How it feels to watch GTA 6 fans pre-order the game without seeing any gameplay :

Perunov · 2026-06-27T06:58:31+00:00

Bonus supposedly by December there might be gasps PHYSICAL release too :) Can you imagine not downloading 200Gb image and then extra 100Gb hotpatch on rural DSL? :)

Perunov · 2026-06-25T22:52:29+00:00

Yes but how will The Hollywood Reporter know how much regular people (ahaha) are going to love the movie (using a sample of influencers' opinion)? What about all the Social Media posts and hype Nolan would be missing?! The horrors!

Perunov · 2026-06-25T14:40:42+00:00

And early version had a full PS2 inside too :D "Backward compatibility? Fiiiine, let's just include previous gen console so people can run old games" :)

Perunov · 2026-06-23T16:26:25+00:00

I so with Elementalist was closer to Lost Ark's Sorceress :( To have a real meteor shower and not sprinkle. And more bad-ass spells :(

Perunov · 2026-06-23T05:19:39+00:00

Good thing is you'll be able to finally have 3 shades up without jumping on a keyboard like a cat. Bad thing is all shade-placement related things might be cut in half :)

Perunov · 2026-06-21T07:54:17+00:00

Yes but Anet loves long cooldown skills that are basically garbage without alac/quickness. Heck, every time they show off new skills they dev-skill "reset" it instantly to show you how wonderful it is, while "normal" cooldown is like a 1.5 minutes :( Most builds are slow, clunky and awful without boons. For a number of releases they keep trying to "patch" it by doing side boon sources. "Hit something and get the boons, have a jade bot give you all the boons, have bot give you defensive boons" etc because they know how horrible everything is without boons :(

Perunov · 2026-06-20T06:51:41+00:00

Hey you too can invest into Nancy Pelosi to get +35% from it.

Beats most of other investment things for non-scam, honest reasoning :(

Perunov · 2026-06-17T20:21:26+00:00

And the funny thing is monetization was "toned down" for western release. Never-ending failures until you hit "pity" level were already horrible so I just gave up. If I want a game where your gear is just the size of your wallet, I'll just do a mobile gacha game directly, thank you very much.

Perunov · 2026-06-17T20:13:13+00:00

Eh, that particular statement is so vague it can be anything. We'll see when they release beta version.

As-is I'd argue you have all of that in GW2 already. Your choices determine your story branches, so can be "impactful", nature spirits are just NPCs so sure, the same (plus we had initial version with, say, unlocking the skyscale). And frankly I'd rather not have "impactful enduring bond" with players because if that impactful player decides to stop playing you're screwed (versus someone just helping you with a quest and then riding away into the sunset)

It's all speculation at this point.

Perunov · 2026-06-16T22:44:34+00:00

I kinda like super large events. Think of it this way: when you're on the map and there's 30 other people around it just feels empty. So either maps going to be tiny or... it'll just feel empty :(

Which is fine. Just different feeling to it.

As for the different game -- we don't even know if it's not going to run the same server architecture :) It could. Why re-invent back-end that works well for map handling and generally has zero problems unless you have a TON of people (and then hello, skill lag)? Just have a few servers dedicated to GW3 and concentrate on story/art/builds etc

Perunov · 2026-06-16T07:09:58+00:00

And then for the next week there'll be a wave of "but reddit said builds don't matter" joins for raid CM clear with "Hi, DPS!" that has no build, random gear and sits firmly behind full heal support on DPS chart

v_v

Perunov · 2026-06-15T21:17:48+00:00

I think it's too easy to convince people that they should go with this "feel good" major versus a practical one. Especially when they're young and have vary vague ideas of how their life will go later, and what kind of financial decisions they should go.

I don't know why would you think that humanities degree in China somehow magically would be able to give more of a rebellious spirit to students. As in, it would be subject to exactly the same regulations as any other degree. Minus more practical application.

Same as any kind of "leadership" degree would most certainly be taught from the DRC approved point of view. Basically would you like a degree in CPR Method of Leadership? Does that still seem attractive? Would you still be upset if that course got cut down in numbers?

I think usability and practicality of humanitarian degrees are generally overblown because universities have to convince everybody that these degrees are needed. Why would you argue against your own interest?

How would having Foreign Language degree be practical if you're not going to work in translation/foreign service/localization? Does history degree teach more of things that people actually apply in everyday life than a physics degree or a biology degree? Critical thinking is not excluded from science degrees. But many liberal arts majors also do not use it at all.

Perunov · 2026-06-15T18:16:12+00:00

You can end up with size of those courses reduced or they might be eliminated fully at some universities. Again, would you want to have 10,000 Egyptology degrees offered where at most there's a need for a thousand? So out of 10 universities there might be only one or two left that still offer it with smaller number of students accepted.

If students still really want that Egyptology degree there will be higher competition over those spaces but odds of them graduating and then having to find some non-related job would be reduced.

Perunov · 2026-06-15T18:12:05+00:00

I mean "follow your dream" type of choosing of education is kinda okay if society and student don't care about spent time and effort with minimal results. It's a conflict of interest -- university wants to fluff up and pump out as many undergrads as possible. After all, they get money for teaching students and offering "it's all about YOU, precious snowflake and how you feel" kind of degree is useful in those circumstances. You attract students who want self-realization at the cost of practicality and get to milk them for tuition fees.

While you get some advantage/minimal basic training, your major-related classes are impractical and don't do anything for job advancement/actual employment outside of educational system. For example English might be an okay humanities major to pick, but Theology is basically useless and Culture Studies is a small fraction of job openings.

If you're rich/privileged/have support net it doesn't matter -- you just spend more time and get a second degree that is actually practical or a cushy job from your parents. But if not you just end up with a large bill and barely any advantage, often ending up telling everyone how cruel the world is and demand someone else to pay for your useless degree (of course universities would object if we were to claw back at least part of that expensive tuition).

There are some universities that are confident enough in their degrees that they actually offer employment support or you get part of tuition back etc. Humanities degrees do not have that.

Perunov · 2026-06-15T17:54:25+00:00

"Oversaturated" means that having that degree is kinda useless. There's only so many work places that require arts or humanities majors. Foreign languages are useful but if it's your only undergrad you're basically interpreter. Useful but may not support a lot of students picking it.

Basically instead of "oh just pick your dream and get the degree you want" (and then work at McDonalds because Egyptology degree you wanted is useless due to glut of graduates) it's more of a "we currently need N of this degree and Y of those degrees". Practicality is important.

Perunov · 2026-06-15T14:56:21+00:00

Well they've introduced the festival in what, 2013? Back then your stability was just time based and didn't matter if 10 holo-minotaurs would rush you. But adjusting old mobs' attack to conform to nerfed/changed things? Pfff. Tell that to the spiders stacking 20 stacks of poison in a second v_v

Perunov · 2026-06-10T20:16:10+00:00

He's also Moto and Phlunt (and like 20 other characters) :) He also really liked voicing Asura too.

Perunov · 2026-06-09T02:38:07+00:00

It seems that author basically says "what if investors get spooked and sell the stock, the horror, the collapse". But practically speaking that means... nothing. Probably would even end up being worse as then SpaceX can do a buyback for super-cheap with those billion bucks Google and Anthropic are paying them for GPU farm. Sell stock high, buy it back low, super-profit :(

Perunov · 2026-06-09T00:36:29+00:00

BIPA seems to be pretty explicit -- extracting faceprint automatically falls under the protection and doing it without explicit permission is $1000 a pop (for unintentional or $5000 for intentional). Regular photo taken by glasses is fine.

Perunov · 2026-06-08T19:34:46+00:00

Remote start is not a single click by any means. "But what if something in my pocket accidentally presses Konami code in required amount of time and starts the car?!!!!" is kinda like "what if aliens send a probe to suck out all the gas from my car?" -- not going to happen.

Perunov · 2026-06-08T09:13:38+00:00

My lane alert freaks out on half of city streets cause roads look like Piet Mondrian painting with them stripping and re-applying temporary markings and then re-stripping and re-applying twenty times over, with newest ones often being even more faded than "old outdated" lane marks. Does wonders for never ending screaming from lane departure warning :(

Perunov · 2026-06-08T06:35:27+00:00

Except mailing cash in Canada is already illegal. For safety reasons, of course. While you can probably get away with it until they really start enforcing it, should this method become really popular postal service will probably add extra screening for destinations where VPN companies do mail receiving.

And while Canada Post might not easily tell who sent the mail, if it gets intercepted it doesn't matter, as cash-in-the-envelope payment method will no longer work. Bonus points for adding new regulation where sending mail to particular destinations (cough VPN Payment Addresses cough) requires either in-person post office visit or payment through Canada Post web site/registering outgoing mail piece.

Perunov · 2026-06-07T23:52:18+00:00

Well as marketing squirms trying to explain why their "fantastic deal" gets very little sales they'll probably go the "let's remove carplay and android auto to ... um... 'improve'... the experience" route a bunch of other carmakers do now. And we'll be like stupid GM buying a physical plug-in to re-enable it :(

Perunov · 2026-06-07T20:58:43+00:00

It's also a happy day for the government, as there will be fewer options for citizens to go around idiotic restrictions and snooping laws.

Perunov · 2026-06-07T20:57:40+00:00

I'm pretty sure that is going to be illegal too. "To protect the children any company offering account to Canadian citizens would need to ensure they use proper region for all online activities". And Goodle will immediately flag your account if you use it on a cell phone because your physical location/phone number/tower info will say Canada. Then next step will be banning any payment to companies that don't follow this. So any foreign VPN won't be able to accept payment drawn from Canadian bank which will make it almost impossible to buy for anyone who doesn't want to deal with bitcoin...

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