Cyrus Draegur

seize it via eminent domain.

Here’s how I think a GoG subscription might work out:

The money goes into a balance on your account. It just accumulates store credit.

You might raise the question of “why would they want to do that”, to which I say:
it’s guaranteed income for them and they make a profit by selling games ANYWAY.
The fact that they get this income consistently is good for their books.

You might also raise the question of “why would anyone want to participate in that”, to which I put to you this:
I want to give myself a “gaming allowance” of a little bit each month but saving is hard. If I am paying GoG a monthly subscription, though, and I accumulate a balance of credit, I can get games without it impacting my budget outside of what I’ve exactly allotted.

What else do I get? The warm fuzzy feeling of supporting GoG. Which I’d definitely do anyway. Honestly, letting me turn my subscription into store credit is a huge boon. I don’t NEED any perks beyond that.

Oh here’s something GoG could maybe do, actually:
an extremely UNOBTRUSIVE cloud storage drive that they say is for Save Syncing (and automates this if you’re running the galaxy app) but that they’ll let you store any arbitrary files in it as long as what’s in it fits within the space they’ve designated for me… and furthermore if this space got bigger the more store credit I have built up, that’d be the tits too.

OH OH OH I thought of two other perks!

• What if the cloud storage suggestion also automatically “stored” “copies” (in your “personal” cloud storage box) offline installers for games you’ve purchased so that you can still download them EVEN IF they get “delisted” for sale?

• What if your subscription gave you sliiiightly more than the cash value in store credit? Like only 10% bonus.
  If I am paying $5.00 per month, they put $5.50 store credit in my balance each month.

Would it have been any less shitty if it had instead been written in assembly?

I think a better song to broadcast as the world ends is Monty Python’s “always look on the bright side of life”

You’re right, absolutely spot on, about several things but ONE IN PARTICULAR is this:

A human being helping a customer is, quite literally, an act of circumvention. Customer service EXISTS, SPECIFICALLY, for scenarios that require exceptions and skilled, knowledgeable internal maneuvering within, between, and around the cold mechanisms of machinery and policy. We tend to think of, say, purchasing items at a store as standard operation, for instance. But really, from the perspective of the business, its objective is to RESTRICT access to goods and services. The cashier manages exceptions to this goal. If the company has its way, it would take your money while relinquishing NOTHING.

A discord kitten has needs ;3c

NO that is the WRONG kind of coding!!

We need a monster, a short skirt, some stripey colorful thigh high socks, and Vocaloid music!

I was born in 85 and I think 1.50 would have been an appropriate price for McDoubles and McChickens. But not three fucking dollars

A headline in the near future:

“are millennials killing the gaming industry?”

I wonder if it’s quite like anti-red

Stare at the center of a bright red circle for like 30 seconds,

Then look away at a white surface.

It looks like what those people in the article describe, especially in the “holy shit I’ve never seen that before” feeling.

also am i detecting some revolutionary girl utena vibes?

professional catfishing has always been a thing.

using AI to do it was inevitable, but i do wonder if it’ll backfire.

chatbots are so pathetically unreliable.

Buy european: Eutelsat.

Why the fuck is the glass talking

Lol suck shit reddit. Rot in piss you won’t be missed!

It might be at least a little missed for all the useful info and history that it had accumulated over these decades… But oh well.

They shat this bed they get to lay in it

Windows 11 seemed to kick and scream relentlessly to make coexisting impossible. So I called its bluff and nuked its stupid ass. It refuses to play nice? OK; It never gets to play again. Fuck windows. I have a separate machine for windows if I really need it.

every passing day i feel increasingly gratified to have switched my previously win11 laptop to linux mint. aside from the sheer principle of microsoft being ass, i also fucking despise all of windows’ AI bullshit. Fuck copilot for eternity.

This is part of why confidence is attractive.

It isn’t that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it’s that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.

Cap in the back, low-key up front. Got it.

right now is my year of the linux laptop :3