Ugh I loved getting these as gifts from non-gamer family. A Visa/MC gift card I’ll just spend on necessary things but a Steam gift card was for games.

Worrying that my ADHD 8 yr old won’t have any friends that aren’t relatives because he is so weird with other kids and they lose patience with him.

Yeah I get that from the other comments. I just don’t consider playing games with IRL friends part of community but I get it. I was thinking more of the almost universally reviled community forums.

Alright, I just have a knee-jerk reaction when any execs talk about ‘community’ that it’s normally something I have no desire to engage with. However, I see what you mean in this context!

Eh ‘community’ is like the least important reason why I use Steam. It’s just easy to buy, organize, and play your games with friends with a minimum of fuss or resource strain on my PC. I’m sure some people are into the community features but at the same time I feel gaming C-level execs always think that is more important than providing a good, easy-to-use product.

If I remember correctly, didn’t he write this based solely on trailers before the movie came out?

41, came to Lemmy during the API thing.

I think I’m pretty rare on Lemmy: I use Windows on my PC (although I’ve dabbled in Linux) and I don’t work in a tech field at all.

Ha and I’m looking at an AMD Radeon R5 M330 and Intel® HD Graphics 620 combo Lenovo right now I found on Craigslist. Why do you say to avoid it?

It’s ridiculous and should be illegal. I hope you get it figured out!

https://www.howtogeek.com/avoid-paying-for-microsoft-365-copilot-downgrade-to-classic/

There is a way to downgrade to Office Family Classic that removes the co-pilot features and is cheaper.

Combination of parts of my first and last name that a friend used to call me.

Your outtie likes the sound of radar.

Might be time to finally pick up Alt-Frequencies. I’ve had it on my wishlist for ages.

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I really enjoyed my time with the first one and I keep meaning to pick this one up.

Wait, drugs work for you guys? 😔

Ha I went down a rabbit hole with that site. Whatever happened to the project? Just fizzled out? It makes me weirdly nostalgic for the early-00s internet and gaming.

That may be true. Still a company, still doesn’t care about anyone besides as a consumer. I don’t get the weird parasocial relationships people develop with any company/corporation.

I really hope this marks the end of the internet’s weird love fest with this company and CEO. They don’t care about you in the slightest.