GOG has no money, and Gabe has no incentive.

Bringing that zombie out makes zero sense.

3E was about replacing market-preferred products with those of their own. There’s nothing to replace these products. This just god-honest mismanagement. Don’t make it more complicated (or malicious) than it is.

The Oil & Gas Party

GOP - Gas & Oil Party.

My point being: games and art are not necessities. Don’t be a little bitch, if you want to have them, pay for them. If you don’t want to support the company under which the game was made, wait for a massive sale on Steam or some such.

Giving “a shitty company intent on abusing your customers to extract as much money from them” is not done by pirating the game (which makes them try to extract even more money out of their clients), it’s by financially supporting the companies and creators who don’t do that.

Are you high, friend? How is any of what you wrote related to SteamOS and the GabeCube?

There’s clear data showing piracy almost never has a negative impact on sales. If anything, it’s usually a positive impact. And the exceptions to this are not video games.

Please share! Would love to read about it!

What if your ancestors got forced out 500 years ago? Got claim then?

Artists don’t get paid for the amount of copies sold, that’s executives and shareholders

Sales numbers are the telemetry execs use when deciding what games to green-light.

Why do you think suddenly everybody was making live-service games? Battle Royale first, then hero shooters, and now extraction shooters? These games are reporting great income because it’s not possible to pirate them. Add MTX on top and suddenly everybody and their mother wants a cut.

Why do you think even GTA became a live-service game, even when it has a single-player story?

Why do you think more and more games have launchers that require people signing in to some accounts to verify if they made the purchase?

All the crap you people are mostly moaning about are a direct result of piracy.

This is such an incredible level of magical thinking that most 12 year olds already grow out of.

What do you think happens with the artists if the game doesn’t sell?

What do you think happens to the genre if the game doesn’t sell?

People are complaining about live-service games, but holy fuck, can you not see that these are the direct response to piracy? You literally cannot pirate these games, because they require constant connection to the servers that verify if you have a license.

The list is so confusing… ESL is an e-sports organisation, they do e-sport events, they don’t make games. Why are they on the list? Why is Netflix on the list??

And why is Riot on the list? Their games are free, we’re literally not paying for the games, we’re paying for the in-game store crap (if at all)…

I never understood the scale of this bullshit until I had a user request his script packaged. Now, Intune doesn’t like executing random python scripts, so I gave him several options for 8 KB, 50-lines-of-code script.

He disregarded them and wrapped it all in Electron.

I received a 380 MB zip file.

But, well, it had an .exe inside so I could work with that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I know it’d be expensive, but I wonder if it’d be worth it to valve to start producing ram.

There’s a reason why there’s only, like, three RAM manufacturers. It’s horrifically expensive to start production.

Already answered here. In short: you’re wrong.

They want to be separated. Palestinian nationalism grew extensively in the 1930s, there was unrest and a civil war. Palestinians want to have their own nation, just like the Israelis do.

Ah, so we now need to start doing genetic check-ups? How many of the Palestinians still have Persian DNA, considering the land historically belonged to Persia?

Also: you’re wrong. Israelis have very significant percentage of Near Easter and Middle Eastern DNA.

On the contrary! I’m saying: leave it as it is, just give Palestinians a helping hand.

YOU are saying that the existing population (Israelis) needs to be purged in a genocide and the area returned to their historical owners.

Well, might be news to you, but Palestine as a nation exists since 1947, so the closest “historical owner” we have is Iran.

How many games do you play at the same time?

The absolutely MASSIVE Crimson Desert is only 130 GB. Something like ARC Raiders - 50 GB. Elden Ring - 65 GB.

You can easily fit a bunch of games on a 512 GB drive - especially considering the GabeCube comes with SteamOS, Linux-based, which means it’s not going to gobble up 15-40 GB like Windows does.

But that’s your PC. GabeCube is more of a console, so you wouldn’t necessarily keep that many media files on it.

Israelis lived there for 3000 years non-stop. How are they foreign invaders?

Like I said: makes as much sense calling them Iranians as calling Israelis/Jews “Europeans”.