I didn’t even think of that but honestly yeah that’s kind of insane LMAO
Like I have no problem with appimages for smaller tools, and at least things like Shelly make maintaining them much easier nowadays, but for something like this, what the fuck
It’s also a vibecoded mess and they’re literally advertising it as such: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k6kg5ccozcphfcmp4zyx3s64/post/3mxtzp6xtwc2u
Legitimately I’d suggest ditching it entirely, or at the very least removing any financial or personal info from your account, because this shit just screams “massive financial breach” in 3-6 months tops.
I get that AI companies sucking up all the hardware has slowed things down elsewhere, but this legitimately just feels like a major fuckup on Valve’s part. Honestly ridiculous. It feels like they dramatically underestimated the demand for all 3 of these hardware releases this year.
I’m legitimately considering just getting one from a scalper at this point. I know that’s a practice that shouldn’t be supported at all and is a huge part of the problem, but pushing back to December at the earliest is ridiculous.
It just seemed like the most similar choice that meets my needs. I looked at some of the other options - I’d go with Proton if it weren’t for the issues mentioned, I used them for a bit and the service works very well. Nym seemed interesting, but I don’t believe they offer Wireguard configs? I could be wrong.
This sums it up well. Their products are fine, but putting everything into one company isn’t a good idea, and the political statements leave little faith.
I use their free Drive for sharing files, but I’ve moved to Tuta for email and just about everything else selfhosted. I’m still running out a mullvad subscription but I’ll be switching that to IVPN when it expires.
I just started working through these myself a month ago or so, somehow never got around to them after all these years until now.
I know I shouldn’t give Konami money for these but I’m a lazy asshole who just wanted them all in one place on Steam, easy access. Master Collection versions are fine, but there are some mods out there to fix up a bit of the jank (MGSHDFix and MGSM2Fix mostly).
I was told to go mostly in release order, and that worked well enough. Could start with MGS or the MSX classics if you want to go that far back (those also fit in nicely right after Peacewalker).
I will say that playing release order made PW feel really weird, especially since 4 feels much more modern than it actually is while PW is very clearly a handheld game, but by the midway point it legitimately became my favorite so far.
Narratively I took so long to get around to these for a similar reason, just the military theme was offputting, but alongside the camp/pulp aesthetics they’re filled with, they’re very anti-military and anti-nationalism. But still gotta remember the earlier ones especially are products of the times, and Kojima’s never been able to write women characters.
Oh yeah that’s true. And honestly I do really like that art style, which is more than I could say for the OoT remake, but it’s just so weird to me how they keep going in these experimental directions for remakes in particular.
This guy raped his sister, he’d deserve the guillotine even if it weren’t the for the AI bullshit.
It’s such a bizarre idea. Like why not use that aesthetic for a new game entirely? The Link’s Awakening remake had the same issue, though it wasn’t as obnoxiously ugly and actually had some charm to it - why are these remakes going for entirely different styles than their originals, instead of aiming to something closer to the original concept art?
While I don’t think these designs are, they absolutely have that look to them so I wouldn’t be surprised if they came from AI concept art. Nintendo’s development is very closed-doors and I have zero doubt that they’re heavily using genAI in their pipelines these days.
The Issues tab on this repo is fucking hilarious(ly depressing). It’s just full of nerds with full blown AI psychosis screaming for this thing to be shut down because they legitimately think their stupid chatbots are sentient.
When the bubble finally bursts I don’t even think we should rehabilitate these people. Let them live with their decisions, fuck it.
After the turn the LaD series took with IW onward this is disappointing but also not surprising. Nagoshi does great work but is also incredibly full of himself.
That one scene in Yakuza 4 after Saejima lands on the beach - if you’ve played it you know which one. Very much a product of the times, and in that sense you can get what they were going for, but that doesn’t make it any less vile and a gross mischaracterization of everyone involved.
The Kiwami remakes can get fucked, but at least with how much they fucked up 3 any “remake” of 4 wouldn’t include that.
The way my current work is headed has me updating my resume already. Everyone’s so deep into AI psychosis, so far I’ve been able to totally avoid using the slop machines but it feels like there’s more and more pressure to use them coming from upper management, and I feel like I’m the only goddamn person in this company rejecting that garbage entirely. Not to mention we’re getting more US government-related clients that I have zero real interest in supporting but have to for my paycheck, but I do get a small bit of satisfaction in that the literal only support rep on US soil (me) is also a filthy commie.
but realistically it’s probably next to impossible to find something in tech at a company that’s staunchly anti-AI, doesn’t support the imperialist machine, and allows full remote positions.
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All of our work laptops just updated this month and everyone’s having all sorts of bizarre issues. My KVM switch is fucking up now but only on the work machine, my personal desktop is fine. Classic Microsoft.
Probably triple as many as they claim to have fixed
Replacing them with the email threads about it is actually so goddamn funny though.
completely unironically it’s actually so fucking good. it’s stupid as shit but is smart about it, gameplay is incredibly solid, and the soundtrack is somehow legitimately really well done. this game has no right being as good as it is but here we are
my only actual nitpick is that there are 2 “puzzles” that are so absurd that the best way to beat them (especially the harder one) is to lock your frame rate down to like 10. but tbh that’s also entirely on-brand with the rest of the game. funny enough the game calls you out for cheating in an achievement for clearing the second one at all - and it’s also required for 100%
Definitely the kind of statement that makes you want to give them your credit card info!