I’m already sold, you don’t have to keep trying to sell me on it.

I most often hear it pronounced you-bun-too.

But it is oo-boon-too.

I adored the details they gave the characters in that game. I accidentally

It also had such nice and natural-feeling LGBTQ characters.

You should never feel bad for turning difficulty down.

I have heard them called “knowledge-based games”. While not catchy, I think it’s accurate.

I emailed Lifeformed back in 2020 to ask permission to use their music in a video and they were so nice.

The Dustforce soundtrack is so good, and the Tunic soundtrack does such an amazing job at elevating the game.

Steam OS is not, and will not be a good desktop OS. At least in the foreseeable future. If you want that kind of experience now, install Bazzite.

Try Bazzite. Easy, beginner friendly, but very God hardware support and up to date.

And then to stick it to the man further you’re running Linux of course, right?

Guess I’m just never playing it, then.

So many thousands of amazing games I can play instead.

I just skimmed your post and it didn’t sound familiar. I’m out of the house right now, but I checked Steam on my phone, and I’ve definitely played it.

I own both Shadowgrounds and Caster.

Caster is a short, janky, lovable mess. It has real “this is my passion project and first ever video game” vibes.

Shadowgrounds was forgettable, but I vaguely remember enjoying it.

Denuvo is the only reason I’m waiting. I’m on Linux, and I’m not risking that Proton change license issue. And also I hate the performance hit that Denuvo causes.

And in this one, if you move the stick back and forth wrong, you can spin out.

It’s pretty janky, but you can get used to it.

I love NMS, and I think it’s a better game than Starfield overall. But they’re extremely different.

All of your criticisms are spot on. The only thing is disagree with is the story. I thought it was alright. Some of the side quests were great, but there weren’t a lot of those.

I really enjoyed the ship building, but it was extremely limited and unbalanced.

I will say the loading screens didn’t bother me, though.

Point is don’t buy Nvidia.

There are other options at that price point that aren’t Nvidia.

There aren’t other comparable options to say the 5090, which no one needs.

That was my point. I was speaking generally, not about the 5060.

Stop buying Nvidia products. You don’t need the top of the line video card.

I’ve always been a mid-range gamer. When I was younger, that’s just what I could afford. As I’ve grown older, I didn’t see the point of spending more for high end. Mid-range already feels too expensive. But luckily, the parts last for 5 years easily.

When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother got a NES and three games. One was Crystalis.

Me and my two cousins played the game in turns, and we eventually got to the first boss, which was quite an achievement because there are puzzle elements to the game.

We could not beat this boss. Several years later, I have my own NES and I borrow Crystalis. I’m pretty sure I got to that boss again and realized something. Hitting him produced a sound that no other monster had. It sounded like hitting solid glass. I finally intuited that I wasn’t strong enough and leveled up to level 3, and wouldn’t you know it, I beat the boss.

It’s one of my all time favorite retro games. It was so ahead of its time. Worth playing if you’ve never tried it.

The Deck does not “obliterate” the Switch 2

For me it does. But I know that’s not objective fact. Just my subjective opinion.

The truth is, if what you want is “newest Nintendo games”, well, the Switch 2 is amazing.

I adjusted my mindset on games years ago. There are lots of games that I’d love to play, but because they aren’t on PC, I don’t play them. Because I already have more games than I could ever play. Hype and FOMO are powerful drugs, ones that I’m not immune to. But I am at least resistant to them.

While the Switch 2 has better hardware, that’s only a tiny piece of the value proposition. The Deck is leagues better in value. I guarantee it will be able to play new release games for another 10 years. You can’t say that for the Switch 2. It won’t be able to play all of the new releases, sure, but thousands more than the Switch 2.

And that’s not to mention the tens of thousands of games the Deck can play now that the Switch 2 will never be able to play.

The truth is that hype and FOMO are powerful drugs that push gamers to constantly shell out their hard earned money to chase the newest things.

And, to an extent, I get it. There is something to be said about playing games when they come out and experiencing that moment with other gamers. There’s a sort of fraternal feeling about it.

But if you can step back from that and be patient, you can play all the games you have time for and not play into their trap.

That’s part of the issue, though. Sometimes they sell trash for high prices, too. Sometimes they sell the same game across three console generations and increase the price.

There are way more issues with Nintendo than just whatever your beef with Smash is.

I fucking teared up when Tarn smiled and showed the camera his secret in the final episode.

They’re all such sweet and genuine people who deserve to be happy.

No, it’s because Nintendo bad. They are incredibly anti consumer.

MK 8 is also a previous generation title that Nintendo got to double dip on already.

MK night be a good value proposition for some folks. It’s still too expensive. I have games that I’ve paid $20, $10, sometimes even less for that I’ve gotten more play time out of. Play time to cost is not a good argument.

Let me also contrast with some of Nintendo’s worst practices, like selling 3 old Mario games with no enhancements, that are just emulated, for $60.

FOMO is a helluva drug.

I think they’d receive more flak for regarding the game in it’s current state. As it is, they’re giving you exactly what they say they are: a still in development game. People who are still buying into the game do it knowing the game is still in development.

I’m an early backer of the game. I got suckered into a ship upgrade during a “sale” within a year of backing the game. I’m not upset about that. But I think people who got suckered into spending hundreds of dollars on ships early on have more legitimate complaints than folks buying in right now. Early on, it wasn’t known how it was going to go down. There was a lot of hype. But now, you know what you’re getting.

And yes, I fully understand that backing games is risky, and we shouldn’t pre-order games. I’ve changed a lot in my buying habits in 10 years.

I think the legacy of the game will entirely depend on how it turns out. If they end up releasing a game that people love, all will be forgiven.

I’m no fan of Apple, but Nintendo is worse.

Because they are one of the most consumer hostile gaming companies. The only redeeming quality is their games are usually top notch. I personally refuse to give them any more money.

Because of Proton and also how shit can just break on Linux (see the current glibc fiasco), it might be better to have just a Windows version.

I when I play a game, I don’t even notice if it’s Linux native unless the game specifically tells me it’s a Linux build.

Just play NMS. Get it on sale if the price is a concern. It’s neat.

Look at your banks and credit cards features. Some of them have virtual cards that you can use. They’re temporary numbers you can use to buy things.

Good to know. I thought it was behind on features.

The free version is out of date because they’ve been putting all of their effort into the steam version. It’s with every penny.

I can’t speak to what it was like pre steam, but they have updated it in the past to be much better. It’s in the patch notes somewhere.

Diablo 3 has nearly infinitely scaling difficulty. If it was too easy, you were playing on too low of a difficulty.

I didn’t think it’s just Arch , though. IIRC it’s also immutable.

I was also using Fusion 360 in Windows, but I recently learned FreeCAD. The new version of it is great.