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- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 1 week ago:
Of course, I am not asserting any superiority. I am just a buy one-play one, indie-loving guy.
What mostly stops me from buying titles I don’t play directly is going through the list of all the other things I may need/want to buy with the same money.
Regarding the most, category/publisher sales are back-to-back in between the seasonal ones, so yes, I think they are most of them.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 1 week ago:
I will save your nick in a list.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 1 week ago:
To me, it is. Just shy to share something definitely only half-done, when it is my first ever programming project.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 1 week ago:
I am trying to give it a publicly acceptable form in Streamlit before sharing it. Bare with me, it is my first ever programming endeavour and I remained without a mentor half-way into it.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 1 week ago:
On Steam there are category sales much more often (right now TPS Fest).
I buy at historical lows via Isthereanydeal any time of the year anyway.
And just like weight and fashion changes for shirts, I may change my schedule and interests not to fit games I bought years ago.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 2 weeks ago:
I have only 200something titles across my GOG and Steam libraries and I have played all of them and finished 90% at least.
I may be from another generation (I am in my 40s), but I don’t get the point of spending money on a title I don’t know if I will have ever time or interest to play.
Also, this feeds stale mechanics, since most titles are bought in bulk during sales that are usually centered around game categories.
I built a small python app to use howlongtobeat, steam data and isthereanydeal to select the best next title for me to play in terms of price per hour and (steamdb-style) rating.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In Italy, in our Humanist association we used “credini” for all religious people.
“Cretini” means “idiots” (originally “affected by cretinism”, the developmental syndrome caused by iodine deficit during pregnancy).
“Credere” is the verb meaning “to believe”.
So it could be read as “believing idiots”.
Always loved it and have been trying to replicate it somehow in English ever since.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think she looks fit. She has more muscle mass than the average girl her age maybe, but her upper body is likely underdeveloped and her spine is definitely fucked up.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
Ahem, you may want to listen to this: pca.st/…/007323a5-a2ba-4b4c-ab18-5307e0d31164
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 2 months ago:
Raiden and Midna at PLAYERINSIDE did it (again) this week and are going to do it again in their video today.
I bet that if they point out that we are losing to the French, we may achieve incredible results in record time.
Except in Pisa.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 2 months ago:
Up until now I thought moddb was all that existed.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 months ago:
Missing Half-life (the first one). That game was the first one to feature scripted scenes during player interaction and it was mind-blowing. Plus, it had the most sophisticated story ever seen in an FPS before.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
Good one, although still sounding benign. Hormones and in general stuff related to flesh is when this shit hits MeatCanyon territory.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 months ago:
You suddenly made it clear in my mind that most talk about hormones and other “gym biochem” reeks of body horror.
- Comment on I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon. 3 months ago:
Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don’t really make a difference
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 3 months ago:
Even if it comes on PC, it will come with the stupid Rockstar launcher.
I have now decided to stop playing games that require anything else than just pure Steam or GOG Galaxy.
This way I could pass to Linux and don’t have to install crappy bloatware on my machine.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 4 months ago:
The Hike itself is short. Took me only a few minutes.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.
Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
That would be a warlock I guess.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Given the rate at which people would become mentally or physically disabled because of diseases, you could argue it would have a network effect (probably a better term exists): I would have more chances to meet people and influence them, to learn something useful, to accumulate and use wealth for the above, so yeah…
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Wash my hands
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Mildly infuriating? I was so infuriated I downvoted at first.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 4 months ago:
3465 € in 21 years at today’s prices for 287 games. Given that I mostly buy at historical lows the estimate of 1033 € that can be found on the same SteamDB page applies to me.
3,6 € per game, 49 € per year.
Given the tears, the emotions and the joy I got repeatedly from all those (mostly indie) titles, it’s well worth it. Praised be GabeN and all of Valve!
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 5 months ago:
I collect all the stars since GTA III.
I also play everything on Easy because I have a life.
- Comment on Yemeni shopkeeper during US bombing. 5 months ago:
Remember all the narrative about the modern warfare and “surgical operations”?
- Comment on Schedule I, a first person drug empire management game, released in early access on Steam (demo available) 5 months ago:
I want Steve Levitt to stream himself playing this!
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if the initiative comes from the OG dev of the game, who is Italian: the efforts we go through since 1996 (all I can remember) to avoid ads and popups are of biblical proportions.
I can remember my father taking the PC away from me as soon as he saw I was exposed to one, going “I can take that away, it will be a minute”. It wasn’t a minute.
- Comment on you know this sound, but not its name.. 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Meow 6 months ago:
Sure, but toxoplasmosis is still potentially there with a cat and there other ways to get your immune system debilitated. It’s the reason why the image of cat ladies developed.
- Comment on Meow 6 months ago:
Whenever someone suggests me the idea to let in/buy/adopt a cat, I sent them this link: