vulgarcynic @ vulgarcynic @sh.itjust.works

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How can they be in tech when they deny science and believe in mythology?

maybe if their leader(s) hadn't spent 20+ years attempting to subvert global democracy and sow seeds of radical, racist violence across the internet we'd feel a touch different...

Absolutely agree with this statement. They seem to have no pipeline for keeping up with this console lifecycle.

As the owner of a Series X and PS5, they're just streaming boxes that I occasionally use to play stuff that won't run under Proton.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

hell no! why do something pro consumer when you can just raise prices

Thankfully they've updated the design to address the stick drift!

I'm the cash-shop-anocerous. All my microtransactions bleed your wallet like a phlebotomus.

Goddammit.. I don't have time for this!

in keeping with the all caps sentiment

FUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!

I will go all in on a case of Mt Mist (balling on a budget) and plastic, bulk sack of fritos twists if that happened. My boy and I still load up Jet Moto 2 for a few races a couple times a year.

As a technicality you would be correct. Games can be removed from PS+ though and it also lauched day and date on Steam. So calling it F2P instead of a PS+ Day One would be a little harder for fans to swallow on PC where it would still have been $40. See also the aforementioned Halo Infinite which launched on Xbox first then PC but only the multiplayer component is F2P on both. You can play SP with Game Pass Ultimate but you need to purchase a license to do so on Steam.

Yeah! Project Titan or something, wasn't it?

Sony failing to get another live service game off the ground really highlights a few things.

1. How hard it is to launch something in this space. Not only has the market moved away, it was also saturated long before they dropped Condord.
2. Companies (still) fail to understand that a bad launch isn't exactly death. There are several ways they could of tried to salvage this instead of just Zaslav'ing it for a tax write off 2 weeks in. We've seen plenty of examples in the past 10 years of games that were able to turn themselves around and find success. No reason a company like Sony couldn't align resources to make it happen here.
3. This should of been on PS+ Day One... I get not putting your shorttail, singleplayer, prestige titles up there at launch. I also get not wanting to go completely F2P, a microtransaction enabled MP game though? Why the hell wouldn't you want the biggest audience possible out the gate? Halo Infinite was a shit show at launch but it was free and has maintained a pretty damn solid user base for years because of it. Hell, I've even picked up a few season passes and cosmetics despite never playing a Halo MP game in the past (outside of lan'ing up for Halo 1 waaaaay back).

Lots more thoughts, but the schadenfreude is just too much right now to avoid jumping on a still warm corpse.

is this on their git or fdroid by chance?

Agree with other commenters this sounds like a time share. This last week tonight is a pretty interesting watch about the way they hustle people.

can report UEFI installs of PopOS and Mint were recently borked by a Win11 update.

It does send a "your safety number has been updated with user" message. But not as an automated message. Only when a new signal thread is started.

Haven't tried when only logged in to desktop and changing devices / numbers so I can't speak to that.

I often figure it's google bias and / or people trying to impose their threat models on other people.

Been using proton for quite a while with a few custom domains and am impressed with the service to price of their offerings.

We can one off use cases with any vendor, but at the end of the day, they offer a more secure out of the box experience than just about any other platform out there. If someone is doing illicit shit and gets popped, it's not on the service provider to provide air cover for them. Improve your opsec or self host.

Big concern with your number being recycled and a new user receiving the signal activation key on that number.

I'm sorry that karma gave this cunt a gravely voice. Deeply sorry. Hopefully whatever it was is fatal next time.