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- Comment on Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe too simplistic for what you’re looking for, but Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager allows you to do some of it.
It’s based on an older title IIRC, and it’s a game more tuned towards education with relatively few graphical elements. You won’t be flying missions directly, nor do you have sandbox capabilities, but for mission planning / R and D / mission control, there is some fun to be had.
I go back to it occasionally.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 3 weeks ago:
Don’t look too closely at family trees in the Bible Belt.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Time for a new supervisor.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 3 weeks ago:
Porn-Tsar is my new favorite word.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 3 weeks ago:
There was one that really stuck with me. This poor homeowner needed a plumber but she had no cash. It was a harrowing story of love and loss, and the climax was stunning.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood why this theme became so popular in porn. But also, it’s porn. If you’re watching it for the plot, you should probably be watching something else.
But obviously, this is more about banning something than actually an issue with the porn. Oiling up that slippery slope.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
I leave my Steam update settings to only update on Play. This allows me to pretty easily review what is being patched in to any particular game and choose when to apply it.
It’s also trivial on Linux to keep the Proton prefixes and game installs backed up automatically. This has the added benefit of making all game installs portable.
Unfortunately GOG still has no official Linux client, though there are workarounds. The “apocalyptic scenario” would ultimately kill either company, so you’re right to think it is moot.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Neither can Steam. Then the difference is down to those games on Steam which are not DRM-free.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I absolutely would – I’m just making a point based on a previous statement earlier in the thread:
Considering games with no DRM can have it added retroactively, that Steam pushes updates I may not want with no option to decline
If the practice is that you need local backups on purchase anyway, then I fail to see the difference between non-DRM games on Steam and those on GOG. It feels like a different goalpost is being used depending on what service is being discussed.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Does it? What recourse do you have if they change their policy and you don’t have local backups of your games?
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Maybe. If you trust them, though now… I don’t.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the game. As I mentioned in another thread, there are many games on Steam which are DRM-free and do not require the client. GOG’s advertising suggests they are the only method for getting such games, but as always, the devil is in the details.
Mostly it comes down to how much you feel about one issue over the other, but I don’t see how they can be unrelated if there’s a monetary transaction involved.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Because supporting GOG now means supporting unfettered AI usage. If you disagree with such policies, the only way to voice that discontent is with your wallet.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing by your wording that you’re aching to bash Steam, so I’ll preface this with: no corporation is ever going to get this 100% right; the world is drawn in greys, and only a Sith deals in absolutes.
“Better” is not very useful without context. In the context of AI usage, Steam is better. In the context of GOG, their main claim about game preservation is “no DRM”, but there is an important point often missed: lots of games on Steam also do not have DRM.
I have no issues “buying” games on Steam which have no DRM. For others, I factor the DRM into the price I’m willing to pay for access. These tend to be larger titles anyway, so I’m not terribly worried about it long term.
Long term game preservation? More about unofficial channels than relying on yet another corporation. GOG wasn’t changing that before, and they definitely aren’t now.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
Something tells me the “double down” is to distract from that fallout
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 weeks ago:
I care. Enough to abandon my qualms about AI usage? Yes, but it means GOG is not the answer.
- Comment on Ahhhhhh YEAH! 💲💵💰🤑🪙 5 weeks ago:
It’s like $120 billion right? 350 million folks in America, so if my math is right I should get… $300-something bucks!
Maybe I’ll invest it in some new food.
/s
- Comment on Linux just works until it doesn't 1 month ago:
This guy fucks
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 month ago:
This is exactly why this shit constantly annoys me. Steam is not unique in how they handle their store. If you don’t want to pay Valve a fee as a dev, then don’t put your game on Steam. No one is forced to do that.
Now, you will lose many sales. But a service being popular does not make it a monopoly. Other stores exist, and are even discussed in the article. All of them have some similar method of getting add-ons. Steam’s happens to be very easy – again, that doesn’t make it anti-competitive.
Also: the fact that this is about “PC gaming monopoly” and “Microsoft” is not mentioned is just… wild. And sad.
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 month ago:
Xero is publicly traded. Generally it’s shareholders wanting endless return that pushes every company to enshittify. The specifics of the company matter less if they have public shareholders.
- Comment on Gehheie88f3nj3-i-odk3j4y8-fff-jej 1 month ago:
“Works on my machine”
- Comment on Young will suffer most when AI ‘tsunami’ hits jobs, says head of IMF 2 months ago:
And absolutely no one will do anything about it, because the “progress” must continue
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 2 months ago:
I felt like I agreed with the title, but the logic in the explanation doesn’t hold up for me. I don’t think analog or digital are more resistant to various things that may happen – both are susceptible to their own things.
Where I do agree: I can hold a vinyl record in my hand, and it’s MY copy. Mine has a scratch that makes that noise on track 2. The crackle is specific to mine. It is unique in a way that the Spotify equivalent isn’t.
But put that record in the wrong spot, it’ll warp. Everything dies, just in a different way.
PSA: I am not suggesting equivalence. I’ll take analog all day long and it shocks me that people are willing to pay over and over again to access the same content with digital streaming. But yeah, can’t get behind the logic in the post.
- Comment on Who? 3 months ago:
Jokes on them, my kink is being left alone by absolutely everyone
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 months ago:
Most times I listen to records.
For digital music, I have a local collection. I copy chunks of it to my phone periodically for remote listening.
Making people pay over and over again for the same product is the greatest trick businesses ever pulled.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 6 months ago:
Jerry who?
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 6 months ago:
You need jobs before you can have hiring
- Comment on Steam Introduces In-Game Performance Monitor 8 months ago:
Being able to see your actual performance versus your framegen performance is actually pretty cool.
- Comment on my phone turning my headphone volume one notch from silent halfway through a song then telling me off for turning it back up 9 months ago:
Because expensive headphones tend to have drivers with higher impedance, meaning they produce less volume at the same current versus a lower impedance set.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 10 months ago:
Should have just used AI, at least then people could debate whether or not it was plagiarism