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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yanno, I have always loved borderlands, but randy pitchford is an absolute fucking tool.

  I even bought one of the diamond editions that came with a physical damn loot crate and tons of goodies with BL3, so it’s not like I’m not a fan. But still, how fucking stupid do you have to be to say it like this? What a stupid jackass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  for instance, fresh install of debian 12, try to open calculator - it freezes. why? because some … we’ll say, extremely inexperienced developer put a blocking call to a bunch of banks for their latest exchange rates so that you could convert money right in the application!

  not only is this not a mission critical feature for a simple calculator, but there is no way in hell that an error to a live service should block the main thread for the application if it’s waiting on a response (successful or otherwise). why would this exist? how has this not been rolled all the way back until said feature isn’t there? wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the need to remind everyone that when I was buying NES cartridges in 1988 and 1989 at the ripe age of like, 6, they were like 39.99$, and SNES were usually 50$, unless you wanted something fancy like Secret of Mana where the cartridge had some special snowflake chips in it and shit. Entire birthdays’ gifts were combined into a single game I could buy, once a year at most.

  I don’t know of literally anything else that cost 50$ in 1989 that only cost 50$ today.

  But with everything else getting god awful expensive, it’s hard to stomach yet more things getting expensive too. I’m just pointing out that gas was like, 89c a gallon at the same time, so… yeah. I just find it wild that games haven’t really gone up in price alongside everything else over the same time period, it’s kind of super unique in that regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Game Pass underperforming?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing up without ubiquitous cable or satellite tv, I just did the world’s biggest double take when I read “TV has always been a subscription model”.

  Just saying. We had 3 channels. 3. And on Sundays, every one of them was TV church. It was the fucking worst.