Not to mention it greatly lowered the quality of content. Now it’s 95% getting a catchy clickbate title with the actual body often not even agreeing with the title. It’s fucking exhausting.

Seriously, the fuck? In what world is it unethical to opt out of having trash thrown in my face?

Yup, if enough people switch to graphene big G will fuck them over. Exiting entirely is the only long term solution.

Steam decks are expensive and relatively bulky when compared to a phone. I don’t think it’s really a practical solution for most of us.

There’s genres of games that are supposed to be relationship sims and nothing else. The relationships and characters are still hollow and would only draw in the loneliest people.

Agreed, I played it on my retro handheld a couple weeks ago and it still holds up alright. They manage to convey a lot of emotion through those little unicycles.

I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We’ll try a few alternatives and even if I’ve gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.

Often when I’m stoned I enter the flow state easier. I can also get way more into my own head and not be able to get into the flow at all.

This is true for some products but absolutely the opposite for many others. You can go buy a $500 jacket that will outlive you but good luck finding a car or fridge that won’t break, especially the high end models with all the bells and whistles. Samsung will happily sell you a $5k fridge that has dozens of features that will break and require servicing far more frequently than the $500 white apartment fridge.

Have a 2012 128i. Picked the 128 instead of the 135 because I can actually have a bit of fun. I had a 335i before and that kind of acceleration is just completely unnecessary and your fun is over too fast.

Yeah, I’m with you. There’s tons of games I’ve paid a lot more than $16 for that I would absolutely tell past me to buy again instantly. Most recently Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. $40 with all dlc and I’m over 100 hours in, enjoying every minute. Over 100 hours of entertainment from something that cost me less than an hour of labor, in what world is that not worth it?

I got like 40 hours of playtime from Peak before taking a break. For $8 I’m very satisfied.

The only guy giving the actual reason in the whole thread!

Some countries have huge taxes on entertainment while others have nearly none. I’d guess he moved to a county with a higher tax rate and Valve can’t just have people using a VPN to circumvent their local taxes. Valve is left without a way to determine where you were when you’d purchased the game so they geo lock the titles to where you purchased them.

I am totally done with live service games. 1200+ hours in Warframe and another 300 in helldivers. I have no interest in grinding out the same mission repeatedly to get that new armor again. It was fun the first time less so the second and I would rather play something new.

No dumbass, they use fruit punch Gatorade.

Yes, some games actually have the data to install the game.

I live in the Seattle area and while this stuff isn’t free it’s under $10 to park and ride both ways. Trains run every 7 minutes and the train will take you maybe five minutes extra if there’s no traffic. If you’re coming or going from the stadiums it’s faster and cheaper than driving to one of the lots close to them. Trains are pretty clean too, it’s a pretty great rail line

If she actually just drove forward and didn’t try to avoid the murderer, she’d probably be alive RN.

I played for about 5 hours and was totally bored, the whole game is just the endgame.