It wouldve been easier to just state:

I am the Musk. I mean borg. Resistance is futile. I will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to my own. Your culture will adapt to service me.

Way simpler and everyone would get it.

I think he is old, like me and means aldus photostyler. Which was light years ahead of adobe in background separation.

We all knew. We gave him money anyway because WHEN (or better: if) he delivers, he always delivered good stuff. Wingco, wingco 2, strike commander, wingco3, 4, prophecy, starlancer and freelancer. That last one mostly.

I gambled with money i could lose. Still doesn't think it was a wrong decision. Is my money gone? Yeah. It cost me, in those12 years, like 1 restaurant visit.

I also gambled the same amount with elite dangerous. That one delivered. So 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

I don't get this. And I'm le tired.

I'll take a nap.

AND VIRE ZHE MISSILES!!

Yeah, in which hole did that crawl into? Probably lost very deep in that rabbit hole. Such a shame.

You only been in 1.

9/11. That was our JFK moment. The rest? SSDD.

1. Blockbuster didnt exist in the EU.

Or programming. Or sysadmins. Or sales orders. Or order picking. Or...

You need to type a number quickly?

You need a keypad.

The end.

And then we say....

Anyone? Somebody? Come on people. Nobody? Well, guess it's up to me.

Fuck Spez.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Really, what drugs you're on? I want in.

Best game I own, it always was even with the bugs. The worse thing happening was the T pose/jesus pose when driving back then. It always was playable.

I'll up that even: all updates which fixed bugs also added some yankiness on other parts which where perfect in v1. 0.

The problem these days is you can't trust reviewers. You also cannot trust forums filled with 10 year olds who debate with bots. You can only make up your own mind.

Same goes with the latest assassins creed game: lots of bullshit going around now but gaming is not politics. Its a f-ing game. If you liked previous assassins creed stuff you'll probably like this one too. For the record: I never did like them.

Starfield really is meeeeeh though.

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That's. Uh.. the entire idea of a kickstarter.

It may crash and burn. Don't want that, don't back anything on kickstarter.

Although i think you're right, you too where once a kid.

And. Tell me. What did you do with your money back then? Everything you bought was well thought out? You still use day to day everything you bought back then? Or where you just a child and did you buy candy, fireworks, some comics, that game console you sold 2 years later for not even half the price, that cheap rc car which broke after 1 day?

Its a slippery slope. Just because something doesn't have value to you does not mean the same applies to someone else.

Stuff like this can give kids a certain social standing in the brutal world of the classroom. That's something to consider also, group pressure, wanting to fit in. The need to be part of the group.

Allowance is a learning experience. My son did the same, for years bought only fortnite skins with his allowance. Like you i warned him against it. But i never forbid it. He's 14 now and regrets it.

He doesn't buy fortnite skins anymore. That's the end goal, isn't it? To learn and move on?

I should look hard and long at Intel Arc if i was you. Those are nice and a clear move up the ladder from where you are at. And they are reasonably priced.

I was in the same boat. Then I decided that the 50x0 was a paper launch and the leaks told me that the 9070XT would lower or have the same performance as the 7900xtx.

Then the 7900xtx dropped in price, clearing the channel for the new gen.

Then I bought that.

Ever since I've been wondering... Why didn't I buy this thing earlier?

It's more then fast enough. The RT performance is above the 3080.

Every 9070XT I can buy now is almost 200 euro more then what i payed for the 7900xtx.

What I learned? Buy previous gen in it's "dying" weeks.

Following the same logic we should shit on every american because they elected trump. The majority of people don't want war they get brainwashed and get caught into it.

We do already shit on every American. That has been covered. Thank Trump for that. Seen Tesla sales in the EU? That will never recover. never. I can't see any EU airline order a Boeing ever again. Etc.

Just like with China, he made it very clear to the EU we must do things ourself and can not depend on any American product or service ever again. Americans are untrustworthy. That's the lesson learned. Message recieved, loud and clear.

Did you hear Macron? Starner? VdLeyden? That defense fund will be spend in the EU. not in the US. And that defense fund is only the start. Everything will follow.

Very probably an EU cloud will emerge in a few years making the reliance on MS, Google, Amazon, Oracle a thing of the past. There is a lot of talk about this now in government agencies all over the EU. The USA is untrustworthy. We cant trust them anymore with our data.

We where friends, allies. Big spenders. But apparently that was all useless.

From a musk pov it's 100% logical. Money.

Why? Win2k was quite stable. Stable enough to use it in warships.

Linux/Bsd is not free. When you use it in your company you want pro support. That support comes free with windows enterprise licenses. So the cost difference there is almost non existent. And, MS being M$, they would've sweetened the deal. A lot. Just think of the marketing worth of this deal for MS.

And lastly: Who is cheaper? A good linux admin or a windows guy?

So 90% of the stability at 50% of the cost. That's not a bad deal.

I don't get this. Y'all should talk to a psychologist. Its a goddamn mobile phone. If you don't want to use a device's primary function maybe you should use something else to browse porn.

And if talking to people makes you anxious and makes you feel violated or makes it feel like someone is disrespecting your private bubble...

You should go out more. Without that gd device in your pocket because clearly, obviously to everyone else but you that device is hampering you, limiting you even hurting you.

This is crazy.

Fyi, UK, NL, FR, ES etc all went with you on your "right of passage" sail throughs, against the chinese. Thats NATO.

Guess who can do that all on its own from now on.

Guess which countries also put sanctions on china? Your NATO partners.

Guess where the machines most chips are made with... Are being made? (NL says hi.)

If you stop scratching our back.. Why should we still scratch yours? The chinese market is double yours. We can make more euros there then in your tariff hellscape.

Have fun having the biggest military for the time being. In a few years china has eclipsed yours.

Trump's tantrums have made it very clear we should buy our military gear locally. So we will. Same will happen with cloud and tech. You can't be trusted. One day everything is ok, next day everything is +25%

If this continues for a few more months it will mean the end of US hegemony. You will be left with nothing.

In the end we will make peace with Russia, simply because we must. The oil will flow west again in a few years leaving you with all the problems of fracking and zero gains.

Same will happen with china.

We will be allright, bud.

From an EU standpoint it doesn't matter if the US, china or even Russia is our partner. It mattered because of history. But trump's US chooses to flush it all down the drain. So we will check if the turd really went down.