Play a match of Valorant.

No, thank you. No Chinese spyware on my home PC.

You can say ‘Cosmetics don’t matter!’ but the astronomical sales of cosmetic items pretty much proves that to the majority of players, that is not the case.

Is it a majority of players or a minority that pays unsustainable sums?

TF2 didn’t even have microtransactions until 2010, and it both pretty much invented them

Many years ago, when I still read printed video game magazines, there was a story about microtransactions in Korean or Chinese games. I clearly remember how baffled I was after learning of that super weird and stupid concept.

Shit started hitting the fan when everyone started faking Netscape’s “Mozilla” user agent. Then “KHTML, like Gecko” and after that every fork kept the originating name in the string and extended it.

There was no way Germany could have “won” anyway, unless it resulted in literally conquering the entire world. They were in a state of constant “mission creep” (to use a modern term). Early it was “retake the land we lost in the first war”, then it was “Lebensraum im Osten”, then Africa, the entire Soviet Union, etc.

Took them long enough. That was how they did Android releases forever. Never understood why they couldn’t make PC releases the same way.

The ONLY problem I have had with this, is the controller on the system itself defaults as controller 1, so SOME games it takes a little fiddling to use different controllers. But I have done this and it works great.

I don’t know if you’re talking about in-game fiddling or Steam Input but to clarify for others here: Steam allows to reorder the controllers, so the thing I usually do at the beginning of game party is to move the Deck’s integrated inputs to the last place.

Do you think those four people make a noticeable difference?

Because in the minds of suits live service games are meant to be played forever.

As far as I can tell, his administration isn’t so bad overall (granted, compared to children in cages this is a low bar to cross). It’s not like he does every single job personally.

Considering that Biden’s main competitor is an actual neonazi and the USA have an undemocratic election system that disadvantages all but two parties, there’s pretty much no choice but the senile grandpa who’s not a neonazi.

Helps if you put the first definition as well. I would think that the use of the word as a glance is more common than male goose.

As a non-native speaker, I wasn’t aware of that second definition either but then I simply looked it up.

But Mario + Rabbids

Take a gender at this*

No, it’s a play on words as is.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gander

British politics are funnier anyway.

I’m not sure what a “music jukebox” is, and how it’s different from a music player, but I would recommend to try mpd.

A jukebox lets several people add a song to the playlist and yes, mpd is a solution for that where every event attendant could install a client on their phone.

They better not switch date to MM-DD-YYYY format.

4th of July 2024.

Nothing is more patriotically American than Day Month Year.

What I was trying to say was that I’m happy to be free of Microsoft’s ability to just sunset an operating system version that I liked and replace it

I figure you weren’t a Gnome user during the 2.x to 3.x transition times.

Nobara is at least under my control in a significant way.

Yes but also Nobara isn’t an LTS distribution. Its versions get sunset way sooner than any major release of Windows.

I’m so happy to be able to end my reliance on Microsoft.

Microsoft is a frequent contributor to core Linux technologies these days. Lennart Poettering to Microsoft has probably been the most prominent move but there are others that work on Azure Linux and WSL who also upstream their work.

Now Ubuntu is Ubuntu without the fuss

Ubuntu is a trojan horse for Snap.