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I just checked my shelves and digged out GW1, i have that cdrom bookcase with the necromancess (is this correct english? like sorcerer and sorceress)
and there are two inlay books - manuscripts on Challenges and Lore.
Hm, I wonder if I get a free copy when I prove, i still have my GW1 hardcover with this merch inside...

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Quoting: amataiA horror movie with the same scene that got the game rejected by steam would have caused its authors to be sent to jail, though.

It would not. As a concrete example, Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" (2009) (nominated for the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival and shown uncut in both the UK and the US - a far cry from your jail scenario) features a graphic intercourse scene between two naked adults, showing a toddler present and watching them in the same room. That is a far more explicit scene than the one in "HORSES", which - again - features no scenes with any children and never contained any scenes where a child was shown in connection with anything sexual.

Would you kindly stop pretending that the game at any point featured sexualisation of a minor, without any evidence to support this? It makes it very hard to discuss the actual topic at hand if we also have to pause to consider unfounded scenarios as if they were facts.

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Quoting: Loftya comment so accurate you made it onto a Mr. Sujano video

Oh, wow.

Hi Mr. Sujano.

You said my name like you don't know what character it comes from (*).

I thought you were into videogames...
___
(*) - actual ingame name and name in manual are slightly different, I know.

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I have played the original Mining Mechs: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603180/Mining_Mechs/
The mechanics of the game are very similar to Chipmatic.

On the topic of mining themed games:
I recently purchased Coal LLC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361510/Coal_LLC/
The graphics are simple (primitive), but the I have really been enjoying the game play. It is just the kind of game I enjoy:

• A simple tutorial is enough to get you into the game and feel a sense of progress

• A meta-progression system that levels you up from run to run. (roguelite)

• Keyboard and mouse controlled interface

• First Steam game for this developer

• Self-published

• Written in Godot

• Platinum rating on protondb

I tried to play the game on the Steamdeck and it really did not work well for me. In the discussion section of the Steam page, users are also complaining of controller issue.

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I think Steam made a good call when they originally blocked Horses build in 2023. I don't think the scene is an actual depiction of a child in a sexual manner, but I guess if there's doubt, better remove it.

However I don't understand why this story only became public 2-years later, why Valve refused to release the patched game and why EGS chickened out. If you play the game now there is nothing deserving a ban.

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I went and checked. My 2x32gb sticks cost 290cdn. (580 for 2 packs)
Current price: 1150 per pack. 2300 for the 128gb. Almost 4 times the price.

(the gov will love it for the extra tax money)

ppbblltt!
:P

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Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.

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A horror movie with the same scene that got the game rejected by steam would have caused its authors to be sent to jail, though.

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Aaaaaand it's gone. RWS posted another update:

... we've been overwhelmed with negative responses from our concerned POSTAL Community. The strong feedback from them is that elements of the game are very likely AI-generated and thus has caused extreme damage to our brand and our company reputation.
...
Our trust in the development team is broken, therefore we've killed the project.

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Gamers Nexus coverage: [youtube link](https://youtu.be/9A-eeJP0J7c)

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Quoting: mr-victory@Eike do you have a fairphone?

Yes. :)
The Motorola G-Whatever I had before hat removable battery and SD card slot as well though.

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Quoting: apocalyptech

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Removable Batteries on Laptops and Phones

Not true. Have it in my phone I bought this year.

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Removable MicroSD Storage on Phones

Not true. Have it in my phone I bought this year.

I'm not quite as inclined to a Total Doom prediction as ElectricPrism, but those two points up there specifically are at least extremely strong trends over the past, I dunno, five years or so? Sure, are are phones available with removeable batteries and MicroSD cards, but those have been becoming increasingly rare. I'm hoping the zeitgeist will turn back around eventually re: MicroSD in particular, but even brands and product lines which have historically been really good about that kind of stuff have ended up dropping it on their more recent models. Saying that features like that are entirely "gone" is probably overstating things slightly, but I know that my own phone selection pool has drastically shrunk since ten years ago.

I agree these are trends!

But, vinyl records vanishing was a trend, too. If enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.

I also find it funny to strange that AFAICT it is not too hard to get a phone with SD card slot - as long as you buy for say 200 bucks instead of 1000.

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Quoting: Trias

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ElectricPrism☑ Optical CD/DVD/HD/BluRay Drive on Laptops
☑ Ethernet Port in many cases gone necessitating USB-C Hub
☑ Anything outside a single USB-C

Not true. Have it in my laptop I bought this year.

Oh, you bought a notebook with an ODD this year? Regardless of ElectricPrism predictions those *are* becoming more and more scarce and harder to find. Did you bought it for gaming or office work? Was it good? Can you please tell the model?

Ah, sorry!

I should have edited the quote, it has multiple USB-C ports, not the other points.

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i think postal 2 is a cool and fun game, but this one is too much for me. there are horror movies similar to horses, with overly graphical and disgusting imagery, with violence for the sake of showing it. perhaps this sub-genre is not popular, because people don't see any point in this beside shocking their audience. i hope that developers of this game had at least some kind of artistic intent in this stuff, but on this topic I agree with my friend, who is a fan of horror genre, that very few creators of horror understand horror. it is not about disgusting imagery, or jump scares, or shocking content, it is about building up fear, tension, suspense in viewers. I can't feel any of that in the trailer, it is just gross. Well, whatever, I am not calling for its ban, the stores already have 18+ age check.

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I wish Logitech still produced the G600. I got into WoW Classic at the beginning of the year and consequently picked up a cheap Redragon MMO mouse. I've since stopped playing WoW but man, I just can't go back to mice with just a couple of side buttons. Even in non-MMO games, I just rebind everything to my mouse and just use the keyboard for movement basically.

I ended up upgrading to the Corsair Scimitar but I'm wary of the build quality. Many people say the scroll wheel dies quickly, and even now after a few weeks the left click has this weird creak to it.

By the sounds of it, many saw the G600 as the gold standard but they stopped making it. I loved the G502 years ago, and still have a G305 in reserve.

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: rea987Well, it's hard to believe that 2 decade old proprietary has a 64 bit native build available for Linux already. It does require a bit library linking but Luxtorpeda automates that perfectly. Regardless, best arena shooter of all times.

Well UT2k4 "always" had a native Linux build; I believe it was just not added to the official DVDs during release...
(I've had the Linux build on old HDDs somewhere for years...)

Owner of the 6-CD physical copy here. The installer is on CD1, and I guess it's on the DVD as well. It uses the fugly old installer (liflg I guess) which needs ancient versions of certain libraries in order to work. Can't remember which ones, though.

I do remember using another tool to generate a .deb package a long time ago, but I can't remember the name.

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Great hardware, but I'm sticking to open hardware projects like Ploopy. Once you get used to the freedom of open firmwares like QMK or ZMK on your peripherals, it's hard to go back to closed ecosystems. It is too bad, though, that open firmwares for wireless mice are still pretty much non-existent or broken.

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In my opinion, Logitech mice are the best on the market.

Personally, I use a G502 X (I just replaced my G502 Hero, whose left click button broke down after years of use).

This model G502 X has a fast scroll wheel, and I have to admit that aside from gaming, for example, for browsing the internet, I can't do without it anymore.

I chose a wired version, which is less expensive and, most importantly, never runs out of battery mid-game.

To make it easier to use depending on my needs, I created a profile with five DPI settings: 2000, 3200, 4400, 5800, and 7200 DPI. Most of the time I use 7200 DPI, except when, for example, I need to do photo editing.

I recommend using Solaar and Piper software under Linux to get the most out of your Logitech hardware. They allow you to configure your Logitech keyboards, mice, and receivers according to your personal preferences.

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Quoting: syylkIf there's a textbook example of how one can hate and love a videogame company at the same time, then it's Epic Games.

Today is even-numbered, so we love them.

Tomorrow Sweeney will speak, and we will hate them.

Sigh

a comment so accurate you made it onto a Mr. Sujano video

https://youtu.be/1NfAwHeo7ZM?t=867

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Just need vanilla maps and gametypes to be available. Every time I look to see what's on, the server list is full of weird stuff.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Was never a fan or ever played these games however now offered DRM-Free I will eventually buy them in time. It seems the Warhammer ones are all missing, licensing issue maybe?

Impossible, since they recently changed that owning Warhammer 1 / 2 gives you free access to Warhammer 3 (limited to the factions of Warhammer 1 / 2 you own), therefore they always need to sell all 3 games on the same platform.

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100% I have been buying these mice all year. I own about 4 of them for different computers and at work. I also recently upgraded to the 309, and it is slightly more accurate and responsive. They are both excellent mice for the $$$.

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im a bit of a fanboy of Logitech , i used to purchase generic keyboards that lasted for few weaks then broke, decided that an expensive but durable keyboard would be an better use of my money than purchase an new one every week, purchase one of then because it had 5 years of guarantee... i think it was 15 years ago and only now some keys are failing.

not to mention the battery also last forever on it, quite energy efficient

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Quoting: MrSeatbeltgoated mouse, got mine when my wired razer mouse (which technically had a better sensor but whatever) started double clicking, having scroll wheel issues and generally kind of fell apart a bit.

Yeaaah, this is standard Razer hardware behaviour in my experience. I dumped them in 2014, and jumped ship to Roccat since they had (unofficial) Linux support. Then the Linux support dried up for Roccat devices, so I jumped ship to Corsair.

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Quoting: scaineI'm not saying we should scrap discrimination laws, but I'm very glad that common sense won out here. Let's just say that if I was forced into making a cake for an asshole bigot, that bigot probably wouldn't enjoy the cake I made...

I don't think "bigot" is a protected category in most human rights laws. So I'm not sure I'd say it's an exact parallel.

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I knew this was a thing of duplicating files for HDD as I remember that was one selling point not needing it or at least a talking point of the PS5 and Xbox Series Consoles but damn that's the biggest I've seen I just assumed in my head that it was all the different texture qualities since the PS5 version is 40gb at least that's what it says you need I don't own it on PS5 and also PC versions of games can be bigger since the consoles have custom decompression hardware. But damn that's a lot of duplication only cross gen games I own on my PS5 Pro for perspective Control PS5 version is 27gb PS4 is 39gb, Haven PS5 4gb PS4 6gb, Soul Hacker 2 PS5 16gb PS4 24gb, but 154gb to 23gb!!?!?!??!? and how is it smaller then the PS5 version unless the PlayStation store is wrong.

I wonder how many of these other games with massive file sizes have duplicate data

I know Final Fantasy XIII can be shrunk in about half there is English and Japanese Video Cut scenes so deleting the language you don't use saves about 30gb of space. The game was designed with the PS3 50gb bluray discs in mind is why the Xbox 360 version is 3 discs. I don't know any others with duplicate data you can remove. Also just checked my PS3 disc only english huh didn't notice that before so PC is 57gb with both and PS3 is 40gb with only english damn they compressed the videos.

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Quoting: "Purple Library Guy"Hrm. I have a bit of a problem with that perspective. So, if someone has a bakery and they do wedding cakes, it's OK for them to refuse to do the wedding cake if it's for the wedding of two gay people.

Sadly as you have been able to read as his answers, an awful lot of straight folks really don't think past their own nose and an awful lot of them will tell you to your face that they don't see the problem here ...

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I initially misread the headline as "raw furry games".

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I'm using this mouse on my work PC, but mine has some sort of issue with the battery connection. It will just turn off for no reason, then I have to open it up and sort of push that battery so it turns on again, it's really frustrating. I have another logitech mouse at home, which I don't remember the model, and that one is perfect, battery lasts forever. So yeah, their QA can definitely be hit or miss, but I still like their products overall.

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Oh, you bought a notebook with an ODD this year? Regardless of ElectricPrism predictions those *are* becoming more and more scarce and harder to find. Did you bought it for gaming or office work? Was it good? Can you please tell the model?

Just playing with Google and there are still enough laptops being released with ODD that magazines are doing top 10 lists: [https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-with-cd-dvd-drives](https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-with-cd-dvd-drives)

But you are the others are still missing his point, his point is not that this kind of models are not becoming scarce, it was the notion of this not being "allowed".

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