As someone who was bullied and assaulted several times in school, I have to chime in: don’t do that. A huge, arcing punch like that is flashy and spectacular, but it is easy to dodge or deflect (massive moment arm), and you’ll be thrown off-balance. Instead, if you can get in close, aim for the gut, just below the sternum. Keep the fist low and close to your body, and twist your torso as you punch. Hitting the soft tissue below the ribcage and above the stomach is fucking painful and will leave the rubber sole sommelier struggling to breathe.

FFXIV. I was playing it for the story… then Dawntrail happened.

That’s why you shouldn’t drive a 1969 Mustang project car immediately after getting your licence. You figure it out on a 2003 Honda Civic, then move on to bigger things when you have both the basic knowledge and the willingness and ability to advance your knowledge.

You claim that installing with btrfs failed. Did you look into what the error messages meant? You claim to not know what Flatpak is. Did you look it up?

RTFM is not just a thought-terminating cliché used by elitist wankers. It’s a philosophy you have to live by if you want to play with powerful toys. Look at manuals, the Arch Wiki, Stackoverflow, or ask a clanker. If that’s beyond your abilities at this time, you’ll either have to improve yourself, or surrender for the time and try a more beginner-friendly OS.

Considering how many websites were temporarily obliterated by the left-pad fiasco, being an npmjs maintainer might be an even higher power-to-effort ratio (by virtue of a near-zero denominator) than being a billionaire CEO.

Marketing is extremely important for a game’s launch because it’s the only opportunity for a game to make a first impression and set expectations, and to gain player goodwill. When an announcement trailer is presented as the final spot on TGA, the audience expects a game worthy of that spot. Geoff did the game no favour by doing that, or by doubling down on twitter. They’ve cocked up the marketing and ruined player goodwill that may have caused some people to overlook the product’s multiple issues on release.

Coming back from that takes a lot of fucking effort (see: No Man’s Sky), which they’re obviously unwilling to give, so why would players waste their time for the promise of a better game? Highguard is a failure of design, a failure of management, and a failure of marketing; and I’m not at all sad that it’s getting flushed down the drain.

It sucks that the first to feel the effects of this entirely predictable failure are the workers.

That would be true in a vacuum, but there have been plenty of examples of “good” games completely fizzling out simply because they were unremarkable in a saturated market. Lawbreakers was a fairly well-received objective-based team shooter with interesting movement mechanics. It was killed off because it couldn’t compete with Overwatch for players’ time. Then there are the countless battle royale games released during the reign of PUBG and Fortnite, and all the wannabe Halo-killers, CoD-killers, WoW-killers… history is littered with the corpses of “good” but otherwise unremarkable games that thought they were the shit.

Highguard isn’t just a failure of a game, it’s a failure on the studio’s part to learn the lesson: players’ time and attention are limited resources, and you need to be exceptional to compete in a saturated market.

They didn’t just make a bet. They made a bet on the horse with broken legs.

“We are absolutely cooked, chat.” - Alan Wake (writer)

Something needs to fill the gaping hole left behind after Concord’s death.

Better not look at the microcode running on your CPU at a higher privilege level than the kernel, then.

It gets fast-paced and exciting when the boss has An Idea on a Friday afternoon that must be completed before the end of the week.

I’d take a confessional booth over an open office floor.

Realistically, is that a factor for a Microsoft-sized company, though? I’d be shocked if they only had a single layer of redundancy. Whatever they store is probably replicated between high-availability hosts and datacenters several times, to the point where losing an entire RAID array (or whatever media redundancy scheme they use) is just a small inconvenience.

This is not meant for human beings. A creature that needs over 140 TB of storage in a single device can definitely afford to run them in some distributed redundancy scheme with hot swaps and just shred failed units. We know they’re not worried about being wasteful.

“You are absolutely right, ma’am. I understand why my spilling your drink in your lap has caused you some distress, and I truly sympathize with your son’s concussion from the blunt impact caused by my reckless flailing to fix my previous mistake. Please listen to this advertisement while another attendant comes to assist you.”

Hide it in a poem in a leather bound book at the end of a trap-filled dungeon.

My hypothesis:

• Someone in Epstein’s circle had to be the IT guy.
• That IT guy wanted to have the Bash documentation locally (which is sensible, I do too).
• A discovery subpoena might request “all documents referencing (something)”, which boils down to an extremely loose string search, and the documents’ relevance to the case are determined later.
• The Bash documentation was caught by the algorithm because it contained some word they were searching for.

For all we know, the lawyers might’ve been looking for the word “child” and the algorithm found “child processes”.

Something about child processes, maybe?

The lesson should have been learned when Lawbreakers died: you can’t release a game that is just “good” into a saturated ecosystem and expect it to succeed. When a game has to compete with six others in the same genre, especially deeply enfranchised titles like Apex or Forkknife, it must be exceptional. Highguard falls well short of that. It’s the most average, design-by-committee, risk-averse, trend chasing, white bread, picket fence product I’ve played in a long time. It’s a glass of lukewarm tap water. It’s unsalted butter on toast. And that’s before Keighley and studio management fucked up its marketing.

If a game has to fail in order for some management type to finally engage that lump of tapioca pudding inside their cranium and let the game system designers create a better game, I won’t shed a tear for it. And if this is what the studio made up of alleged “industry veterans” can achieve, I won’t shed a tear for it either. We need better games, not more of them.

Isn’t that the Hillary Clinton wax statue that had to be turned into a pumpkin on short notice?

Dead Space 1 remaster. I categorically refuse to give any money to EA (even before the Saudi buyout), and that’s their only game I’m even remotely interested in that isn’t available through alternative channels.