Not enough for me.

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To Be clear, I have a medical intolerance to heat. Its not about comfort.

Literally the only thing that would prevent me from saying yes is the lack of air conditioning.

I can not tolerate the heat, at all

Steam not only makes the experience better for customers, but the 30% developers pay to be on steam provides such a massive return on investment for pretty much everyone that isnt releasing scam games or are idiots alienating their customer base.

and steam reinvests it in shit like proton, expanding markets and customer bases for everyone selling on steam without any work for them.

Theres an absolute lot you can validly go after steam for, and absolutely should… because no one should fanboy any company. Every company should be held to account.

But this monopoly shit? It just sounds like some pissant tiny dev trying to punch up to make a name for itself, since it cant do it via its games.

The main reason I am pretty much exclusively on steam now, is because every other fucking digital distribution platform I used shut down and I lost access to every fucking thing I bought with no refund or compensation… Just because steam survives and doesnt fuck me up the ass, doesnt mean its a monopoly. Steam isnt responsible for destroying its competition.

Its a real thing.

Google entered heavy enshittification stage and honestly… it’s sad to watch.

google has been in heavy enshittification for going on a decade now.

Honestly you could make the argument that its been on the enshittification slide since they tried to expand out from just being a search engine company.

yeah. but that would depend on me remembering what version i last played on🤷.

oh well, time to hop in the cab and drive through a beautiful world I cant look at because taking my eyes off the road for 3 seconds will result in me rolling sideways down the highway lol

yeah, and i always come back just after a patch that cancels all my contracts and erase all my roads driven and jobsites discovered :\

ah goddamnit… now I gotta reinstall one of the truck simulators, don’t I?

shit… I was in the middle of playing something else, too.

East bound and down, loaded up and truckin…

If you like 4x games, I would suggest X3:Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude from Egosoft. Its older, so wont be a burden,(CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT) and probably the last good game from egosoft (/CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT)

Space game set in a huge world with multiple factions and in a breathing world that can and does change with time with or without your actions… hundreds of hours of gameplay, with options for building your own empire… and its got a huge modding scene that can make it even more alive.

Once you start getting your personal economy going, you can take a more macro chill approach to the game, you can sit in a mothership issuing fleet commands and letting the AI handle everything, or you can get right into the cockpit of a corvette/fighter and dogfight yourself. While building massive station complexes to produce goods to sell and generate funds with… or to build your own ships and fleets with.

making an IT professional scratch their head and go “What the… how…?!” is almost a badge of honor.

Yep. I’ve had so many digital CDs and game downloads I’ve bought on Amazon (not recently, long time ago), and amazon basically went “Welp, we’re not carrying this shit anymore, fuck you its gone” so all the games I paid for, gone and can no longer access.

All the music I paid for, gone and can no longer access.

Digital downloads are a scam, digital goods are not owned goods as long as you need to have someone elses server be accessed in the process.

There has to come a point with this shit where you just roll your eyes and blame the people who were dumb enough to invest in this shit, again.

Hell, this isnt even the first time Amazon has taken away games you purchased on Amazon.

Don’t worry, for just 50 dollars a month you can subscribe to the basic peasant tier version of GeForce NOW that entitles you to a whopping 4 hours of game play per month, as long as its played between the hours of 3am and 4am local time.

Thats has hardware thats 4+ years out of date, and was already long since showing its age with running newer released stuff.

Its a neat device, but its… at this point… an old neat device.

Same reason scalpers struggled to keep stock of cards being sold at 4x the price during covid, which directly lead to nvidia and AMD skyrocketing prices the second stock stabilized.

The world is full of idiots who have more money than sense, who make terrible decisions with no thought of the consequences or ramifications.

thats less of a USB issue and more of a cheap ass knockoff manufacturer issue.

by putting them out of his misery.

on a totally unrelated topic, but harbor freight is a great place to get affordable tools.

Looks like it’d be a great way to play the same save and keep progress between my retropie, my modded n3dsxl, and my PC.

if only i wasnt too lazy to set it up.