Well yeah, it has become a way to leverage as much money as possible out of people because they’re controlling something people need to not die.

"And then I’ll plaster my face all over the place, see;

I’m going to win the human race, see;

I’m going to make the world a better place…

For me."

100% Microslop.

They expect layoffs. They’re just going to blame AI for it.

The “modern” XCOM games cheaped out on their game mechanic budget.

The game Phoenix Point made by a much smaller studio with fewer resources came up with a vastly superior way to tackle hit probability. In that game you can free aim using a reticle made of two concentric circles. The outer circle represents where your shot(s) have a 100% chance falling inside of. The inner circle represents where 50% of your shots have a chance of being inside. The more accurate weapons have smaller circles. Then when you shoot the game simulates the path of your shots and any character or environmental object that gets in the way will be taken into account. If you fire a burst or shoot a shotgun, you’re not bound to only 100% hitting or 100% missing. You can have a partial number of rounds or pellets hit the target, while others might miss, be blocked, or even hit another enemy or ally if they were sharing that cone of probability.

This makes the whole thing feel far more real than the shitty dice roll system XCOM relies on that just feels cheap and simplistic in comparison especially for a game of that price. Too bad that overall Phoenix Point had difficulty curve issues and the story was not every interesting to me at least.

If they ever make a new XCOM game I really hope they make that mechanic more like Phoenix Point’s. And also lose the arbitrary turn limits that they’ve introduced in XCOM2 because they force a reckless game style that I absolutely hate in those types of games.

Wait for billionaire Zuck to make a quick phone call to Trump followed by a “donation” and the EPA will say that there is nothing wrong with the water.

Become complacent, make a sub-par product, prioritize Corporate decisions over user experience, do nothing to fix what the users criticize, abuse your control over the OS to double down and try to force it down your user’s throats through increasingly intrusive ways, fail to understand why people hate you. That’s the Microslop way. Its corporate culture, size and dominating position in the market prevents it from making a good product. Large companies like that should be broken up. They are too large for their own, or anyone else’s good.

Seriously, I am forced to use Teams and OneDrive for work and my productivity is constantly held back by the complete lack of basic quality of life features that most FOSS applications made for free by volunteers would have.

France will jail their political leaders if they do something crooked. It’s like “nobody is above the law” means something there or something.

Great move by Snapmaker. In considering buying a new printer soon I am very annoyed by how difficult it is to know beforehand how much functionality of a printer is locked behind cloud connectivity that can be remotely disabled at any point. I know Bambu is to avoid absolutely thanks to the very public backlash they got but what about the others?

I know Prusa is a shining example of letting their customers own their devices but they are pricy. I didn’t know Snapmaker had the same kind of mentality until now thanks to that move.

We noticed a long while ago.

We’ve been at it for a year now

There has been tons of products with fake reviews for over a decade as well by now.

I remember back when Amazon was a source for trustworthy products in the earlier days. Then they let the shady sellers in. Then they hid the country the product ships from. Then tolerated blatantly fake reviews. And now they’re hiding the reviews they don’t like? Why would anyone want to purchase anything from that service at that point?

If I want something I have to order online nowadays I’ll go out of my way to find an online store that isn’t Amazon. And if it’s something I can’t find anywhere else, I’d go on AliExpress. It’s likely going to be a junk product but at least it’s priced accordingly. Amazon products nowadays are just AliExpress products with a 5000% markup.

I hate this Putin’s cock-sucking traitor so much.

Blatantly corrupt judges are the real threat

You can thank Poilievre for this. This guy will cluelessly cling to the head of the Conservative party until the NDP becomes the new opposition party.

There is a pretty significant chance that Trump won’t keep his word.

And that’s if he doesn’t just die before he has a chance to.

It’s a distraction from the disastrous outcome of his vibe warmongering campaign in Iran, which itself was a distraction from the Epstein files.

Still, it’s like hiring a well known repeat sex offender to babysit your kids.

WTF is wrong with people uploading private things on Facebook?

When did Metallica become Metallica fans?