my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.
Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).
It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.
school shootings are the price for being able to own guns
Not just the price, but a worthy price. I find it ironic that he himself has now been victim of a school shooting.
I am not surprised. I am thoroughly enjoying playing Silksong which I bought for less than 20 EUR, and I am looking forward to playing Borderlands for a few hours when it’ll be on sale for $5 in about a year.
The Bitrate part was a joke, yes. 96k is low, although I just remembered a special mp3 codec from NERO that allowed for such low bitrate, at the same perceived sound quality as 128kbps.
But obviously, all my CDs have been ripped as either V2, V0 or 320kbps - I personally have not noticed any difference to FLAC files with either of those qualities, I guess my ears are not sensitive enough.
honestly, most of my CDs have been used once: Put in a PC and ripped (to 96kbps MP3s, of course!)
personally i read “Down and Out in the magic Kingdom” as well as the german translation “Backup”, which - while not masterpieces - were quite enjoyable.
“old man yells at cloud”
Here it’s apparently done just through a credit card. Does this meet the standards for the German law […]
it seems not. Providing anonymous verification data like Credit card information or even just the id number of the personal identification card is not enough, the provider has to verify the actual identity of the person. I guess that’s quite a bigger hurdle to overcome, so probably fair for valve to not bother.
Huh? Why didn’t they do this for German users? German law requires age verification for adult content, and valve didn’t want to implement a system…
NFS Most Wanted (2005) would like a word with you…
I don’t think we can count the AUR repository as the “default package” because:
The issue here was that stenzek moved the emulator to a source-available license, which does not allow Arch to provide packages in their package repo. So people were using build instructions to build the emulator from source. And when that caused issues because something broke, people came to stenzek for support instead of the person maintaining the build instrucions.
This is nothing new. Before the steam deck came out, Handheld PCs have already been overpriced expensive. Other manufacturers haven’t bothered about affordability before, during ot after the steam deck.
That said, Gabe Newell said the steam deck was priced “painfully”, which means they probably had very low margins on the hardware and are making it back on sales on their store. Other manufacturers do not have that luxury.
Not frequent, but I do go back
“I can’t complain”
Wait, we are supossed to change hobbies? I just pick up new ones.
First of all:
I hope your health improves. While I tend to not read the entirety of your writeups, I always skim them and then read the details on topics that are interesting. It would be a shame to not find your posts on lemmy anymore, as I prefer the interaction over a microblogging service like mastodon.
as for your question
…have you picked up any games? What have you bought,
I have picked up:
Crash Bandicoot is at an all-time-low price, if you haven’t picked it up in a humblebundle years ago, now might be your chance.
Another game I can recommend is “Beyond: Two Souls”, which is available for 1,99€ on Steam. It’s a great story driven game, with multiple endings and great acting. You might also want to get “Detroit: Become Human”, a very similar title in terms of gameplay.
I used calibre with the dedrm plugin to strip all my kindle ebooks from DRM and converted them to epub.
I then jailbroke my kindle and installed koreader on it, ditching amazon completely. I am not buying books from amazon anymore, but I get my books exclusively drm-free as epubs.
Calibre, combined with koreader on my device, allows me to sync my ebooks wirelessly over WiFi at home.
What have you been playing
My usual games: Tetris Effect, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 (openRCT2), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
But also a few other games: Selfloss, Trans Neurotica and GTA V.
Allthough my Steam Deck will be out of service for a few days, I found a “spicy pillow” in my deck, have to wait for a replacement battery to show up :(
I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.
For them, it’s free money: