I upgraded my PC over the last few months (more than I intended; the only original part left is the motherboard) mostly because of this.

I also built it SFF (small form factor) so that I can more easily transport it if I feel the need to leave the US.

There’s a way to do that: it’s called “build your mod on top of a FOSS game instead of proprietary shit.”

The thing that annoys me about game modders is that they never seem to learn the lesson that they should just build on top of a FOSS game instead.

None of those are good enough excuses to jettison your self-respect and allow yourself to be milked like cattle.

Reminds me of the story from the other day about how 80%? of hours spent playing PC games are on titles more than 6 years old.

Hell, I just upgraded my video card for the first time in seven years, but the reason I did it was mainly due to factors like avoiding increased future costs due to tariffs and wanting modern API support for stuff like raytracing and experimenting with LLMs, not because there was some particular new game I had in mind that required it.

Some people think they can’t use an alternative OS, but they’re wrong.

Or grow some self-respect and stop using shit from companies that insist on having an adversarial relationship with you.

“If you don’t make a Google account you can’t use Google services” — no shit, Sherlock! But not everyone wants or needs to use Google services.

Star Trek Online

soon it’ll be a requirement to have the xbox app to run your steam stuff

Not in Linux, it won’t be!

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Neat!

Now what we need next is Team Fortress Classic 2.

Touché, but not even a horse can get you through a hole in the middle of a room’s ceiling.

Also, there were other things that were mechanically better about Morrowind, such as its much more interesting/immersive fast travel system.

I feel like at this point, remaking Daggerfall would need to involve replacing the procedural generation with generative AI.

the mechanics were absolute shit

Levitate on up to the top of my Telvanni tower and tell that to my face—oh wait, you can’t!

The Amazon Prime Video app, IIRC.

TIL having self-respect is “crazy” and a “holy crusade.”

What a fucking simp you are. Sad.

Hmm…

Paired with the top hat, the bow tie is better.

But I’d like to see other options, such as a cowboy hat and bolo tie, a scarf, a “dixie cup” sailor hat and neckerchief, a casual ascot, etc.

It’s a shame it’s still based on a proprietary game engine. I look forward to someday when Skyblivion and Skywind game assets can run in some future version of OpenMW that has feature parity with the Skyrim engine.

Welp, that was just as ominous and Chinese curse-y as “prepare for unforseen consequences.” Not sure I’m a fan of it applied IRL. 😬

Drozana Station in Star Trek Online

Yeah, that’s bullshit. You can tell by the fact that they don’t take down videos from big corporations when some nobody trolls with a fraudulent DMCA request. They only do it when it’s the other way around.

or forcing people ti find private servers to play with each other like in the good old days.

No shit, Sherlock. That’s exactly what I was advocating for.

I wouldn’t call it “forcing,” though – that’s another strawman. It’s “allowing” the option.

That’s a strawman argument. First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option. Second, even people who want to run a public server would still be free to ban people (for whatever reason they wanted). We’re not talking about being forced to tolerate antisocial fuckwads.

There are no time constraints… of any significance

I find the length of the day to be a huge constraint, especially when mining.

That feeling when it’s midnight and you’re still trying to get deeper in the mine.

Factorio has only ever gone up in price, and the new expansion costs more than the base game did.

I reject the presupposition that season passes can ever be “proper.” What’s “proper” is buying a game once, receiving a game that’s finished and complete, and owning the whole thing forever.

This comment calculated just under 1.5 Pb (yes, petabytes)!

And on top of that, pretty much all the platforms, even all the way down to this one, are censored in at least one increasingly-relevant way.

He also voiced Kurn in the MMORPG Star Trek Online.

Same here, although that’s probably because it’s the only one I played extensively as a kid. I always thought the Atlantica/Aquatica course was incredibly cool.

That’s apparently because the 5800X3D was discontinued last month. The 5700X3D is newer even though it’s slightly slower, so it hasn’t been discontinued yet.

(Incidentally, I found this all out a few days ago and decided I’d better finally upgrade my 1700X while I had the chance, so I’ve got a 5700X3D sitting on my desk waiting to be installed as I type this. Microcenter has them on sale for $180 right now, BTW.)

Probably not that new, at least including manufacturing emissions.

Best I’m willing to guess without research is “newer than mid-1990s,” since I’m pretty sure those are outperformed by <1W microcontrollers these days.

Or until the new stuff is so much more efficient that continuing to run the old stuff is no longer worth the electricity.

(With the calculation including manufacturing emissions for the new stuff, BTW.)

I can see why the ESA would want to defend IP

You shouldn’t, because the entire concept is a lie.

But how feasible is it to have a recording of every single time

More feasible than it ever has been before, if not for the evil motherfucking copyright gatekeepers who would steal it all from us!

Yes! They announced the plan before they actually did it; they had plenty of time to realize how pissed off it made everybody.