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

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.

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.

And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?

Look Outside just had a major 2.0 patch. Solid horror game. And it’s 30% off at the moment.

Steam link

Foreshadowing for what happens next.

Both? Both. Both is good.

https://www.gog.com/en/patrons

Launched the other day if you want to throw a bit of money to their cause

Releases in like 22 hours from the time of this comment!

Steam is fine, for the most part, but steam is also DRM. Personally I opt to buy games on GoG, because whatever releases there, you can download the installer and play offline, anywhere, anytime, and due to the platform requirements it strips a lot of the extra nonsense of requiring accounts and launchers and such.

The one downside is some publishers/developers don’t have the latest version on there or release on there later as definitive builds, but it’s better than having to deal with all that nonsense to begin with.

For M$ to subsidize some of the cost of the hardware seeing how it’s their “next leap” for the Xbox? Or something along those lines.

I’d like my sidebar menu back

https://yearofthelinuxdesktop.net/

Good resource for those needing a bit of convincing and/or hand holding.

I’m not sure steam deck would even be considered “high cost” since you can get a refurbished unit directly from steam for about half the price of a switch 2.

And even a brand new one is still cheaper.

Plus there are parts and instructions available on how to fix and replace pieces yourself should that ever be needed, unlike some drift issues from Nintendo’s controllers where they basically tell you to spend more money or get bent.

I’ve had PLA spools go bad due to age, so I can definitely attest to them eventually crumbling out of existence, good to do the bend test if you’re not sure, if it snaps/breaks when you try and fold it in half, it’s too old and the print will come out much more brittle than you’d want it to be.

True for the location dependency, but even here with about 20-30% humidity, it’s pretty noticeable after a week, granted, that’s assuming you leave it out and open, storing in a dry box or in a vacuum sealed bag with a desiccant between prints will help prolong that period immensely in my experience.

Marketing definitely has had quite a creeping presence into 3D printing in recent years, and similarly to gaming, it seems to be targeting the enthusiast class, so trying to convince people to try printing with more fancy (and toxic, and hydrophobic) materials than just the standard run of the mill PLA and PETG and upsell them on all the accessories before they’re actually needed.

Makes you wonder how much of all of this is gonna end up in the dumpster or in the attic at some point

PLA does not need to be dried. You can dunk it in a water bath overnight and it’ll print fine in the morning.

PETG on the other hand will absorb moisture within a few days of opening, so it needs babysitting if it’s been open for more than a week.

That aside, yes, spend time to calibrate your printer before complaining about moisture.

Getting your games from Epic and GoG to work on it takes a bit of work but overall not complicated.

Also if you use an external controller, sometimes it will show the wrong platform glyphs. Personally I just deal with it while using a PS controller but you can just have it show generic ones if you prefer that.

Cancel and try to redeem again, I sometimes end up in the dumb loop for no reason as well.

Good list.

Vampire the masquerade bloodlines also deserves a honourable mention