Or even better, play an old game that you still haven’t played. I can get titanfall 2 for the price of a coffee and play it for the first time if I’m craving for a good AAA fps.

Looks at:

1. AAA games costing 100€+ between base game and season pass.

2. Online services on consoles constantly raising prices.

3. Consoles that, over the time cost more instead of less.

4. Wages frozen in time for years.

5. Rest of unrelated to videogames stuff but that drain people’s wages.

I WONDER WHY YOUNG PEOPLE SPEND LESS IN VIDEOGAMES…

Congratulations, save this meme on your phone and you’ll be banned from entering the US for the foreseable future

I had to read it twice because I thought I was reading it wrong. The second time I continued with the rest of the sentence and realized I had read two “you” in the phrase because there were two.

But HOW? Trump said HE solved everything and now was time for peace because HE made them sign a ceasefire!

Isn’t this news from 3 months ago?

I’m testing this this evening. My only gripe with soulseek is that if I want to download a playlist from spotify, I need to manually search for each song.

Soulseek is your friend. Setting up your library will be a tough step, but once done, you’ll feel so free that it will be worth it.

Remember when Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?

Same thing.

A heart attack or any other kind of attack, tbf.

It can be quite simple: the government, under user request, can generate a certificate that only contains the fact that you are more than 18 years old and is stored locally in your device. Since it’s the state the one issuing it, the info of the cert can be trusted.

Then, when you log into a service requiring age verification, you log using your device that sends the info from your locally stored certificate, telling the website simply that you are not underage.

The state doesn’t need to know how are you using the cert, and the website won’t receive any personal info because the certification authority is a trusted organsation so the info about it is automatically trustworthy.

I do.

When I fall of my bike, hurt my arm and need a doctor to fix it, I don’t have to think about insurance or medical debt, or anything. I just go to the hospital and go back home to heal without paying a dime and with paid leave for as long as I need to recover.

I also love that I can take an affordable train to go almost everywhere in my country, that universities don’t require a loan so high that you will be paying for it for years… I could go on, but you get the idea.

I love paying taxes because it’s way cheaper than the american alternative.

4 hours old account with shitty edgy comments and post. Just report and move on. It’s just another idiot pretending to be a troll while impersonating someone else through links to profiles that aren’t theirs.

Storage on google drive comes to mind. Not that I pay for it, but I know it’s something others do.

Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.

As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it’s a good thing.

I’ve seen this at work.

We installed a new water sampler and they sent an official installer to set up and commission the device. The guy couldn’t answer a damn question about the product without chatGPT. When I asked a relatively complex question that the bot couldn’t answer (that was at the third question), I decided that I had enough and spend an hour reading the manual of the thing. Turns out the bot was making up the answers and I learned how to commission the device without the “official support”.

Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.

Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)

Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).

Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!

Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!

I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.

I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).

I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!

As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).

The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!