Even if we ignore the manufacturing and material costs, changing over the entire production infrastructure (from injection molding to electronics and final assembly) is insanely expensive and would effectively shut down production until all of the verification runs are done. This way they can continue production for the unaffected regions.

I’m not covering for Nintendo (they can burn in a fire for all I care), but I have worked in an electronics factory and knew some of the process engineers: any kind of change is a massive pain in the ass downstream.

There’s no winning strategy to reveal the price. Announce a low price early and release a much more expensive product, they get flayed alive. Announce a high price, public interest falls off a cliff. Keeping potential customers guessing at least keeps the Gabecube in the news cycle.

PLEASE CRANK THE SILLY THING AROUND should not be as hilarious as it is

First, read the actual ToS. That will spell it out.

Second, even if they kick you off the platform, what’s the loss? Git doesn’t depend on a single server by design. If you have to switch to a different provider, all you have to do is set up an empty repository on the new platform, change the local repository’s remote, and push. If the goal is to learn how to use git, then managing the remotes should be a part of it.

If all you need is a git server, then Codeberg is as good as Github. Better if you consider uptime and reliability.

still sorta developing what would become their open world formula

The formula was already fully developed when AC2 was released in 2009. You didn’t have to literally climb radio towers, but WD2 was still the same map marker collect-a-thon with a slightly different, slightly gay coat of paint.

I have horrible news.

Ring works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.

I liked Watch Dogs 1 mainly because I didn’t consume any pre-release media about it. Whatever downgrade there may have been, I was unaffected. The game and its story are about as Ubisoft as they come (and I don’t mean that in a particularly positive way), but it was great for fucking around.

I also liked Cyberpunk 2077’s launch version, but at the same time, I think the people who are trying to memory hole the objectively dogshit launch state of both 2077 and The Witcher 3 are perpetuating the problem.

Skirt and programming socks. The skirt provides optimal airflow and the socks can be adjusted using a PID algorithm to achieve the desired thermal equilibrium.

Clanker equivalent of telling an angry spouse to stop overreacting.

storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free icloud accounts

I bet somebody’s been bored and/or psychotic enough to have done that, booted a Linux machine from it, and played DOOM on it.

The acquisition was finalised in late 2021. No, Kim was stupid entirely by his own power.

That entire situation was ridiculous. The major points:

• Yes, that contract was stupidly favorable to Unknown Worlds. It was negotiated by none other than Chang-ham Kim, CEO of Krafton.
• Kim later realized that and wanted to back out of the contract because it would’ve made him look like a pushover. He employed the help of ChatGPT, which told him that it was a stupid fucking idea.
• He went ahead with the plan anyway. He fired Unknown Worlds’ three co-founders for made-up reasons and appointed Steve Papoutsis as the CEO
• He tried to sabotage the game’s development by disrupting communication between Unknown Worlds and other departments, to push the early access launch beyond the window where the 250M could be earned.
• Obviously it went to court. Krafton tried to change the story about the reason the co-founders were fired based on information that they discovered afterwards (they kept backups of documents, which Krafton argued was industrial espionage), but the judge was having none of that chicanery.
• During discovery, the ChatGPT logs and some conversations were revealed that personally implicated Kim.
• The court ruled in Unknown Worlds’ favour. The judge ordered Ted Gill to be reinstated as CEO (the other two co-founders chose not to return) and the bonus window to be extended by several months to account for the time that they didn’t have conrol of the company.
• As a last fuck-you, Papoutsis prematurely announced Subnautica 2’s early access launch. Gill had no idea about the state of development.
• Subnautica 2 then went on to be a massive success, Krafton has joined EA and Activision in the doghouse, and Chang-ham Kim is now known to be both a pushover and a fucking idiot.

Thigh-high socks

They’ve even put programmer socks behind subscriptions, world is a fuck

Mostly I can only describe it as “game no worky”. Steam pretends to launch a game, then nothing happens. My hypothesis is that Steam does something to the runtime environment that fucks with some games.

One other thing that I’ve noticed is that on Wine/Proton environments launched from Steam, the lettered drives (aside from C:) are mounted as some kind of overlay filesystem. Writing to them (e.g. by an installer) causes data to be written into memory, not to the mass storage where the drive targets are located.

why not just disable SISR and go along with that?

Because I want to use all inputs on my controller, and (so far) only Steam Input allows me to do that. Without Steam Input, the SC is comparable to an Xbox controller.

I’ve tried most of the methods in the article, to no effect.

Mine was also shipped by GLS (before the entire system fell apart) and it allowed me to change both the delivery date and address.

To be fair, it was really stupid of Valve not to anticipate a massive interest from both customers and scalpers. The internet collectively went crazy like a hamster on coke when the hardware announcement dropped. They should’ve had the reservation system and per-account ordering limit in place from the first moment. Not that it would’ve prevented the unmitigated clusterfuck of logistics companies.

Valve is also the only party that has the size to put pressure on the logistics companies. A couple hundred dissatisfied individual customers hardly amount to a rounding error for the likes of UPS and GLS. Pissing off Valve, especially before the major release of hardware, is not something they can afford to do.

Satisfactory is rainbow sprinkles compared to Factorio’s crack cocaine.