I’m not from the US so care little for the constitution. What is in the constitution and what is right are two different things.

Microsoft, the safe home of open source /s

Technology. Pixels and fluff. Things that have existed for decades…

Well done. Have a gold star. So needy.

I wouldn’t use SystemState for a boolean. Better to have Enable() or Disable().

The consideration is about what the consumer of that code knows about it. If it knows less about the inner workings and state, it has lower coupling. You can more easily change 1 without changing all the callers of it. Ideally code, especially in object oriented programming should have high cohesion (each class has one purpose and one reason for change) and low coupling.

Most stuff depends but those concepts can guide you. Learning SOLID principles helps to write better code.

That’s a fair point. We’ll see. Do they even have a viable post-release business model?

It’s less a game and more a sim. They’ll not fix broken box missions, but spend weeks on fart mechanics. Either they are incompetent or intentionally stalling. I personally believe the latter.

They don’t intend to leave alpha because they’re making money from ship sales. It’s pretty, but it’s not fun when you run, and boom, you dead. 45 mins to get back there.

Even scams have valid products behind them.

What? Not sure how you interpreted it that way. The point was I maintain my skills and there will be competition so if they low ball me, they can keep looking.

Agree with folk who said Valheim.

Project Zomboid is really immersive to me. Such a great game.

I’m in the UK. So much less easy to get fired.

Plus, I’m good and they won’t be the only company I’m talking to.

They can try. I know number I’m looking for to move jobs. I won’t move for a paycut. If they want me in the office, they need to pay more.

I think they pay mullvad. It has a no logs policy. Better than most. I currently use Mullvad but maybe will try proton when it expires as they’ve had some missteps, but they ain’t funding Nazi parties.

I cannot unsee this…

They need to work on their public relations. Maybe hire someone and listen as this is the opposite of damage limitation. It went from looking sketchy and dishonest. To sketchy, dishonest, rude, with fragile egos and just generally not nice people.

Wouldn’t touch one of their products even if I wanted to.

Was it written by AI?

I appreciate that point and always good to see what works. I don’t think they’re a bad thing per se. Everything is good in moderation. I think [email protected] and similar are better positioned for that than this community. I’m sure the privacy communities will always have that content to hook folk in. I guess I see our goal as when folk are hooked in, how can we help them continue that journey. We are a wee bit niche and specialised and many communities may struggle on Lemmy with that.

Effort vs profitability to rework. Any content immediately releasable as part of gamepass was probably highest value to them.

Effectively it was a cost to increase and sustain subscriber numbers.

If they didn’t gain more for the costs spent, they didn’t have a viable marketing plan, or they did and it just failed horribly. Incompetence at the top.

They wanted to own existing IP. Not make new stuff. Buy an asset, milk it, and that’ll do. Any words about long-term maybe were lies.