It wasn’t for me, either, but I’m fairly certain the point of Goat Simulator is that there isn’t one.

People don’t hate these companies because they “don’t cater to them”. They love or loved the games, but these companies then turn around and try to screw their own fans out of every cent, nugget of personal data, and free time, that they have. There is no anger like the anger of a true fan.

To get that pissed, you had to have cared quite a lot to begin with.

The rest, are simply indifferent.

That, is why people are upset enough to experience schadenfreude when their stocks and releases fail. Because that is an event that SHOULD be proving to these companies that if they keep pushing the bullshit, they soon won’t be catering to anyone anymore. Hence it’s something that gives fans hope that they will pull their shit together and get back to doing right by their own franchises and talent.

And we are not all in the same boat. Some of us just want good games.

Even when companies like Ubi make good games, they come with a shitload of strings like “but the monetisation is unethical” or “the devs were forced to crunch” or “the company leadership did nothing about a festering company culture of criminal mysogyny”.

Simply by operating as ruthlessly as they do, these companies are slowly convincing the world they are “non-decent” institutions. Such institutions need massive restructuring, when the don’t deserve complete disassembly.

And angering your fans is a process that only goes one way. Every fan you piss off enough to make them swear to never again give you a chance, is one you probably wont ever have as a customer again.

Yeah, some will be malicious enough to cheer at the individuals getting screwed over when megacorps eat shit. But every sane person is cheering because there is now a large pool of talent looking to do something good with their skill, out from under the thumb of managers demanding every mechanic be optimized for monetization, rather than gameplay.

This person isn’t wrong to be disgusted with people who cheer at jobs being lost, but he is also MASSIVELY out of touch with how his own company is operating, and how it is coming to be viewed by the world as a result.

Sure, but they tend not to stick around and their profiles seldom have years-long histories.

I don’t think so? Pixiv requires AI “artists” tag their posts as such.

What. Nothing in this image even implies sex happened, or is going to happen.

How the hell wasn’t one of those 11 million views already me?

Quick, look at this!

What the fuck?

That explains why Time to Feast suddenly wasn’t showing up in search.

Noooo.

Nice that she’ll be around. I hope she continues to enjoy her time working with hololive.

He’s cuddly as hell, and gets right up in the business of new and old humans without a care.

Even knows how to play fetch, given I use a toy that he likes to chase when thrown, more than he likes to chew it when caught.

Fake news. Cats always make things better, especially when they’re making things worse.

This is a very, very bad idea.

SSDs are permanent flash storage, yes, but that doesn’t mean you can leave them unpowered for extended periods of time.

Without a refresh, electrons can and do leak out of the charge traps that store the ones and zeroes. Depending on the exact NAND used, the data could start going corrupt within a year or so.

HDDs suffer the same problem, though less so. They can go several years, possibly a decade, but you’d still be risking the data on the drive but letting it sit unpowered for an extended time.

For the “cold storage” approach you should really be using something that’s designed to retain data in such conditions, like optical media, or tape drives.

Also, should they be in a mood to be touched, unimaginable softness.

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No, I did change it, IIRC I enabled a lot of the ones that weren’t by default.

I haven’t felt the need to use anything else in months, so I’d say it’s very much fit for purpose.

You can always check out one of the instances available for free use to see how it performs.

All of them.

It shows you which ones “agree” on a given entry, so you can tune it to your tastes.

Self-hosted. That’s not a typo, it’s what it’s called. Searxng.

Here’s a list of puplic instances to try or use.

I’ve yet to need one. I dread the day, tbh.

I’ve been using my own searxng instance for a few months now and my god I’m never going back.

Or you could just read the one book eight times for 99.6℅. Why buy more than one when one is enough to read as many times as you like?