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- Comment on Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn’t write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're laying off thousands during a time of huge profits 16 hours ago:
I am done with Microsoft and Windows, I will spend the rest of my life advocating for undermining their business model and the adoption of their tools.
I don’t think Microsoft realizes how many people there are out there like me they assume are just going to forget and go back to Windows… we will not.
- Comment on Can you believe it? 16 hours ago:
Yeah but what if you are an off duty cop then it is ok I think.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer 1 day ago:
Hey, it benefits me when more people play these awesome indie multiplayer games!
It pains me when people put up with insane amounts of nonsense when they just want a battlefield like experience, they don’t want lootcrates, popups that distract you when you open the game… skins… casinos… battlepasses…
If that is your jam, great, but it is alarming how little indie big map multiplayer vehicle shooters there are for the health of the genre as a whole, I have made long rants about how EA fucked over the genre by dropping mod support after Battlefield 2 ughhh.
Because of that I get a lot of joy sharing these games because I know most people like me until fairly recently hadn’t heard of some of these gems and they are the perfect anodyne to all the AAA enshittification nonsense happening in multiplayer competitive shooters.
Go play!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer 1 day ago:
yawn
Play Operation Harsh Doorstop - free and moddable tactical shooter with big maps and vehicles, vanilla gameplay is fairly realistic but there are mods that totally change up the gameplay like Casualfield. This game has a dedicated group of youtube content creators who hate on this game… I don’t get it… because the gunplay is fantastic and the mechanics are an elegant evolution of Project Reality type squad spawns and player built basic infrastructure. Sniping is also a BLAST.
…steampowered.com/…/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Easy Red 2 - Really fantastic WW2 tactical shooter with big maps and LOTS of different period accurate vehicles. The general interest this game has in portraying WW2 beyond the tired and boring moments that are usually portrayed is very cool and the gameplay is ROCK solid.
store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Angels Fall First A superb Battlefront-like/Battlefield 2048 that is first person. This game is in early access and has a small playerbase but the core gameplay is polished, locked in and very very fun. Weapons feel great, vehicles are easy to jump in and start using but clearly have a lot of skill depth to them… Overall the menu and UI is FANTASTIC, at the deploy screen the game will prompt you if a vehicle is available to take and let you spawn directly into it, you can also see a cue of vehicles that are going to spawn for your team soon… Check it out! Even with the low playerbase it is a great bot bashing game, the AI is fun to play against and uses vehicles.
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Angels_Fall_First/
Also, for kicks and giggles I am gonna recommend Empires Mod an old source engine multiplayer RTS/FPS team based hybrid that is actually still in development which is super cool. By now the UI has lots and lots of quality of life additions and tooltips and the whole thing is very impressive even if the age of the source engine and various components going into the experience are obviously very dated, Empires Mod is legitimately still an awesome game and it deserves way more players! There is a discord you can check out to find out when games are happening.
- Comment on LF game recommendation. 1 day ago:
It seems like Teardown is ripe for a themed expansion!
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 2 days ago:
sigh
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
You aren’t understanding me, you keep trying to debate from the axiom that this is a zero sum game.
In otherwords when I say
“We need to increase wages and employment opportunities across the board for immigrants”
You hear
"We need to hurt tech workers born and raised in the US who are already hurting.
I did not say that, you are applying the axiom that those two MUST be inextricably linked because if there is even a remote chance we can improve the wages and general quality of life of tech workers in the US than the logic of applying that axiom becomes fundamentally questionable.
That is what you don’t realize or refuse to realize.
This is NOT a zero sum game between tech workers who want to immigrate to the US and tech workers who were born and raised in the US.
The future is a shared solidarity not an increasing division, don’t take my word for it, notice rather that large corporations favor this kind of atomization of workers into nationalisms, it makes the job of people oppressing workers in the US and abroad far easier.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
I am not disputing the details of anything you are necessarily saying, what I am saying is that you are even still leaning into the lie that there isn’t enough decent work to gone around for all of us.
You need to get that out of your head, fundamentally, before we can begin to envision a humane path forward for tech work in the US, either for immigrants or people born and raised in the US.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Well yes, but understand this is the function of gamepass being so cheap at the moment, to convince you temporarily that it is in your best interests as a consumer to rent video games rather than buy them because for now massive corporations like Microsoft are artifically holding the consumer price of these subscription services low to entice enough customers to buy in to then turn around and destroy other methods of earning a living in the video game industry as anything but a tiny indie game studio and waves wand with flourish all of a sudden the video game industry sucks even more than it used to and you have to watch ads every 10 seconds even though you are paying more for gamepass than you do for all your streaming TV services combined…
Look if that is the future y’all want, great, but just be honest about it at least?
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Ok I have an idea, why don’t we just pay a living wage to US tech workers whether they are immigrants or they were born and raised in the US?
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Yes and no.
Yes because this is why there is a massive body of leftist academic, philosophical and political writing on the topic… yes because this is why organizing is a skill and unions can be good or bad. It is hard and you are gonna need all the help and tactics you can get.
No because there is or at least was a prevalent belief in US tech culture circles that being an expert in programming by extension made you an expert or a soon to be expert on everthing else. An expert on education, an expert on health care… just the damage from those two categories alone to the wellbeing of US citizens…
Far from me to say there isn’t a basic beauty to aspects to programming that speak to logic and math… but no… the world is full of a million different kinds of craftspeople because every form of genius has its own peculiarities. Unfortunately however this delusion reached a degree of popularity that I think undermined the ability of tech work in the US to effectively establish the prerequisites for effective organizing and unionizing.
I am not saying that this is unique to tech workers, simply that the demographic reached a critical point of naivety that corporations were able to solidfy their power.
- Comment on What do you think is the quintessential hip hop track? 2 days ago:
I would have to start somewhere near the Donuts album by J Dilla, if not with that album.
If only for the rosetta stone effect of being able to recognize J Dilla samples and used all over the place and also for recognizing when hip hop production is directly referencing J Dilla in its style.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Has Had The Biggest Video Game Console Launch In US History 2 days ago:
I recommend Tunic as a zelda-like!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Has Had The Biggest Video Game Console Launch In US History 2 days ago:
Given all the controversy around the Switch 2 this really shows how Nintendo can do whatever they want and customers will follow them like a cult.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Good thing programmers were smart and organized into unions inspired by other industries instead of naively thinking they were too valuable to the ruling class in the US to be betrayed.
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- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Damn, what a thin knife edge to walk, business majors are so smart!
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 2 days ago:
Oh do these high prices mean they will hire more developers back after all of Xbox and Microsoft’s cuts?
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- Comment on Australia and Japan cannot accept America’s war on China 3 days ago:
Never heard of the news source, but it seems like a decent one.
- Comment on Australia and Japan cannot accept America’s war on China 3 days ago:
Never heard of it but it seems like a good semi-progressive news source.
- Comment on Vintage Story V1.21.0 - Story Chapter 2 Redux 3 days ago:
A youtuber/streamer I really like who plays a lot of Vintage Story and has created themselves and shown off a lot of other Vintage Story builders work is Ashantin.
What I like about Ashantin is the vibe, they really understand the game but are super relaxed and chill in their playstyle. As in… Ashantin gives off the moment to moment vibes of a very casual player but they understand the game really well at the same time and it is a really pleasant combination that makes good background watching.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 3 days ago:
The thing that usually sucks about MMORPGs is the combat. For this reason I recommend the Monster Hunter series instead.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 5 days ago:
SNW “A Quality Of Mercy”
and then TOS “A Balance Of Terror”
I think it conveys the breadth, depth and love there is in the star trek fandom for the universe.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Well yeah but back then was different, we were way less farther along in the enshittification process.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Nah the hilarious thing is that Ubisoft has some games that are awesome. Steep has incredible mountain design and general design flow to the game, Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Wildlands both look really fun especially with the first person mod. Without all the stupid nonsense attached Riders Republic is awesome playground for a potentially awesome experience.
What makes it hilarious is that the apparent value of a company like Ubisoft is that it makes the value of game ideas and projects under its umbrella more valuable, more polished and more likely to be purchased by customers… and yet I can say with certainty there are 5 or so Ubisoft games I would spend $10+ no question if I woke up tomorrow and they were no longer owned by Ubisoft and were owned by an indie developer.
**Ubisoft literally, probably quantitatively makes the value of IPs under its company name less valuable to people, if the function of a business is to bring value that can be turned into profit Ubisoft is an anti-business. It takes in raw materials and makes them less valuable on the marketplace after it has processed those raw materials for a high production cost.
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 5 days ago:
Exactly
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 5 days ago:
False, polar bears are called “polar” because every polar bear is a polar opposite color from every other polar bear.
- Comment on Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) 5 days ago:
Here’s the uncomfortable truth that every AI agent company is dancing around: error compounding makes autonomous multi-step workflows mathematically impossible at production scale.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 1 week ago:
Just pretend you are trying to bullshit what the objects you are identifying are as if you actually have no clue what you are supposed to be doing but you have learned basic ways to bullshit your way through. Imagine the captcha as the class you cared about LEAST in school and attempt to answer it as sloppily and half-assed as you can without getting kicked out of class.
We were born for this calling my friend.
