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- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 4 hours ago:
As it stands? Cloudflare is still incredibly effective at protecting customers from those DDOS attacks. Which, depending on your hosting solution, can mean very noticeable monetary savings because YOUR hardware/connection didn’t spike. And, regardless, can mean noticeable monetary savings as your engineers didn’t need to recover a crashed system because your setup was just sitting there idle.
That said: If you truly need high availability? You need to do what downdetector did and have alternatives ready in the event that Cloudflare falls over. Same as with your ISP… which should be ISPs plural.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December 1 day ago:
On the one hand? Cool
On the other hand? Holy crap, GW1 has official gamepad support before GW2…
On my third hand (it is one of those pinchy grabby things): I am gonna be REAL curious how this shakes out.
I loved GW1 back in the day. Five or six months back I got it in my head to replay the campaigns and… they are REAL bad
- Prophecies is the original campaign and is, narratively, the coolest (and really drills down how Humans are actually the Elves of Tyria which just went even farther with GW2). It is also the one that was specifically designed to require coop and the henchmen, if anything, make the game worse which is why general guidance is to not start in Prophecies or to make a mad rush to Nightfall to get proper Heroes). Laranity gonna have to work in overdrive to put out enough videos to tell people to not make a Prophecies character…
- Even once you have a full roster of maxed out Heroes, the level scaling means that you are basically constantly in a slog against rapid healing enemies until you get the right skills to make the right builds to stop that… and the way skills work in GW1 is that you have to buy them from specific vendors (or steal them from specific bosses) which means you actively can’t make a solid build until a good chunk of the way through multiple campaigns
- And, regardless of those builds, the way fast travel works is that you can only fast travel to towns/outposts. So to complete a quest or reach the next mission that often involves a 10-40 minute slog through one or more zones of constant level cap enemies just to find the next town/mission before you have to log off for the evening. Which is a REALLY bad feeling when you aren’t even sure what path to take to get to the next outpost
I DO think GW1 can be “modernized” with minimal changes.
1, Add more skill vendors to Lion’s Arch or even the starting hub areas. Especially since it sounds like Reforged is getting rid of the DLC/expansions and making it one bundle. 2. Arguably also allow us to buy those skills regardless of our class (so Necro can buy Mesmer skills). This removes a lot of the importance of Ascending but also makes building out those Heroes so much faster 3. Similarly, let’s add a Hero or two to Prophecies and Cantha so it isn’t a mad rush to Nightfall. 4. Add more fast travel points to the maps. I would almost say to just make all the respawn shrines fast travel points but there are probably balance issues there
Do that and GW1 stops being a slog where you need an hour or two per session to make any progress and instead lets people focus on the REALLY fun builds you can make for different characters.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 day ago:
The PS3, in large part, sold because it was THE best blu ray player out there. At a time when games on the Sony were actively worse than any other platform (because the CBE was a mofo for third parties), the PS3 was heavily buoyed by it weirdly being one of the cheapest blu ray players out there. And the PS2 was a REALLY good DVD player which heavily contributed to its market dominance.
For people who already have an AVR and are used to doing all their own infrastructure, it matters less. For people who essentially plug one box into the one “good” port on their TV? When there is one 1k USD box that can only do games and one 1k USD box that does games and netflix and youtube and disney plus?
It might not be a huge deal in the long run (especially with TVs having a lot of this functionality built in) but it is a talking point with no good answers. And that impacts the idea of it being “an entry point”.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 1 day ago:
Basically all the services more oriented at TV/movies (Amazon, Max, probably the movies you can buy on Youtube, etc) all tend to either lock all content behind an HDCP handshake or higher resolution streams.
So you might be able to watch the latest Glenn Howerton movie on your linux HTPC but it will be a lower res stream with no HDR or surround sound. It is a very known problem that sheepishly comes up any time someone asks about how they can build their own nvidia shield or whatever.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro would like you to know he has been working on games, they just keep getting cancelled 1 day ago:
As someone who played every Drakengard… Taro tells amazing stories that very much understand how to use the medium to drill the emotional and philosophical beats home. Most of his games probably should have never gotten anywhere close to shipping.
But yeah. Sincerely doubt it is a sign of quality control and better pipeline control…
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
- Poe’s law?
- Endlessly sucking off cheney and mao in hell?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Yeah. The US definitely was horrifically evil long after other Global North countries had decided to chill but we were far from the only people running on the backs of the Global South.
In a lot of ways, the US was late to colonialism and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it. The USSR/Stalin was late to (there is probably a better term for it but I can’t remember it) peasant revolutions and took it WAY too far and commit atrocities for it… and then ended up being a global power that extended said reign of terror to anyone sharing a border with them.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
Communism inherently couples both the economy and the government.
In theory, capitalism can be decoupled since it mostly depends on laissez-faire governance. Communism inherently requires a planned economy and centralized control of such.
There is theoretically nothing stopping said leaders of a communist regime from being elected through a democratic process. But much like democracies tend to favor capitalism and (lower case) libertarian ideals, communism tends to lend itself to dictatorships because… you have a centralized control of all aspects of society.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 day ago:
dot ml 'bout to crest the horizon like the riders of rohan.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 2 days ago:
Of course they have considered it. It is literally their model for handheld form factor gaming laptops (aka “Steam Deck”). And it is what they tried with round 1 of Steam Machines.
The real problem is going to be… all the problems that those of us with a Linux HTPC have. Streaming of media won’t be a thing since most services have DRM that relies on HDCP handshakes these days. Also people are going to learn the fun way why that AMD setup only supports “HDMI 2.0” (although there are workarounds to get most 2.1 functionality out of a display port adapter). Let alone just general weirdness that tends to not come up when everything is one integrated device.
Consoles have gone a LONG way towards ruining “it just works”. But I spent an hour or so yesterday finally flashing my display port dongle and it involved a second device to SSH into my HTPC and, in the process, I ended up needing to re-pair my xbox controller afterwards. I am used to that kind of bullshit and think it is fun. The first time that happens to someone you can expect all of social media to start caring that GabeN is a weird rich lunatic and insisting that Kojima-san and Sony will fix everything with the PS6 or whatever bullshit.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Agentic AI is just a buzzword for letting AI do things without human supervision
No, it isn’t.
As per IBM www.ibm.com/think/topics/agentic-ai
Agentic AI is an artificial intelligence system that can accomplish a specific goal with limited supervision. It consists of AI agents—machine learning models that mimic human decision-making to solve problems in real time. In a multiagent system, each agent performs a specific subtask required to reach the goal and their efforts are coordinated through AI orchestration.
The key part being the last sentence.
Its the idea of moving away from a monolithic (for simplicity’s sake) LLM into one where each “AI” serves a specific purpose. So imagine a case where you have one “AI” to parse your input text and two or three other “AI” to run different models based upon what use case your request falls into.
And… anyone who has ever done any software development (web or otherwise) can tell you: That is just (micro)services. Especially when so many of the “agents” aren’t actually LLMs and are just bare metal code or databases or what have you.
The idea of supervision remains the same. Some orgs care about it. Others don’t. Just like some orgs care about making maintainable code and others don’t.
But yes, it is very much a buzzword.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency releases pre-alpha for free 4 days ago:
I’mma be honest?
Even if this is comparable to KSP1 in terms of gameplay… I just cannot cause even a fraction of the hell and suffering that Jeb Kerman has experienced to cute little kitty cats.
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- Comment on Scandal 5 days ago:
“It’s not gay to suck someone’s dick. It is only gay if you let a man suck your dick”
- Comment on Scandal 5 days ago:
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Eothas. Fucking. Wept. This is amazing.
Was just chatting with a friend about how it seems there is widespread illness and injury going around and at least some of that is probably related to depression over the Democrats fucking up last week.
This… we gonna be running god damned marathons.
To be clear: there is absolutely nothing wrong with consenting adults sucking each other off. But this is just so god damned juicy.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 5 days ago:
From everything we have heard… I would be shocked if it wasn’t pretty damned close.
Gamers Nexus touched on the pricing info they were given. Go watch the video to confirm but off the top of my head:
- The Steam Machine will be priced competitively with an entry level computer
- The Steam Frame will be below the price of an Index
So what that translates to is
- The Steam Machine will likely be in the 800-1500 USD range
- The Steam Frame will be up to 1000 USD
Which… sounds about right. The Steam Frame is going to use a comparatively cheap Snapdragon processor but it still needs all the HMD tech. The Facebook Quest 3 is around 500 USD and considering economy of scale… that is probably the price floor for the Steam Frame.
And the Steam Machine? That is rocking a proper Zen 4 with 16 gigs of DDR5 and 8 gigs of DDR6. Considering how expensive RAM already is and how that probably ain’t going down until late 2026 at the earliest… And it is worth noting that people lost their shit over the ROG XBOX ALLY X S 45 WHATEVER being 1k but… spec wise that lines up with similar laptops. The display is a decent chunk of that, which the Steam Machine won’t have, but… yeah.
Computers is expensive. Especially in a Post Liberation Day world. It will be a miracle if the base console price (because you can bet the PS6 is gonna do the same stupid bullshit MS did with the Series S…) is below 900 USD with the “real” price being well over 1k. And the Steam Machine is going to be priced along those lines because Valve (presumably) doesn’t have a bunch of warehouses full of parts from five years ago.
- Comment on Black Ops 7 single-player doesn't allow pausing or mission checkpoints on top of being always-online 5 days ago:
I saw an argument about this on a different forum.
it sounds like the root problem is related to the SP campaign providing MP progression. So, because apparently how many times you’ve prestiged a 1911 is a major concern, all of that requires phoning home (the olds among us may remember when this was literally UbiDRM back for SC Conviction and the like…).
From what I could tell: If you gracefully disconnect then you keep your checkpoints. If you lose connectivity, you lose your progress for the entire mission.
It sucks since there really is nothing like a CoD spectacle out there. But if you just want a good FPS campaign with some fun moments? Get your Steam on.
- Comment on Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2 5 days ago:
I think they are more likely waiting to see how supply chains and pricing shakes out.
ARM has a LOT of power and portability implications and lets them leverage cell phone hardware. But the Ryzen AI Maxes are kind of monsters in the laptop space (and that is essentially what a steam deck is).
Get the steam machines and frames out there, see how they settle, and then check in for what hardware lets them meet the price point they want for Steam Deck 2.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 6 days ago:
You would need REALLY massive hands to touch those when your thumbs are resting on the analog sticks or the face buttons.
- Comment on Nextcloud plans to invest over €250 million in digital sovereignty 1 week ago:
Not sure what drugs you are on but… gimme some.
But yeah. I am glad that the world is trying to minimize dependence on MS. Nextcloud… is very much not it. It is bloated and plugins break constantly and it is shockingly horrible for everything except file sync.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
“We are responsible for what we say and what we do, not the interpretation others do out of them.”
Yeah, fuck off with that Steven Universe bullshit. It is fun to tell kids to do what is true to them and to not care about what anyone else says. Until they are an adult who thinks dressing up like a school shooter is fun.
Intent is excuses and apologies. Actions are… actions. And if someone’s take is that they totally get why sucker punch bent over backwards to protect chuds (at the expense of labor) and that they clearly don’t give a shit about the massive waves of abuse thrown at a voice actress? I’mma gonna assume they are a chud. And, because I believe in judging people by their actions, I 'mma gonna call them a chud.
Does that mean they are a chud? Of course not. There is a LOT of room to apologize and make it clear they are actually an ally. A half-assed “no, I didn’t do that” ain’t it.
And… if you aren’t an ally, you are an enemy. And a large part of allyship is doing what you can, no matter how small, to make people feel Seen and welcome. And when you have moderators siding with the people who don’t really give a shit what kinds of abuse a genderfluid actress received for daring to exist while making DAMNED sure we understand why the company that left them out to dry is gonna protect the chuds?
So, on that note: Decide where you stand. But, by all indications, you might as well ban me now because I’m going to continue to call out chuds. And I’d hate for that to get in the way of the hype train and posting daily blog posts.
- Comment on Real talk, which would you rather have: Megaman 12, or Megaman X9? 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, we didn’t create enough art for Joseph Gordon Levett to sell so Volnutt is forever stuck on the moon and we will never get an aged up Tron Bonne outside of the internet.
- Comment on Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series 1 week ago:
I forget a lot of 3. But 1 and 2 didn’t really do mission rankings along those lines and were generally built around having to push through multiple rooms and hallways. Whereas 4(a) heavily emphasized wide open spaces and rushing to get those objectives.
6 was a MUCH better balance where the S rank actually often required a certain number of kills and many missions had ways to justify the ammo expenditure so that it wasn’t just “get a karasawa and then human plus”.
- Comment on Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series 1 week ago:
I always preferred the chonky bois of AC1/2, but 4/4a did indeed feel REAL damned good.
My main issue is that everything about the mission structure encouraged just rushing the objective and DPSing it down. Which is fun sometimes but not when it is EVERY mission.
Its also a big reason I genuinely loved Daemon Ex Machina (the first one, at least). You had the blitzes and the arena missions but you also had some truly amazing slogs where you are just fighting nigh endless waves of MTs and are grabbing whatever gun you can off the ground to down a few more enemies.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
I didn’t minimize what happened
No, you 100% did. All while also justifying chudlike behavior because the company that released the game about a Native American (who was Troy Baker in brownface but we try to ignore that) fighting against the cops in Seattle can’t afford to have any policality to their games. Also that ignores the actual Ghost games themselves.
Maybe you didn’t intend to. But your actions sure as hell did. So… either get pissy and insist you didn’t and the problem is everyone else or engage in some self-reflection.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
It was literally a joke about wondering if the killer would be named “mario”. It was far tamer than what many of the chuds have said.
It was sheer and utter cowardice and abandoning the people who actually make the games that got them there. And when even god damned paramount reversed course with kimmel, the head of Sucker Punch doubled down on standing by their actions.
As for Ishii: “Social media was being social media” sums up how much you care on that front.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
Part of me thinks that this is going to be the one where no one fucking gives a shit because of all the BS that R* have been doing since GTA5,
Zero chance.
Sucker Punch fired one of their senior devs for a mario and luigi joke when kirk got got. EVERYONE was angry, the studio heads came out to say they stand by their decision, and plenty of people were keyed in to the hell that Erika Ishii has had to put up with on social media for daring to portray a female character in a video game.
Ghost of Yotei comes out. Metacritic of 86 and just about every outlet had to cover it and talk about how much they love it. A few of the more independent outlets stood true but… there are just so few video games that come out in a given year that you can’t possibly dare to deprive yourself of something over things like workers rights or politics. I mean, what else could you possibly play in September of 2025!!!
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
This is the Author’s Guild asking for internet providers to be able to block people without a court order.
Uhm…
Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court
That’s the question at the heart of Cox Communications v. Sony, a case the Authors Guild—joined by Sisters in Crime, Romance Writers of America, the Songwriters Guild of America, Novelists Inc., the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Society of Composers and Lyricists—weighed in on by filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on October 22, 2025.
This is asking for the court to decide in their favor.
As for
They can already go after individual infringers and web sites that aid in piracy. Now they want to be able to order providers to cut off users without the bother of going to court over it.
ISPs have been doing that for decades. That is where data caps came from with the ISPs tending to throttle the hell out of you if you downloaded too much in a single month or they thought you were running a website without paying for business internet. Back in the day, you just had to call and ask why your internet was so slow (for the fifth time that year…) and they would un-cap, but that eventually turned into an official system where they charge an arm and a leg for going over 1 TB or whatever nonsense.
ISPs are already doing whatever they want without court orders. They just do so in a way that lets them profit off the pirates (if there isn’t enough competition to prevent them from doing so).
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
The local government is not banning repeat speeders from using the roads though.
Uhm… they do. Fuck up badly enough and your license is taken away. Does that stop people from driving? Of course not. But the penalties for getting caught go up really fast (if you aren’t a cishet white “good old boy”).
And while it is more associated with NIMBYism than safety, there are a few neighborhoods around the country where “no through traffic” is enforced very heavily. Usually there is no actual fine, but you get a rentacop who will make your life hell for the 30 minutes they spend “running your plates” and so forth.
That should remain the decision of the courts.
Uhm… what do you think this is?
- Comment on Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft 1 week ago:
I mean… why do you think new speed bumps and traffic signals get added to neighborhoods? Same with adjusted speed limits.
That IS the engineers (well, the local government that employs them) being held accountable for dangerous roads.
For this? I have very serious concerns for all the obvious reasons. But ISPs 100% know what we are doing. Like… there is a reason that comcast et al basically have like a 1 gig upload on a 100 gig down connection. Same with bandwidth caps… which “worked” up until everyone was teleconferencing from home and watching 4k netflix.
And… considering comcast et al love to sell bundles for “unlimited bandwidth” or “symmetrical upload”… they are very much profiting off of piracy.
