Whitebrow

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That thingy Elon sticks in people

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give it some time…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If there’s a grace period, perhaps, however:

  1. Steam does not provide installers for games, this means that whatever game you want, needs to be 100% functional and already be parsed/deployed/installed by steam on your hard drive.
  2. That game needs to be DRM free, meaning that it has an executable available that can be launched without steam running or requiring any sort of authentication or input from the steam servers/services before being able to launch, play or even interact with the menus

So only the DRM free games will remain, and only the installed ones at that. Anything that wasn’t will be lost to the wind the moment the distribution service or storage (yours or theirs) bits the dust…

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

They’re called offline installers for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly, the game publishers and distributors are often not the developers themselves. Only one to distribute direct in recent memory was World Of Goo 2, and even that was sold primarily through the Epic store.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The sheer volume and variety of anime and manga is why it has such a reach

There’s only about a dozen things that always pop up when you mention western animations, regardless of the genre or target audience

Why? My personal guess is that it costs too much/doesn’t generate a lot of profit and that due to that, series don’t build on top of each other like they do in Korea or Japan

Example off the top of my head, Korea has a lot of “awakened player” stories like Solo Leveling, the anime of which you may have seen recently; those stories are good because they keep building off of each other, eliminating the boring tidbits and coming up with more creative ways for the stuff that is interesting, and more importantly, its current, not 10 years ago, not 20, they refine the genre every season and it gets incrementally better, something that has simply not been happening in the west for a good long while now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Is there another way besides scooping it from the bowl? I don’t like when the dirty toilet water touches my spoon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It all began on the day of my actual birth…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Still gonna taste like pork tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn’t there a clause in baldur’s gate 3 terms that lets you transfer the game license once to a friend or something along those lines?

Not sure how that works but it’d be cool if we can have that apply for all of them (digitally) maybe like 3 times over the lifetime of the licensed game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with the sentiment and it’s weird that it can be applied to quite a few recent games, frostpunk 2 comes to mind as the latest one of these

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Survivor, yes. Vampire style, no.

That game doesn’t deserve all the praise it gets for being a walkable slot machine simulator.

 
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