Assuming you want an actual answer, supply lines and distribution. We didn’t get the index for ages either until EB Games took on the distribution.

So I’m guessing sales are bad enough that it’s not worth the denuvo subscription huh

Yeah grey talon is a magic nuker, but you expect bullet damage or something if you’ve not really played much until then. I also fell into that trap.

Paradox is also my jam, good taste

I feel you. Honestly it’s weird to me that I enjoy this game, but sometimes I need a bit of white noise and the feeling that I’m getting something done. Also I’m sure my knees would give out after a few days of physical labour.

100% agree. I haven’t been on the backend of managing crowdstrike so I don’t know if this is a option, but running a wsuz server and manually weeding out bad updates was such an improvement over rawdogging windows updates.

Gonna try my best here:

Crowdstrike is an anti-virus program that everyone in the corporate world uses for their windows machines. They released a update that made the program fail badly enough that windows crashes. When it crashes like this, it tries to restart in case it fixes the issue, but here it doesn’t, and computers get stuck in a loop of restarting.

Because anti-virus programs are there to prevent bad things from happening, you can’t just automatically disable the program when it crashes. This means a lot of computers cannot start properly, which means you also cannot tell the computers to fix the problem remotely like you usually would.

The end result is a bunch of low level techs are spending their weekends manually going to each computer individually, and swapping out the bad update file so the computer can boot. It’s a massive failure on crowdstrikes part, and a good reason you shouldn’t outsource all your IT like people have been doing.

God I wish that were me

I’m still running windows for now, but even then Vulkan has de-fucked a few games for me. Given the option, always Vulkan.

That sucks my dude, it sounds like some really shitty people ruined something you liked. So far I’ve found that the only way to protect yourself against that stuff is to set healthy boundaries. It doesn’t have to be rude, but unfortunately some people see it that way. It’s a rough time.

I think it’s nice of you not to be mean. The industry turned me a bit mean as a defence against people constantly shoveling more work onto me. Try to protect it if you can! I miss my lack of mean dearly.

Honestly this behaviour comes off as some way to enact a loss leading strategy. Thing is, I can’t figure out what they would be trying to sell here?

Like making everyone use an account for Sony games does not lessen the blow of potentially paying for online, or using a hypothetical PC Sony store, or buying a PS5. It honestly feels like they’re just incredibly out of touch and don’t understand what the hell they’re doing.

Can’t imagine it’d be worth doing considering you could just dock your deck to the tv. I know the deck is a beast at streaming to it though.

Holy shit you’re right, that doesn’t bode well for conservation in the future. Hopefully by then the anti piracy will all be a bad memory.

Looking back on it, Vista got a lot of hate but I don’t think my experience was that bad. It was really annoying with user account control permissions but honestly as a proto 7 it did okay. Compared to 11 I kind of miss it.

We’re taking about general reduced functioning in these parts of the brain, correct? Any thoughts about what this disorder might be?

I’m riding the ADHD train myself and I’m fascinated with the comorbidities being as common as they are.

In general yes. I’m not going to pull exact numbers up but I think it started declining around 2018.

I’ve heard it said they switched to whatever was most profitable rather than what was actually useful or relevant. I still find good results when looking up niche tech issues, but if it’s more mainstream I get really weird results, so that might indeed be what’s happening.

Good on you for realising though. I mean from an outsiders perspective America tends to push the exceptionalism narrative pretty hard, live there long enough and it’ll get into you sooner or later.

Sounds like a really tough situation!

If I might change the angle here, the anxiety sounds like it’s really overwhelming beyond what I would expect from just the list.

It might be worth trying to nail down what exactly is giving you grief, and seeing if you can do anything to work on that.

If it’s generalised to the point where it really is just the list, maybe start small. Give yourself a hard limit where you only have a few things on there, and make sure they aren’t stuff that will cause you anxiety. If even that doesn’t work, you might need more help. There’s no shame in that either, I’ve gone on some stuff to help sleep and it’s made a world of difference for me.