kieron115

joined 8 months ago
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I went in to this show expecting not to like it, that it was just going to make fun of something I loved for mass market appeal. I've never been so happy to be so wrong. This whole show is a love letter to Trek. I'm sad that it's leaving but also really glad that it ended up being worth watching.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I wish I had something more to add to this. I saw this when you posted and thought surely someone more creatively minded than I would chime in. Just want to say thanks for taking the time to write this up, it makes you think about how many other one off deux ex machina type races that Star Trek likes to throw out there. The Organians, Talosians, whatever they decided Trelane is, the Douwd, the list goes on and on. It's quite fortunate for the rest of civilization that these omniscient beings seem to stick to themselves.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

The update was meant to fix a situation where an attacker would somehow get grub onto a machine that was SINGLE booting windows and use grub to tamper with secureboot. this fix was meant to only apply in single boot situations where it should be entirely unexpected to see grub. as they said, something went seriously wrong.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

It seems to me that the real reason people are upset is that they don't want to accept that the devs of games they like willingly accepted the money. As if Epic forced them.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

I think it would be easier for me to empathize with the "exclusivity" argument if it weren't for the fact that PCs as a general rule are inherently open. I don't have to buy a new computer to install a new games launcher as I would with a console exclusives war. Hell most of the time you don't even have to install the official launcher as so many of them are just web wrappers/electron apps. I've been using the Heroic Games Launcher to claim my free Epic games for nearly a year and the only "downside", if you can even call it that, is that I don't get the weekly popup's letting me know what's free/on sale. Just building a huge library of free games, some of which I already own on Steam. Somebody please show me the actual downside of more competition on a single platform.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It wasn't pulled from Steam. A development company consisting of three people that put out a popular mobile game 15+ years ago got an opportunity they wouldn't otherwise have had to create a sequel and took it. They published on (shockedpikachuface) their publishers platform, as well as Nintendo consoles and their own website for people who don't like Epic. I doubt Allan, Kyle and Kyle would have had the funds or skill to do this on their own.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 15 points 3 months ago (16 children)

The epic hate is tiresome. It sounds like they functioned as a publisher here, providing long term funding of development prior to release. The game isn't exclusive and has no DRM, I see no downside to this. Stop hopping on bandwagons of hate and enjoy your games people.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does he end up looking like Nic Cage lol

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

Now that's an ass I've not seen in a loooong time.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Forbidden West is absolutely gorgeous on PC. It'll be worth the wait.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Now tell us the pixel response time.

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