I don’t. I was still buying physical releases and renting games from my local video stores until both things died out against my will.

Steam is convienent for the services they provide.

Since the USA is turning to shit, I try to buy from stores outside USA now so GOG is increasingly seeing more of my money. Let’s say Valve falls off or goes to shit after Gabe dies: I’m a skilled pirate so whatever.

Mostly I’m Ambivalent but kinda apathetic about launchers because I can just go and find whatever I potentially lose again elsewhere. A self educated privilege combined with grey morality I suppose. Or a resignation to an ever worsening reality I was born into without my say.

From all the articles I can make the explanation far more brief: Geoff played the game early and was impressed and then encouraged the devs to make a trailer. Apparently it was a rush job to make the deadline for the show and they didn’t show the gameplay loop which is always a bad idea. This flopped of course but was magnified because gamers ™ had been working themselves into an irrational frothing mass over Half Life 3 hopium self generated hype. Geoff fanned those flames on Shitter so that’s partly his fault.

I think if the game is actually good it’ll bounce back easily on its own merits. But if it doesn’t I bet there be a lot of denial and finger pointing to avoid facing the fact they made a mid game.

I have…

It’s my fault. I bought a Denon reciever and it’s a gigantic piece of shit that loses signal when switching between VRR and…not VRR.

So I used two HDMI cables. One connects directly to TV, the other still goes to the reciever for audio. I can’t disable the secondary non existent screen because it’ll also disable HDMI audio…at least with KDE.

70% of the time I shut off the TV with the PC still on no matter what power settings, the audio dies until I press ctrl+super+F2 to switch to TTY and then F1 to swap back. Idk. It didn’t used to do this but after some CachyOS update it started happening. On Windows I was just fucked and had to reboot, so not any better.

I blame that piece of shit reciever. At some point I have to eat the loss and return to Yamaha.

Nice, thanks for the links.

I really need to replace my 3DS XL battery…

…and PS3 controllers actually. Another fire hazard I’ve ignored lol.

I’m 35 and the social circle I had from grade school died off slowly and then fully after covid.

Hobbies! Whatever hobby done eith others or can be done with others. Then just show up constantly. If you aren’t social poison in human form, people start talking with you.

I do:

Kickbox

Hiking, but only summer months I hate snow.

Dancing classes and I’m a man. This is a good way to get dates lowkey.

Tabletop board games. I don’t go to a store. I live in a small city ~30k I just found a group of like minded nerds on a locals D*scord group and go to their house. Yep. People really do that.

I swear Porche was already doing something similar…years ago.

My bet is they tweak the backend instead to derank content they don’t like softly next.

I make pork chilli a lot. Various beans, tomato cans of whatever is cheapest at the moment, and then I buy the cheapest cuts of pork nobody wants and put them through my standing mixer meat grinder attachment. Spice however you like.

Love is evolved to better spread mindless DNA chemistry for the pointless sake of it and survive as a social species more successfully than without.

What’s very interesting to someone as deeply cynical as I am is it hasn’t taken away from the feeling at all! Very potent stuff 💓.

I don’t love all the everything personally, I would not call that a choice, more like a determined reaction to my lived experience on the life eat other life to live world. I don’t consider free will to be a thing.

If he was a progressive pro-intellectual/science ex-heroin users in an alternate timeline, would that still be a disqualifier?

spez is shit enough without fabricating more shit. Being accurate is worse anyways: He was admin of jailbait. Still had admin access rights before his official return too.

When it comes to old handhelds, do you replace the batteries? At one point in time I had a PSP battery swell up like a balloon, scary.

That’s an oft parroted line yes. Back in the day (pre-2015 for clarification) subreddit mods could add you as a mod without your consent. That’s what happened.

Not that this excuses reddit for hosting child porn to begin with.

Everyone knows /r/conservative is Russian operated and full of alts and/or bots at this point yeah? Not just that one sub, but it’s most well known example for my point.

spez knows this too I’m sure. So, he’s complicit.

Is the mere passage of time a natural consequence? Not sure what you mean exactly. If so maybe I could bring up the Canaanites. This is where Judaism’s god and then all forks afterwards like the failing upwards prophet Jesus (didn’t fulfil prophecy at all) and forks of forks come from. Yahweh eventually morphed over time into monotheism. Henotheistic at one checkpoint. It’s a messy non-linear timeline and I don’t feel like writing a huge novel right now. The modern day Hebrew Bible itself contains butchered remnants of this evolution, with passages suggesting early Israelites worshipped multiple gods too at some point. So anyways their god was originally a minor god in a polytheistic religion where El was the god of gods with his consort the goddess Asherah. Calling her his wife is contested.

I marvel how people can take any of this seriously after just a casual read up on this basic history of their own so called gods. I consider it evidence against them.

Nice, replace Microslop Windows too pls.

Don’t really care what this Elon butt sniffer thinks about anything anyways.

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