I know all about EA’s sellout.

Probably use it to pay off debts so my monthly stability is massively increased.

the problem is that the overwhelming majority of gamers are short sighted little gremlins who need constant access to new shiny to feel validated.

Sure, they come on the internet to yell and scream about the horrid injustice of it all, but the second the vile evil company that they’ll never again support releases their next game… they are at gamestop preordering the 800 dollar super legendary edition.

There are people who actually do follow through, I am one of them… There are several companies on my shit list that I will never buy from again, and in over a decade have not bought from them. . . but people that actually follow through on it are too rare to make a difference.

What game is this? so I know what company to never buy from again.

was such a good operating system.

Didnt need regular reformats to keep it stable/keep performance. was easy to use. stayed out of the way. you never had to even think about the OS cause it was just so transparent and invisible to everything you had to/wanted to do.

“Why remember the past, Just forget it and all the problems it had. They surely cant happen again, especially if we just ignore that they happened in the first place!”

Its no wonder the world is falling apart with people holding onto logic like this.

Cause if you dont give reality checks, you end up with shit like Theranos when idiots run wild with hype and hope, and fall to their knees with mouths wide open before even knowing WTF is going on or if it works.

All you had to do was make good and fun games. How do you fuck THAT up???

By treating their paying customers like worthless trash/criminals/scum/pirates/etc. Which is what Ubisoft has spent the past 10 years doing.

last windows install in my house was on my rarely used laptop, windows 10.

As soon as Win10 was end of life I threw linux on it. First time in…god…30 years? Theres not been a windows PC in my house… Ran Windows from 3.11 all the way up to 7 happily (and then my laptop came with Win 10 from factory and, well, thankfully I only had to use it when traveling… )

Main system has mostly been a breeze to use for years now, but I built it with Linux in mind and picked AMD parts and such to make the transition easier, which definitely helped me avoid major headaches.

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Whatever it is, it sounds fucking stupid.

The OS doesnt need to be a focus. the OS is best when you completely forget its existence and can just do things without worry.

Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.

Same. I dont know where I heard the word from, but it became my playful insult as a kid.

Got a very rude awakening when I called someones kid a silly dildo and had a red faced dad scream spitting in my little childhood face about it.

But now Steam is the last man standing between us and corporate greed.

Man how quickly people forget what things were like before the lawsuits forced valve to make steam more consumer friendly and regulatory abiding…

HALF. LIFE. FUCKING. THREE.

I give exactly zero fucks about any of this until they show prices.

because most people got exposed to steam’s launch on HL2’s launch. Where they bought the physical game, came home, installed it off like 5 CDs… then had to run steam to decrypt it and download more files because the fucking install was encrypted, and the goddamn fucking decryption took like 8 hours if you didnt have the worlds greatest computer.

Nope, I’m still totally not salty about not being able to play the game I fucking bought until the day after cause bullshit encryption fuckery, why would you ever think that.

I still have that goddamn box somewhere… i need to dig it up and see what release retail HL2 is like compared to HL2 you’d downlaod today from steam…

Windows 7 was the only OS I ever had that didnt make me want to rip my hair out for one reason or another.

The two great linux migrations.

The end of Windows 7

The end of Windows 10.

What? The man who rivals the spying ability of many nations isnt totally on the up and up? Whuda thunkit!

Breaking News.

Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace

how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.