Don’t let ANYBODY ever call you a pleb, I know and you know that in your heart you are a pedon.

Raises mud clump in solidarity

Super cool, I realized I was thinking of the wargame A Few Acres Of Snow by martin wallace (the designer of the modern classics, Brass Birmingham and Brass Lancashire)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/79828/a-few-acres-of-snow

Where did this art come from? It seems like the cover to a tabletop wargame about the french and indian war or something.

How dare you call me a pedon, I am a PEON.

People these days have no respect.

Their company motto used to be “Evil is subjective unless it is done to us at which point it is wrong” but that was considered a little tooooo on the nose so they took it down.

A volon is the up-quark subatomic violin particle for anyone who is unfamiliar.

That violin is too damn big

Damn that must be a pain to drag around all that fucking loot

Well the openstreetmap community aren’t employed by a bunch of hacks perching on a tower of cardboard held together by a failing scheme of duck tape that nobody left after all the layoffs and enshittification knows how to repair, so that makes sense : )

I think tutanota (now tuta) is pretty decent.

https://tuta.com/

Someone feel free to correct if I missed something bad about them.

The gulf of mexico vs gulf of america thread on the Open Street Map forum is interesting and worth a read.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571

Because that is part of the cycle of collapse and shock doctrine these corporations rely on to keep from being clowned on by moderately competent smaller game studios who actually are excited by the challenge to convince people to buy their art instead of shoving derivative slop down their customer’s throat as the cinematic monochoice for entertainment product category no. 1254…

If you mow the grass, the longterm benefit of preserving a strict monoculture is well worth the temporary mass destruction (from the perspective of the person driving the mower, it smells quite pleasant actually).

To be clear, the blades of grass are the smaller game studios on Microsoft’s lawn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

Mulholland Drive blew my mind the first time I saw it in how willing it was to not explain every bit of itself.

definitely

…and neither have gamepass and other game streaming services helped grow the industry gaming and propel it into the future.

This is an encircling manuever by massive corporations attempting to en-spotify the gaming industry and blow the bottom out of independent game developers being able to do anything of note without paying a toll to microsoft or google or some other corporation trying to induce centralization, collapse and catastrophic loss of revenue for the rest of the industry.

No shade at people who use and love gaming streaming services, the idea isn’t bad, its just the strategic role these services are being used for is to carpet bomb the gaming industry until it is forced to play by whatever terms these massive corporations demand.

Mastodon’s main problem IMO is how long it takes for features to make their way into the live version.

Bluesky’s main problem IMO is how it is fundamentally a profit driven venture that cannot tolerate slow and steady growth and how fundamentally, no matter what anyone including the CEO says, Bluesky must and always will unflinchingly support the interests of its investors over the interest of its users, period. To really spell things out here, the continued employment of anyone at Bluesky is fundamentally predicated on their ability and desire to do this very thing.

Bluesky is a business, after all

no, but the various algorithms that control and construct these “user customized feeds” is precisely the part of bluesky that is architecturely a bottleneck, and it isn’t a bug, the ceo of bluesky has gone on record that bluesky hasn’t ruled out using this intentional centralization point to force ads on the system

I am not saying microsoft hasn’t dipped their toes in to pc gaming but for a company of that size that is really the most you can say of their efforts compared to the immense solidity, staying power and loyalty pc gaming embued in windows for younger people growing up with computers (not saying this category of people liked windows just that they valued it).

This is ALL gone and microsoft is about to figure out that while business tools are their main industry the supposedly impenetrable moat they thought that gave them was far more a byproduct of a generation of nerds growing up pooring time into windows before they ever even entered the workforce than it was a dynamic of their dominance in corporate business software.

Whoopsie!

Yeah, Microsoft has had brief moments like this but systematically they have behaved consistently like the only thing that matters to them is enshittifying the work environment of office workers.

The examples you gave are interesting precisely because they are a brief departure from the norm.

honestly steam os is in many ways better at running old ass windows programs than windows.

Case in point, Steel Panthers (WinspMBT or WinspWW2) is an ancient DOS game that can’t run in fullscreen without crashing on Windows and honestly I prefer it on my deck because it inherently runs the game in fullscreen and overall seems to run it better than my windows computer ever did.