Dear lord. The ill informed comments in that Bluesky thread hurt my soul.

EDIT: To clarify, the “golden handcuffs” tied to the Sony deal ($1.2B of the total $3.6B) already vested. The executives responsible for the downfall were paid and gone some time ago.

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I had to be hospitalized in 1999 in Greece. Every time rhe doctor came to check on me he was smoking his pipe and one of the nurses was a cigarette chain smoker. Then I took a flight the fuck out of there, and everyone inside was smoking. It was so fucking bizarre.

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I just recently picked up the Honor Harrington series back up.

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Anyone here planning on getting one?

I might get a 2tb. If I don’t game on it, I might swap the Linux version and use it for work. We have standardized in fully decked out System76 Meerkats with Proxmox VE serving jump hosts to manage different clients, so I can use it for that, or I can leverage the GPU and use it for datadump and log analysis. The point is, that it wouldn’t be money wasted. Ideally, I’d like to play games on it though.

EDIT: Looking at the Gamer’s Nexus review they state upfront that performance is limited, so I honestly don’t see why I should get this over a Meerkat.

EDIT 2: Nevermind. The Meerkat has almost doubled in price and is Intel only now. So the Steam Machine is back on the menu.

I use a sweat band on my right wrist when playing guitar. It keeps my braclet from hitting the strings.

That’s why I am a strong proponent of drummer turban hats.

Sweat catcher. Look at photos of drummers in the 70’s and 80’s and you’ll see a lot of head bands. They look dorky so now they wear beanies. Caps don’t absorb much.

I’d say GOG --> Steam. Physical media isn’t real anymore. Most PS5 games download an entirely new set of binaries at initial launch and refuse to run unless they have been updated. So the disc is mostly useless.

Before anyone starts to mount their high horse, let’s focus on the important paragraph in the article.

It’s worth pausing here to point out that you can’t really blame younger people for struggling at what were once seen as academic basics. The school system is in shambles, their education was bisected by the COVID pandemic, and they’re been reared in a world that’s increasingly deemphasized reading in favor of videos, voiceovers, and other emerging forms of communication.

I can gurantee that most children of affluent families suffer less from this. Most of my colleagues in tech spent fortunes in private schools, private online education during covid, and academic training for their kids. Their kids are already interning at companies owned by others in their circles as freshmen. The gap between haves and have-nots is expanding at a truly alarming rate.

The E.T. game being “the worst game” thing is all myth. It was a tremendous flop, but it had nothing to do with game quality. I’d say that 90% of Atari 2600 games were objectively bad and E.T. was amongst the 10% of good ones. They over estimated demand, overhyped it, and sold it during the holidays, which means extended and relaxed return policies. That resulted in too many units manufactured and too many units returned. Thus the landfill full of cartridges.

Source: I was one of the kids that got it for Christmas. It was fine, but wenty minutes later, I was back to Yar’s Revenge.

What non-american search engine do you use?