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I was going to push back on your point here, but then I couldn’t think of a game that makes a good counterpoint.

The Finals, Battlefield 5 (amazingly it has no loot boxes), Helldivers 2, Arc Raiders, all have anti-cheat so need kernel level access, but they’re not predatory.

It’s only slow if you’re running a slow computer. Anyway it’s way faster than all your electron apps which each insist on taking up four for gigabytes of RAM

I used to work at a place that had dot matrix printers for printing on envelopes, there was some complicated reason why this couldn’t be upgraded, anyway the computer that ran that was an Acorn, with all its three mouse button goodness, it could only save to floppy disk and the only supplier of old floppy disks is like this one random dude who seems to have bought up the global supply of floppy disks back when they were discontinued. Apparently he makes bank.

Some of Microsoft’s corporate products are actually quite good, if very boring. I would love it if Linux had some version of Active Directory, although Microsoft’s attempts to cloudify it are a very annoying. Fortunately you can just ignore that, at least for now.

They also get a lot of credit for releasing VSCode for free as well.

I don’t really know what it is, but I do know that a whole bunch of stuff doesn’t work if you don’t have it installed. That and Java.

I would be quite prepared to pay a price for an operating system if it meant that it just works the way that Windows just works but without all the bloat. I’m really not all that interested and installing an operating system that likes to fight me.

Does it run Windows applications?

What is wrong with .NET, it’s very useful when running applications which require it which of course is basically every application in a corporate environment.

But yeah all the other things are fine.

They can take a game off sale but they can’t take something from me that I’ve already downloaded.

I suppose if any game is worth $100 it’ll probably be a game from Rockstar. Personally I’m waiting for reviews since there’s literally no point pre-ordering.

Yeah that’s my problem with it as well. People keep going “but steam does the same thing” but with steam I actually have the install on my computer, a computer which valve does not control and they cannot take things off me after the fact.

Don’t make more moronic comments and I’ll be happy

That’s not what they’re doing though. That would be fine that’s just a heat exchanger.

What they are doing is pulling water from the mains to cool the system either directly or to cool an internal system via heat exchanger and then are dumping hot water back into the environment. They’re not pumping the water to cooling ponds and letting it cool back down and then pulling the water back out of the cooling ponds to use again.

No one on those platforms buys games anyway. They’re too busy playing mobile games.

The problem isn’t digital the problem is digital only.

It’s only 8:00 where I am so it’s possible I will read a more stupid less informed comment today, but I wouldn’t put money on it.

Yeah the big advantage of disc is Sony can’t randomly take it away. And given the fact that they have literally just done that with a bunch of movies it’s kind of a problem.

Did you have to attend some sort of school to learn how to be that ignorant or was it just naturally occurring?

You’re doubting something that’s reported widely in the news, go look it up. Actually you’ll probably fuck it up so here’s a link

As far as I can see they don’t ever do it that way, that’s the problem, if it was a closed loop they wouldn’t be pulling water from the mains and causing water pressure issues for everybody else.

Because it’s considerably cheaper to do it this way and they’re being allowed to do so. Why would they spend money building giant cooling towers when they can just dump the hot water into the river and then drain main supply for fresh supply.