It doesn’t matter if it were being used for its intended purpose, parking like this is absolutely wrong.

In SA it’s different!

I’m a big fan of open world for immersion. Oblivion when it came out, GTA SA and 5, RDR2.

But something that surprised me about immersion was Cataclysm DDA (with good tile and sound packs). It takes a long time to get into the groove of the game as a first timer, but once you do, the emergent stories that come out of it are incredibly immersive.

Bullet hands down. Best handling of all the sports cars, and the most pleasant motor sound.

As an anecdote about this, most countries in South America charge a 100% import tax on almost all electronic devices (laptops, phones, pc parts, cameras, etc). Not only the exchange rates already make these purchases almost impossible, they also have to pay double. The ripple effects on the future of a country where people don’t have access to the tools they might need to develop themselves is tragic.

I was like that for almost 4 years, during and after the whole covid thing. I could engage with activities outside of my house (gym, sports, going out with friends), but inside was apathy.

Only thing that helped was ADHD medication.

Dune is incredibly unique. Scifi without computers and genetic magic. All politics. The books are outstanding.

Caves of Qud was my first contact with post post-apocalypse. Can’t even begin to convey how strange and magical everything feels in that universe.

A lot more than that, especially the UX part.

Please Proton team port over this UI to drive.

The rallies, with celebrities and stuff. Bizarre.

Gorgeous, well done.

I’ve blocked the instance quite a while ago. In the beginning I was just blocking communities, but the users spill everywhere unless you go nuclear.

State actors could be interested in doing that. Same with the internet archive attacks.

I agree that there’s nothing wrong with remixes. Vampire Survivors dude invented a new genre and all, people who say these games are “copying” Vampire Survivors probably also say that every FPS is copying Maze War lol

Death Must Die was indeed fun. Soulstone Survivor is pretty good too.

l don’t understand people who think there’s any meaningful comparison between Diablo and HoT.

HoT is a vampire-survivors game, and in my opinion is the actual best in the genre, I have dozens of hours in it. This type of gameplay has absolutely nothing to do with ARPGs.

I agree that forced exclusivity is bad. I absolutely disagree with your statement that ubisoft store was better than steam, I don’t even understand how you can say something like that. But yes, without the games any store is worthless.

You didn’t respond to my question though, so I’ll repeat it: even if someone was able to launch a product with feature parity to steam, why would anyone migrate?

I was gonna comment about epic giving games away for free, but I think I got your point. You mean like the same releases, but subsidizing, say, 10% of the price?

Assuming that a company could hope to achieve a store front with similar features in a few years instead of the 21 that steam had, why would anyone migrate there?

I’m on the same page as you, it’s tough. I have no idea how any other platform can really achieve competitor status with steam, and this is a big problem for us consumers and for developers.

Big change for me was stop using “name.lastname@email.com”, I was giving that info to so many random ass websites and app and services. Just create another email and connect that with your “main” one, that’s trivial to do with gmail.

Search for your name on images and see if anything comes up. If yes, try to clean that up. It’s usually profile pictures in services.

Don’t leave your strava profile public. It’s crazy to me that people do that. I don’t want even my friends knowing where and when I exercised.

On the same topic, make sure your facebook photos and connections aren’t visible to non-friends. It’s insane the amount of people who just put everything out there for anyone to see.