They ran off even their most loyal players one by one with their asinine moves. Lame games, vendor lockin, nickle and dining.

I was die hard for Xbox. Had every one, dozens of games, more probably. Have fond memories of lan parties and friends coming over to play split screen. I remember playing through halo 3 the night it dropped into the early morning, and getting the beta from Reach.

Then they killed off split screen. And lan gaming. You had to use Xbox live to play with your friend in the room. Oh no they don’t have Xbox live. Oh no there’s an update. Now they don’t have their password. They can’t join my party. The audio doesn’t work. It became a hassle to play with people

Steam just works. And it’s a fair price

Ah damn. My brain blocked that out

oh god yeah I did completely forget that, and you’re right the trailer just kinda says it outright. I guess we don’t get the “mystery” of discovering how it happened… can’t trust the viewer that much…

Honestly, if anyone could bring it back it’d be her, and I’m glad they’re finally dropping “world”, all the jurassic worlds sucked. It needed something new if it’d continue.

I’ve read the book so don’t worry, throw a spoil tag I’m curious to see what you saw that was even later. I didn’t notice anything else… huge

Right? It’s the perfect surprise, that’s why the book keeps it under wraps. They basically spoiled the whole movie right there.

Shocking that the less regulation the more people get hurt

And that’s just Ficsonium! Doesn’t even count the rest of the build to get there

Not to mention that it completely flippantly ignores that it’s near impossible to come here legally. I have had friends where it took DECADES for them to get their citizenship. They want to pay taxes, they want to work here, and it just isn’t easily a thing

What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra

Went for the first time in probably 5 years the other day. 15 freaking dollars just for me. Ridiculous. I’ll just keep going to my local burger place for that price

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Sounds like it, I think docker is exactly what you’re looking for

Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects

There’s many ways to do this. Saving the disk state is one, I believe that’s what the other person suggested - essentially stores the disk as an image which then you use for future vms as your jumping off point. This is also essentially how workstations are deployed at companies. (Essentially being the key word). Cloud providers have different names for this too, in AWS this is called their AMI.

Another option is Ansible, which essentially handles deploying a VM by running your scripts for you. I haven’t played too much with this, and I doubt it works with VirtualBox, but it’s something you may want to look into, it would definitely uplevel your skills.

Thirdly is dependent on what you actually use your VM for, you haven’t given your use cases but this is one of the reasons containerization became such a thing - because when running an app we mostly don’t care about the underlying system. It may be worth it to learn about docker.

Ah CompUSA, that takes me back. God I completely empathize with this. I don’t know how many times I thought “I am a service provider, the service you sell, without me those services you sell are worthless. That is literally the value prop” Not everyone needs to be sales

Yeah personally I see it as Microsoft was forced to allow kernel access, and crowd strike proved why the courts shouldn’t be allowed to make a technical decision like that

Seconded. This seems like a gamers nexus story ready to happen.

Best buy had one of the lowest lows and best recoveries I had ever seen while working there. The new French CEO made it about customer service, and I saw people and teens who had never considered going to a best buy start going. Stock price went up, people were happy.

Then the board ousted him a few years ago and made it all about profits, going right back to where they were in the downward spiral, completely unaware of the irony. I hope they fail now. They could have come out on top but greed took over again.

What a lame thing to be proud of