It’s worse than boomer vibes. It’s corporate vibes.

Is there a way to block literally all studios that have a parent company? Because I don’t think parent companies are good things. Nestle is a parent company, QED.

I have an unrelated headache, but the constant allcaps of KRAFTON really makes me want to nail someone’s dick shut.

I’m convinced it isn’t.

There’s an Arduino-based CNC controller firmware called GRBL. Gurble? Gerbil? Garble? GeeArrBeeElle? GuhRuhBuhLuh?

I remember taking my girlfriend at the time to see Avatar. Not The Last Airbender, not Way Of Water, the original James Cameron’s Dances With Ferngully. We ordered a bag of popcorn, and she would reach into the bag, get enthralled with the movie, and leave her hand in the bag. Then I’d go to get some popcorn and there was this chick’s hand in the way.

I stopped going to movies after we broke up.

Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.

Yeah actual error messages with helpful information are a thing on Linux.

The last time I tried to install Windows on something, there was some problem with the BIOS config, and Windows would get part of the way through installing and then a “FAILED TO INSTALL ERROR 0xA9BF4DAFDEB99B7AD46” or something. Installing Linux on the same machine said “Unable to install due to BIOS config. See here for details.” “here” was a hyperlink to the Ubuntu wiki, which you could open in Firefox because this is a live session with the whole desktop there, not some useless installer environment, nevertheless it gave a QR code to the same wiki page so you could visit it on a mobile device if you wanted to.

It’s like it’s meant to be used by humans, not the Borg. And not even like Borg Queen Seven of Nine Borg, like TNG era Borg.

A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading “The lock screen is broken and doesn’t work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command.”

And O’Brian went from transporter chief of a well maintained Federation ship to chief technician of a bullshit alien space station. He had a lot more actual work to do.

Well he’s wearing the DS9 uniform in this shot.

Rule by elderly thieves. Klepto-geri-ocracy.

It’s definitely make ends meet.

Meanwhile, me in the wood shop wearing safety glasses, over ear hearing protection and a dust mask in 95 degree heat and 95% humidity be like:

I could probably build a gaming PC that matches the Series S for $500 with an AMD APU, some Ryzen thing with integrated graphics, no discrete GPU. The Steam Deck makes it work in a handheld format, I can do it in a PC case. Or, go buy used. There’s gonna be a lot of perfectly game capable machines being sold off because they won’t run Win 11. Slap Linux + Steam on there and you’re gaming.

If I understand the situation, they’re rebranding an Asus ROG handheld, which I imagine isn’t going to outsell the Steam Deck or whatever the thing Lenovo is shipping with both Windows or SteamOS on, because they’re late to the game and they’ll fuck it up somehow, and I give 50/50 odds that there will be an announcement that they’re cancelling the next home console launch.

You know, I must have a skeleton of above average quality. I type on a normal keyboard with some bad habits and have done so since I was a teenager. You’d think I’d have carpal tunnel syndrome from wrist to ankle by now but no I’m in good shape.

I hear about these cases of inflation, like the fact a pack of gum cost 15 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, or immediately after WWII the German…reichmarke or whatever they called it, was so worthless it took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread.

Where do I get a wheelbarrow full of uselessly inflated USD? It’s not actually inflation, is it?

Inflation, yeah. The thing that has absolutely never been applied to wages?

Games are getting more expensive. Console prices are going nuts; the Playstation 2 launched at $299 USD.

Wages have been stagnant longer than I’ve been alive. More and more people are struggling to make ends meet let alone buy luxuries like video games, particularly the young because of our kleptogeriocracy.

Younger folks often use video games as a hangout spot, because young folks hanging out together in public is a felony now. So they play the same few games for tens of thousands of hours. Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, I think the crowd that spend their adolescences in Garrysmod are in the attrition phase. You’ve already got a copy of these games, why buy another?

A lot of studios are being closed because business major’s gonna business. Fuck brand recognition or loyalty, fuck development talent, fuck community building, fuck long-term strategy, we can realize a gain right now by sowing half the planet with salt, so that’s what we’re going to do. So what is there for people to buy?

That noise you heard last week was Xbox’s death rattle. One out of the three mainstream home console platforms is an outright stupid idea to buy now.