Pretty on brand for EA to take a good thing and just fucking murder it.

Interesting when I fired up steam Apex was the title ad on the Store page.

Unless their machine doesn’t meet the hardware requirements.

Unless you pirated W10 it was not free. The price of laptop and PC hardware with Windows per-installed is subsidized.

In our efforts to combat cheating in Apex, we’ve identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats. As a result, we’ve decided to block Linux OS access to the game.

Translation: Software development is hard and we would rather spend our time maximizing in-game transactions.

Valve continues to do the minimum to keep it’s users happy, and that’s 100x better than than the industry standard. Tiny steps but in the right direction.

It’s not.

When my gf buys a new laptop she hands it to me and says:

Linux this

Market share. I know it’s a meme but seriously, push Linux on people who will benefit from it.

My girlfriend is totally non-technical but I set her up with an old laptop running Debian and after a few months she loved it. No ads, no popups selling cloud storage, no forced reboots, and it doesn’t crash. That’s one more browser hitting websites without Windows in it’s useragent string.

Oh, I’m stupid too but only in ways that make me difficult to relate to, work with, or really just know at all.

I’ll have to try again, the last time I tried was close to the Index Launch.

Just like popups about cookies!

The second that VR support becomes passable on Linux I can dump my last Windows install. It’s amazing how such a terrible product still has a chokehold on the PC market pretty much out of momentum alone.

In 19 years I have never been burned by Valve, in the same period I have lost access to software (and hardware) from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Epic. They are a money making business and will always act in their own interest but so far it seems like their own interests includes not stomping on customers (in my experience).

What monopoly? Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Epic all make money hand over fist selling videogames.

No they wont.

There is no demand for dumb-TVs. People are stupid, people don’t know what they want, people don’t know that their TV is broken because the manufacture made it broken. People will buy what they are told to buy.

At best you can buy a smart TV, hobble it, and use your own video sources.

Past 30 years: VIDEO GAMES ARE THE DEVIL!

Now: DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them

Are you sure?

Mostly that I’m bad at it and can see my imminent death coming 5 to 10 second before it actually happens.

Rain World is the most awesome and frustrating game I have ever played. I’m glad it’s still getting support.

Yay, ageism!

TikTok users are pretty evenly spread from age 10 to 50.

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/tiktok-demographics