So many games are lost in time due to this.
My favourite game off all time, Homeworld, got remastered years ago. Its fantastic follow-up, cataclysm could not be included in the renaster. The reason? Lost source code. No backups, studio got bought, diveded, merged, shut down and nobody thoight it prudent to safeguard that what they bought; the code and ip.
It happens. Often.
That’s not what i meant. Replies are just more a cesspit over here and often not worth the energy needed to read them.
Often there is no room for debate.
And that’s for sure hurting the platform.
Thank you for once again doing what i was railing about. You’ve proven my point once again. The room is divided, I’m an simplistic asshole and you’re the righteous dude. Congrats. Next stop: I’m a racistic bigot.
Lhgbtwdxyz I don’t care, bud. I really don’t. Do what you like, don’t do what you don’t like. Be who you are. Live life how you want. It is as simple as that. And let me do the same, ok? I will never get all the fuzz. Be gay. Dont be gay. Be bi. Dont be bi. Be nothing: also great. Be everything : good for you. Be the other sex or none at all: it’s your life. I don’t care and neither should you about what I do. Just love people and you choose who. Express yourself however you want. That’s not a new message.
Police : solutions. Not anarchist bullshit. ACAB is bullshit and leads nowhere.
I miss it daily.
The discussions here always are the same, very leftist. There is only one side. Memes here are always overdone. Comics are always politicized. Everything is “eat the rich”, lhgtbq cant do anything wrong and lets not forget: fuck the police. Eating the rich has been tried before guys, several times. It didn’t work. People need leaders and these leaders will always benefit from it. Learn history before you try to make it. Or is it just jealousy?
Just because youre lhgtbq does not automatically mean you’re right or have been wronged. Surely your identity is very important. As is mine. lets find some middle ground, ok?
Police does fuck up, a lot. Do you have a solution instead of “all cops are evil” or is that just a catchy easy thing to say? And that brings me to the next one:
The depth in discussion and the amount of objective (news) subjects here is lacking. Views are often shallow and if they aren’t they are cast in stone. Lemmy is unfortunately not usable for sharing and consuming knowledge. The depth isn’t there, the communities too small and it always devolves into you’re wrong because i say so. Or, if its IT, the knowledge just isn’t there or worse: people are not willing to share it, adding a you f-ing MS simp because why not. And that brings me, again, to the next:
It’s also often a lot less cordial. Instead of discussing the “room” gets divided in friends and enemies. Name calling is normal. Its a lot darker here.
Most of the times I don’t even check responses on my comments : I know what they say. Yeah buddy, fuck you too.
Anyway, its fine. I use it daily. The use case isn’t the same though. And the experience is very different.
I wouldn’t be here without Sync by the way. Without (stuff like) Sync the hassle would just not be worth it.
What you’re doing here is the exact same as them: no discussion possible. The only valid viewpoint is yours. The end. And you also add a verdict to your sentence.
I agree with them. You dont kill (cull) a child because of money. You never kill a child.
I also agree with you that a fetus is not a child. And that abortion is not evil or bad.
See? Both can be true.
Could you imagine adobe pulling of shit like this? Yeah, the first 20000 views of your photo is free but after that there’s a 2.5% fee.
Fuck off. You’re a content (be it games or something else) creation tool. You’re business is pencils, paint, canvas. Or in the case of unity an IDE. Not the art created with it.
It’s a stupid idea thought up by stupid people. Everyone in the boardroom at unity should be fired. One of them thought it up, the others thought it a good idea also or where too afraid to speak up. Both of those options mean bad management.
But I think it’s too late, the name is tarnished.
Hear hear. The ayes have it. IPA’s are now banned.
Since I’m in Europe not much. Not big enough to really change something or set something bigger in motion.
This is what I find interesting: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/investing/michael-burry-stock-market-crash/index.html
We all are. Always have been. That was my point. I don’t own my house, the bank does and as long as I pay each month half of my income they allow me to live in it. I will never own it 100%.
The things you’re pointing at have always been a problem, nothing new. And each year those problems grow. As do the deficiencies of our governments, our states.
Nobody expects you to do anything. Just don’t expect anything in return and you’re golden.
BTW, you sound like me in the 80s. And that’s not meant as an insult or something, it’s just an observation. I’m curious if that says something about the economic & society cycle and where we are in it.
My third even, 100% bank owned. Cannot afford to switch again so I think this is it till the end. All my under 30 colleagues also have their own by the way. It’s fucking expensive especially with 3 kids who probably cannot move out the next 10 years.
I know where you’re coming from, having older kids myself. It’s hard and unfair. But that’s how it always been. The unfair part isn’t new.
Looking back thinking it was easier in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s is, I’m sorry to say, disillusional. You’re just looking at housing (which was also bullshit in the 80s, and 00s by the way) and forget the rest of the shit of those times. 80s wasn’t fun, my dad lost his job, we only kept our house because my grand parents died and the inheritance filled the financial hole. 00s also wasn’t fun, being a part of the greatest depression since the 30s, I was fortunate to keep my IT job, a lot of mates lost everything. (job, house, marriage, because bad finance kills relations I’ve learned.) My wife did get fired and still is not at the same level as back then. But we get by, thank you for asking.
Finance is a bitch. Always has been.
Nobody wants that. But getting fucked in life is unfortunately a large part of living it.
Thank you, you’re an asshole too! :)
Hahaha, that’s not what I’m saying but if you want to take it like that, be my guest.
I’m saying shits fucked y’all. I’m also saying that it always has been.
The grass wasn’t greener back then. Just a different shade of brown. Housing was better, a lot else was way worse.
In 7 and vista you already used steam and battle.net. The last time you clicked on an exe really was a long time ago.
Every installer ever since windows 95, made an item in your start menu. No clicking an exe.
unless you pirate your games, but then you’re still just clicking an exe and this post doesn’t make sense.
But hey, he made fun with his meme, I had fun typing my response, that’s all there was to it, no?
Story of every generation, bub. I had the oil crises, 80s collapse, I forgot what it was called in the nineties, dotcom bubble, 2008 banking crisis, and the last few
Returning theme? One big dip per decade. 80s and 08 where the nastiest though.
Wars? One every 5-10 years. Too many to remember.
Yeah, I’m getting old.
And that guy in your pic is 54, pushing 55. Nowhere near 35.
So get your shit together, and take another one on the chin. The working class gets our asses kicked financially ever since money was invented. It’s how the system works.
The meme’s is that it was better back then.
It truly really wasn’t.
I know. I was there. There was no “just clicking an exe” in the nineties. Pc’s where work machines. Made for boring stuff like excel and typing letters. Getting them. To play a game was a task on its own.
To play games on them you really had to go through several burning hoops. Every time. Because game A used xms, game B didn’t care, game C must have ems. Etc. You where reconfiguring your pc for each game in a different way.
Later, win vista and XP solved a lot of problems but caused several others just as worse.
It was with win7 it finally all started to work like it more or less should.
And really, I meant it: I take current day tracking and ads any day. 3 steps forward, one backwards.
It’s nowhere near accurate. This guy clearly never played wingco 3 with it’s 15 minute intro.
This guy clearly also had never played mechwarrior 3. A game by microprose no wait fasa interactive no wait microsoft no wait some other investment party.
This guy clearly also never fucked around with EMS or XMS.
This guy also never lived in the pre windows era. (clicking on an exe, come on people.)
Reality was:
Installing a game was an afternoon. Ever swapped 14 floppy disks? Then came cdrom which made it better (double speed master race @300 KB/sec! Yes! Now it only took an hour!
Then
D: CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
GAME.EXE (enter)
this game needs 605 KB free base ram. You have 585 KB. Please free up ram and try again
(muck around with qemm386 and if you where poor emm386) Reboot, reboot, reboot.
CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
GAME.EXE (enter)
Crash.
Reset.
CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
Config.exe (enter)
Scroll with arrow buttons to sound Config. Check. You can’t remember the dipswitches you set on your soundblaster pro. Open the cabinet, remove the card. Look at the dipswitches on it. you see now you set the dipswitch to irq 5 instead of 7. Fuck, that’s it. You also make a mental note of the dma channel and the memory address. Fuck that, you couldn’t remember it last time so you write it down. Irq5, dma 1, 220h.
Reinsert to the ISA slot, close cabinet. Reboot. Fuck. No sound from the cdrom. Guess you knocked that flimsy cable loose again. Fuck it, this game fortunately has no cd audio.
CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
GAME.EXE (enter)
Crash.
WTF?
Oh I’m so fucking dumb, I didn’t set the irq in Config.exe of the game, I just wrote it on this piece of paper. Ffs. Reboot.
CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
Config. Exe (enter)
Scroll to soundcard, change the irq from 7 to 5, check the dma… That’s good, check the memory address… 240h… Fuck. Good I catched that as well. Change that also to 220h.
Exit,
Game.exe.
Crash.
Godfuckinghelldamnit.
The fucking retarded mouse driver conflicts with qemm. I don’t need that fucker for this game, remove it from Config.sys. Reboot.
CD\GAMES\GAME (enter)
GAME.EXE (enter)
Glide3d error on line 2365. You need version 2.13. You have 2.10.
Oh fucking hell.
CD windows Win.com
No mouse detected.
Fuckingthefuckfuck.
Edit Config.sys, unrem The mouse driver, remove the qemm optimisations because they clashed with the mouse driver.
Reboot.
Win. Com. Click on netscape. Start the modem. [modem sounds] 56k6 baby! That fucker is fast!
Click on the address line (netscape crashes)
Sigh. You’re to tired to even curse at this moment. Click on netscape again. Click on address bar, http://www.3dfx.com
Wait… (loading at 4k a second)
Click on support
Wait… (loading at 4k a second)
Click on drivers
Wait… (loading at 4k a second)
Click on glide
Wait… (loading at 4k a second)
Click on download latest.
Wait… For 30 minutes for it to download. (loading at 4k a second)
Your mum wants to call your aunt. You have to hang up that computer bullshit NOW.
Fuckingthefuckhelcuntshit.
Mum, it’s only 5 minutes remaining! I don’t care, I’m out of eggs and I need them. Maybe you’re aunt has some otherwise I have to go to the store. Hang up now!
Fuck. Hangup.
Wait.
Do it all again.
Finally downloaded. You just know you’re going to get your ass chewed up by your dad because you where downloading for over an hour, it probably costed somewhere around 5-7 bucks to download this driver because of the egg fiasco. Anyway, install the driver.
First unzip it.
C: Cd\temp Unzip Glide3d.zip
Error unreadable byte at 435543.
Sigh.
Download it again
(now you know for sure you’re going to get it)
This time it unzips.
Install.exe.
It installs.
Finally.
Reboot. Start game. Not enough memory because of the new glide driver. And you forgot to unload the mouse driver.
I’ll take current day ads, tracking and the sacrifice of the soul of my firstborn due to EULA’S any fucking day
It’s like jack Nicholson said in a few good men:
THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
(I lied a tiny bit, Glide3d usually meant a dos4gw game which finally meant 32 bit addresses and no conventional memory bullshit. But you can change that for any other driver you needed)
(random tenacious D song starts when you enter the vehicle)
Ideal is not the same, by any means, as PayPal. Read up.
With ideal you loose your money. Ideal is made from the pov of the bank and the shop selling you stuff. Its almost impossible to claim your money back without the sellers consent.
Tikkie is not the same as PayPal since tikkie only works with EU banks. (and quite possibly at this moment only NL banks) PayPal does not need a bank account. Its also not really a wrapper around ideal but thats another discussion. And mostly a semantic one so lets not go there.
Effe wat meer moeite doen en de kleine lettertjes lezen medenedelander :)