For what it’s worth, an external disc drive is not very expensive and they are quite small.

Most people who drink whisky on the rocks, for example, aren’t going to want to do it on that ice.

Not a single disc, but there’s been many games released on multiple discs for generations. As recently as FF7 Rebirth.

I used ½ cup of baking soda in 9 cups of water.

It’s both.

It’s currently in the courts in multiple countries. The accusation is that Valve has an unwritten rule that Steam must have the best retail prices. For example, Ubisoft, who runs their own platform, could not sell Assassin’s Creed on Steam for $60 and on Uplay for $50.

This would make some sense from Ubisoft’s position, as they don’t have to pay anyone a commission on their own store, and customers may be willing to come to them for a lower price than Steam. In this scenario, no Valve infrastructure is used for the Uplay sale.

So, again, the accusation (currently unproven, but alleged in court) is that Valve strong arms others into not being able to do this. Still it for cheaper on your own store or elsewhere that takes a smaller cut? We’re gonna kick you off Steam.

This is believable, because Steam commands a dominating user share. So the threat of losing access to those users is very powerful. It’s also believable because people don’t become billionaires by being ethical.

However, naturally, Valve denies this unwritten policy exists. The cases are ongoing.

They also profited like crazy from under age, unregulated gambling and did nothing to very little to curb it.

Well, if you were connected to the internet, it likely had patches it wanted to download.

If you’re not connected to the internet, or refuse the patches (if possible), the disc should install and play. There are some games out there that don’t include the whole game on disc (minus previously mentioned patches, of course) but they are the minority afaik.

No lye!

Leftover cheese sauce for brussel sprouts from the other night. Warmed it back up and went great with the pretzels!

Fantastic, I was really quite pleased for my first attempt. The recipe was originally for 12, but I halved it for 6… And I wish I hadn’t!

Gotta be either Anno 1800 or one of the Monster Hunters.

I have owned every Sony console and still own every one except PS1. I will never buy a digital only console. Looks like my Sony collection ends here. Damn shame.

Thanks for checking! I looked at their website but couldn’t find this comic. Didn’t know they were on Bluesky; now I can follow!

Has this comic had its artist credit removed? It looks like Extra Fabulous to me but they usually sign theirs.

Holy fuck that’s amazing.

Garticphone. Though that works better with more than one other person.

I know it’s just a silly comic, but I’m pretty sure collection bags are lower than you do that gravity can do its work. Bags hung above you like that are usually for putting things into you.

Then again, I’m not in the field and could be totally wrong here, happy to be corrected.

Hm man I just tried “Mary ultramarine robes” in both DDG and Google and I found DDG’s mildly better. One web result was shared on the first page of both, but Google’s first page was half pictures, ads, and reddit links.

I don’t see how it’s unnecessary to get more details about why something wasn’t working for them.

I also hate that everything online is considered an argument these days. No one just has conversations. Lemmy and reddit don’t help in that regard with up and downvotes encouraging group think.

Anyway, this is a huge tangent and not on topic, my bad.