Normalising digital restrictions management and renting games rather than owning them. He didn’t start it. But he sure as hell normalised it.

Holding a near-monopolistic position in PC gaming and taking a one-third cut of most PC games sold, and an up-front fee to be allowed to sell your game in the first place.

And then spending that eye-popping sum of money on multiple yachts rather than, I don’t know, maybe improving the world even a little?

Oh no, I’m not suggesting it.

I’m outright saying it.

Fuck you Tim Sweeney for making Gabe Newell appear even remotely good by comparison

I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself

Then stop acting like you do!

I’m looking forward to seeing what the modding community does with this

Nice for me and you but that doesn’t mean people who can’t switch deserve to be treated like shit.

“I’m alright, Jack” :eyeroll:

Cigarette company says you’re “Completely wrong” about smoking causing cancer.

Isn’t this just upscaling?

edit: No. It really isn’t.

Myrient and AI

The AI industry frenzy undoubtedly contributed to the original Myrient archive’s soaring costs, ahead of its closure announcement. Perhaps ironically, if Myrient hadn’t been saved, retro fans may have looked to AI to generate copies of their favorite apps and games of yesteryear?

Holy fucknuggets Tom’s Hardware has gone way downhill.

Again, Steam does a fine job of that. Add the installer as a non-Steam game, set compatibility, “play” it, then when it’s finished change the shortcut to point to the actual game.

How-to guide: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-battle-net-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck-for-world-of-warcraft-and-starcraft/#steam

Heroic and Steam.

Heroic for GOG and Epic games.

Steam for literally everything else: add the .exe as a non-Steam game, find it in your library, go into its properties, set Compatibility > Force Compatibility Mode > Proton Experimental.

I already wouldn’t have gone to that country if you paid me. They let any idiot carry a fucking gun.

Don’t underestimate the power of inertia.

The reputational damage has already been done and people still haven’t moved to a better and more sustainable solution, so why would they back down now?

No clue, I’m not on discord, just trying to be helpful

For info:

Group voice calls

They’re testing that right now. It’s going well.

A server system that is separated from DMs/group chats, at least visually

Spaces.

Roles within those servers to manage people’s access

Spaces can do that.

Legcord’s fake nitro is free.

GOG. The for-profit company that’s soliciting donations under its “GOG Patrons” scheme.

5000 people literally giving a for-profit company money, and GOG couldn’t pay a graphic design apprentice to draw an abstract banner?

Does anyone know if there’s a game/mode/mod/whatever similar to Applied Energistics 2? It was a really cool take on storage and autocrafting that I’d love to play around more with.

(link: https://appliedenergistics.org/)

TSA was bad enough. Even if you’re white.

I’m sorry for her loss and I don’t blame her in the slightest.

I wouldn’t go to that country if you paid me. I like being alive, thanks.

I bought one game on Epic, once.

It didn’t work.

I contacted them for a refund.

I never received a reply.

Lesson learned.

I’m looking forward to Palword Legends Y-X

I thought everyone had heard this meme by now.

I edited my post to add the source.

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn’t been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn’t exist to populate GPUs that also haven’t been produced to go in datacenters that haven’t been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn’t exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can’t exist while economists talk about this thing they call the “rational markets hypothesis”.

(source)

I’ve literally never heard it with a -m before. Usually it’s just “tada”. :)

What the heck is a ta-da-m? It sounds like some kind of exotic medication 🤭

Anyway, how is your sex life?

I really enjoyed FFXIV for a few months a couple of years back (my character there is still my profile picture here) but I really prefer to own my games now. I can go back and play Skyrim any time I want to, but if I want to boot up FFXIV I have to either make a new trial account or basically buy it again, and after a month, I’ll be back in exactly the same position.

Lemmy is part of the fediverse.

Also if your toots are trapped in your butt, you should probably see a pharmacist, there’s medication that can help with that. /j

Thank you so much for the offer! I already own that game, so that’s really not necessary. Thank you again. :)

I’m guessing I didn’t win. That’s okay! I hope whoever got the key enjoys it. Thank you so much for doing this, have a very happy new year :)

WWE 2K25 please!

GOG*

One point to consider: using Windows 7 after its end date was popular. Using Windows 8/8.1 after its end date was not.

“Balatro’s fun, but if only the cards were more realistic, it’d be a much better game” said nobody ever

You’re mistaken. I use Graphene because it’s the least-bad option currently available to me. And I definitely don’t do so gladly. My next phone will likely be Ubuntu Touch or some other variety of Linux phone.

Don’t assume. It makes an “ass” out of “u”.

I don’t want more fucking AI baked into my operating system. I just want a computer that works in a way I can deal with, then gets out of my way.