Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.

Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:

• Make friends with everyone else who is in hell. Not get them to like you. You must like them too, and enjoy their company. Yes, even Mother Teresa.
• Consecutively live through everyone’s life who has ever lived, as a passenger in their brain, you can’t control anything, but you experience all physical and emotional pain.
• Suck all sand until the earth is sandless. You have to suck each grain one at a time. Also, you have to find them, they’re not just in one big pile, also, there’s sand at the bottom of the Marianas trench
• Live your life on repeat until you live it perfectly. What does perfectly mean? You’re not told. Also, you’re not given any feedback after you die each time. If you try to cheat the system by having fun, you’ll be yanked back to hell and raped by demons before starting back at day 1.
• Achieve universal human genocide in 100 different times periods and starting points. Also every person you kill also ends up in hell, and know its your fault.
• Learn every vim function, then be forced to rewrite all the world’s code in nano.
• Translate every book, movie, song, and poem ever written into every other language, even dead languages.
• Think of a colour which doesn’t exist, then invent a new instrument, and play a song with a tune which has never been performed, invent a new language with a completely new structure, and convince everyone else in hell to adopt it as their primary language.
• read and reply to every comment on the internet. If someone replies, then you need to reply back. Every message must be unique and coherent. Also, spacetime warps to make it possible for everyone to be given a chance to reply to you.

This is what the world needs; a unified slur - to bring us together.

I already have a name.

Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, “Hey, let’s ruin my weekend.” Migrated the server. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Then I heard btrfs was the bee’s knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple’s cock. Everything worked perfectly fine.

Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory. Everything still works perfectly fine.

Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend? Nope.

Was this a good use of my time? Fuck no.

Did it need to happen? Does the pope compile from source in the woods?

Did you forget about beef? Rodeo enthusiasts? Leather makers?

Some of the complaints are valid, but their solutions are just as baffling as their targets.

It seems evident that they’ve either got a case of cognitive dissonance flowing out their ears, or they’re dishonest in their motivation.

In any case, you’re right, it is weird to point the finger at valve, especially since they’ve done so much for gaming as a whole;

• Proton: should speak for itself. Carves games out of M$'s gated community.
• Platform features: workshop, discussions, groups, guides. Fucking amazing.
• Family sharing: nobody asked for it, and it seems like a bad business move - Valve did it anyway.
• Index: great piece of tech. Too bad about the price tag though.
• Deck: fucking masterpiece. Blows Switch out of the fucking water.
• Support staff: fucking legends. I’ve had multiple interactions where they have breached their own policy to keep me happy,
• Privately owned: despite the incentives to cash out and make bank. They have a fucking spine, which makes them dangerous to other platforms.

This guy claims to be a long-time developer and modder, yet suggests Game Pass is better for preservation than Steam. If that’s their industry insight, no wonder nobody at Valve took their feedback seriously.

Reposting my comment from the other post:

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it’s only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve… Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can’t patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think… nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true…

Wait, isn’t it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself… their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it’s reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve’s… design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input’s initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it’s only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve… Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can’t patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think… nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true…

Wait, isn’t it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself… their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it’s reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve’s… design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input’s initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

TLDR: the checkbox for “enable proton for all other titles” is forced on, and hidden.

If you already have this enabled, there’s nothing to gain from the beta client.

I respect that he burned a giant hole in Konami’s pocket and tried his best to block them off at each turn.

Then they fired him before the game was finished and released Metal Gear Survive lol.

Also respect that he made a fucking AAA hiking delivery game, with fucking jar-babies, and Princess Beach.

If RFK was using gpt for public health recommendations things would be a LOT better.

“Uhhmmm technically, it doesn’t suck, just whatever goes past the event horizon falls into it.”

She’s got ‘fuck me’ eyes.

Most space Sims are.

Kung Fury director? Sign me up fam.

Also hurry up and release Kung Fury 2.

Also (x2) anyone who hasn’t watched Kung Fury, please fucking educate yourself.

Is… This car… Flying?

It doesn’t always get the answers right, and I have to re-feed its broken instructions back into itself to get the right scripts, but for someone with no official coding training, this saves me so much damn time.

Consider I’m juggling learning Linux starting from 4 years ago, along with python, rust, nixos, bash scripts, yaml scripts, etc.

It’s a LOT.

For what it’s worth, I dont just take the scripts and paste them in, I’m always trying to understand what the code does, so I can be less reliant as time goes on.

Except that half the time I dont know what the fuck I’m doing. It’s normal for me to spend hours trying to figure out why a small config file isnt working.

That’s not just text editing, that’s browsing the internet, referring to YouTube videos, or wallowing in self-pity.

That was before I started using gpt.

Yep, more time for doing home renovations.