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The US Gamestop is selling PC parts. They started in 2021 or 2022.

How have they no means to fix their business model by cutting back on what does not work? Like… are they supposed to just keep burning money year after year on the same direction that is the cause of burning money in hopes of something magically changing about it?

That would be the sunk cost fallacy, no? If anything they now have a chance to direct their attention to getting new revenue streams because they stopped the bleeding. They got no debt except some remnant of a 0% loan by the French government. Not sure what will whittle away at them?

I do not like their current business model and do think they need to adapt, but for the first time since 2018 they even have the financial situation to try.

I mean, they’re profitable for the first time since 2018. Not least thanks to a huge amount of cost cutting the past two or three years. This is more of that.

Just saw some clown on Mastodon argue that capitalism isn’t to blame for this.

Yes, but those were called addons once upon a time. Before addons were user scripts or mods, etc.

At least that’s what they were called in Germany.

If Larian simply releases an honest to god Addon to BG3 like they used to be in the early 2000s, they’re going to break the internet, I think. A complete game that is good with a complete addon that is good… Kinda like Witcher 3 with Blood and Wine, etc.

My brain auto-corrected the word “least” out of it and I just thought that was to be expected.

They really cannot help themselves. Money corrupts all.

So the upcoming patches will allow nsfw stuff without being logged in?

Stellaris, picked it up again for the first time since 2019 with some new DLC from the last sale. Spent a solid 40 or so hours on it again, but I think I am good for some time now. Maybe in another four years once more.

Can you dualboot with bitlocker? Are there any halfway decent full drive encryption methods with recovery keys that won’t regularily corrupt the system? I’m mainly hesitant to make the switch based on those requirements. Plus, I have been in the MS ecosystem for such a long time. All I know and I worked on it as a sysadmin as well for many, many years. Big comfort zone.

I have no relation to Steamworld overall, but I like me some digging type builder games. It’s decent enough concept and it felt pretty well executed. I found it to be very restrictive in building underground and didn’t find enough proper space to build and actual underground thing that wasn’t all utilitarian. Personally, I didn’t enjoy that. It’s a fault of a lot of these “clear out space and build there” games.

All in all, as someone who has no feelings about Steamworld, but a bunch on that kind of gameplay including the Anno style various pop types with various needs and all, I don’t think I’ll want to buy or play this.

And then WoW still got kicked out of China. GG Blizzard, GG. God damn Bobby Kotick is a horrible, horrible person. Thinking about dating Bobby Kotick? Don’t.

That’s usually how it goes. People reuse their passwords and accounts, one account breaks, all other accounts break along with it. Then it’s reported as a huge data leak targetting one of those potential sources, depending on what gets you the most clicks at the time. Currently ChatGPT. If their databases had been breached, I feel 100.000 wouldn’t be the number.

Not saying it won’t be, eventually. But this ain’t it, it appears.

Very much in the same boat. Can’t stomach their shitty policies and their garbage CEO aynmore. If MS purged these people after buying, I could finally think about going back to their products. And I don’t see that happening without MS. Even with MS it’d be only a tiny chance.