Not having to pay a subscription to access my games is the simple answer lol

Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.

Again, if you know going in that is an absolute requirement, processes can be put in place to ensure things like that doesn’t happen. (at least not as often) vs what you’re thinking of trying to do it after the game is already shipped.

I don’t see how gamepass is particularly bad, I can still buy games without it (I don’t sub to gamepass) and as long as there’s no exclusivity crap where I literally can’t play the game otherwise…

It’s nice when I want to play a game with a friend and the game happens to be on gp, thus I don’t have to buy the game for them lol.

There are 2 sequels lol

Isnt catfishing misrepresenting yourself by using fake photos/descriptions not gold digging per-say.

Ah so because you’re familiar with it it’s easier? Interesting

This could be smart if the largest mobile OS, Android, didn’t have dozens of GUIs/Styles depending on the manufacturer’s whim

I obviously mean with software support, though also https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure

Yeah, it’s just Apple actually pushing it forward and Microsoft sorta half assing it lol.

Funny with ARM finally starting to rise beyond just mobile devices, accurate but very early

Grounded is fun, and 2 is right around the corner, though they did (and plan similarly for 2) to release it in phases in early access and gather community feedback at every step

Abiotic Factor, Nightreign a little, Outlast Trials, Monster Train 2, Across the Obelisk

Idk, I like it more then StS personally, I’m at like 400 hours on AtO lol

It’s quite different from StS imo, and while I’m not a huge fan of the paradox model of dlcs (knew it was coming when they got bought by paradox tho) overall I think they’ve done a good job with keeping it updated and adding nifty new cards/locations/status effects etc

Whoa AtO catching strays? I enjoy it a lot, particularly great that it’s multiplayer

Prey was sooo good.

Sucks for the people who wanted a continuation of the original tho.

Ha yeah, that’s how I got the elites functional again, took it apart and did it directly at the button, so far so good after several months.

The Xbox one/core controllers though it was usually part of the thin plastic bit that connects the bumpers (it’s all one piece for some reason…)

I blame Skyrim/Fallout and Dark Souls/ER, so much bumper pressing in those games.

I also use them A LOT, even being a PC gamer lol if it supports controller, that’s how I’m playing it.

I do think where I comfortably press it probably has to do with it.

If you think I’m like throwing them around or doing crazy stuff like that, I don’t haha.

Edit: If you look online, it’s very common for the bumpers to fail

Wish I could agree, but the consistently broken bumpers really irritate me.

I have gone through probably 20ish Xbox controllers, the 360 controllers were the most durable (except the stick rubber bit) whereas the core and series controllers and even my elite 2 controllers have all had the bumpers break or otherwise stop functioning.

I replaces the bumpers several times manually, then with the elite 2 they changed the design but now it breaks at the actual button instead of the flimsy plastic piece like on the core/series controllers.

Luckily putting some ISO on the button and throughly cleaning it along with sticking a small piece of paper near the actuator seems to have fixed it for several months.

I would love a solid controller with Xbox style layout (particularly the thumbsticks) replaceable sticks and 4 back paddles. I think the Playstation TouchPad would also be a welcome addition for PC navigation or steam input mapping.

Running it off a hdd prob

I made the mistake of looking at comments on one of the steam news articles.

Fair enough, it is annoying having to go to each individual discord to find answers.

Their argument (from my recollection) mostly revolved around their lack of control, they were upset that they could no longer delete all their content off nexusmods.

The sad reality is the reason it was brought forward was due to how frequently mod authors would throw hissy fits and delete their mods.

Wabbajack (precursor to collections and I’d wager still superior for Beth games) mod lists frequently ran into this issue. In many cases it equated to many many hours of work to fix, assuming it wasn’t an essential mod.

Thunderstore is actually excellent for its ease of use, making a mod list to share with a friend is as easy as export profile code.

Where it absolutely fails is any kind of conflict resolution, vortex has it but mod organizer imo is way easier to use (and consistently works) in that regard.

Not to argue on the drama, it was stupid and I fully side with nexus on their reasoning.

It’s still a thing unfortunately, one could argue they’re attempting to make modding profitable for modders, but of course they get a cut too.

Definitely an understatement on my part lol.

Isn’t it unusual for the mods to send data to the server? I had assumed most of the networking APIs for mods are p2p

I hope that’s not the case, seems like it could be a train wreck.

On the other hand…it would make modding easier.

Hunt Showdown

This, the aim assist didnt seem to exist on snipers, spent probably hundreds of hours with friends fucking around on MW2 doing quick scope shit, you could be looking right at them but just be sliiiightly off and you’ll absolutely miss.

Yeah, I mean that’s just how it goes with Windows/Mac(Ubuntu seems to be trying lol), they want you integrated into all their services.

For my part, I used aerotweaker on my win 11 machine to disable most of that junk.

I can absolutely see how that is annoying, but it’s not impossible to disable with a little tweaking.

It doesn’t break things like other overlays in my experience, but it also doesn’t provide anything I want.

Idk, I’ve had the fold 4 for since launch, took the internal protector off as soon as it started peeling in the center and it’s been absolutely fine. I use my stylus rarely unfortunately but it hasn’t obviously scratched the screen at all (I am a bit ocd about those things and would have likely noticed)

I had the fold 2 before that and similarly took the screen protector off within a few months and didn’t run into what you’re describing either. I DID have the hinge break where it wouldn’t open flat anymore but that was absolutely from my dropping it onto cement lol. When I swapped it for the 4 they still gave me the good condition value.

Same, I’m really curious how it feels in gameplay

Why? Also a fold owner

I meant if I self hosted

Does this mean we need to be hosting an email server too? I should just go look at the docs lol, this news might push me over the edge.

Ratchet and Clank games

Yep, completely agree

Sadly I’m on the latter train as well xD yeah completely agree.