Well fuck. I was worried it was going to drag out for far too fucking long, but now that the orange turd has said it’s over I’m absolutely certain it’s going to drag out for far too fucking long.

I wonder if Iran believes Russia wants a quick end to a war that is doubling or tripling the amount of money Russia stands to make on gas exports?

I do not trust that Microsoft will be doing anything other than pushing subscription-based streaming. Call me when they have a robust storefront selling games on par with Steam and hardware that allows you to play these games on or offline. Until then, imma press X to doubt.

And yet Helldivers 2 comes out in 2024 and sets the world on fire. Seems to me that gaming is perfectly fine with live service as long as it’s in line with community expectations and not s soulless cash grab.

This is their wet dream, but I’ll never participate.

Edit: I don’t participate now. I pay for no subscriptions, no streaming services, and I use no cloud services. Oh, and I’m now completely Microsoft-free since October last year.

Which won’t matter at all once they start losing market share to Microsoft’s stupid decisions. The world will not sit on its thumbs because of Fortnight players. And good riddance in any case.

I came here looking for this answer. I’m actually replaying it right now on my Steam Deck via Cemu and having a ton of fun. It was also my first Zelda game and I had zero expectations. It just blew me away and it still does all these years later.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I would very much like it if government became less unserious. Jesus fuck.

Windows? Facebook?

lol

Market’s a pump and dump now. Down 800 today, up 1200 tomorrow. Everything recovers in days or maybe weeks and always to new highs. Even covid recovered in less than a year. This is not a normal market, it’s just pretending to be.

(you can donate to their defense fund)

I’m pretty certain we’re not going to spend our way out of this. If the answer is not to seize the means of production, then we’re gonna have to at least seize the means of oppression. Everything billionaires own in any country that means to be free should be seized.

This won’t happen, of course, until they wreak a lot more havoc, unfortunately the havoc they are wreaking is not laying the groundwork for the countries that host them to be more free.

False. My reflection can’t tell me that pressing the Steam button and X will bring up the keyboard on Steam Deck’s desktop mode.

Obviously this sucks. Watching all these nation states leveraging the Internet to sow chaos in the US I’ve often wondered - do these motherfuckers ever think about this shit going sideways? But no, it’s always “chaos = good for us”

Well, this is looking pretty sideways. As always the vast majority of the real, actual people on both sides don’t want this, don’t want war - don’t want this timeline at all.

Are there influence agents on lemmy, like paid bot supported agents pushing bullshit like on the major social media, or was this guy for real?

Bet on it.

Edit: influence agents, that is

But like, what about the UN ( i know, i know).

Well, I mean, do you? You’re asking about a body created by and hosted in the US and funded also largely by the US. It’s toothless and useless because nobody has ever done anything substantial to legitimize it except the US and now that the US has decided that unilateral fascism is the easy path, what exactly does anyone expect?

It’s like a microcosm of the sum of Europe’s problems rn, tbh.

I hated discuss.tchncs.de before it was cool.

So my wife is a Pats fan, which pretty much makes me a Pats fan… but yeah, this was an embarrassment. Both the defenses put on a decent showing. The Pats offense just could not protect Mays.

Kind of the point of my comment was that drive size/cost is stagnating despite the massive technical progress in the space. I bought my first 4TB drive in 2020 ($89). Going back to 2015, I was buying 2TB at the same price ($86). Here in 2026, what’s the ~same price? 4TB ($99). 8TB is $180.

Ten years from now…

Amazon search: “hard drive”

Result: 4TB $198

Seriously, get like… a 2020 MacBook. ~$300

My daily driver I use in the field is from 2012. They last forever.

Edit: avoid 2015-2019, their keyboards were shit