Isn’t that just sparkling racism?

This is what happens if you modprobe *

They took our data, we’ll take their trademark.

They weren’t permitted to carry passengers and cargo at the same time. https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/parcels-by-tram-project-ends/66165.article

From a brief googling on DDG: https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/parcels-by-tram-project-ends/66165.article

It was a trial run, and there wasn’t enough demand. The trams also weren’t permitted to carry passengers.

Probably a lack of flexibility. Railway is the king of inter-city cargo, but the limited capacity and fixed routes and schedules make trams less efficient in populated areas.

Ah yes, the holy trinity:

• DPS
• DPS (but blue)
• DPS (but green)

If there is time…
VICTORY POSITION

Remember the 3 "F"s:

• Foreign soil
• Face down
• Frag grenade

It was supposed to be fiction. It was supposed to be fiction. It was supposed to be fiction.

We have found him: Debian Sid.

Stockholm syndrome, it sounds like.

If you’re so passionate about the subject, why don’t you redirect that energy into making a real change? Join a protest, call a politician, get organized, instead of engaging in tired, empty, useless whataboutisms on the internet.

“We might be able to banish the demon and save your son.”
“Really?”
“No, it’s just fun to get your hopes up. I’m gonna kill the kid.”

Veilguard doesn’t let you be an absolute dick the way Origins did. The story (what little I’ve seen) is filtered and sanitized like it’s meant for six-year-olds.

It also approaches sensitive topics, like the gender of one character, with the graceful and delicate touch of a fucking brick. If your character in Origins is a woman, Sten will bluntly comment on your role as a warrior, which is reflects the Qunari culture and their strict adherence to their norms. In Veilguard, a character blurts out “I’m non-binary by the way, I use pronouns” and another starts doing push-ups for accidentally misgendering them. It was fucking ridiculous.

Success is not illegal. In Valve and Gaben’s case, it’s deserved, and probably as clean as you’ll ever see.

I firmly believe that Steam has allowed fair competition to exist. Epic had the greatest chance to become viable competition, but they fumbled the store’s launch, poached Metro Exodus and fucked over the people who preordered, did not have the foresight to implement some kind of preloading for Borderlands 3, and pissed people off when they refused to allow non-exclusive indie games to exist on the store while they made an exception for Cyberpunk 2077. In that time, the only thing that Valve did that might have hurt EGS is refuse to host store pages and ads for games that weren’t going to launch on their platform. Shortly after that, Valve released the Steam Deck (the most pro-consumer handheld I’ve seen to date), SteamOS (free), Proton (free), DXVK (free), Gamescope (free), and have contributed (for free) to upstream projects like Wine. Of all the billionaires, Gaben is the only one I can think of that I’m okay with being a billionaire.

Valve has about 100 employees, Steam is operated by about 40, but I would love to have a source on the “generational wealth” part. Most of the income is likely spent on operational costs, like the aforementioned massive CDN infrastructure. If you’ve never worked in corporate-level networking, it might elude you how ridiculously fucking expensive stuff gets, especially at a worldwide scale.

Here we go again. Armchair economists bleating “why everything cost money, corporate bad” with no actual expertise to back it up. Steam is not a parasitic middle man, it is a collection of services that would have to be provisioned and operated by the developer otherwise.

• A massive infrastructure to store and deliver the game and its updates, worldwide, and at an acceptable bandwidth that Valve operates
• A storefront that enables monetizing the game
• The audience and discoverability that would not exist otherwise
• The Steam API, achievements, cloud saves
• The client itself, content management, validation, and Linux compatibility tools
• Network and operational security
• (edit) Also keep in mind that Steam and its services are operated by experts. A game developer would have to hire the experts or get training.

That’s where the cut goes.

Better and larger sensor, producing less noise, meaning less need for noise reduction post-processing that makes smartphone photographs horribly muddy. The first digital camera my family ever owned (2MP, 8x zoom, still functional 20 years later) takes better pictures than my new phone.

Dragon Age Origins for the first time. I think I’m at the climax of the Redcliffe arc, and finally I understand why people call Veilguard “disneyfied”.

I have 4700 hours on Warframe and feel more or less the same.

That’s nice, but also inaccurate in my case. I was at a point where I didn’t give a rat’s ass about my employment there. The most experienced veterans had quit because they weren’t getting a fair salary, and new personnel (hired at a starting salary of 1.5 times that of the veterans) were absolute morons that I and others had to train. Management was also doubled in size in my final year, but at the cost of moving even more people (the experienced ones) away from the production floor. The place was in a nosedive and I was ready to jump out and watch the flames from a distance.

So no, I wasn’t the voice of reason, I was the voice of not giving a fuck.

At my previous job, I was often criticised for pointing out the obvious weaknesses and failure points of new ideas. I always made sure to remind the project’s owner when it inevitably failed, and that they shouldn’t have ignored the doomsayer in the room. The best part is that they couldn’t fire me because I was a competent worker during a shortage caused by the pandemic.