captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 9 hours ago:
No, you’re about to be visited by three ghosts.
- Comment on They even got their own island 12 hours ago:
Given that assignment I think I’d turn in a molecule of testosterone for lust. I think I’d turn in dopamine for greed?
- Comment on linus tech tip 12 hours ago:
On the one hand, I’m going to call bullshit. As if Windows has never thrown an error in its 40 year history.
On the other, the whole point of doing an analysis like this is to identify the links in the accident chain. Which are:
- A weird bug related to APT’s dependency metadata happeend in the steam .deb package. This bug specifically effected Pop!_OS because their Cosmic desktop, still pretty much a fork of Gnome, was so new that dependency info got written wrong. Most of the Linux ecosystem was not effected, only Pop!_OS users using the Cosmic desktop.
- This bug was discovered, and fixed via issuing an updated package with the dependency data corrected. BUT, the version of the apt cache that was included in the ISO that Linus downloaded just happened to still point to the bugged version.
- At no point during the install or user onboarding process does Pop!_OS walk the user through the process of a software update. It also does not seem to perform an apt update on launching or searching the Pop!_Shop. I believe it is/was configured to do that on a timed basis, and was trusting that…perhaps a little too much.
- Linus tries to install Steam while on his period and he doesn’t handle an error message particularly well. He turns to using the terminal without really knowing what he was doing and ignores all warnings. On camera.
The design of the Pop!_Shop and over-trusting scheduled updates allowed the bugged package to slip through the cracks. Note this happened minutes after the install of the OS before any scheduled update had happened. Because no one installs software immediately after first boot, right? To their credit, the automated system saw the incompatibility and just errored out. So here comes Linus with the steel chair.
This is why I’m kind of cold on recommending trendy new distros to new users. Let’s very very slightly fork a DE for very petty reasons just enough to cause dependency problems, or let’s re-implement a package manager front end because we want a grid not columns so we’ll redo the whole thing and it’ll be fine.
At the time, Pop!_OS was the big “it solves this one little problem, so point all newbies at it” distro because they shipped a separate ISO for Nvidia equipped platforms. Problem is, other than that it’s just janked up Ubuntu Gnome.
No no! Use Bazzite. No no use Peppermint. No no, use Elementary. No no, use Endeavour. No no, use Nobara. This quarter the one all the newbies are bing told to use CachyOS. Get ready to never hear about CachyOS after 15 months from now.
- Comment on They even got their own island 14 hours ago:
So your advice is to allow myself to be blackmailed. “If you loved me, you’d waste months worth of pay on a shiny rock I’m going to completely take for granted.” Fuck off.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 day ago:
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 day ago:
- Bullshit, and
- I’m not hearing how I’m wrong.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 day ago:
Show me where I’m wrong.
- Comment on linus tech tip 1 day ago:
I’d almost like to see the raw tape rather than the edited version of the episode where he nukes Xorg. I want to do an NTSB air crash investigation on it.
Linus installed Pop!_OS, got a working desktop, tried to install Steam via the Pop!_Shop, got an error message that says “Failed to install steam.” He immediately goes on a rant about how Linux never works, you have to use the terminal.
Why did the Pop!_Shop fail to install Steam? It’s just a front end for APT. Well, it turns out there was a bugged version of steam.deb, and not so much the software itself, but the metadata in the package was written in such a way that it thought it was incompatible with the Cosmic desktop, which was a rather new development at the time. So APT saw the package wanted to remove the entire GUI, and said “No we’re not doing that” and failed with an error.
This was a known bug. And a fixed bug. At the time of recording, a newer version of the package with that bug fixed was available…but the apt cache that the image of Pop!_OS happened to have in the ISO pointed to the bugged version. And the Pop!_Shop doesn’t do an apt-get update when launched, and it’s very Apple-style not obvious in Pop!_OS as to how you do that. In the same episode, Luke installed Linux Mint which guided him through doing a software update. Pop!_OS doesn’t.
Linus didn’t google “popos failed to install steam” and learn to do an apt update and try again. Instead he goes on a rant about how nothing in Linux works and you have to use the terminal. Which he had to look up how to do. Most instructions I’ve seen will tell you to do an apt update before an apt install, but he either skimmed past that or found a source that didn’t say to do that.
He then blitzed right past an allcaps warning that “THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THINGS. TO CONTINUE, TYPE YES DO AS I SAY.” Windows constantly tells you that installing software might break the computer. Linux doesn’t.
He gleefully told it to uninstall the entire GUI to include X11 and it dutifully dumped him to a terminal.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 day ago:
Love doesn’t exist. Only greed and lust.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 day ago:
Immediately before, in my case. I’m thinking of welding some armor to a bulldozer.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 day ago:
This project is underway. What do you think all that ocean plastic is for?
- Comment on See their point 2 days ago:
I still have all my old music from high school. I very occasionally go back and listen to it but not really.
I’ve found myself looking up music that came out when I was a teenager that I didn’t really listen to. I do not care about present day pop music. I didn’t really then, either. My tastes have often been unstuck in time, in high school I got into Bon Jovi but not Bounce or Have A Nice Day, I went out and bought a copy of Slippery When Wet. The album they released while I was a zygote.
I don’t listen to the radio, not the broadcast bands anyway, I’m not really exposed to a lot of new music, and I’ve kind of stopped caring.
- Comment on ... You're mocking me, aren't you? 2 days ago:
lore accurate borzoi
- Comment on Poor guy 😭 3 days ago:
Meanwhile the HR exec’s husband has called up his attorney asking how much this one is going to cost.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 3 days ago:
Until these two fuckers basically all I knew about Coldplay was they’re probably the ones who did that song about apreggios called Clocks.
- Comment on The long hard road 3 days ago:
Disease factory, isn’t that just a Texan elementary school?
- Comment on oh no 4 days ago:
Language is ambiguous; hosting a live television show from your house and watching Stranger Things are both called “streaming.”
- Comment on oh no 4 days ago:
As in, being the streamer. Uploading video to Twitch or Onlyfans or whatever.
- Comment on oh no 5 days ago:
That was the theory once upon a time, but with the incease of working from home, schooling from home, the sheer number of people who are streaming etc. it’s increasingly common for people to need solid up as well as down.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 5 days ago:
Don’t the Japanese have to stab themselves in the liver with a sword if they resign from one of their soul crushing 18 hour a day office jobs?
- Comment on British Slander. :) 1 week ago:
The present US/Mexico border was set by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo AFAIK, If any of Mexico’s southern border is an English speaker’s fault I’m unaware of it, I suppose Canada was still pretty much a British crown colony when most of the US/CA border was hashed out, but except for Demented Child Rapist In Chief nobody contests that border.
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 1 week ago:
That was my take.
Before the Krafton acquisition, Unknown Worlds Entertainment has produced Natural Selection 2 (the first was a Half Life mod, not sure it counts), which sold 300,000 copies, Subanutica sold “over five million” at a $30 price point, and I can’t find any sales numbers for Below Zero, but for back of the napkin math let’s say it sold about as well as Subnautica at ~5 million copies, again at $30.
So both Subnautica and Below Zero grossed $150 million. Subtract the 30% that Steam takes, and you’re left with $100 million, so $200 million between those two games would have been the net take.
Meanwhile, Moonbreaker happened, and I have no sales figures for that.
Everybody talks about what a massive hit Subnautica is, and while it is a successful game, Stardew Valley sold 40 million copies. Subnautica 2 stood a good chance of being a solid commercial success with tons of 2 hour Youtube video essays about how it compares to the original. It was never going to make $750 million. Even if it outsold Subnautica and Below Zero combined at double the price. Add in merch, Peeper plushies, T-shirts, ball caps, they were talking about a movie…Subnautica 2 was going to make a good chunk of that but wasn’t going to make it all.
As far as I can tell, they never intended to pay that $250 million bonus, it was probably offered in bad faith as incentive to sell the studio, and when it looked like they were actually going to pull off the conditions Krafton broke the contract in order to break the contract.
If I get my way, Krafton will never do business in the United States again, and since I’m a vengeful asshole that likes doing brain surgery with a backhoe, I’d probably ban Samsung, Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Sony, Nintendo and Honda, and half of those aren’t even Korean.
- Comment on Perhaps these coworkers were just hugging in a totally platonic way 1 week ago:
She turns and hides her face in her hands, he dives for cover.
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 1 week ago:
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What do you base projected performance on if not prior performance?
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I don’t think Unknown Worlds did have a $250 million single release; that’s probably what they netted across three games, Natural Selection 2, Subnautica, Below Zero.
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Stupidity is an ingredient in betting against your own teams. Because this is what happens, you put yourself in a position where you don’t want your own victories.
Any way, I see it as our goal as the game playing public to figure out how to make this cost Krafton more than $250 million.
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- Comment on W.XP 1 week ago:
No, it was when I got out my old high school computer to mess around with it and go “oh yeah” for a little bit. That was the last time I shut down Windows XP.
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 1 week ago:
Yeah, it boils down to criticizing feminists for being hypocritical, which would not be tolerated of a member of The Left^™^.
He’ll also poke The Right^™^ as much; all he’s got to do to get people thrown out of a venue in Texas is say “I love vaccines, man.”
The dude isn’t on either side, he’s the kind of comedian who makes fun of abject bullshit, and abject bullshit is Not. Scarce. in 21st century America.
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 1 week ago:
Okay, they spent $750 million for a studio that has barely made $250 million in its history. I still don’t think the math mathulates here.
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 1 week ago:
I mean, the publisher seems to be pretty stupid, because…how did they figure that $250 million?
There are two entries in the Subnautica series, Subnautica and Below Zero. Subnautica has sold “over 5 million copies” at a retail price point of $30. So that’s $150 million in gross revenue. For this back of the napkin math I’ll assume that the “over five million” and the number of copies sold at a discount come out in the wash. 30% of that gross revenue is going to immediatley go to Steam or whatever other platform, so the company got $100 million in net revenue before their own expenses like rent and power bills gets at it.
I cannot find sales figures for Below Zero, but it sells for the same price point and I don’t think it could have possibly sold more than Subnautica did, so let’s figure another $150 million gross, $100 million net.
Subnautica as a franchise netted its studio ~$200 million across the launch of two games selling ~10 million copies.
And Krafton had agreed to pay out a $250 million bonus for reaching a certain revenue target in 2025, which they were on track to do given the announced early access launch.
Just to put them in the black for that bonus, Subnautica 2 would have to sell better than both previous games put together at a higher price, and that doesn’t touch the purchase of the studio, operating expenses, or the dump truck of cocaine that must have been involved in these financial decisions.
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 1 week ago:
“She went on ESPN and said ‘I don’t understand why female athletes don’t make as much as male athletes’ and all these men had to sit there pretending to be dumbfounded. I’m sitting at home screaming at the TV ‘BECAUSE YOU DON’T SELL ANY FUCKING TICKETS!’”
–Bill Burr.
Not exactly a bastion of blue haired “My pronouns are emdash/interrobang” leftism, is he?
Reminds me a bit of George Carlin, especially in his later years. George Carlin once did a bit about groups of people he would like to see killed in various ways, to include gun enthusiasts, helicopter parents and people who made small purchases on a credit card.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 1 week ago:
I think you could make a sour sauce that would be good with watermelon. Maybe something similar to lemon curd.