No, Half-Life 2 came out as physical media. The controversy was that you had to have a Steam account to activate the copy. Which, when you think about it, is not a whole heck of a lot different than what’s going on here. But Steam has basically institutionalized the use of a platform to access games rather than simply having a physical copy for yourself. Which is why I’m glad companies like GOG exists.

The major difference here is that this game is a console only game. And typically with major console releases you would be able to take your physical copy and put it on a different machine and play on that instead if you liked. Whereas you can’t do that now. You download this game to your console and that is your copy. It is tied directly to your account. Which is essentially how steam works. Which is why I find it absolutely hilarious that Rockstar is locking out platforms like Steam because of their concerns over people hacking the game and distributing it.

I sincerely hope somebody finds a way to crack it in less than a year. These fucking companies need to get kicked in the balls a couple times.

Fun fact about air conditioning units. They are basically a glorified heat pump. And many of the newer units that are being produced can pump heat into the house as well as pumping it out of the house.

Central air conditioning, but designed better. It services individual rooms instead of taking the temperature of the entire house from one location and then distributing based on that.

I just don’t like that style of car.

I just don’t like that so many of them are fucking hatchbacks. I just want a sedan (that isn’t a god damned Tesla).

You will not ever find this game on Steam for Linux. There will be no compatibility layer and there will never ever ever be an official port.

It’s even worse than them just firing them. They fired them for being union members and trying to organize a larger Union in their workforce. This was union busting. And they did it by claiming these people leaked confidential information. Which is blacklisting.

Fuck that company.

This company will never, and I mean absolutely fucking never, make it compatible with Linux. In order to play it on Linux it will have to be so unbelievably cracked that it will be basically free on the internet. And that will probably be at least 3 to 5 years from now. Possibly longer.

All that and I will bet you anything that they will have in-game purchases. Some kind of currency that you can purchase with real money that you can use in the game to buy extra shit.

He is also very very dead. 👻

Ok, don’t buy Volkswagen. Got it.

Also, don’t buy “connected” cars. FFS, if your car features rely on an internet service provided by the manufacturer, you are just begging for these sorts of shenanigans.

They are trying. But there is a downside to everything. Once China has full function to basically replace the manufacturing of processors and memory in Taiwan they no longer have anything holding them back from bombing Taiwan into submission. And several incentives to do so to eliminate their competition. 🫩

Yes, that’s the point.

While he’s the fucking president they have to deal with the asshole, so they use kid gloves because he’s a fucking fragile egg. You don’t get a stupid asshole to do the things you want them to do by being belligerent with them. You handle them. You cajole and you flatter and then you basically ignore every opinion that comes out of the dumb mouth. Which is exactly how most of the G-7 and the EU handles Trump.

Meloni is just another belligerent asshole. She hasn’t the brainpower to handle Trump. Especially while she’s treading her own political waters so badly.

And yet that cunt still got elected president. America the racist.

Oooh, funny that wasn’t mentioned by either the tweet or OP. That’s a significant factor.

I’m actually kicking myself a little bit. I was having some trouble with my processor and decided to get a replacement and I got a one-to-one replacement and I actually should have gotten the absolute limit of what my motherboard was capable of handling. I didn’t do that and now my computer is just shy of being able to run Diablo 4. 😒

Future proofing does not require you to shell out a ton of money. I spent less than $1,000 building my machine back in 2012, buying each part individually as I went when I could save up the money. And I didn’t actually put the thing together until 2016 or so cause my previous machine was working fine at the time. (Still is actually, as a file server in my basement) It just takes a modicum of planning and research on compatibility and what technologies are being used in cutting edge games and programs.

Or, I should say it did. Nowadays everything has become so stupid expensive because of the race to the bottom AI Data center bullshit corporate destruction of the retail market. Though, I kind of saw this coming and bought a whole mess of parts right after Trump was elected so that I can build a decent machine to use once the one I have is no longer viable. Which I have not reached yet…

Bahahahahahah!!!

I downloaded it only so I could enjoy the Radiohead virtual exhibition experience “Kid Amnesiac”.

But that is literally the only thing I would bother with.