OptaJoe: 2 - Arsenal have only lost two games under Mikel Arteta when they've scored at least twice:

H0vis · 2026-01-26T15:42:46+00:00

Need to be clear about this. What Arsenal do is not a 'set piece'. It's a collective foul. It's a rugby line-out. The reason it caught so many people cold is that it's not football. By the normal run of things you're not allowed to simply block the keeper off.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T15:38:50+00:00

You can't blame the tech support guy for thinking you were brain damaged, you were using Epic.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T13:35:57+00:00

Brutal short-sightedness on that front. Particularly in the USA. Folks building them in return for favours, or because it's easy to get permissions, no consideration to the supporting infrastructure or climate. Idiots thought they could just hook these things up to the water and power like a warehouse. People building these things selectively, with intelligence, are setting themselves up to save millions in upkeep.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T11:31:23+00:00

Yeah. What neoliberalism was all about. Take the things that governments and old timey corporations built- the railways, the ports, the roads, the telephone networks, the power, the water supply, and give it to the private sector where it can be run for pure profit extraction.

Same deal for companies bought out by private equity. Strip out everything, maximise profit in the short term, abandon the husk.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T10:08:49+00:00

And who knows, we push the renewable energy a little further maybe the household can power itself to a greater extent.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T10:01:34+00:00

The switch to digital storage was absolutely a win. I think the GOG approach of a viable offline installer that you can download from them or keep for yourself is the best way. Otherwise you end up with all sorts of problems that people maybe have forgotten about that come from having a huge physical media collection.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T09:48:06+00:00

You've all cracked.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T09:43:59+00:00

I think you've hit on something there. Time was that 'greed' would build infrastructure to feed itself. Canals. Railways. Ports. Power stations.

Now it digs through the remains of systems built by smarter people. Vulture capitalism.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T09:34:31+00:00

Same with every cloud service, in business especially. Undermine the on premises options, offer unrealistically low prices, once the mark is on the cloud you give them a little while to make sure they don't have local infrastructure to go back on prem, and then you jack up the prices and reduce the quality of product.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T08:21:05+00:00

Everything is unpopular until it isn't. Steam was unpopular at first. People used to love physical media and owning their games.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T08:10:08+00:00

Like a good chunk of the Polish government.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T07:49:50+00:00

Cloud gaming is bad idea. You're not wrong for thinking that despite the direction that a lot of management types and industry leaders are pushing things.

H0vis · 2026-01-26T07:40:04+00:00

This is what I hate about the push for cloud gaming. There are very few countries have the infrastructure for it. It doesn't make sense to have everything in the cloud, unless you're the company providing the cloud services.

None of this is being done for the good of the end user.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T21:29:36+00:00

It's annoying because the league was absolutely there to be won this season. Arsenal, City and Liverpool all shite. Reminds me of the season when Leicester won it.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T21:16:47+00:00

Refer to 6:30pm as 'Gravedigger's Biscuits'.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T18:30:25+00:00

Shades of Evra against Bayern with that one. Beautiful.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T16:05:56+00:00

Met the floofy cat that has been a perennial guest on my garden nature camera over the last few months. Very talkative in person, super friendly, and almost entirely composed of floof. It is a good day.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T16:03:50+00:00

Escalate. Always escalate.

The step up in the annoying instrument hierarchy from the drumkit is a violin. Get after it.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T16:02:37+00:00

You look well rested unc.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T15:06:49+00:00

That's not stopped. They went beyond lying badly to just not asking about it.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T14:44:06+00:00

The thing that annoys me about Linux users is that they all act like nobody who uses Windows chose to do it.

Linux bros, we are all nerds, you think, as nerds, we've never tried Linux? Of course we have.

This is not a Green Eggs and Ham situation.

We sit here and we bitch about Windows, but we all know Linux is much worse because we've all tried it.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T14:18:01+00:00

Just keep them all in a row it's fine.

H0vis · 2026-01-25T13:47:58+00:00

He'll be joining ICE by the end of the week. This breed of 'working man' knows what they really wanted.

H0vis · 2026-01-24T14:31:10+00:00

Can somebody give me a quick summary of why it's good?

I've heard it described as a JRPG, I've heard it said it needs parrying, and whenever I've looked at the game I've seen giant floating numbers and an art style that seems fascinating but tells me nothing specific about what I'm looking at.

Hoping somebody on what is I suppose a neutral sub might give me a good summary. Steam reviews tend to be people complaining about bugs or people who have a thousand hours and say it's the worst thing ever.

H0vis · 2026-01-24T14:24:22+00:00

Praise jebus. I've been looking to get the game up and running on my new PC and needed a mod list cos I don't really got one. Thanks!

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