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1. PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:50:05 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer
   Microsoft puts a pride flag on the windows taskbar and not catgirls smh
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:50:15 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Pawlicker Linux chads wins again
   • kroner :blobcatsanta: (kroner@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:53:22 JST kroner :blobcatsanta:

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     It might actually be year of the Linux desktop soon
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:55:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @kroner @Pawlicker Microsof pulled a bullshit and won against the FTC somehow
     
     So now they're going to have to push this to remind all the shitlibs that Microsoft is in fact an ally and to shut the fuck up about their attempt at complete erodement of the gaming space
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 05:57:12 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @kroner @coolboymew the problem is stores don't sell Linux PCs. They tried infamously in the 00s poorly with linspire (what suits thought would sell) and those Everex Walmart PCs that sold poorly as well. They didn't last long.
     
     Essentially corporations won't sell it because they don't know who will buy it, the Microsoft lock ins of the past, no Googles pushing it, and also the question of if college girls can use it.
     https://youtu.be/5Qj8p-PEwbI
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   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:08:00 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @coolboymew @kroner Honestly? I think it could have been worse.
     
     Imagine if MS bought EA or Ubisoft or Take 2 or similar. Activision doesn't own terribly much people give a shit about in the way of IPs (on their side), not counting the Blizzard and abandoned Sierra/Vivendi Universal IPs that are actually something people give a shit about. They're just known for ramming Tony Hawk and GH into the ground and turning CoD into a slow motion car crash in the past 10 years, and abandoning IPs they own people care about. I also have a feeling that Microsoft was exploiting all the Activision scandals, since they knew 100% they'd pass and they'd get to buy them out.
     
     I think the Bethesda buyout was vastly worse IMO, as people gave a shit about Bethesda and their IPs at the time and they also had stuff Microsoft could want. Also Bethesda buying out ID was pretty shitty too because it killed off FOSS engines they were making free (John Carmack said Rage's engine would be FOSS before the merger happened).
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:08:17 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Pawlicker @kroner I don't know, Activision was one of the big 3 publishers
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:42:24 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @coolboymew @kroner nothing but cod and milking crash in the 2020s.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:42:37 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Pawlicker @kroner I guess that's how they got bought
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:42:52 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Pawlicker @kroner the dumbasses at M$ overpaid as usual
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:54:25 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @coolboymew @kroner Of course. Aside from the sex pest allegations, just look at the games Activision released in just the 2010s. There's so many in the first half, and then the second half is just CoD (literally), the only old IP they used that they bought up was fucking Crash and the infamous Skylanders series, but also notably after the mid 2010s the whole market for "licensed" games dried up. Otherwise the entire business model of Activision has been to see how far they can milk the CoD cash cow, and unfortunately with Warzone and mobile it's lasting a bit longer.
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_games:_2010%E2%80%932019
     
     That's also when licensed games began to die out too, the Xbox One/PS4 generation did a number on those for the early days (accelerated by multiple events including the fall of Foundation 9 and Disney taking gamedev solely in house, only to kill it as well and go back to licensing it out). There was a mindset of "shitty lowest budget phone tie in game only" before trash publishers popped up like Outright Games (modern day LJN) to make Unity based shovelware games based on popular IPs. It didn't help that for every good one (such as the Star Wars games), there were so many shitty shovelware games that not even diehard fans of the movies/TV shows could like. So as a result of that industry collapsing and to maximize money, Activision and others decided to stop making those games.
     https://www.wired.com/2013/02/activision-licensed-games/
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   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 07:19:08 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @coolboymew @kroner I should add too, the only real value in Activision IMO right now is of the IP. I'm not solely talking about CoD, I'm talking about the franchises that people have nostalgia or faux nostalgia for (especially from Sierra), and right now Activision doesn't give a shit.
     
     Take SWAT 4 for example, a Sierra game that Activision picked up when buying out Vivendi Universal. People had to beg Activision for years, "where is SWAT 4 on GOG/Steam?". Eventually it landed on GOG in 2017, years after the GameSpy shutdown (and master server replacement).
     
     But as for CoD, that's pretty much what they overpaid for. A literally dying franchise that only still sells based on FOMO and slight nostalgia, that has had controversy as of late with the shutdown of a mod project (that was technically breaking the law by hosting game files, except they weren't told to remove them) and the whole removing the esports dude who was against grooming that also led to controversy given the current pushback. Even shitting on it has lost it's luster.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 07:20:39 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew I think you’ll see a generational split, where millies will become boomers unto their own. In 30 years people will make fun of us for being the only ones to buy it

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   • NYλR-LIFE³ (nyarlathotep@tirnanog.space)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 11:05:34 JST NYλR-LIFE³

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     @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew Oh jeez, I haven't seen this video in about 10 years, what an amazing blast from the past
     
     Now that Chromebooks have taken off despite being essentially useless (but at least cheap), maybe there is some hope for low spec/cheapass Linux laptops these days as a Chromebook competitor if they go the route of pushing using web apps and The Cloud(tm). But yeah they'd need a strong company backing, which would unfortunately likely never happen
   • 'ol Mitch (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 11:06:57 JST 'ol Mitch

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     @nyarlathotep @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew https://pine64.com/product/14%E2%80%B3-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop-ansi-us-keyboard/ *drops mic*
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   • 'ol Mitch (olmitch@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:45:09 JST 'ol Mitch

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     @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew @nyarlathotep bitch, have you been to Best Buy lately? They are going the way of Fry's. Not much on the shelves.
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   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:45:10 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @olmitch @kroner @coolboymew @nyarlathotep That's super cool. When can you walk into a Best Buy and buy it?
     https://github.com/hexdump0815/linux-mainline-on-arm-chromebooks
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:45:40 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @olmitch @Pawlicker @kroner @nyarlathotep big box electronic stores has been utter shit for about a decade I'd say. There's literally nothing interesting to look at anymore
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 22:11:53 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @nyarlathotep @kroner @coolboymew @olmitch I have one of those arm Chromebooks I booted Linux from. I was gonna sell it but the resale value is so low that I'm keeping it as an arm64 board
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   • NYλR-LIFE³ (nyarlathotep@tirnanog.space)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 22:11:54 JST NYλR-LIFE³

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     @olmitch @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew The point isn’t Best Buy specifically, but rather when will it be available to the average consumer?
     
     Pine devices are great ideas but they will always remain a niche product, the way things are going now.
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 22:12:13 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @olmitch @kroner @coolboymew @nyarlathotep yeah they're not dying that bad around here. I've gone there because it's right next to my wagecage. I've seen sears/Kmart die before so I've seen that firsthand.
     
     What did happen was post scamdemic the local location closed down and got replaced with a Burlington coat factory. I'd go to micro center more but being that it's a bit of a drive and the wagecage is eating my time yeah...
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