I seriously doubt that ASUS put any focus on making it user serviceable either. I really want a Deck, but I’m waiting for refurbished units to be back in stock because the price difference is just too big to justify a brand new unit.

I hadn’t thought of it before this, but this made me install mods for Remake 🖕

It’s not weird that he’s in the industry, but the way they presented him during the award show could be seen as disingenuous, so of course it’s going to be. Of course he probably is a nice guy, just trying to help people; it’s the more likely scenario. As far as TGA addressing the issue, they very deliberately avoided the topic last year and faced backlash for it, but this time around I haven’t seen any criticism of them being hypocritical with regards to this.

It struck me as odd that they didn’t mention his position, and placed focus on him being a small YouTuber, and being presented before millions of viewers, of course there are going to be people who latch on to something like that. If the messages he provided screenshots of are representative of the worst he’s received, I think he would have been better off not bringing attention to bad behavior, and just letting people forget.

Ciri being a witcher is already going outside of existing lore, and it seems very unnecessary; she’s powerful enough in her own right, and shouldn’t need to be swapped 1:1 for Geralt.

Let me assure you, if you’re not actually an EU citizen, signing would be a decidedly bad idea. All that would accomplish is pumped numbers that will be disregarded in the end, so it can only serve to hurt the campaign.

Oh, that is a fox. I couldn’t differentiate between the white and cream under current viewing conditions, and I thought it was a seahorse.

I only launched it for long enough to tell it isn’t for me just yet. My dealbreakers are:

• Inability to quickly swap between audiobook and podcast libraries, or better yet; displaying both on one home screen.
• Audiobooks are thrown at you in one big pile. Ideally they would be organized, and not all shown at once unless you dig into it.

I’m definitely checking it out again at some point, but I’m sticking with the official app for now.

I’ll likely be upgrading Q1-ish, 1080ti is getting real long in the tooth. Remains to be seen whether I’ll be getting an RX 7900 XTX or something as yet unannounced.

FF7 Remake. I tried a “demo” and have been waiting for a sale. It’s still more than I’d like to spend on the game, but I want to go back and continue my saved game.

There usually aren’t many complaints of something being woke if the product is actually good. I think the main takeaway is that nobody wants to be lectured, and told they are wrong for having a different opinion, and amateurish writing can easily come across as preachy or being a self-insert.

Sid Meier’s Pirates! There are so few actually good pirate games.

I don’t see this as refuting the previous point because those who don’t know nor care about Denuvo probably wouldn’t be pirating the game regardless. Pirates and entrenched enthusiasts are the ones in the know, so the real question is how many pirates actually purchase games they otherwise wouldn’t versus enthusiasts who refrain because of its inclusion.

True, but even through Steam, you’re still dealing with Ubi’s launcher and Denuvo, so it’s just adding another layer on top.

I wanted to play this, but not enough to interact with their launcher and Denuvo.

Kubuntu crapped out on me after updating, so I tried a few other distros. Bazzite refused to install, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has made a really good first impression.

You should not be getting promotional emails if you opt out, so something is wrong with your account/settings specifically. Contact them or filter your emails.

I tried this a while back, and it couldn’t correctly identify anything. Presumably this will improve once they get IGDB implementation done.

Hell yeah. I went with Kubuntu because I figured it would be easy for a beginner to troubleshoot eventual issues, given the amount of asked-and-answered Ubuntu queries online.

If you’re coming from Windows, something that runs KDE Plasma will feel very familiar.