Here’s a range:
Sebastian Lague - game dev and software dev exploration
Pitch Meeting - film summary in short satire comedy form
Sick Animation - fucked up animations
Will McDaniel - comedy sketches using practical effects, puppets and fx makeup
DefendTheHouse - gaming myth busters and community content
FunWithGuru - showcasing easter eggs in games
Smart phones aren’t magic. They are also not super high tech spy devices. They are dangerous because they promote you to willingly give all your personal information away. They usually aren’t spying on you in secret instead you’re giving them all the information you want. People get Google and Facebook accounts and tie their full name, date of birth, gender, family relationships, sexual preferences, upload photos of themselves and all their friends, then spend 6h a day using the services which gives them plenty of usage data to tell them what you like, what you hate, what engages you, what they can market to you, your fears, your fetishes, your secrets, etc. You may opt in to Google maps tracking your location history. You can literally check by going onto your Google account and checking your location history. It tracks everywhere you go. They have enough information to know where you go every Thursday at 1750 and who you’re with and how bad the traffic was and potentially even what beer you bought.
But they don’t do it in secret. They make sure to ask you first but hope you are too ignorant to question the point of it. You ever hear people say “it’s fine I have nothing to hide”? That’s the propaganda at work. Throw privacy away for the convenience of being able to look at ai memes on instagram.
You agree to allow your phone to listen all the time when you enable siri or Google assistant. You allow it to scan your face to use face unlock but it’s not that they’re collecting this information in secret. They don’t even need your camera footage and your secret voice recordings, and they don’t need to steal your dick pics.
They already have everything they need. We gave it to them.
So many cool photographs and artworks you could have chosen but you post an ai generated facsimile instead :(
Thanks for the advice, but the point is still there. In fact to double down on it, I’d still choose using stores that respect the devs and the liberty of consumers over using any of the services steam provides despite their convenience.
Well, I didn’t know some games on gog had drm, but seemingly a vast majority of them on gog are. I hope they start labelling them. Either way, gog usually makes it a mission to point out you don’t need a launcher to play gog games. A huge number of steam games will not launch without their steam integration or drm check working. Speaking practically you get a clear choice to keep your games when you buy them on gog. On steam not so much.
You can get the steam Linux support and steam input by adding your gog games as non steam games or using heroic or lutris or the like. It usually works pretty well.
My only point is that drm free and a better developer cut are significantly more important than the other stuff.
And yes I chose those specific gimmicks because while steam has useful features it also has features that purely exist to keep you in an ecosystem without actually offering any utility, like achievements, trading cards, steam funds, and other features I mentioned. I happily use steam, but choose to purchase my games DRM free and try to maximise developer cut where I can, but being tricked into using a single store front is not a smart move.
Probably less convenient than through steam, but just installing heroic launcher or bottles or lutris or the likes makes that really easy. Most of the games installed on my steam deck are through heroic, same with on my desktop pc. In fact heroic launcher was a significantly better experience for me compared to gog galaxy when I was on Windows.
I use steam input but still purchase games from gog. Just add the game as a non steam game. Heroic and lutris even do it for you.
I just mean that buying games from steam for the gimmicks, like achievements, trading cards, and forums gives you less control over the product your purchasing.
Sync thing has been great and convenient for me. Use tailscale, zero tier or just raw wire guard to see each other
Something like heroic or bottles fixes this issue and gives you more agency to play it your way.
The difference is you can download and keep the installers from gog and back it up yourself. Gog just acts as a store front and download service. You always keep it. It’s the only true form of software ownership. If you had your steam account removed right now, some games you have installed would no longer launch.
Every gimmicky feature on steam is fluff to lock you into an ecosystem. Buying steam games for achievements for example is really silly.
Truth is if you care about a sustainable games industry, then drm free and maximising developer cut is the right choice.
Choose the option that gives the developer the biggest cut, like itch or directly, and just use a launcher aggregator to manage it from one place like heroic launcher or playnite. I personally use gog for most but will use an alternative if it supports the dev better.
Theoretically that would just mean going deaf right? If so I could still feel vibrations and so on. So I guess it suck immensely but I wouldn’t lose the ability to partake in rhythms and may be able to enjoy bass.
Wait keyboard and controller? At the same time??
Fluoride in the water to dumb the masses is part of their conspiracy theory. They call it the fluoride stare and think you shouldn’t drink tap water.
I’m almost certain with pcvr you can still use the knuckles with base stations. Surely they’d have a vr space sync.
Is this the guy who shot himself and his friend used his skull fragment as a necklace?
He’s recently been less active due to an illness and then death in the family. He talked about it in a community post. Either way, I’m glad he found a pace that better fits him.