vulgarcynic @ vulgarcynic @sh.itjust.works

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I don't work in the gaming side of the industry but I've been in tech for a few decades myself as well. I have (luckily) avoided similar situations but I've seen it happen to folks that I worked with where they were laid off by some shit bag CEO who didn't know fuck from shit and then ended up being the head of the company they went to a few years later and pulled the exact same maneuver. It's wild how once you reach a certain level you're basically too big to fail there is no consequences for you other than a golden parachute until you land the next gig with your crony buddies.

I hope you've landed at a better place that at least provides some semblance of stability. Good luck out their friend.

It's crazy how they fucked themselves out of revenue streams so completely. Within 6 months of canceling all our streaming services, I was able to pick up 4x16tb HDD's for a JBOD connected to a NUC for about the same cost (likely less all said).

A lot of us that grew up sailing the seas became stable enough to afford the media we wanted and docked our ships. Now, I'm back on my favorite newsgroups like it was 2001.

There's that quote from GabeN, I won't repost it, but it's true. There's a serious service problem and the greed isn't helping. Now I've got a multi terabyte NAS and backup with a streaming services and a Steam account I'll never make through the backlog of.

All that said, when possible, I still by the stuff I like on physical, but even that is getting harder and harder anymore.

The biggest mistakes these shareholder appeasing cock puppets are making is thinking we don't have a choice anymore. We do and they are greater than they've ever been.

Man, forgot about that tool. What a joke. He went on to fuck up other game studios IIRC.

Oh man, I was about 3/4ths thru that episode. Spoiler..lol

Of all those, Rich is the least unexpected.

This looks fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation.

I unfortunately don't have MAX anymore after they dropped Westworld (and all the other crazy shit that happened around a year or so ago) so I may also have to borrow a copy from my friend the internet..

Edit: Looks like my son already put in a Requestarr for it and it's in Sonarr. The *arr stack really has changed the game after I was out of the scene for 10 or so years.

Eternal optimism isn't always a bad thing. Phil played his cards well. I never really knew or cared much about him until his Giant bomb at Night appearances and he seemed legit during those some 7 or 8 years ago. Considering the clout Jeff from from GB had, Phil got a little of that by proxy from my perspective.

When companies deny us avenues to watch / purchase their products wtf do they expect to happen?

Been waiting for the tide to turn on Phil. He's a new breed of shifty corpo and a lot of the communities have been fooled by his "aww shucks, I'm just a gamer too" persona.

You don't get that far at a place like Microsoft without creating some bodies. But, we all want to hope the next guy will be different.

Spoiler: they never are.

Goddammit I hate that I laughed at this.

That last line is my biggest concern. I've been gaming since the early 80's and it's ridiculous watching all the talent and studios be sucked up and shit out by quarterly profits. After 20 some odd years in the tech industry you'd think I'd be hardened against it, but video games were always my escape from the mundanity of daily life, now that same shit is spilling in to my hobby. What a fucking joke the industry is becoming. I honestly hope for another large collapse like the Atari years. There's enough indie devs out there to keep us playing while the biggest players sulk off to other "investment opportunities".

I have a Founders account, it's $5. Not sure what the new customer tier prices are.

But, for the classic "cup of coffee a month" it's been worth keeping active since they moved to a paid model however many years ago. The first several years were free if you owned a shield TV.

Additionally, they still offer a 100% free tier to anybody.

Been a GeForce Now user since the Shield TV launch. It's a great thing to have when I don't want to drag a laptop or console around with me while traveling. $5 a month is absolutely worth it, especially considering it uses my existing libraries.

Then don't subscribe?

I run O&O Shut Up 10 on every install of Windows 10 and 11 I need to suffer through. There's still a bit of manual config to remove search bar and other GUI stuff but it's a pretty great, free tool.

You also might want to script it to run on boot as Windows loves to revert changes after updates as another commentor noted.

I also choose this guys dead wi-

sorry, wrong thread.

The writing in that article is abysmal.

We had a pretty big event at Game Crazy. I think those shirts finally got retired after my kid grew out of them quite a few years ago.

I unfortunately... put them in the dryer to much throughout the years and they seem to have shrank. Yeah, that's what happened.

Aww man, good to know! I wish we had a microcenter nearby. Closest one is at least a state away.

Maybe they'll ship it. Haha

Went to the one in LA on a trip recently. Was awesome to see that much great music on one spot again.

It's wild that we probably won't see a return to those types of stores ever again. COVID really put the final nail in the coffin.