Majority of the shit that they’re touting as ‘new’, have already been done in past Windows OSes.

Widgets? Vista did that. Touchscreen? Windows 8 did that. Search? Really, fucking search? All Windows OSes did that. Paint? Are they fucking serious?

Don’t you fucking disregard Paint…

NOBODY ignores Paint.

Fuck you Intuit. Ha, what’re you going to do now? Sue the IRS?

Narrator: They will try.

For all we know, could be some fat teenager doing it for the “lulz” or just “winning” by owning them libs.

And once news stopped covering it, that’s when shit hit the fan.

And they’ll probably be killed and that’ll be that. Yay, China… /s

God damn, seems like everyone tried so hard to be AVGN all of a sudden.

I would’ve loved to have a paypal alternative if so many damn services would adopt them.

And no I’m not talking Google Pay or Apple Pay. They’re just as bad.

If PayPal is doing it, so fucking will they too.

I wouldn’t be surprised, because it’s happened before, that the Internet Archive has been attacked legally by copyright firms for what is hosted there. Like music, games and books in particular.

So it’s likely that it isn’t suits attacking Internet Archive for this reason, it’s presumably a mixed batch of copyright trolls and spiteful shitty human beings with too much time on their hands.

Someone is really trying to recreate the Burning of Alexandria. Can we be certain that Internet Archive and Wikipedia (as awful of a shit place that can be) are going to stand the test of time at this rate?

Tough shit. Someone needs to enjoy the games.

And who says you have to notify Valve with what you do to your account?

Out of everything we have today, Discord is arguably the best we’ve got.

Nobody cares about Skype anymore as much. VK Messenger, which is ICQ’s successor, looks like trash. Telegram used to be very great but did take some morally questionable steps, yet still gives the user an awful lot of power. Zoom is garbage. Microsoft Teams is garbage. Facebook Messenger is garbage.

So if I had to pick, Discord and Telegram is the best we’ve got now.

Yahoo! Messenger shut down in 2018
MSN Messenger discontinued in 2013
AIM Messenger discontinued in 2017

ICQ was really the last of them and it’s ending quite an era. This is, officially, the end of the Messengers.

Hope nobody more valuable than their dumb CEO is injured.

Fuck Musk.

Which they most likely will, just won’t say anything.

In the Video Game Business, it’s not estranged to find video game companies doing casino things. Konami doing pachinko for example, which lead to them pissing a lot of their IPs off to pachinko machines that were themed.

Hell, Nintendo licensed to Konami to do Mario Roulette which is a medal game.

And they totally wasted a new Earthworm Jim game on that thing.

But yeah, Tommy Tallarico had a personal vendetta with Pat the NES Punk for a while, taking swipes at them as he was covering the whole issue on his podcast the CUPodcast. It’s a really wild ride from beginning to end, if it ever did end.

Which is hilarious because they were both part of the reason the video game market crashed back then.

They’ve been this way since the late 90s and 2000s. More publishing than doing. Sometimes they’ll throw out a Atari Classics compilation but that’s it.