That was wild seeing Battle Beast after all this time. I saw it and immediately knew even though I haven’t played it since the 90s when I got it for free for some promo. I think it was the art style that was distinctive to me.

Yeah this was the point I was about to say myself. It’s not that Valve has me stanning them at all, but rather the experience has been the same since Steam’s inception in 2003. I go to their Store, I buy the game (but really the game licence, now that we’re more aware), I download it, and play it. Games almost never get removed from your library unless they find them to be malicious (I bought a key for Prey 2006 on eBay years after delisting and was playing it within an hour), so it’s been rather reassuring that money spent is value retained in perpetuity until proven otherwise.

If Valve starts making the same terrible decisions though, they can receive the same pitchfork brigade as everyone else.

I do pay attention to what I’m actually buying now that I’m older and more knowledgeable about licensing, but don’t let FUD ruin your experience as a gamer. Just keep your ear to the ground for any terrible policy changes.

Looks like Pro controllers tbh. Right color for it, same indicators for who is player 1 and 2.

Damn that’s rough and sounds expensive!

It’s funny, the first few times I smoked a joint with a friend, it barely did anything at all to me. Never had any more for many years, and the next time I was completely couch locked and was hallucinating while watching TV. Either my tolerance changed drastically or my friend’s weed was weak as hell.

Oh it absolutely is, and I’ve got a low tolerance for alcohol too, which is pretty nice. I just wish that if I had to choose which of THC and CBD I had a low tolerance for, it’d be CBD.

Yeah unfortunately I’m the same way. Have tried several CBD things and not one of them do anything for me unless I go max dose, and even then it’s an incredibly mild effect. THC takes nearly nothing though, 15mg is enough for a very strong high. I have friends where the complete opposite is true and I would love to trade them.

That was a big reason I went with Emby. Not open source, but wasn’t necessary to me, and I wanted a cloud connect function that it handled well. And not all devices have a Jellyfin app that’s easy to install. My TV would require it to be rooted.

When I started, it was also $1.25 (1996), but what was weird was this brief moment when it was $0.89. Trying to remember why, but I think it was following 9/11 and was after the price gouging started and the govt started going after gas stations.

I see you were also traumatized by the floppy release. Lol

I had pre-ordered the CD release from Babbage’s, and went to pick that up. Being that I was only 15, I had to get a ride, and it was also 45 min each way, so this wasn’t exactly easy for me.

When I got home, I still hadn’t realized they gave me the wrong one and cracked it open to see the horror. Said screw it, I wasn’t going to be able to go back anytime soon and installed it for the next hour or more.

Luckily, because this was pre-activation key (we remember those days, right? … right??), when I took it back, they apologized and gave me the right one without much problem.

Only installed once from 14 floppies, but it still was terrible.

Completely agree. I will go out if invited out, but I don’t go looking for reasons to be out at all. Cabin fever is a non-existent feeling here.

I’m never going to say that that game was for everyone despite loving it myself. And if a boss took me 15+ min to finish, I’d have been exhausted by that loop. But also the tools they gave prevented that from ever happening because they did provide the tools. Just sorry it didn’t click with you, both story and gameplay.

I get why you hate it, especially when people put everyone in the To:, but you know what’s worse? Trying to have a conversation across multiple groups of people, and one person in the thread using Reply so it cuts everyone else out. There’s a reason Reply All is a default. Email is a tool that 90% use poorly.

I was in on the $5/mo for a long time. Even when I went to Linux while having dual boot for Windows when necessary, I kept my GamePass sub since it was so cheap. I finally dropped it after the big price hike, they just reminded me how much I don’t need Microsoft.

Lol same with first and fourth, just with difference speech bubbles and Superman.

It’s not bad, it’s the absolute opposite. They want it to remain at boobs mileage forever, hence no longer drivable.

One of my favorite pies to make is a cheddar pear pie. Partially because the flavors work so well together, partially to see the weird looks about the name go away the moment they go ahead and try it. You don’t even taste the cheese at all but it adds to it in a subtle way.

I didn’t even know it was a movie reference!

You know what, very valid point. …I like you.

I’d rather kill NPCs I don’t like.

But seriously, looks interesting! I’ll keep an eye out for this one.

Saw a bumper sticker last week that said “Horn if you’re honky” and it’s so stupid and I can’t help laughing every time I think about it.