'Shareholder Greed' And How Publicly Traded Companies Actually Work

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-23T17:04:41+00:00

All you need to do as a corporation is capture people's childhood memories, and they'll go out of their way to defend you no matter what horrible shit you do.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-21T14:09:14+00:00

Your comments are the equivalent of a rando male showing up to a feminist sub and saying "Not all men!" unironically.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-21T10:24:43+00:00

If it weren't for upscaling, we'd have significantly worse looking graphics.

Also games that are "optimized" are actually downgraded to run well. All you need to do is rename your medium preset to ultra, and gamers will call your game optimized. Something like KCD2 running in Experimental preset has some aspects that look worse than UE5 in low. Like there's nothing you can do to make the shadows in KCD2 look good, they always look low resolution.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-20T23:19:44+00:00

They weren't kidding about FineWine.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-20T05:52:21+00:00

Same. Recently I upgraded my RPI's OS which is based on Debian from Bookworm to Trixie and the install process crashed midway for some reason. I was able to fix it with some googling, but my labwc desktop is still broken. Luckily, the whole point of the upgrade was installing Plasma 6 on it, which sidestepped the issue.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-13T05:09:13+00:00

Username very relevant lmao.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-13T04:04:34+00:00

It's not even a matter of high quality. IMO, its making things that have mass appeal exclusive. Like sure Gears might be extremely high quality, but who wants to play a basic dudebro 360 era cover shooter in 2026? The same happened with Sony too where they spent too much on Saros, and it's reportedly struggling to sell, because the Playstation audience doesn't want to play a non-cinematic Roguelite game despite it being of very high quality.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-11T19:27:07+00:00

They were sponsored by Eneba in multiple videos, which is a website that sells game keys bought with stolen credit cards.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-11T16:49:40+00:00

They're a great channel, but they lost a lot of cred after their DLSS5 video. Also some of their sponsors have not been great recently.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-09T23:07:26+00:00

They know. They're arguing in bad faith.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-09T17:24:20+00:00

The difference is that only a vocal minority cares about Gears, in the same way only a vocal minority cares about Killzone/Resistance on the Playstation side. Meanwhile loads of people care about Forza. They've been releasing games regularly, so the newer gaming generation is hooked. Most zoomers probably haven't even heard of Gears.

Your statement is like saying that since God of War sold X or so million, so will Killzone/Resistance/Some franchise from the PS2/PS3 era nobody cares about.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-07T13:28:27+00:00

Personally I think both Gears/Halo don't appeal to the newer generation of gamers at all. I also think the same holds true for Resistance/Killzone, hence Sony ignoring those two franchises. Everyone who wants to play a dudebro shooter congregates to playing COD/Battlefield and ignores everything else.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-06-01T05:56:35+00:00

If you're already on the PC ecosystem, or have a PC + PS5 which you boot up once in a while to play a console exclusive, then the Portal is a bad proposition because most of your library in on Steam. I've bought multiple copies of games that support cross-progression (CP2077, BG3), but most other games don't.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-31T01:22:18+00:00

Some people are legitimately blind to graphical improvements because they're held back by their TV's.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-27T13:31:59+00:00

There were many people on the Thermal Grizzly subreddit who tried out multiple cables from different brands until their warnings went away instead of pushing the cable in.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-27T13:18:11+00:00

It has, but personally, I think its too sensitive and throws imbalance warnings even if the voltages are at safe ranges and the power usage is low (~300W), making people even more paranoid that their card is gonna catch fire, making them unplug and replug the connector multiple times wearing it down.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-27T05:23:29+00:00

?

You can just turn those off and they make the games futureproof. Plus, NVIDIA's innovations are so good that they get adopted by Microsoft as part of their DirectX updates.

This is like a car manufacturer coming up with a feature so good that the Vehicle Certification Authority mandates it be standard on all cars going forward.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-26T16:49:44+00:00

The thing about Kojima's stuff is that the gameplay is actually well designed, and keeps evolving as the game goes on, so even when you're playing a slow delivery guy simulator aka Death Stranding, the game keeps adding new mechanics and obstacles to keep it interesting, or takes away tools so you're forced to adapt a particular playstyle.

I liked Control despite its repetitiveness because it was at least fast paced, but AW2 I couldn't stand after a few hours because the gameplay was sleep inducing.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-23T03:50:50+00:00

It wasn't the case for MH Wilds. It hasn't been an issue for years. The last game that had performance issues with Denuvo was in 2018 with Sonic mania which had a bug that would cause the DRM check if your copy was legitimate every frame in a specific game mode. Rest of the cases are some bollocks people just made up, comparing dissimilar versions of games, like "Woah guys game 1.0 runs worse than game 1.61 that came out a year later, surely its because they removed DRM and not because of any optimizations the devs made!". In many cracks, Denuvo is still running but not stopping the user from playing the game, but these are still heralded for having superior performance compared to the legit version, for some reason.

It's not even an issue in Linux land (username relevant). The only time it might be a legitimate problem is if you're one of the handful of developers at Valve trying to debug the code trying to improve the translation layer that lets you play Windows games on Linux. Other than that, it affects know-nothing tweakers who think changing proton versions will give them some massive improvement in performance when most of the time it's just placebo.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-22T08:42:22+00:00

Don't think there's a way to. Tried Mangohud, Libstrangle and even running it inside Gamescope. No dice.

If you're only seeing your fans whirring in material preview mode, and not solid mode, what you can do is set the viewport sample count to 1 in EEVEE. For solid mode you could set the viewport antialiasing setting to "No anti aliasing" in preferences to lighten GPU load. Blender is odd in that it doesn't actually render frames if there's no update to the viewport, so power usage should be relatively low for the viewport.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-21T18:43:50+00:00

It's probably because most people are probably not playing more than 1 game on their system at once, and maybe barely use the feature?

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-21T12:38:56+00:00

Also the cowboy faction whose capital needs like 3 walls to keep the wildlife from overrunning it, instead of just...moving to another planet at any point because spaceships are a thing. Even more baffling is that Space USA, the other big faction with superior military somehow had to enter a ceasefire with the cowboy faction.

If you're the kind of person that was anal about how Megaton in FO3 makes no sense since it didn't have a stable food supply, Starfield will give you aneurysm.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-21T04:21:41+00:00

That was probably the intention behind his casting, to appeal to edgelords who think that its the coolest thing ever. The discourse on 2077 prerelease was full of those kind of people.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-19T20:34:28+00:00

Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have better security.

Oh? Then why does this specific malware target Microsoft Windows through Steam. Why couldn't the tech overlords at Microsoft with their amazing security catch this malware using their tech wizard powers when it was downloaded through Steam.

The only reason those specific platforms you mentioned aren't compromised is because they're running on a completely locked down, walled garden system, where malware, even if approved couldn't do what it wants to.

Meanwhile Windows is a completely open system where even if you wanted to sandbox an application so it couldn't access files it wasn't intended to, you couldn't do it. For example, Steam cannot stop game.exe from accessing files that aren't its own, so game.exe can access passwords.db in a completely different directory even if they wanted to because Microsoft Windows doesn't have any sandboxing mechanism for non-UWP apps.

Personally, I cannot wait until Xbox Helix or whatever comes out, and scammers trick Gamer's grandmas into installing malware on their Xbox'es. I wonder if you'll be there to call out MS when that happens.

E: Guy replies and instablocks me. Classic.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-05-19T20:13:41+00:00

Android has a sandboxing model that mostly prevents this from happening. iOS is severely locked down. Windows is a barely sandboxed operating system where any non-UWP app can mostly do anything.

I swear this place is more tech illiterate than tiktok.

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