m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@tindall@cybre.space @elmiko@mastodon.technology Voting with money, supporting companies like these, making them less fragile and their products less expensive, sounds like a more plausible plan to me than sabotaging MS into not being evil (?!) 🤔

@Spudi Надеюсь, что там через дорогу есть Сбербанк. Чтобы можно было потом туда, где открывали карту, туда и приходить.

@Evv1L Его никогда и не было. Какая может быть защита персональных данных в стране, где ещё во времена медленного Интернета все эти «базы МВД» с лотка у метро продавались?
Это нужно было только для того, чтобы склонить международные компании сливать данные пользователей чекистам.

@blackmore Everyone seems to hate this "eat ze bugz" thing, but why? I don't get it!
No one makes you do it, there is a pretty good alternative: https://www.foxnews.com/science/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop

I think I'll take the bugs though.

@sai Now we're talking!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @dushman And I got all the Assassin's Creed games I didn't have at the time and Sleeping Dogs — an entertaining GTA-clone. Not that bad, huh?
TBH there were really bad games too, I don't know how these games even made it into the game store. I don't remember the name, but in one of the games you had to run around the screen with some colorful… worms. That shit was just horrible!

@sai But that thing is not cancer! It doesn't even have pincers!

@yes @hfaust The free software crowd isn't exactly racist. They are just misanthropic in general.

This is the error message I got today on trying to retrieve an image from the web site of FSB-endorsed social network ВКонтакте. It literally says: too many requests from your address, you have to enable javascript to fix it. WTF?! This doesn't even make any sense!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Sickening georestrictions happened long before it became obvious to the rest of the world that Russia is bad.
Try browsing Soundcloud with an exit node in UAE — you'll discover a world of pain.
I've deleted my SoundCloud account after being a paying customer for several years because I couldn't listen to something called Imaginary Dragons.
Later I've realized that SC was trying to protect me, I've listened to Imaginary Dragons elsewhere and it was bad. Not godawful, just bad.

@dushman Oh, you get it! 🤣

@dushman BTW preorders are always bad. Nearly every company out there does stuff like this.
I mean you do get a rare ratdog companion, a shiny wooden sword and a cool hat that… you know, looks cool. But then in a week or two they start selling the game with a 50% discount 🤦🏿

@dushman It is! That is how market works. And that is why the companies in this business really like console market — less risks, higher profits, etc.
I mean I wish everything was cheaper, but if you look at how things work there is no evil conspiracy there. Well, in most cases 😏
MS ripped me off once when I preordered Halo Wars 2. The Most Complete Edition™ — so they claimed. But in less than half a year they've released a payed for DLC — never preordered anything from MS ever again.

@dushman CS was an extremely popular game when CS:GO came out. This was no experiment. But if you make on online stealth RPG about lizard wizards, there kinda IS a chance people won't like it 😅
So the risks go into the price. That is purely economic shit.

@dushman Yeah, and if your expensive to produce game doesn't become wildly popular,the ones who payed full price for it decide to try multiplayer in a couple of years, they realize they can't because the servers are already down 😂
Besides, I don't think PC games are THAT cheaper. Indie stuff sure is, but games like Witcher and Cyberpunk have nearly the same price on all the platforms.
Still, most console games could be cheaper, I agree.

@dushman Paying for software is bad in general. I've payed for two MS Office licenses and I've only used Office a couple of times. Had I chosen subscription-based model, I could just cancel it. And save.

@dushman From purely economical perspective, they've got expenses for server maintenance, traffic, etc. If they don't charge you every month, they'll put it in a price of every game.
Some just don't need multiplayer. Like me actually. I've always got Live Gold at a discount. And you received two free games with it each month: one for Xbox 360 and one for Xbox One.
So it wasn't THAT bad.
I mean I was angry when Blizzard had this idea to charge you for SC2 monthly, but with Xbox it kinda works.

@allison I don't think it was that bad on launch, Halo 5 was pretty good as was the Halo "remaster" and Halo Wars 2 later. You could still play Doom and Witcher on it. But yes, MS is consistent in killing off things that could work. The idea that you could run apps with the same code base on a phone, on your laptop and on Xbox was very appealing. But then… First they've pulled the plug on W10M, then Xbox becomes a little stale and they do nothing about it. And SUDDENLY no one needs UWP anymore 😆

@allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @furgar @dushman Xbox might not be the best platform for such trash. I don't know if it still holds true as my Xbox is just sitting in the corner collecting dust, but it used to require Xbox Live Gold subscription to play anything online. So there is no crowd who like to get something for free, but can be lured into paying for something later. Not the right environment for all this microtransaction bullshit.