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-filter_complexsends its regards - Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 1 week ago:
Trust is hard to earn, but easy to lose - I’d be very careful to trust my data with a company that’s willing to play these games.
They’ve been caught lying before when they introduced the branded drives requirement, but it was too obvious to not see through it. Their backtracking was pure damage control.
Trusting your data with a company that’s just waiting for the right opportunity to extract money from you is not something I’d do. I’d consider their devices time bombs and would take measures to not be impacted when they hold your data hostage. I’m not saying this will happen, their made it very obvious that the risk is there.
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 1 week ago:
Yesteryear’s technology for the price of a complete system
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 1 week ago:
Ahahahaha that’s just laughable
The backlash when they only allowed self-branded (overpriced) drives for their systems was so large that universal hard drive compatibility was their main message at it-sa 2025. Huge banners at their stall advertising what you’d imagine is the bare minimum!
I never bought their shit because it was always overpriced. “But their software is so good and easy!” Thanks, I consider myself capable enough to configure a machine myself.
They’re sucha company that doesn’t understand that for proper enshittification, your users must not have alternatives that they can easily switch to. But there’s no proper lockdown effect for a NAS manufacturer: existing customers can just keep using their old systems, and new ones can use competitors / implement the functionality themselves.
But now they have revealed that they’re just as greedy as others and will happily squeeze you for some extra cash, without offering any more value. You need to hide the fact that your product gets worse for the money! Get rid of existing plans and make sure new ones have additional features (they don’t have to make sense, AI would be a perfect contender if people didn’t hate it) that you can use to justify the price hike!
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 1 week ago:
I know you’re joking, but this is for when you have a reboarder type baby car seat in the passenger seat, in that case the airbag must be deactivated
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 1 week ago:
The Gameboy with Tetris was a huge phenomenon, and it released in 1989, it was very popular with young adults back then which were Gen X and boomers
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
I do prefer 2D fighters, but I personally don’t like how 2XKO looks. I don’t know how to put it. Floaty? That said if I wanted to go into a tag fighter, it’d probably be Skullgirls; yeah the game is super dead but the game is snappy, has fun characters and still like good because of its style.
All that said I’d give the game an honest try if I could because that’s only fair before talking smack. But I can’t
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.
Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.
I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 3 weeks ago:
But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?
While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.
SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 3 weeks ago:
While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you’re always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don’t know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.
Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn’t old either.
The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they’ll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they’ll tell you it’s bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.
Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.
I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux), but you don’t see me complaining about that.
Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don’t make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.
- Comment on Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption 5 weeks ago:
It is (was?) actually worse
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 5 weeks ago:
If you’re so concerned with such a scenario, I’d rather suggest you get something to detect intruders earlier so that 3 seconds don’t matter.
Also as others have pointed out, you’re replacing one risk with another way more likely one. But you do you.
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 5 weeks ago:
Unlocking and cocking take less than three seconds and add a lot of safety, I see no reason to ever put a gun out of my hand in such a dangerous state
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 5 weeks ago:
- ammo loaded
- cocked
- not locked
That’s not how I’d store a gun…
- Comment on FFFFFUUUU 1 month ago:
Which trolling is
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 months ago:
Then why do they vary by hotel?
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 months ago:
This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it’s called “resort fees”. Should be illegal but it doesn’t affect me since I’m not traveling to the US
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
Didn’t spot that, thanks
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
Not explicitly, but 2011/83/EC does state that it applies to everything but “financial services, gambling, healthcare by regulated professionals, package travel, property transactions, social services, timeshare and most aspects of passenger transport” and reservers. And steam’s refund policy is most likely a reaction to this. See eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX…, which mentions the 14 days basically everywhere as a default withdrawal period.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
I think this is factually wrong, Steam only introduced refunds because they were forced to for the European market
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 months ago:
On the other hand, why they actually enjoy this, regardless of the reasons, why would they stop?
Sony could just have ignored this
- Comment on where the cuties 3 months ago:
It’s us millennials coping haha
- Comment on where the cuties 3 months ago:
It’s not a phase!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Not as common as one would like
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Nowhere does it say you have to limit yourself to that
- Comment on Yacht Trouble? 7 Common Problems & Fixes 4 months ago:
I just always being a backup yacht with me
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 4 months ago:
Ah, Capcom U.S.A. Inc. v. Data East Corp. 2: Electric Boogaloo?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 months ago:
Lol yeah the naming was incredibly bad. But I’m pretty sure it was 360 -> one -> series. I only owned the original one (not the One one) and a 360 which luckily was unaffected by RRoD.
I think the 360 was really good all things considered, it was a good console at the time and MS actually helped getting smaller studios their stuff into the store with summer of arcade. It also captured a lot of interest from third party studios. All in all pretty solid. Damn shame that the RRoD tainted the console so much.
Segmenting the market after into S and X was a really dumb move in my opinion. The other one was trying to turn it into an entertainment machine instead of a game console (TV, TV, TV, sports…)
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 5 months ago:
My personal take on that issue is that fighting the vendor is ultimately a losing battle and the later you switch, the more painful it is. If Microsoft wants people to make a Microsoft account for using Windows in non-enterprise environments, it will eventually be impossible not to.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 5 months ago:
First and foremost, I do think Windows is the better choice for most people to play games on, mostly due to vendor support.
However, I’d say that a lot of people have some sort of issue with Windows, albeit probably less than they would have with some Linux distributions. I just wanted to express that “without headaches” is a goal that is maybe higher than necessary.