I’m weirdly excited that soon it will be a full year of daily screenshots.

Critics like her say the very term “gold digger” reeks of misogyny.

No, the term itself doesn’t imply gender at all.

Anyway, I never really saw the problem with gold diggers, it’s a relationship like any other - you give your partner something they need and the partner gives you something you need.

So what if one of the parties needs money and the other a young woman to feel better? If there’s no coercion and no actual scamming, I don’t see the problem.

So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?

So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.

So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).

Nah, I’m obsessed with corporations not ruining kids lives just to get few more dollars.

Also, please, stop putting words into other people’s mouths.

Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?

Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”

I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.

And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.

Because the games are intentionally made with micro transactions as the main feature.

Like, if you play Witcher or Control or whatever, the focus is on you enjoying the game. If you play Fortnite, the main focus is on getting you pay. The game is probably still fun, but every single thing in the game is meant to make you pay.

Who would’ve thunk, young people with brains that are not fully developed tend to prefer games with addictive elements.

Only the $550 version. The cheaper one will work on best effort basis Manjaro edition.

My Time at Portia

I must admit I don’t know enough about RISC-V performance. How’s it with battery life? That’s the one reason why no (mass-produced) phone or tablet will ever be made with an x86, so unless RISC-V is on-par (or better) with arm, it won’t succeed.

We can keep dreaming, I guess. But no, it doesn’t, because the big players aren’t making that possible. In the literal sense. That would be easy on a x86, but not with arm.

I hope it will include all kinds of mods, though I’m afraid you might be right.

That’s pretty classic Nintendo.

The fandom always finds a way to pretend it’s not a wannabe porn.

Is it a huge deal or something? From the 1st video it looks like an extremely generic Japanese thirst trap.

Wonder how much of a salary cut did the CEO take.

That’s not that much, sure it’s not a hundred reviews, but it’s still a relatively unknown game.

And yeah, the bottom text box is my biggest issue with the game.

Driftland: The Magic Revival is my tip for a hidden gem.

Portal - Still Alive

10 years is way too much, I’d go with 5.

I wonder why the games lately have such bad sales. Could it be increasing the price while providing less and less non-filler content? Nah, probably just not enough lootboxes.

The fucking greediness of these people is amazing. Record profits are not enough, they gotta milk every last cent out of people.

And before someone comes at me with inflation, have you noticed that the user base is much larger than in the 80s? And that many of the companies are having record profits?

There are dozens of us! I also really love Tales from the Borderlands. So much, that I’ll name my firstborn Loader Bot!

I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.

It really looked like it’ll be signed quickly in the beginning, I was really hopeful.

Now I’m not really sure it will pass.

J2ME are old dumb non-touchscreen phones. My last one was Sony Ericsson j108i. And just now reading the Wikipedia entry, it was actually the last non-smartphone phone by Sony Ericsson! Nice.

Damn, the nostalgia is real. And the design still looks much better than smartphones which look pretty much all the same. Back then, phones had personality.

The Sony Ericsson phones in particular had very advanced J2ME support that I didn’t see that much difference between that and my first smartphone (Nokia C5-03). Not that there weren’t differences, the smartphone was definitely more advanced, but it wasn’t that huge of a leap.

Nope, it doesn’t have a controller built-in and its main purpose isn’t gaming. You can’t run PS games on a Switch, does that somehow magically make either not a console?

You can play Mario on old dumb phones using J2ME emulators.

Everyone also always forgets that they save money on distribution massively. And that the amount of games sold has increased significantly.

It’s not as simple as dollars had more value, games should cost more.

It’s a console and a PC in one package! Or you feel like the other consoles don’t have an operating system in them?

You can play Switch games on Steam Deck! At least I do. Some play even better than on Switch.

Does Dungeons 3 or 4 count? If so, these games are great.

That game’s really great, definitely better than at launch. Still many bugs, but it’s been fun playing with my partner on our local server.

Your PUK is wrong. The PUK isn’t actually checked until you set the new PIN. It’s stupid but it’s been that way since forever, I definitely remember it on my Alcatel OT 302.

So you should definitely find the correct PUK before trying again.

Sure, that’s why they have record profits, because their games earn them less?

So glad I migrated away from Gmail few years ago.

All manufacturers do it. Of course, not all of them report to China specifically.

If you want to be safe, you could use a phone like Xperia with Sailfish OS (though beware it’s not Android and it’s less user friendly), Pixel with a Graphene OS or something that supports Lineage OS.

Well, apparently not what gamers want given that not even a million of the EU ones signed the petition to force EU to look at it.

What did you use? I usually use Syncthing to get my files onto/from the Deck. I also use it to sync my mods, that way I have the same experience whether I turn on the PC or the Deck.

What a fucking idiot. I’m itching to refund it just for this statement alone.