echodot

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echodot,

Who? I seriously have no idea who you’re talking about.

I honestly think that the main reason this has kicked off is that up until about a week ago it wasn’t really advertised. I didn’t even know that it started the petition up again, I knew the original one failed because parliament closed and for some reason that meant the petition had to end.

echodot,

It was extremely clear what the previous petition was, it was just they weren’t interested in doing anything so they intentionally misunderstood.

echodot,

The UK petition ends before the EU petition so my guess is that they’ll give us some canned response before the end of the month. In their heads that will end the discussion.

echodot,

The hostility from the EU about the UK rejoining (especially from France) tells me that’s not likely to happen.

echodot,

Surely the opposite should be true. It just shows that countries cannot leave the EU because it is far too damaging to their economy

echodot,

Yeah they won’t even discuss it, we’ll just get the same boilerplate response we got last time.

echodot,

The ego on this guy is just unprecedented. It’s Borderlands, most people can take it or leave it.

echodot,

What are you talking about you can buy the PC for less than the price of a PS5 and it will be better than the PS5. The advantage of gaming consoles has always been that it’s plug and play. You just turn it on and there you go.

Sony aren’t going to create a revolutionary GPU that’s only available in the PS6. They might try and charge $1,000 for it but they will always be other options. Where do you think they get their components from? They don’t have their own fab.

echodot,

I can’t see streaming games being anything other than a niche market. It puts the burden onto the streamer, in order to be competitive they look after constantly be upgrading their offering, they will have to have multiple server centres around the world, they will always be beholden to crappy ISPs who just don’t upgrade their infrastructure.

With local hardware you shortcut all of that, upgrading of your hardware is done by the user so they’re not going to complain if it’s out of date, you don’t have to have any server centres, and the ISP issues either don’t matter for single player games that were massively reduced for multiplayer games, now they don’t actually have to send video over the connection. .

echodot,

Microsoft suck at naming things in general. It’s a problem across every single branch of the business, people keep calling Office 365 0365 because Microsoft insists on calling it O365 and people think that’s a zero. Also the name makes no sense anyway, why not call it Microsoft Office Online?

Then we have Microsoft Azure, except they renamed that to Entra despite the fact that both names are stupid. Then of course there is the entirety of the Windows OS lineup.

echodot,

I literally have no idea what generation of console any of those names are from.

echodot,

No that would probably make money. Microsoft don’t make sound business decisions.

echodot,

Everyone knows developers only have one good game in them.

echodot,

Well yeah because they screwed up one of their main franchises. All they had to do was leave Budgie alone to make Halo games, but no.

echodot,

I ended up buying ours from the local priest. Still don’t understand why he had one when all the stores were out of stock for months on end.

echodot,

He didn’t make any moves so I’m not sure if I should be insulted or not.

echodot,

360 was a big hit because everyone wanted to play halo. Honestly outside of that I don’t think there was any other exclusives. At least none that I can remember

echodot,

There’s also Microsoft PowerBi. Just a wonderfully descriptive name.

echodot,

I have Teams (New) as well as New Team’s

Teams (New) is the next version of teams except I literally don’t know what they’ve done because I can’t see any difference.

New Teams appears to be a totally different project except again it looks identical but the calendar is different, they’ve actually managed to make the calendar worse, which is impressive since it was pretty goddamn unusable to start with.

I don’t understand why they have two development strands going on simultaneously.

echodot,

The first, dominant element of the two marks, NAUGHTY, is identical,” Sony said. “The second elements, DOG and CAT, are highly similar in that both refer to house pets

That has to be the most flimsy lawsuit I’ve ever heard. Any lawyer that can win with that case is a freaking genius.

echodot,

I guarantee that Naughty Bunny makes sex toys.

echodot,

What’s an enormous brain he has, it’s amazing that it fits in his itty bitty head.

So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it’s super easy to do this.

Obviously I don’t have a job so I can’t afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I’m good to go.

echodot,

For something like that you should keep the box. You’ll need it if you ever want to resell it

echodot,

I swear to God Nintendo don’t play test their games anymore. It’s always something like this.

echodot,

Oh come on you can’t actually be that dense. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there are these things called laws and companies have to follow them.

echodot,

I hope the wording of the petition is very clear. The last time this was brought up in the UK the government of the time basically just brushed it off by intentionally misunderstanding the petition. You can’t give them any leeway to do that this time.

echodot,

Yes I’ve already signed it, and I signed the original. Although even back then I suspected that the petition was simultaneously too vague and too specific.

It was vague in that it didn’t really explain what it was asking to happen, and didn’t really make the distinction between a product being technically still functional and a product not working because the servers have shut down. While at the same time being too specifically focused on games rather than server run software in general. What happens if Adobe goes down, does everyone lose access to photoshop?

I just feel that this has a better chance of succeeding if they were to de-emphasize the games aspect, and allow politicians the wiggle run to focus on the corporate business side of things.

echodot,

Works fine for me. What’s your problem with it?

echodot,

I haven’t played any of the recent FIFA games but I remember the last one that played had truly awful AI. I never understood why they didn’t have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members. This game actually seems to have that. In fact from the trailer it seems that this might be exclusively multiplayer which is an interesting idea.

Although this game is a football game in the same way Balatro is a poker game

echodot,

I believe war thunder considers these people to be band ambassadors. After all, we’re talking about it.

echodot,

But politicians will actually be prepared to get behind right to repair. But they regard games as a bit infantile, and don’t really want to be involved. A point that was made right at the start of all of this and was then completely ignored.

echodot,

People are already talking about to right to repair, so why not take advantage of that, why make life more difficult for yourself than it needs to be?

echodot,

So how is that different?

I don’t understand, the arguement is whether or not they should have equated this to the right to repair movement, and then you say you think that’s a bad idea but I don’t understand your justification. Your justification seems to be that people don’t care about software, but my if they do not care about software, then they also do not care about hardware, and therefore your comment is irrelevant.

I literally don’t understand your justification for not equating game preservation to right to repair.

echodot,

This is a PR issue. For some bizarre reason they decided that game preservation should be independent of the right to repair movement a movement that had fairly significant momentum by the time they started talking about games preservation. So for some insane reason they separated the two concepts in people’s minds and that resulted in nobody caring.

Then they decided to whine about the fact that it was unsuccessful despite the fact that they’d essentially done everything they could to kneecap the movement.

echodot,

How the hell do they even have 100 employees to fire? The game is basically a UE5 demo project.

echodot,

Well I suppose you’ve got to protect where they’ll see it.

echodot,

I’ve never had stick drift with PlayStation or Xboxes despite people telling me it’s a problem. The switch though is awful for it.

I don’t know what they do to make their analogue sticks so bad but they’re definitely getting them from the world’s cheapest supplier, apparently one that even Sony and Microsoft turned up their noses.

echodot,

They’ll just get sued again if they try that.

echodot,

The problem is that it requires disassembling the controller. Apparently that’s a quite the pain for the switch 2

echodot,

It’s been out like a week I don’t think there’s been time for anyone to experience stick drift yet.

echodot,

You can’t bring a lawsuit for something you think might happen.

echodot,

Of course there’s always being Nazi apologists and equally there’s always been people who are just incapable of moving with the times. That’s not a new thing that’s always been the case.

echodot,

Wasn’t the first game entirely average? And now he wants $80 for the sequel.

echodot,

That tactic would work if it was a multiplayer game or a major franchise but with a single player cookie cutter game there’s no urgency for me to get started and no FOMO. It just isn’t that interesting of an IP

echodot,

I think I had it on my wish list because I was never going to pay full price and then when it came down in price I looked again at it and I just thought nah, I actually don’t care. So I never bought it.

They’re not exactly starting from a solid foundation.

If any game was going to get away with being $80 it’d be something like grand theft auto or one of the next call of duties, not this one. But maybe they’re trailing it on a game that they know will only be moderately successful at best anyway, that way they don’t lose huge amounts of money if it fails to win over players.

echodot,

I would agree normally but it’s Lenovo.

echodot,

The only games I truly enjoyed these days have been unexpected indie hits that are impossible to predict

You have to keep an eye out for dev diaries on YouTube. Normally there is some advisement for them.

echodot,

The list where this doesn’t apply seems to basically be every country with consumer protection laws.

They obviously know this won’t fly pretty much anywhere other than the US so that’s all they’re trying to push.

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