Fuck you, Ben.

Why is no one talking about this??? Ostriches in the sand…

Thanks, worked for me

Good supplemental reading here to iFixIt’s recent announcement pertaining to their relationship with Samsung moving forward.

They’re calling the bluff.

I’d never heard of Xlite, that’s great. I can imagine what you mean, current stock Windows is always chugging on some unecessary telemetry in the background. Some days I want to buy an old system to put XP on for the nostalgia.

Yeah compared to rootkits, micro transactions, unfinished games at launch, publisher launchers, seems there’s no shortage of things to whinge about in the current gaming space.

This game has a couple of those things but generally has been the best co-op shooting experience since Left for Dead 2 to me. Helldivers 1 was a blast too though.

I feel like the level of whiplash this game is getting is similar to that of Cyberpunk but I could be exaggerating. If the game wasn’t so successful at checking people’s boxes at the outset, I think we wouldn’t be having this discussion today. It being so popular is why there are a ton of people freaking out. I’m not saying it’s not warranted, just observing.

Needless to say, Sony is never going to allow an account linking grace period in any of their games going forward. It looks like they gave the kids candy and then took it away, better for them to just not give the candy in the first place.

Edit to add: I also find it hard to stomach the amount of ire to some degree because the creative devs had nothing to do with this and clearly put a ton of energy and love into the game. They even have a unique connection to the community through the bespoke game master, Joel. I’m pretty torn about it: I want the gaming industry to stop this full speed charge toward enshittification like, literally, every other aspect of life now. But I don’t want developers to have to not only worry about mass layoffs and internal industry enshittification on top of reactionary blowback from the people they make the games for.

I will say I have the luxury of living in a country that’s supported by PSN and already have an account, so it colors my opinions.

I have like 400 free to own games on my EGS account and the only thing I’ve ever played on it is Fortnite occasionally. I’ll just buy a game on Steam if I want it, rather than checking if I already own in in EGS–it’s that bad.

100%

Last year, more solar panels were installed in China — the world’s largest carbon emitter — than the US has installed in its entire history.

This is fucking awesome news.

I have to think a hard drive and even a VPN service would pay for itself in no time at that cost.

I hope Germany wakes up

Pretty wild that we happen to live in a perfect little time period for capitalizing on dead plants and animals which have turned into energy sources over millenia. It’s also pretty wild how we’ve made a lot of things out of these dead plants and animals when it will be a bit of a wait until we get more of these dead plants and animals again.

We’re just like ants finding a sugar cube. But with more at stake in some ways.