I’m loving their reviews section at the bottom.

Well, either modern matchmaking algorithms are absolute dogshit at doing this, or there just aren’t enough low-skill players out there to be matched with. Because if you’re just a casual player, you won’t be losing 50% of games, you’ll be losing 100% of games. Even at the lowest of the lowest tiers, you’ll still be losing quickly and often if you don’t put sweat into it.

I suspect it’s because games are driving away casual players like this that they don’t have enough for matchmaking. Every player at the casual tier either quickly gives up in frustration and leaves, or stays and becomes a sweatlord themselves, continually leaving the casual tier mostly empty, which forces casual players to be matched up with higher-tier players just to find a match at all.

And that’s not even getting into ‘smurfing’ and cheating/hacking.

Hardly. They’re already dipping their toes into Hitler being ‘anti-imperialist’ since he opposed the US.

Now some players are level 2000+, rarely team work and I‘m dying when I spawn.

Every competitive multiplayer game in the world is ruined by sweat these days. You have to dedicate your entire life to the game just to not die immediately. Oh, you don’t have every map completely memorized, including all spawn and bonus locations? To a point where you could play it blindfolded in single player? Filthy casual.

He’s going to use it for political influence to further his fucked-up Nazi ideals.

And, of course, get more money. It’s never enough with these fuckers. They have a version of hoarding disorder. It’s always on to the next grift, more money, more money, more money, more money, number must go up!

Until he’s the only free person in the world and absolutely everyone else is either dead or a slave owned by him, he’s not done.

You don’t have to find any. Hot swappable bays aren’t terribly expensive.

If I had to dual boot, I’d be doing it with hot-swappable drives in enclosure bays. The Linux system drive would never be physically attached to the computer when Windows was running. Windows would have no way to even know it was being dual booted.

Microsoft does different things in different regions and different things in different versions of Windows. Even for the same version in the same region, they may be running an A/B test on you.

(It also may depend on exactly how you’ve set up your bootloader – EFI or MBR, whether it’s on the same physical drive as the Windows partition or not, etc.)

But just because it hasn’t happened to you doesn’t mean that it hasn’t happened to others.

and if you say otherwise you will be under constant surveillance by the government.

*more constant surveillance by the government than usual.

That’s fucking hilarious.

The reason nobody can beat Batman with prep time: one of his prep time options is switching places with Superman.

In the days of AI slopware, you’ll be lucky if you get 50% of the quality. And it’s 130% of the price now, “because inflation”.

thanks to a specific local law

Following local laws? Don’t be a pussy. Upload those cd and dvd rips to Pirate Bay.

… all of them priced like brand new games. Some more expensive than their original retail price, thanks to inflation.

At least that’s the case in my local used game shops.

But that’s okay. I can find plenty of booty to plunder on the high seas.

With storage redundancy, of course. Because eventually, your hard drive will fail.

Cartridges do kinda make sense, you could patch the game on them (in theory), they can come in much larger sizes than disks too.

If AI wasn’t making SSD prices so outrageous right now, an SSD-based cartridge system would make a lot of sense. They could be made in a variety of sizes, to accommodate games with different filesystem footprints, and if the SSDs in them have tolerable performance, they could be played directly off the cartridge, without needing to ‘install’ anything – just insert and go.

It’s also pretty damn close to blatantly admitting genocide…

And … he casts fireball.

Works fine, honestly.

And if you work on cars and stuff a lot, it’s actually much better at cutting through grease and oil grime than regular hand soap.