I miss xfire too.

So that’s what happened to them

Yeah! I can’t be bothered with all this shit, I’ll just be a wagie instead.

You just hate pants eh?

I can respect that

I think at this point maybe Embracer should try replacing Lars Wingefors with ChatGPT instead

Thanks! I’ve always wondered about this. From the comments though, it sounds like there’s a few caveats with what “breathable” really means. Very very interesting.

Getting flip flopped around like that on a timescale of weeks fucking sucks (I’ve been in that situation but not in game dev).

Just… being totally used and owned by an executive team that simultaneously wants to harness/abuse your passion, while also callously making snap judgements like this without any regard for respecting their people… it’s like “how to destroy morale 101”

That’s really moving, OP. I’ve had similar feelings before, discovering (or merely even noticing) the finished result of someone’s labor of love - someone who was no longer in the world.

My grandfather’s homelab and media setup was, and timelessly now is (since I backed up disk images of some of his computers) like this to me. Despite my years of my own joyous tinkering, in many ways his setup still eclipses mine. “Self hosting” wasn’t really a thing yet when he was doing all this, since we hadn’t yet moved to a highly web-centric, SAAS-dominated world, but he’d have been super into it. What’s left of his computers are now quietly falling into disrepair. But at least I have some of the data. He’s been gone over a decade, still miss him.

Cue video with a thumbnail showing the @ symbol, a server, ICANN, Klaus Schwab in his university robe, and Gobekli Tepe

Nah it’s “hehe his handle sounds like bussy”

The real “hate” here is anti-GNOME developer hate lol

And my axe!

I use it on both my iPhone and my GrapheneOS phone. Great on both.

Same, it’s nice here. I don’t miss the old place at all (especially thanks to the Voyager PWA)

Speed of light says no

Yea, this was a common occurrence when I used to rely on PayPal bank transfer. Apparently individual merchants can decide whether to accept it or not.

This is hilariously silly, putting that on my Steam Wishlist hahaha

That pic reminds me of something. Anyone else remember when “flatscreen” was the cool marketing hype for monitors/TVs?

And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!

Yeah, I figured as much.

What a big brain move from their support team, lol

It’s bad enough when these companies are monopolistic and malicious. But monopolistic, malicious AND incompetent - argh, it’s just too much.

I lost my Minecraft account to this, but that’s because the email address I bought the game with was with Lavabit, and thus never was able to receive any of the emails. Couldn’t verify I owned it either because again, no access to the email address.

I was just a kid when I signed up for that Lavabit address sometime in the 2000s, a kid who was vaguely interested in the idea of privacy and software freedom (I used PPC Ubuntu on a G3 iBook btw). Bought Minecraft Alpha in 2010 for €10. Now because of time passing and some bullshit happening I don’t have access to any of it.

But tbh I never opened a support ticket or anything, because fuck Microsoft. Its the principle of the whole thing

Microsoft and Apple are both privacy-disregarding monopolistic megacorporations. The difference is Microsoft is slowly degrading in competence and their PR machine is no longer able to compensate

He needs a little hard hat