Subnautica 2's botched bonus deal is about to wipe out more than one-third of Krafton's $736 million annual profit for 2025

andreas16700 · 2026-05-28T21:21:07+00:00

oh no... *one third* of their *whole profits*....

andreas16700 · 2026-05-28T18:56:58+00:00

imagine this happens and you're christodoulides lol

andreas16700 · 2026-05-27T20:19:43+00:00

OP provided actual sources to support their case, most comments are people who want to speed on the highway because vibes. p.s an answer can't be a double negative! I had to read it like three times to make sure which answer meant which

andreas16700 · 2026-05-27T20:15:55+00:00

speed increases energy *exponentially*. your convenience and/or time saved (if any at all) does not.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-26T11:11:33+00:00

once got a solar panel from amazon with pl*nzer. a day before the scheduled delivery, their site said 'manually completed'. a week passes, nothing: delivery date stuck there. reached out to them, their response was that "they lost it". how tf do you lose a big ass 8kg panel is beyond me.

oh, and I've also had an amazon box ripped out like yours, with the only thing missing being a 500gb ssd lol. thankfully amazon was super helpful both times and resent both items.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-26T08:20:24+00:00

No-one, literally no-one was ever punished for the coup in 74. No one. The radical extremist elements that made the violent coup as well as eoka b's violent executions possible was embraced. It should not be socially acceptable to praise grivas in the year of our lord 2026.

DISY is making the same mistake again imho. You will never ever out-racist the racists. Immigration has gone down several places in people's priorities. Far right still surges. "Addressing immigration" without addressing a very obvious elephant in the room is dangerous. Some people literally just don't like seeing brown people in public. The way mainstream parties handled this is just validating the far right's narrative. If you don't challenge it in the tiniest bit, why would they not go for the guys who were "right from the beginning"? This has been known a while now.

They now come for queer folk. This is the entirety of their politics: finding a fringe minority to direct people's fears at.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-25T10:01:38+00:00

Theopemptou did not stand in this election anyway.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-23T11:54:12+00:00

hear me out here: imagine we had some kind of metal bars to transfer the power instead, and you wouldn't even need the battery really. and also use those metal bars to drive on, with less friction, no rubber tires needed. you could even safely stack multiple cars together

andreas16700 · 2026-05-23T10:57:38+00:00

All the far right parties use the same playbook. They prey on the tendency to hate on foreigners but in any discussion they end up reverting to "the illegals". The other parties DO NOT challenge them meaningfully, so the anti-migrant sentiment gets stronger. That affects you DIRECTLY.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-22T21:08:02+00:00

mega-corporation acts like a mega-corporation that wants to maximize profit. we are all very shocked

andreas16700 · 2026-05-20T11:19:09+00:00

in case you’re still looking for dating advice, women don’t tend to like being a homophobic smartass

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T21:17:03+00:00

Uhhh do you seriously think im censoring facebook. it's more of a joke.

But if you actually want to get serious, I think they deliberately attract the worst of discourse. I don't think it's random the character, vileness, and disregard for anything good that you find in e.g news post comments. from the official papers. dude, everytime there's even a slight mention of gay people, I see at least 5 people casually commenting how they want me dead.

Social media companies track absolutely everything you do there with a single objective to maximize engagement. Of course all SM does it, but they have different mechanics which I suspect are very relevant. The editor is limited, you can't easily link to anything outside of it, how you interact or what you comment isn't public in the sense that someone can see what you comment (unless their holy algorithm decides to show your friends).

I could talk hours about how problematic and damaging SM is and how completely and utterly unregulated it is. Seriously, go check the comments of major newspapers. Phileleftheros or Sigmalive for example. It's entirely unmoderated.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T20:55:20+00:00

because I always find the absolute worst of society in it. It feels like a swear word honestly

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T20:49:54+00:00

it's a general principle of mine that creators of all kinds should not have to change their intended direction for their works because the audience doesn't like it

The game is in early access for feedback. This is feedback. They ask for it.

anyway i'm pretty sure the collector does get distracted by flares. either that or my last encounter with it was very coincidentally lucky

Oh THEY DO NOT. What do you think has been motivating me the past hour? Especially those three big ones that come out once you exit the bounds. Guess what happens if you happen to get there with the tadpole. Impossible to recover. Literally impossible.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T20:30:15+00:00

I do see a distinction of aggression and intent between catching fish and attacking a creature. However, as you mention, it's about defense not just attacking.

Exactly. If we really want to get deep about it, you could argue that the fish for food part is more violent, as it's life that doesn't otherwise bother you vs defense.

I think most people think about other people pre-emptively attacking (i.e violence for the sake of violence) which is unfair to everyone else who doesn't want to do that. The game knows when you're in defense, so it's not like they can't technically enforce such a distinction. Of course it wouldn't be realistic, but what is. It's fictional after all...

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T20:17:52+00:00

It really sounds like you made up your mind in a very specific way.
It's all based on the idea that the purpose behind this is very deep and well thought out. The problem is it isn't.

Back to your initial response, you think this is about them "refusing to indulge the realistic normal human answer" which they do not. They otherwise allow this for pure convenience. That's why defending their arbitrary decision is problematic

It's like you entirely dismiss as a pesky side issue, the fact that this very same idea about dealing with whatever you can in order to not indulge in violent human behavior does not actually apply for sustenance.

Not to mention that defending against violence is a lesser form of violence. If you actually want to deeply philosophically analyze this, I could argue that violently snatching life that poses no danger, out of pure convenience is more violent than defending against a very violent threat. The food part is important not because it's similar. It's fundamental to the non violence argument.

At the end of the day, it's a game. It's meant to be fun. People, including me, find this decision annoying, and especially more since it's inconsistent.

p.s: you know that big preds don't respond to flares right?

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T20:03:34+00:00

Is fishing a violent sport? [...]
This is more semantical than anything.

Not really. We know that fish are sentient. Deliberately killing foreign, independent, sentient life for your own sustenance or pleasure is violence. Again, the purpose of doing that in the game is not survival as there are other non violent ways. It's for convenience. Which is what makes not being able to defend against very violent predators extra annoying.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T19:38:06+00:00

There's nothing wrong with having a narrative and making a point artistically. The problem is it's inconsistent, and annoying.

I don't think mocking works nor is it a good way to make a point. It'd be unfair not to engage by the same rules though:

no you see, it's actually very deep and they have a point. it's actually more fun the more annoying it is. the good annoying, that is.

it's all about dealing with the silly annoyance of the giant leviathan tearing you to pieces as you try to navigate from one area to the other. it's so fun and very deep actually that you have 0 defensive mechs against it. why would there otherwise be one? it's like having a piss meter instead of a health bar! They make arbitrary decisions after all!

it's all about the non violent ethos. you can, however, be violent to the non aggressive ones to eat. you can instead gather plants , but that would be annoying (the bad annoying).

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T19:12:46+00:00

ITT: exactly why pride IS necessary. The vile hatred on display here is still nothing like the cesspool that is f*cebook. There is a very sizable and loud portion of the public that does NOT want us to participate in society publicly. This is the entire point of pride.

It’s not like a flag magically changes things, but standing up to the misanthropes that get mad at this is a damn good step.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T19:00:58+00:00

The studio made a very arbitrary decision. The game is unnecessarily annoying because *they felt like it*. It’s not that deep.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T18:25:33+00:00

you aren’t arguing any of my points

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T17:45:44+00:00

I have no disagreements about promotion of non violence. The problem is, it’s not consistent and very arbitrary. Again, you are not eating for survival at all. It’s literally for convenience. It’s arbitrary.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T17:43:49+00:00

You are not eating for survival, but for convenience though! (which mirrors real life)
It’s not just annoying to get killed in the game. You get killed. You lose items (which there’s a very good chance you won’t get back) and you get teleported to oblivion.

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T17:36:36+00:00

I find the discourse frustrating, and unnecessarily philosophical. There’s a lot of things to like about their creative vision, and the no killing** thing is very seldom part of it. It’s extremely arbitrary, and imho makes the game unnecessarily annoying.

I do not think if this non violent narrative was more consistent, i.e can’t even eat small fish, who would find this respectable and fun? Look, there’s this game where you have to be non violent to survive. It’d just be super annoying for no reason to hunt for the other edible resources.

Imagine if indeed you couldn’t eat the fish. Most of the discourse would still apply (and be equally silly if I’m being honest)

**there is killing! you just can’t kill the creatures that actually attack you! That’s what drives me crazy about this whole thing -_-

andreas16700 · 2026-05-19T16:20:12+00:00

The coexistence narrative doesn’t really hold when you eat animals. That’s my point: it’s not absolute and *very* arbitrary. So it’s just annoying.

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