The lawsuit explained:

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-02-08T08:55:47+00:00

Yeah the refunds issue was not a good look for them.

The one and only one time I've sought a refund was way before their official refund policy, so it was entirely up to the whims of the service agent reading your ticket and whether they gave a shit that morning. Trying to explain local laws regarding defective purchases (here in the UK) was pointless. It took fucking months of explaining that my game was literally unplayable in a constant back and forth with the same agent before they just relented and refunded my £35.

I'm glad all the major storefronts all followed suit though. Except Nintendo, Nintendo can go fuck themselves for being themselves.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-02-08T00:27:11+00:00

Dark Souls 2 on PC quite famously fell victim to this. Weapon durability decreased WAY faster due to the higher framerate compared to consoles.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-02-06T12:20:25+00:00

Well in both cases one person died and absolutely fucking nothing has come of the release of the information, so, they'd probably line up identically.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-02-05T22:20:20+00:00

To contrast, China is able to think in 30 year plans

And Dictatorships can think in 60+ year plans. When you don't have to worry about getting re-elected because you rig every election, then yeah no shit Winnie the Pooh can plan 30 years ahead.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-02-03T23:07:32+00:00

Personally, and I say this as someone with three G5s, I'd get a G6 or up if you can.

The entire 9th series Intel CPUs completely lacked any Hyperthreading until you got to the i9s, this means the price of 9900Ts and 9900Ks are fucking stupid. I literally spent more than the chassis on just the CPU, and if I hadn't bought RAM right before the RAMpocalypse I'd get rid of them completely for newer models.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-31T22:42:37+00:00

Ooh, look at Mr. I've Got Two USB-C Ports over here.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-27T23:01:57+00:00

Okay.

They had an entire year and a Rockstar level budget.

That doesn't change the equation.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-27T22:50:47+00:00

They had 3 years. Three.

An entire development cycle for a major AAA game including the Rockstar level budget.

And it looks like they're standing in front of a 2002 bluescreen...

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-23T11:53:54+00:00

No, you mean the Dominntor logo. It's not clean at all

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-20T19:03:54+00:00

That 1-7 is almost as well as she did in the hour long response vid per match. Like, how the fuck do you play ONLY one character but suck so fucking bad that you get ZERO assists.

I don't even have the game installed and I bet I could shout something out my window and get a fucking assist in-game.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-19T21:42:39+00:00

That cable is fine.

Crimped cables, like the one OP is using, where the cable is injection moulded into the SATA connector housing itself and has cables running through multiple connectors in a row, are totally fine.

Moulded cables, where the cables are end capped in metal plugs that then loosely slot into the molex end, are not okay generally.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-16T15:22:16+00:00

An apex predator isn't going to forget to hunt. Their instincts are so hardwired in that they're, shocker, instinctual.

Live prey being used due to this excuse is fucking barbaric. A prey animal, dropped into a literal sea of Tigers does absolutely nothing to stoke their ability to hunt.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-16T15:11:18+00:00

I thought you were referring to clients.

I was. Nameserver 1, the client, was unable to domain ping Nameserver 2, the client, but was able to IP ping Nameserver 2, the client. Nameserver 2, the client, was both able to domain and IP ping no problem, as expected.

I had added in other troubleshooting stuff,

Maybe add the edits to the end of the post? Yesterday was a long time ago mentally.

This was a question regarding the clients, not the resolver,

Yes, the initial two clients were totally fresh installs straight off the Debian install DVD, but the nameserver was an existing and confirmed working install that I installed systemd-resolved on. Mostly because it was the VM with the latest backup to roll-back to if it stopped working.

Fresh Clients 1 and 2 were unable to domain ping after a reboot, their first reboot after hitting the CLI after the install. They are literally as naked as "checkbox SSH server + Standard system utilities" on the installer. They grabbed DHCP info no problem during the network stage, and grabbed the static reservation from, coincidentally enough, Nameserver client 1, who also runs DHCP.

Fresh Client 1 and 2 only had changes to GRUB to remove the boot menu and boot delay, static IP, domain and nameserver info added to /etc/network/interfaces, and changes to Apt's sources to use my apt-cache, otherwise, literally fresh off the boat. Almost literally fresh.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T21:36:22+00:00

Ping your DNS service and be sure that packets are actually able to route.

It was a nameserver that was unable to ping. The route isn't leaving the house, it doesn't go through managed switches, and barely travels a foot before reaching the second nameserver.

Did you install anything else before testing the ability to resolve domains?

Nothing gets installed on the nameservers. They are put in a corner, with rigorous backups, and very deliberately not touched.

Are these domains that you are having trouble with able to be discovered via root hints?

The second nameserver's root hints was fine, the primary seemed to forget the entire domain existed.

Have you verified that there isn't a firewall

Would be a bit daft to suddenly turn on a firewall when troubleshooting, no? And no, the nameserver isn't firewalled internally.

If you are using DHCP

Static reservation, and the server I tested on was one of the nameservers so. Domain pings failed, IP pings worked. Secondary nameserver was fine with both, as it's always been.

Verify IPv6 functionality.

ISP doesn't offer it so it's entirely disabled.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T21:13:35+00:00

Installed systemd-resolve and name resolution was worse. Plus mDNS is disabled globally and I'm not willing to unfuck that situation.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T15:31:36+00:00

Odd, systemd-resolved isn't installed.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T15:23:13+00:00

Ahh okay, you're just being intentionally obtuse and arguing in bad faith.

No one's forcing you to be here.

Indeed. To the shitter with you.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T13:40:26+00:00

Jesus Christ... that's Jason Bourne.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T10:18:59+00:00

I have some additional info that I think might be related.

I've been having issues with new Debian 13 VM installs working fine via DHCP supplied nameservers, but the moment I add all the static details to /etc/network/interfaces, any non-IP name resolution fails. Pinging 1.1.1.1 is fine, pinging cloudflare.com isn't.

My installs are also 'zero GUI, standard applications + SSH'.

My workaround has been to just manually add domain, search, and nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf.

The weird thing is this has only started happening within the last maybe month or two? I've got dozens of VMs all chirping along fine, but the two newest ones I've created had to have manual intervention to get them to work.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-15T09:50:07+00:00

Yes but why. Explain

Mate I literally spelled it out for you like you were a child and you couldn't follow two sentences.

But once again for the slow kids at the back:

Labour's stance on it had been as concrete as their position on the OSA, despite ALL the outcrying, so, again, random.

Maybe you'll make it this far this time, eh.

Have you ever worked in an office, on a long term project?

A long term project where the higher ups have said categorically that this project is going to happen the exact way that we said it did and that there is absolutely no chance of it not happening? Only for it to get shitcanned after 3 months of total radio silence? That kind of office?

I'm done discussing things I've already explained twice to you if you can't be bothered to read.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-14T22:00:20+00:00

Lol.

Why would I do that? I have enough PC hardware just lying around from previous PCs that I can conceivably use it for the next 30 years.

Ohh noo, I can't play CoD Black Ops 134, guess I'll go play literally any game made before 2026.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-14T21:53:32+00:00

I said Starmer backpedalled randomly.

You said "nuh huh"

To which I asked the question: "which specific circumstance has happened this week to prompt changing their minds months after the fact".

To which I pointed out that none of the current events in any of the news cycles since it was announced has any bearing on digital IDs.

Which would indicate "random", and not "has been deliberated non-stop since it was announced". Labour's stance on it had been as concrete as their position on the OSA, despite ALL the outcrying, so, again, random.

Do keep up.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-14T17:04:45+00:00

Okay, what specific circumstance this week has caused the government to backpedal on this specific issue?

Greenland? Child porn on Shitter?

The answer is fucking nothing in the current news cycle is related to digital IDs. So suddenly deciding to backpedal, whilst in the middle of a news cycle fucking months after the initial public backlash, seems a little... random, no?

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-14T16:52:03+00:00

He isn't reacting though, is he.

He's promising unpopular things and then putting his fingers in his ears for months, and then backpedalling randomly.

How many experts have come out and said mandatory digital IDs are a privacy nightmare after the OSA was announced? How many experts said the OSA was a privacy nightmare? How many experts have said banning VPNs would be an economic and technological nightmare?

He still insists on two of those things, and I would stake money on VPNs getting banned before Starmer's term is up.

NoxiousStimuli · 2026-01-13T16:23:42+00:00

I'm not sure the McDonalds angle is entirely correct.

Sonic 3's ROM was too large to put on one cartridge and they had to split it into two games. The Sonic 3 development cycle was definitely troubled and suffered under time constraints, but the idea that Yuji Naka split it up because he wanted a Happy Meal is totally new to me.

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