderlands 3 bad, no where near it. But it’s pretty bad.

I wish I could be such a PoS where I join a company, propose a massive investment into something, see it’s failure and firing a bunch of staff, then bounce with a nice severance package to join a new company to repeat that over and over again.

A for-profit CEO controlling the direction of a open-source project is a big fucking problem

(tin foil hat)

The government… They control the weather information… Satellites… Weather machines… Snorts cocaine we can’t trust them we need to trust our eyes…