Unknown Worlds was already dead anyway.

The team had already lost any chance of recreating the greatness of the first game when their sound designer made unbelievably stupid comments on social media, leaving the company no choice but to fire him.

This is very sad because I loved their stuff ever since the Natural Selection Half-life mod.

Good on them. The earlier they can shut down those coal plants, the better.

The funniest part was that when it was discovered, it had been used as a brick for building material.

Daily driven Mint, OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Fedora. They’re all great, with their own pros and cons.

Also Microsoft products have become enshitified beyond recognition.

One thing that I hope they didn’t carry over from the first one is the ad-libbing of 90% of the NPC’s lines. The voice actor is not good at improv and constantly resorts to swearing and throwing insults out of no where for cheap shock value whenever he hits a block. At first it was funny because it was different to what you’re used to but it got old really quick.

A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.

It’s some sketchy pre-cracked Jack Sparrow edition I torrented to run exclusively offline in a VM and will never let it connect to the internet because I don’t trust it. I’m not too worried about getting security updates for it.

I exclusively use it to run Autodesk Inventor for making 3D printable objects. Once the STL is created I just drag and drop it out of the VM into my Linux machine. It’s the only communication with the outside world it will ever have.

I have a copy of Windows 10 LTSC that I have installed on a virtual machine just in case I need the one last program that I use that I cannot get to work on Linux.

Lately I upgraded my machine and had to reinstall everything. As I was installing Windows on my VM, it started demanding that I create an account and wouldn’t let me proceed without one, asked me to associate third party accounts to my OS and was generally being extremely intrusive and forceful in ways I didn’t remember it being before, like opening Edge and forcing me to click through an introduction that I didn’t want without giving me the option to close it. I then realized that I had forgotten to disable network access to my VM and that Windows had downloaded updates during the install.

I immediately destroyed that VM and started over again, this time without allowing it to connect to internet. Suddenly the experience was far better.

The moment I had let Windows connect to the internet it had thoroughly enshittified itself. It let me appreciate how badly Microsoft has enshittified Windows 10 over the years ever since its release. We are far away from the Windows 7 days.

Install Linux

My trusty GTX 970 was doing almost everything I needed it to do (the only bummer being it couldn’t run HellDivers2 smoothly) but it died this week. The B580 was available at MSRP so I jumped on it. It is at least twice as powerful as what I used to have so I’m confident I won’t find it under powered for anything I’ll throw at it for the next 5 years.

Playing in 4K with raytracing is just not worth paying an extra $700+ to scalpers and price gougers for. I bet you stop noticing the difference after 5 minutes of gameplay.

Buys a B580 at MSRP

Laughs in smooth framerates in 1080p with all that extra money in pocket

For me anyway, my loss of interest in the DOOM franchise began when they started dehumanizing the Doom Marine and started stacking fantasy/medieval elements to the main protagonist and his arsenal. They turned a futuristic space marine who just got punished for punching an officer into some sort of fantastic demigod thing. It got really bad in Doom Eternal already.

I like my DOOM games when it is a battle of sci-fi military forces against demonic forces. Human technology versus the hordes of hell. But now with Dark Ages Bethesda turned the franchise into a more violent and edgy Skyrim.

AMD is laughing. They were already overpriced and bad value for the money.

Teams will die for Copilot somehow.

Hence why they very rarely include expandable storage as an option on their devices. Gotta overcharge the suckers for a laughably small increase in storage space. Or even better: Have them pay monthly fees for cloud storage.

“Wait a minute. Are we the baddies?”

Besides the obvious ripoff, is there some sort of fraudulent or tax reason why they would make the employee pay for it?

Windows: “OK, I’ll keep asking every day just in case you change your mind. Then one day I’ll just do it without asking”

Windows: “There is something wrong with that weird drive I’ve just found. Do you want me format it to ‘fix’ it?”

Me: “Alright Windows, your permission to exist on my computer has been revoked.”