barrbaric [he/him]

I did this at my work and got a little dongle that displays a string of numbers I have to enter when prompted.

Blowback, The Dollop, and occasionally Citations Needed but I’ve let that one accrue a huge backlog I may never get through.

“Patriotic Socialist”, which should set off alarm bells for being awfully close to “National Socialist”. They’re doing the exact same thing the nazis did, attempting to use some bits of left-wing rhetoric to appeal to the working class while simultaneously espousing extreme right wing and anti-socialist political beliefs, in this case usually Trump’s. Some of them seem to be suspiciously well-funded for what you’d expect from tiny fringe political organizations.

• Favorites (I’ll play again after finishing) (21 games)
• Completed (I’ve finished and probably won’t play again) (430 games)
• Dead Games (online games that are literally unplayable due to servers going down) (3 games)
• TBD (I haven’t finished yet) (140 games)

Completed also includes things I decided weren’t worth playing anymore, mostly from bundles back in the day. Stuff like Fallout Tactics and some of the XCOM spinoffs.

to news weirdos.

Doesn’t it have something like a two-hour battery life? Feel like that excludes it from being something you carry around with you like a phone.

Some of us never stopped

It was a thing last… summer? Where reddit announced they were going to start charging for every call a third party program made using the API. This was done with the intent of shutting down 3rd party reddit apps and to get users on the official one so reddit could make more money. However, it also destroyed a bunch of 3rd party tools that mods more or less needed, and which reddit had been promising to implement themselves for years with no progress. There was a brief protest where mods of many subs shut them down (mostly for less than a week, though some are still down IIRC). A bunch of users and moderators left reddit and went to other sites.

I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.

IIRC there’s some evidence that cold temperatures weaken the immune system. Assuming it’s valid, that does mean that cold could be the deciding factor between contracting a cold or fighting if off.

Now obviously germ theory is correct and it takes external infection to catch a cold, but it’s a pretty safe bet you’re being more or less constantly exposed to COVID and the flu whenever you’re in an indoor public space.

story-driven games

Disco Elysium is a great story, so long as you enjoy reading/listening to lots of dialogue because there’s not much other gameplay. Baldur’s Gate 3 is technically on sale, but it’s only 10% so eh; maybe Divinity Original Sin 2?

Souls games

Both Sekiro and Elden Ring are fantastic, my only caveats would be that Sekiro doesn’t really have character customization so if you love that part of soulsborne it might fall a bit flat, and Elden Ring can start to drag if you have a completionist mindset and go out of your way to complete every little side dungeon.

strategy games

I’ve heard decent things about Midnight Suns which is on a pretty deep sale. The Total War Warhammer games are good fun, though there is a fuckload of DLC, and the third game apparently has major issues.

GTA-like games

Mafia 3 is close, but 1 and 2 don’t really have much to do in the open world IIRC. The Saints Row games are hella cheap (do note that 2 needs a mod to be stable and even then it’ll crash occasionally) EDIT: Don’t get the newest one, just called “Saint’s Row”, it’s terrible. Cyberpunk 2077 maybe qualifies?

Doesn’t fit any of those categories, but I will always recommend Outer Wilds, a fantastic exploration/puzzle game that I wish I could play again for the first time.

Lastly, piracy is always the correct thing to do, but if you insist on paying for games, at least consider using piracy as a demo.

on suicide watch

Can confirm it’s happening to me even on Chrome (they won’t let me remove it at work )

A couple of structural and ideological problems at Valve lead to this. First, the company’s “flat” organization where people work on what they want means that unless somebody wants to volunteer to mod Steam communities (which no sane person would), they won’t bother. Further, even if someone wanted to mod Steam, they’d have to consider that it might be damaging to their career because “I remove racists and nazis from Steam” isn’t going to get the same kind of good performance reviews that some big sexy project will (even if it never releases).

Second, the leadership are rich white libertarians. They don’t care what their users say or do because of nonsense beliefs so long as they keep making money. The only thing that might get them to take action would be if this kind of thing became a big scandalous news story, because at that point it might be viewed as a threat to their bottom line, but that never happened with the child gambling so it’s still unlikely.

Mine are super inconsistent now. Obviously I have uBO, but I can typically watch like 10-ish videos a day before the popups start, at which point I just turn on libredirect.

I desire the end of America and indeed all capitalist states, ideally before they slide even further into fascism in the near future. Death to the Israeli state, and death to any states that support it.

Beans is one thing, but cold beans??? That’s a step too far, I now uncritically support Xi.

85GB is actually shockingly huge for Counter-Strike considering CS:GO was like 16GB. For comparison, Doom Eternal is 80GB, Cyberpunk is 70, and Elden Ring and Armored Core VI are both 60.

The sound card’s just recommended though so whatever.

If Counter-Strike 2 is so good, why is there no Counter-Strike 2 2?