Hmm. Weird. For me it was the 3rd thing on DDG when I typed “Mario koopa bite the curb” and went to images.

This?

Thing is, even if you’re not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and “downgrading” to something like mint or bazzite is still a whole lot better than trying to unfuck windows 11 into a workable state.

You know it’s fake because there’s no way the ICE clowns would know which country to send him back to.

The easiest way to become an atheist is to study religion.

I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.

Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.

Protip; first time you use an acronym, parse it, and then you can continue referring to it with the abbreviation.

ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) as an example could be used to denote something that was, to the receiver, funnier than LOL (laughing out loud)

Best suggestion I can give you (after having this battle a few years ago regarding a 55” tv and losing) is just don’t connect the damn thing to the internet during setup. (I had to connect online for a firmware update and my pihole was having a field day blocking like 15 different domains it was trying to reach to for ads and whatnot. )

Or just get a pc monitor, at 32” I think you’re still within parameters for that.

Wikipedia link to Home Assistant

official website for Home assistant

In short, open source platform to run your smart devices locally when possible.

Dumber tech that works without internet/network/bluetooth/account or stuff that I can connect to HA.

Micro transactions and pay to win: Not very much of but still there. (Who knows what it’ll look like down the line though)

As for the anticheat I saw people mentioning ACE, which, from what I saw, people really didn’t want.

While I agree people’s experiences vary wildly, there’s plenty recorded gameplay video that shows it happening.

That aside, they can take their invasive measures and shove it up their cloud where it can and should operate, not on my goddamn machine.

Secure boot. TPM2.0. And a kernel level anticheat on top.

Yet, still hackers in game.

I legitimately have a meal before going to my hygienist appointments, the more random small bits it has like seeds or tiny nori stripes and whatnot, the better.

Supposedly makes their job more interesting when they have something to dig for.

Their words, not mine.

Thank you for reminding me. I went ahead and tossed it out just now.

Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.

Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.

Whatever that thing in the front is… you really need to find a better presentation for it, it ain’t great.

Good resource, thanks

I believe the clause applies to any storefronts as it operates on the MFN pricing principle.

But let’s say it doesn’t, and you’re correct and you could buy the same game on itch, gog, humble, epic, M$ store, ubi store, whatever else.

Did you ever actually see any of the stores promote better pricing on their first party platform? I haven’t.

Did you ever see assassins creed games being 5$ cheaper if you buy them on the ubi store as an example?

Same as the above for humble, epic, EA, Microsoft?

That’d be a pretty effective way to drive people to your storefront and drive first party sales with additional profit to the first party… and yet for some reason that practice apparently doesn’t exist.

I am almost 100% sure that’s not done out of the goodness of the shareholders hearts and has more to do with the legal spaghet of it all.

But at the end of the day the above is speculation, I have no concrete way to prove it one way or the other besides the limited observations that I’ve made over the years.