Physical releases cost a fair bit to make, from just printing the media and designing the package and so on. And then there’s storing and shipping the game around the world so people could actually buy it.

Shipping could be out sourced to the customer easily enough (some kind of direct to customer sales model), but the rest is still a good chunk of extra cost for the publisher. Manufacturing like this also typically has to be paid in advance, so harder for smaller publishers and Indies to get it done in the first place.

I don’t think we will see a comeback of physical releases for PC other than as a collector items, it just doesn’t make sense for normal releases at this point.

little soup guy got paws

I would have guessed the one on the right as Noki (soot in Finnish).

Nice to see them getting along well enough to share the chair.

Pirating VHS casettes was very common, but I think that pretty much died with the VHS format. Music CDs got ripped a fair bit until car stereos were able to play mp3 format from CDs and later USBs.

I don’t think rental DVD ripping was ever common, torrents were already popular by that time and it was easier (and often less issues with quality and formats) to just download already encoded movies.

Yeah the good old Hema. There’s now “adversary” version of it in the game that you can get in an hour or two. it’s significantly stronger than the original, but I believe the original Hema research has not changed. Warframe is full of silliness like that, and to some extent I think it’s fine. It creates stories and gives the player base something to bitch about together.

PoE is my highest recorded hours as well, 2308 hours on Steam, probably another couple thousand hours before I switched to the Steam version. I stopped playing sometime last year, but I’m sure it will grab me again at some point

weeoo, weeoo stroke alarm is going off

Wikipedia doesn’t give “legal advice”, it has information about these laws, with the sources cited.

That is very different than asking LLM anything and it throws you random bullshit from unknown sources, with no easy way to verify where it is from or if it is at all accurate.

Nobody ever reads the manual, unless they have already ran into an issue and they have no other alternatives left.

Starting a little FAQ / common issues page might help, though eventually it also might start to count as manual and nobody once again reads it.

That’s fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it’s a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.

Saksa in Finnish, no clue what the origin of that is. It doesn’t even mean anything that I know of.

The end bit of the goblin camp is tough, even on normal difficulty, so nothing wrong with struggling with it. Most areas have a fight or two that are intended to be very difficult, but these are usually optional, so you can return to them later.

I would say BG3 does have a fair bit of these difficult fights, but there’s usually also a lot of options to deal with them. Utilising stuff like stealth archery, area denial (grease/web spells/scrolls), environmental damage (like that pushing dudes off ledges) and so on is important. There are also often other ways around these fights (stealth, conversation options, using environment).

And yeah like others have said, I would generally stay away from Steam forums, there’s lot of assholes in there and a lot of the responses are often straight up wrong.

Well most of GOP is also predators, just with a small “p”

Yeah, that’s how I do it at work. Anything not specifically sent to me will go into one of my extra folders. I don’t often look at most of these until I ran out of other work, which very rarely happens.

Yeah the online 365 office was branded with Copilot BS sometime last summer I think. Also logging in to the online office throws you to the copilot prompt by default. Even before this the online version of office was getting so bad that it was not worth using anymore. I’ve been using LibreOffice for 3+ years now, but every now and then I gave to access a sheet it something with a different PC and still run into this office garbage.

Scummation or perhaps scumsock

I think that there’s big enough chunk of gamers that wasn’t own and support Indie games directly rather than rent them through gamepass that it hopefully won’t have much impact.

I am hoping there won’t be any exclusivity BS though, Epic has been bad enough with that already.

I feel besides watching stuff, learning to play practically any instrument or even just software to make music will also give you a lot more insight into music.

I think also good making of docs and recording session stuff will help. Hard part is finding the good ones.

Nothing new with Nexon. I used to play a Mabinogi with my wife many years ago and they had an issue with some players getting access to in-game dev tools or something and spawning high level monsters and stuff in the middle of towns. If I remember right it was something that the original game devs had patched years ago, but Nexus had not bothered to bring in the fix for it.

I’ve never played this one, but I’ve heard a bunch of the music. Some bangers in there.

I did also try Limbus Company for a bit, that seems to continue the same story to some extent (shared world and some returning characters I think). It’s weird ass gacha game though and while it was cool I ended up losing interest after a while.