I quit consoles because of the exclusivity nonsense

Nintendo was included in that statement.

Kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Metal Gear Solid V and Peace Walker.

That being said, I do think EGS is going the correct route by investing in games / unique games and locking them into their platform.

I strongly disagree. I quit consoles because of the exclusivity nonsense, and EGS guaranteed I will never buy anything from them by doing that shit. I won’t even redeem free games on their platform via Prime Gaming, just on principle.

You compete by giving devs and publishers a better cut, or convincing them to do deeper sales on your platform. You compete by providing a better service to users. You do not compete by literally not competing.

Technically sigterm first says “please stop. Don’t make me shoot you.”

It only goes John Wick on a process when civility fails.

The iPhone’s auto-correct is the worst by far. And I don’t get it because it was actually good around iOS 16 or so. Since 17 it’s been utterly terrible and constantly corrects words that are already what I wanted, making them wrong.

I’m enjoying it. I bounced off the game the first time I played as I was expecting maybe a more traditional Final Fantasy experience and it didn’t click with me. I’ve played a few souls-likes since and the gameplay is meshing better for me now, though it’s still difficult at times.

Combat is enjoyable, but the gear filtering and management is kind of annoying.

I’ve read it’s similar to Nioh’s gameplay but I’m not familiar with that one.

Been going hard on Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin.

Besides that, I’m 10-11 hours into Stella Glow on my 2DS XL, and have been playing Grim Dawn and Slay the Spire 2 co-op with my wife.

Being wealthy just means you don’t need to overly worry about money. I’m wealthy, but I hate the system and how the world is doing.

This. I make low six figures and support myself and my spouse on a single income. We’ve had to be careful in choosing where to live, how much house to buy and all that. I’m not baller, but I’m comfortable. Amenities are fine and I pay my bills without much thought. I’m working toward retirement.

That’s a reasonable amount of wealth for most. The problem is there are people with so much wealth it provides them the means to manipulate society in sweeping gestures.

• Don’t like the news? buy the media outlet.
• Want unfairly low taxes? Bribe a politician or 50 of them. (Oh, sorry, “lobby” them)
• Politician is against you? Fully fund their opponent’s campaign and now they owe you.
• Another company competing with you? Buy them.
• etc.

Also, while insider trading is illegal, someone with this much wealth, influence, and power can’t help but have inside information just for existing in the circles they do, and wealth leads to greater wealth simply because there’s no way to regulate it reasonably.

More like “I have inside information about an ongoing con job and can’t help blabbing smugly.”

Needs more JPEG compression, I can still kind of read it.

If I’m not planning to use a device for a while, I generally do 79% as well.

Except for my Nintendo DSi XL and 2DS XL. The original DS seems to hold a charge eternally regardless of what it’s charged to, and the 2DS will literally be dead after a while if I don’t charge it to full. I’ve stored it at a 100% charge and picked it up a few months later to find it sitting at like 16%. Makes no sense.

As a Coloradan, the Feds can go shove something pointy in their puckered stinkholes if they don’t like it.

This happened to me with three games:

• Hollow Knight
• Steamworld Heist
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

In each case the game just didn’t gel with me on the initial play, even if I could objectively tell it was a quality game.

Currently playing through Stranger of Paradise again now. I think I expected a more traditionally “Final Fantasy” game my first time through and dropped it at 10 hours. Started fresh recently and am tearing past where I was and playing it enthusiastically now, it’s a lot of fun.

I’ve played some souls-like games in the interim which helped with the general gameplay loop and control scheme. Also have upgraded hardware since my first run, which makes a big difference as the game was previously a shimmery mess full of slowdowns.

Demoralizing? Knowing that absolute shit people will always be remembered as absolute shit people is heartening.

I think it’s worth noting that the US is something like 330 million spread out over a large geographic area. There are mass protests happening, and they’re big, the last was millions of people. But you’re not going to see it everywhere simply due to a mix of demographics and geographic distance.

By contrast, France has something like ~65 million people in a region that is the size of Texas, one of our 50 states. You could fit France spatially into the US something like 20 times. You couldn’t miss their protests if you wanted to, even if it were done by less than a 10th of their population.

I dunno, I actually thought Doom 2016 mostly looked better than Eternal. I didn’t like Eternal’s more cartoony bright color highlights everywhere. Admittedly though, it probably didn’t look great on the XBOne. probably like 720 or 900p.

“might-as-well-at-that-price”

The reason I have 130 games installed on my Steam Deck. My backlog has gotten absurd to the point of comedy. I’m set for years.

I’ve been complaining that the consoles and graphical fidelity have been seeing diminishing returns since the PS3 / Xbox 360. At this point, we’re just pushing way more power for minimal improvements. It’s stupid.

$999 “is not impossible”

At that price, just buy or build a fucking computer already.

Yeah, I use roasted peanuts and cashews, and they keep fine. Make peanut and cachew butter in two and a half cup batches in the food processor, which comes out to about half that once made into butter.

I don’t know how long it takes to go through, probably a few weeks each. I’ve never had any go bad.