• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Ah yes consoles 😉 and not missile guidance hardware disguised as consoles. Bet China asked them to do this, so Chinese consumer electronics manufactures can supply war machines to Russia without risking to get completely shutout of the US and EU market.

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      8 months ago

      TBH that explains a lot. Kyiv is pretty much B if you look at the map of Ukraine. And the reason the Russians couldn’t properly rush it is because they didn’t have enough P90s.

  • “And it can play all the games at 144fps in 4k?”

    “Da.”

    “Now where is the mechanism that brainwashes the user to hate capitalism?”

    “That’s in the game. You see, Vlad, we put special hats in the game and the only way to obtain them is by buying keys to unlock boxes that only give you a small, random chance at getting the hat you want.”

    “Da… Da… This pleases me.”

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    8 months ago

    I regret go inform you that Russia already runs it’s own Steam. It just has thousands of contributors and doesn’t make any money. Even Steam has trouble competing with it!

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    8 months ago

    We already have one with Atomic Heart(which costs 1/3 minimal paycheck) and Everlasting summer(which is free).

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    8 months ago

    I mean… an alternative OS? It seems to me like the only realistic options to hit the ground running are Linux and maybe, maybe BSD? They could of course roll their own entire kernel and OS from the ground up, but let’s be honest, not even China is doing that and that have way more money.

    They probably already have something linux based and will start off of that. Hardware-wise, I bet Huawei or some other Chinese chipmaker is most likely to be targeted, if the only Russian chipmaker went bankrupt last year.

    In any case, if they dump money into this distraction instead of the war, it’s welcome. And of course, if Russia goes full Linux, that would be quite big, but that’s probably not happening for another decade or more.

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