Ah yes, I can see how you can see the guy who used religion all his political career to his advantage and shat on the constitution just so he can stay in power longer, as a Kemalist.

/s

There is not a single drop in alternative currently unfortunately. I hope Revolt picks up some steam and figures out screen sharing, but more importantly, federation between self hosted instances, which is not even on their roadmap currently.

I hope to convince my group to use something like mumble + steam groups or something like that eventually especially now that Discord has ads, but for general use (such as public community servers) I think we are all doomed for many years to come.

Name a single better alternative, I will wait. Lmao man, Matrix can’t even load TEXT messages if there are slightly too many (yeah sure, it will eventually load if you wait long enough I guess), and it doesnt even have voice chat (not voice calls mind you, I am not calling 20 fucking people to play games with them). Revolt does not have screen sharing, nor does it have hot swappable/ joinable servers if you self host. It had like a 4 month period where voice chat didn’t even work.

The fact thay Discord, a software that historically targeted gamers at that point in time, was being used for remote classes tells you how shit everything else was / is in comparison.

Really? You don’t see how a gamer centric software that put text and voice chat in a single solution, with the ability to join multiple servers and hot swtich between them on the fly, that let’s you start private chats in a single click and keeps your entire history for all the channels and all the private chats that you have ever been part of, that has built in streaming and screen sharing capabilities without any additional configuration, became successful?

Nobody needs “performance” (whatever that means in this context) from Discord unless you need hundreds of people in a single voice channel. Its also stable AF.

Don’t get me wrong, Discord is on a fast track to enshittification, but when it first came out, it made so many things so simple and accessible. There is still not a single solution that even comes close what you can do with Discord to this day.

The opposition comes from us, the consumers who refuse to use Google products.

Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.

She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”

Bruh, who the fuck is being rejected “hundreds, if not thousands” times? Maybe some people are, but thats such a red flag that I would argue then maybe they should change their approach in the first place.

Maybe you are exaggerating (it just makes you sound a bit like an incel, apologies), and I probably would argue men do get rejected more then woman, because men are still (mostly) expected to make the first move, but like you don’t need experience handling rejection to not have a violent rage fit.

Edit: I have read another one of your replies down the chain, and uh yeah you definitely do sound a lot like an incel.

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And how does average sales per release correlate to development costs? Your argument was “development costs are now higher so game prices should also increase”, and now you are talking about average sales per release.

You might need some comprehension skills before offering other people tips.

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Got some bad news for you chief.

Huh? What does this has to do with game prices? More games being released doesnt change the develepmont cost of a single game (it might even make it cost less because you could share assets, functions, animations etc between different games). But selling more games = more income directly since you don’t even have release those games physically anymore.

Imagine calling putting 2 tablets together “an exploit” and then banning people because they used it. Its criminal to do this after not banning the people who exploited the temporalis dupe last patch.

GGG, my brother in christ, you put those mods there yourself?

I don’t think anything I said can be dismissed as “eh its just early access”. I am not complaining about the fact that they didnt “fix” things YET, I am complaining about their overall stance in some aspects. I hope the game doesnt become another poe 1, because then what the fuck was the point?

Cmon, are YOU telling me that you are happy spending 20+ hours every league just to level your first character to reach the endgame? Are you happy spending 30 minutes in infested barrens or wherever the fuck it was looking for different objectives? We had this complaint even with poe1, which has much lower play time at around 12+ hours for leveling. Not only they did not adress this from poe 1 to poe 2, they made it waaaay worse. Has nothing to do with early access.

I haven’t heard or saw a single person that likes current map sizes (both in leveling and maps) or the fact that you have to do so much backtracking just to find a single rare monster you missed, and instead of adressing this and acknowledging the problem, they go “uhh achtuallyy, it’s not the map sizes, its the white monster health and your movement speed guys, just get better”.

I feel like there are 2 sides working on PoE2 right now, the player experience side that are triying to add cool mechanics like parry, or to give hammer skill attacks +1 sec flat so that the weapons feel actually different to each other, and then there is the monster balance side, where they have no idea what players have to do to make their builds work and instead just focuses on monster difficulty in a vacuum only using numbers. The result? You go in a map and then die to a single magic pack that has the quick modifier because they swarm and kill you way before your 1.4 seconds hammer attack finishes. And no, its not a monster health balance issue. If they want the game to be slower, then the monsters need to be slower too.

They also for sure reduced the item drop rates, at least during the campaign, which I think was a universal complaint for both poe1 players and new players during 0.1.0. Again, during 0.1.0, you could say its just early access. I dont think you can say the same thing now.

Why are they so stubborn about the map sizes? Why do they care so much about how long the leveling experience is? Why did they increase monster life compared to the previous patch along with massive nerfs across the board for all gems if they were just going to revert it back before the week is over? Were they hoping we wouldn’t notice?

I have so many questions about the poe2 “VISION” and I feel like they are having an identity crisis with the game. Its GGG so they will probably figure their shit out, I just wish they didn’t need to learn the same lessons over and over again.

I have used both Bazzite and PopOs for more then a year. They are both great distros. The reason I stuck with Bazzite is ease of updates since its immutable (I am lazy and updated PopOS only when I absolutely needed, and updating bunch of system packadges after a long time always causes something else to screw up). PopOS on the other hand gives you complete control over how to install things, and system configuration.

TLDR, if you are a power user, then decide based on if you want an immutable system or not. If you are not, you can just flip a coin and choose, Bazzite has better ease of use compored to PopOS on theory, but if you encounter issues PopOS will be easier to troubleshoot because it has more users / information online.

I am sorry, is your mother in law really buying logitech mouses that specifically require a software to run even on Windows?

I don’t know what defines “the average user”, but the average user does not use a mouse that requires proprietary software for its side buttons to work, in my experience.

Maybe try a distro that is known for compability with NVIDIA such as popOS or bazzite. I have used both for the last 4 years, and other then some specific games where anti-cheat or kernel level anti cheat is an issue (and honestly, fuck those games anyway because those developers spend extra effort to make sure their games dont run on Linux), the rest just works flawlessly.