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Hard pass. Tim Sweeney can eat a bag of dicks.

It is. I’m a bit confused by that as well.

Tbh I’ve always has better luck with Proton versus native builds.

And it is true that performance via Proton can be better than on Windows, so it isn’t accurate that there is a performance penalty. In my experience it’s usually the opposite. Shader precaching is one major reason.

No. Convenience always wins. Same reason people decided streaming is better than owning.

Some percent of those upset and boycotting will simply give it up. These things have about a 2-4 week lifespan. Then they’ll just miss their PlayStation and everything will be over, except they’ll own even less.

Don’t worry, everyone, this will be good old fashioned Euro fascism, none of this new shit

These people are disconnected from reality and need real psychological help. In the meantime, this behavior is not acceptable for anyone in any kind of official position. Hell, this amount of deflection wouldn’t even be acceptable if he were trying to be a fucking barista.

No offense at all meant to baristas. You have likely worked harder than this clown ever will.

Yeah, I’m not sure it’s entirely relevant to the existing conversation, but maybe at least in part.

I don’t have anything to cite directly in front of me for other examples from non-English languages, but I know some work exists out there, particularly in cognitive linguistics. If I remember right, some papers under the “construction grammar” umbrella touch on this in an effort to explain relative preferences between what would otherwise be equally weighted constructions. Also look into works by Dryer and Haspelmath (together and separately) for similar discussion with a more typological bent.

German does have one typological distinction which might also play a role in how permissive it is with seperable prefixes: the verb-second constraint, which basically exists in the Germanic branch of Indo-European and only a handful of languages elsewhere. This is why German allows basic clauses which are SVO (e.g. Der Hund frisst den Fleisch), but as soon as there is an auxiliary verb, it looks more like an SOV hybrid with the main verb at the end (der Hund wird den Fleisch fressen), or fully SOV if a subordinate of a matrix clause (Wir glauben, dass der Hund den Fleisch fressen wird).

That doesn’t really explain why you have to do ich sage ab instead of the ungrammatical *ich absage, but having to move that ab to the end is at least reminiscent of having to move verbs in the same way. I don’t think there’s even an alternative, so extremely long examples persist by necessity.

In a perfect world, it doesn’t stop being toxic until Sony either goes out of the gaming business or pulls head from collective ass.

Companies now make wild decisions and then just wait for people’s memory to run out. But the policies don’t change, so therefore the response must be consistent.

And of course, at the end of the day, social media is just an arm of marketing. It’s great that Sony’s has been made unpleasant, but corporations “live” and think only via money.

Don’t give Sony any more of it.

There are also working memory constraints, or similar real-time processing constraints, at play which can affect how acceptable (in terms of native speaker intuition) some examples are.

• I’m going to call my best friend Lenora up (very acceptable)
• I’m going to call my best friend Lenora, who I’ve known since high school, up (less acceptable)
• I’m going to call my best friend and longtime dancing partner from Brighton, Lenora up (less acceptable, comma for written clarity only)

I won’t get into the possible differences in the intervening structures (e.g. the relative clause), but as a mostly fair generalization: in these cases, the preference to split the verb into parts is inversely correlated with the number of intervening elements.

• I’m going to call up my best friend and longtime dancing partner from Brighton, Lenora (more acceptable than above)

Something similar occurs without phrasal verbs but with indirect objects optionally expressed as prepositional phrases:

• I gave an extremely rare and hard-to-find cassette tape from Tokyo in the 1980s to Mary (still acceptable, but right on the cusp of awkward)
• I gave Mary an extremely rare and hard-to-find cassette tape from Tokyo in the 1980s (better)

The similarities suggest that the pattern has more to do with heavy intervening phrases, or even more generally syntactic headedness, and not wanting to rebuild or finish building earlier structures later in the parse.

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In a world where every product sucks due to years of cost cutting and shrinkflation, brands mean very little.

There is nothing else to do. We went beyond the tipping point on warming and those in charge didn’t listen. It only gets worse from here.

Eh, I see your point, but it feels pretty tongue-in-cheek to me. Steamroller is just a cool name that implies the thing is a workhorse.

The socialist shithole strikes again! Capitalists love loud ads.

Lol corporate thieves bitching about other corporate thieves is the funniest part of 2026

Here it is, folks. The definitive proof that mainline Dems hate winning.

I mostly believe this, but I also believe it isn’t a negative for Valve.

The hate towards Valve right now is so fucking weird. Is it perfect? No. Are they actively contributing to projects which can break the M$ coalition? Yes.

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress, and accept the wins. When Valve actually becomes anticompetitive (big when), then speak up. Otherwise you have bigger fish to fry.

Here’s one: Microsoft itself. So tired of hearing shit about Valve from people still booting Windows every day.

my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand

Now that is a palpable irony. So much disruption in this space so some investors could profit off of a tech they don’t even understand.

These people only care now because it’s actually affecting the bottom line.

Did they care when AAA pricing was lifted to $70 (base) as AAA quality took a nosedive? Did they care when “preordering” turned into “premium”? Did they care when microtransactions made some games into spend-to-win machines?

Hell, most of these clowns don’t even play games. Just more rich people putting on the hat they think they need to get away with a “hello, fellow gamers.”

Maybe the industry has a C-suite crisis.

I want one, but I don’t think they’re going to get the pricing near anywhere where it becomes a reality.

That said, I’m really happy that this product has at least started a conversation. I would 100% prefer a dumb flip phone than the advertising machine in my pocket. There is a suggestion of a market; we’ll see if the industry is too far up their own ass to respond.

Sadly I don’t think the revamped Commodore will have the clout to pull it off.