Not as easy to put out a reskinned game every year like they can with Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed.

California is joining in too with AB-2047 and New York has AB-2228 requiring a criminal background check for buying a 3D printer.

This is what actually tired me more than driving when I did Uber for a while. I felt exhausted from socializing but probably more so because it was the same conversation each time “how did you start, when did you start, do you do anything besides Uber…”. Ironically my first passenger was probably the most enjoyable conversation I had while doing Uber and we drove over 70 miles to her destination talking the entire way.

Getting an Uber driver/passenger who didn’t want to talk was always the best for me. Not trying to be rude, but I enjoy driving in quiet more times than not, even when alone, I don’t always listen to music or anything on my radio. I don’t get why some people can’t seem to enjoy silence and constantly need some sort of artificial background noise.

The wear and tear on my car and the expensive trips are why I don’t drive or take Ubers anymore. I pulled up the app a few weeks ago to get a lift to somewhere 5 miles away and the trip just getting there was like $20. Paying that much in gas could get me well over 100 miles even in my area where gas is insane.

I love when I encounter a barber who picks up on this for me.

I try not to be rude and converse back if they talk, and I’ve had some legit good conversations with some barbers, but I so enjoy the quiet when getting my hair cut and enjoying it like a massage.

California is less than a year as it goes into effect this upcoming January 2027.

So it sounds like he did that on purpose with some intention you’d be injured because he was angry with you…? That’s scary…and he’s involving strangers in this violence too, which just adds to that. What else is he capable of if this is how he’s handling his anger and he’s aware of it?

Like it’s one thing to react in anger and not realize you did something stupid in anger, but this dude straight up admitted it with full consciousness and maybe even pride. Granted, he was probably still angry, but that’s probably worse since he’s holding to anger for much longer than is reasonable and maybe even over something that didn’t deserve anger in the first place, perhaps? Worrying that he is not managing this after therapy sessions and doing things like you had suggested, letting you take the wheel when he feels this upset.

It sounds like he needs anger management on his own in his own therapy. If he keeps acting this way, his best outcome is going to be involuntary if not a worse outcome meeting the wrong person who’s not going to care how he’s feeling.

But either way, you do what you have to, to protect yourself.

It doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in, but who cares? Write it anyway.

I hate it when people say “no one will read it”. That’s untrue for most things. There is at least one other person who will read it and like it out there. If nothing more than for you to finally get it out there and on paper for your own satisfaction of doing it. And even if no one else does, it doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t sound like you’re doing this in hopes of being the next Jack Kirby or Stan Lee or to get rich. It sounds like you just have a story you think is cool that you’ve been sitting on for a while and you want to flesh it out. Go for it. Spend some time and get it out there and then release it for others to read.

I don’t think I’ve seen a better looking pizza. That looks so fresh.

I seem to be this minority. Civ 4 on the Xbox 360 was my first but Civ V was the first on PC and I have wasted away many Saturdays playing.

I almost deleted it from my MacBook before forgetting that I still have a game from a few weeks ago I’m near completing. I branched off to nuke Alexander off the map because he was a dick to everyone but then everyone feared me and I felt bad and haven’t returned.

At one time, we were promised that having cameras in our faces wherever we go would make things safer. “This invasion of your privacy will make you safer.”

That’s clearly not been enough to completely stop this so now we need to take it one step further and use lasers.

That will be the end all, be all to put a stop to this.

But if and when it isn’t, it’ll just lead to the next victim feeling we didn’t go far enough.

Next is going to be requiring every citizen have a drone fly behind them and follow them wherever they go and they pay for this invasion of their privacy. The laser thing just wasn’t cutting it. Someone got assaulted and the people who were supposed to help her didn’t show up. But now having drones follow you and monitor your every movement is going to stop it once and for all. Of course it won’t follow you into your bathroom because that would be taking it too far…

…until someone gets assaulted in a bathroom, then we’ll move to now violating your privacy there as well and that will be the end to all of these evil people being evil, once and for all. We promise. That’ll be the last time we violate your privacy and the evil people will stop being evil for sure 👍

I’m so hyped for this headset. Can’t wait to ditch my Quest 3 for native Steam functionality.

I was at one point, was really into KDE Neon for a while and used it everywhere. Then shifted when they released a new distro away from Neon.

But now I use Debian on my two servers and looking at DietPi for my Raspberry Pi and use Linux Mint Cinnamon for my gaming PC. With the Nvidia RTX GPU I have, I had nothing but issues on any distro that used Wayland so I felt forced into this and been here since with no issues so I will be here for some time.

I don’t know if I’d want my name attached to this game.

It doesn’t even look good by PS1 standards…yeesh.

There’s a few games made nowadays made purposefully to look like PS1 like Easy Delivery Co but they don’t look anywhere near as bad as this.

Beautiful bikes

This should have been an obvious outcome when digital games weren’t priced any less than their physical release.

It’s not about saving the environment with less plastic. It’s not about saving money for the customer. It’s not about making it more convenient for the customer or the developer.

It was always about more greed. More money in their pockets and more ways to fuck you over as a customer.

Memory leaks happen. I had one recently where the game crashed and I happened to have a system monitor open on the other screen.

My setup has 64GB of RAM. The game as it crashed was consuming 50+GB of RAM, leading me to believe it was eating up every last bit before finally biting the dust because the computer effectively cut it off from taking anymore and forced the game to close because it reached its threshold.

Granted I was using heavy cheats like god mode, infinite ammo, etc. lol

What you want is cloning software. You can use proprietary software like Acronis. I have used it for years but it costs.

Or you can choose free software like Clonezilla that you will flash and then boot into on a computer with the old drive and the new drive attached via an adapter. I don’t think it works if the drive is in the computer. Last time I did this a month ago, it didn’t detect the internal drive, only the drives we had attached via USB adapters.

You’ll be able to clone the old drive to the new one and even customize if you want the sizing to remain the same, relatively speaking, or let it consume the new drive naturally, which I prefer.

Once you do that, then you can move on to doing dual boot.

Be careful doing it this way though. Because dual booting by installing Windows after Linux usually requires you to reconfigure your Linux bootloader (GRUB, systemd, etc.) because Windows will override it with its own bootloader that doesn’t recognize any other OS. It’s not impossible, just annoying so most people opt to install Windows then install Linux for dual booting in that order. If you can, you might choose to install Windows on the new drive and then install Zorin afterwards and then bring over your old files and settings after the fact. That might be an easier method here than cloning.

PC gaming has come a long way that most games nowadays just work, even on Linux. I’m surprised at how many games work without even forcing Proton and no bugs at all, except those that also exist for Windows. That and my controller is seamless. Even VR is working better now.

On the other side, it seems console gaming is more complex than it needed to be and we’ve seen how consoles actually hold back gaming, as a whole, like the situation with the Xbox Series S that has forced developers to either cut content or remove features to make it compatible as that is Microsoft’s requirement when developing a game to be released for their consoles. I don’t remember hearing it, but I’m sure the same is true for the PlayStation side too with the lower end model. Whereas that doesn’t happen for PC exclusive releases. If your PC won’t run it, it’s probably because it’s outdated and that’s a you problem, not something everyone else needs to suffer for because a company like Microsoft is forcing devs to make it compatible with outdated/lower end hardware.

I can’t remember trying a game on my Steam Deck and it didn’t work. Unless you mean setting up a Proton version, then I’ve had that, but the game eventually runs in 9 out of 10 cases. That is exclusive to non-Windows OSes and it could be solved by automating based on the db and make the setting easier to find and change for users, maybe even prompt the user to try another Proton version kind of like Windows’ troubleshooter when it detects a program didn’t install or run correctly. Or when devs make their games natively work with Linux/macOS like they do for Windows which is why games just work there. And if the game doesn’t run well, you just lower the settings which I’ve done for many games with no trouble. Even console games now have the same settings to lower quality to get better performance.

Because of control.

If Nintendo released on PC, you’d never buy it again. They couldn’t sell a new version on the newest Nintendo console and make you pay for it again.

If they released on PS5, it might be backwards compatible with PS6 and you wouldn’t buy it when it’s re-released again.

Also it cuts into their profits. Valve and Sony charge something like 30% which means either Nintendo takes a cut or they increase price on the customer. Neither works out in their favor. Whereas when they release on their own console, they don’t have to pay any of those fees.

On a practical level for the customer, it does make it easier to manage and ensure quality. Their developers only have to account for one system which means much less bugs and less time for patches when needed. When your team has 5 different platforms to develop for, you risk more unique bugs and versions and also slower time to release bug patches. Same also happens for releases for new content which is slower for both DLC and brand new releases. But when it’s just the one system, the releases come much faster. Also no delays because of Sony or Valve wanting to poke around before approving for their storefront. Nintendo has full control over when the game is released.