circuitfarmer

I’ve been using one of these 4U server chassis. Of course it is in a rack with some other equipment. I’ve been quite happy with it; lots of space.

I switched to a server-style case which sits horizontally exactly for this reason. The sag will only get worse.

I am hopeful for this. Playing it on day one, I reported a garbage management bug on the official forum: only to be told it was “by design”, and yet still game-breaking.

The performance woes got all the press, but the game was fundamentally broken. It was nearly impossible to lose. Too many services for a small city? Here’s free “government subsidies” that you also can’t shut off when your city is successful. Don’t have garbage service? No problem, a neighboring city you have no control over is gonna handle your trash – for free.

I hope this is finally a step in the right direction, but I’ll never understand why it took a year to listen to day 1 issues. If the game had been released Early Access the response would have been better all around. Performance issues need to take second place: if the game isn’t fun, I don’t care how it performs.

Sony’s version of the classic Sega “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”

May not be your goal, but I specifically wanted to get more life out of a Windows 8 tablet sans keyboard. I had a good time experimenting with the x86 port of Android, and it was a surprisingly smooth process.

At the end of the day, it was indeed quick enough for some basic browsing, but anything with video was horrendous despite the drivers working fine (this was a system with Intel Atom and 2GB RAM).

corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites

Is that not all of them right now?

This has generally been my experience as well. The sole exception: Distant Worlds. I’ve never, ever gotten it to run with any version of Proton.

Income. Everything else can be proportional, but if income isn’t, we’re fucked.

I’m gonna game until I fucking die.

Tangentially related, but I’ve had a “Tap here to accept the Samsung terms of service” notification for years now. I always swipe it away. I swear they always show it right after I had a bunch of other notifications to make me more likely to tap it. I have thus made it my life’s mission to never accept it.

The controller, yes. The display itself, no, as far as I can tell.

That brings it outside of the reasonable range for most people, I would think.

Am I right in suggesting that e-ink displays remain artificially overpriced because of the company that ultimately owns the patent?

And the employers are actually already breaking the law for employing such people. It shouldn’t be going beyond that, and yet we never see politicians making that point, because it’s apparently a no-no to call out corporations for their actions at this point in American history.

Edit: and also, at least in the case of who I was talking about, they’d never suggest wages were too low across the board. They’re secure in their scapegoat. We aren’t really disagreeing, I don’t think, but this issue runs deeper because there are ideologies at play that do not adhere to logic.

A former friend of mine was heavy into the right wing and worked construction (surprising, I know). He was always complaining about “illegals taking jobs” and how he thought the work they did wasn’t good anyway.

One day, I asked him: why doesn’t your company stop hiring these people you hate? He said it’s because then they wouldn’t have enough people. Naturally, this is a contradiction. It didn’t matter, of course. His whole personality was built on hating these people.

I think it is that way with a lot of folks. If we penalize employers (like we should, because, you know, the law), then these people can’t hate as effectively. That means they might start voting differently.

2 teams of 6? 6 / 2 = 3…

I like this. It has a kind of military radio chic.

I post this in offering to the internet gods, that this may be the first step which leads to an actually meaningful change.

Cloud based

Good way to kill my interest in anything, at the moment.

They claimed it was so we could have bigger worlds

All such claims remind me of SimCity shooting itself in the foot. Frankly I’m more surprised that the industry still hasn’t learned, but I guess it is to be expected since everything is now run by MBAs.

Ah, sure. I never play online games so didn’t really consider that. Still, it means the player takes a chance with advanced access. That’s always the case, no? I know the industry treats it like a perk, but I’d argue that’s on the industry and not Valve’s policy.

It’s not actually about Early Access. It’s about Advanced Access – when you pre-purchase a game and get to play it before the official release as a perk.

Early Access games (=games where the dev knows it isn’t done and puts it in Early Access) already had the same refund limits as regular games.