No worries, I figured as much. It’s fun to get a few drive by comments on posts like this.

Thanks! These don’t have a rating that I can see, so I’ll give up on them for now. I’ll definitely keep that in mind when looking for other flying creatures though.

Is there a new net function on the multi-tool? I tried the fishing rig, but it didn’t work.

Instructions unclear. The plasma launcher indeed hit the creature, but I couldn’t find the ball anywhere after the dust settled (or the creature).

Hold up, what’s an ekraanomonster? I couldn’t find anything on a quick search.

Maybe it’s because this is so new that they’re still going through the verification process?

I’ll be sticking with Heroic either way. It’s annoying to have to install a launcher for every service. Between Steam and Heroic, I’ve got almost everything covered.

Sounds like there’s a good chance of that given what we’re seeing with the restoration leaks. Some of the shots shown were shots that would have been completely replaced in the special editions.

Some good points here. This makes more sense if the metrics are taken when based on the default graphics settings that are triggered when a game detects that it’s running on a SteamDeck.

And some game locations can absolutely skew the results. Including the menu FPS will also be misleading. Still, I think it will be useful to some degree.

Shibboleet! But seriously, if I worked on any of these systems I would probably add this in as an actual feature/Easter egg.

Relevant XKCD:

Making it so that you have to have an internet connection and register with an account to play even largely single player games.

Which also sets us up for needlessly losing the game once servers are shut down. At least we’ve got the SKG movement making some progress.

Many 3rd party apps don’t support all of the features.

o7

Statistically speaking there has to be some other life out there. Although, with how rare that is and large the universe is, we’ll never find them, and they will never find us.

But with the magic of your question? I’ll go to the nearest planet with another spacefaring civilization!
I just need to remember to bring my towel.

I was thinking same thing when I landed there.

You know what would really help? If these authors included links to the websites where readers could immediately voice their support of these petitions before the deadline is up. We have until Dec 7:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/28/2026-21939/exemptions-to-permit-circumvention-of-access-controls-on-copyrighted-works

Click the message icon -> Submit a public comment

You can find the section of the document summarizing these petitions if you do a ctrl+F on the page and search for “Jayden” and then “Zakaria”.

Note - Technically the author has this link, but it’s obscured under a statement of how the Copyright Office “has repeatedly declined to recommend” changes in the past.

Some useful excerpts:

One of these petitions comes from Jayden Milne. He asks the Office to allow owners of DVDs, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray discs to make a single secured, local copy for personal use, when the digital copy promised on the packaging is no longer available.
[…]
A second and related petition, submitted by Zakaria Zerhouane, focuses on anime more broadly. It covers series and films that were removed from authorized U.S. streaming platforms after their licenses expired, as well as anime released on disc by U.S. distributors that no longer exist.
[…]
In addition to bypassing encryption on discs, Zerhouane also wants to legally circumvent the DRM, geo-locking, and session-based access controls that streaming platforms use. This is needed, the petition argues, as the anime licensing market is unstable.

I feel like making an obvious mistake like this in a heading is purposefully done to drive up engagement.

Some things just don’t federate well across services. Here on the threadiverse we can all see each other’s upvotes and downvotes. However Lemmy users can’t see the likes/boosts of Mastodon users. Mbin/Kbin users can see boosts though.

On the other side, Mastodon users can’t see the upvotes/downvotes of Threadiverse users, or even their own upvotes/downvotes that they may have received from the Threadiverse.

So, while the fediverse as a whole may have 20 million users, sometimes the more common way that people engage is by simply liking/boosting/voting something. That information isn’t always supported by different services and it may look a little emptier than it actually is.

Engagement on the Threadiverse may be a bit easier, because all you need to do is find a popular community and post in it.

Engagement on the other side of the fence is usually found by following a popular hashtag, or mentioning users with a large following. They can still create posts in Threadiverse communities as well, but that’s not the typical route that they’re used to.

If anyone already owned these games on GoG, then you’ll automatically get the anniversary editions for free.