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yeah wouldn’t have to hear from my offshore contractors anymore…it’d be nice.

yup. God knows how many Dreamcast games I’ve had to toss and reburn over the years.

yeah I remember that one. another great “cringe” moment was from a few years prior when someone was speed running one of the Zelda games and this woman who had been on stream in the audience the entire time knitting asked the runner to “pause the game” so she could tell her story about something regarding cancer or whatever.

Balatro and Manual Samuel were my favourites. had to mute the Pizza Tower run because it was a shame the guy sitting on the couch kept insisting on talking over everyone, even the dev of the damn game.

Also as a side note I don’t know who the marketing team is for GDQ but man they need to hire a new one and have for a while now. It seems like a constant thing where people are like “oh I didn’t know it was on” they hardly advertise the thing even when you’re subscribed. the only reason I knew it started last weekend was because I sub to the youtube channel. that’s it. and even then there was no videos advertising the start of it just them showing up in my live feed, that’s it.

Also seriously peoples motivations for donating should not be just to have their donation read on stream. we don’t need to read EVERY SINGLE DONATION that comes in. I know most won’t agree with me on this but years and years of “greetings from Germany” is getting old. it was old 5 years ago.

they’ve already had this for a bit with WWE on netflix.

It’s just cable with Tivo. you can pause, rewind, all crap. WWE was the test case (it’s like the TV version of the porn industry) so now they’ll woo over other cable networks and sporting events. And then…oh you got cable without having to buy a tivo box. on the bright side, it’ll make pirating and restreaming live sports a heck of alot easier.

I’d argue since the beginning not just 20 years.

without id, gaming as we know it wouldn’t exist today. FPS games, competitive shooters, hell even Valve itself likely wouldn’t exist without id software. goes even beyond that. you could even go as deep as the modding community and all the games that have come from that. the majority of modders got their start with id games. Many rockstar game devs got their start at id or via an id product.

they really don’t though, especially developers. doing dev work on NixOS for example is like night and day compared to everything else. I can’t imagine now not getting work done without NixOS. flakes and stuff just make every build so incredibly easy and because of which no matter where I put the thing I know it’s going to work.

Even gaming, outside of a few games, works flawlessly. Hell even pirating now works fairly well. Emulation too. I can pick which cores I want via my gaming nix module and it’s all good to go. it’s great.

AOL was sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5 billion in 2025. The business still generates about $633 million a year through ads and membership subscriptions for services such as malware protection and tech support, the Times reported.

As someone who did AOL Tech Support way back in the early 00s this does not surprise me at all. Hell it wouldn’t surprise me if a few of those customers are still paying for dialup without even knowing it. We’d get calls like that all the time. We’d also get calls all the time for tech issues not even related to AOL. We had to stay on the line with them regardless. so they’d mention some easy to fix AOL issue AND THEN dive into the REAL reason they were calling…and we had to tech support it, even our tools supported it. was a nightmare/horrible job.

I swear these ai ceos are one trick ponies. again with this marketing of doom and gloom Anthrophic? really?

“Greetings from Germany…” ah yeas the bi-yearly reminder that the Germans do in fact exist and have access to the internet in their mystical land.

ASUS ROG Strix laptops enter the chat.

“huh it randomly rebooted and won’t post…ok i’ll turn it off for 15min or so…oh it’s working again.”

few months later

“huh these false reboots are happening more frequently now and now it’s taking an hour or more before it’ll post again…still works though!”

few months later

“the mobo cooked itself.”

Don’t buy ASUS laptops kids. you’ll be lucky, extremely lucky, if you get 4 to 5 years out of it.

yes! the maps were awesome. Or some other stuff you’d get with the game. Like with the first Max Payne you got a really cool mousepad. used that thing for years. Also had one that I believe came with Star Wars Rebel Assault.

do it. I don’t care about the practicality of it all I loved those big boxes. But they also need to have the big manuals inside also.

Some of those manuals were absolutely awesome. Like the one for the first Heavy Gear. or the old flight sim games. Or like the original release of Final Fantasy 7 on PC by Edios came with a brady’s strategy guide. Heck bring back strategy guides too! I remember when World of Warcraft first came out I picked up the strategy guide with it cause it was full of WoW related Penny-Arcade comics in it and I was (heck still am) a massive fan of Penny-Arcade.

they cost about the same though. An Asus slim external 8x DVD usb 2.0 writer costs $50. a 256gb thumb drive costs $50. And i’m using 256GB as an example for modern games that can potentially be well over 100gb. Add to the fact said DVD drive is going to last a lot longer than a USB thumb drive. those thumb drives have a lifespan of like 5 years.

also what few people are acknowledging is what happens when the PS7 is released and womp womp it’s not backwards compatible with PS6 software? so your entire library of PS6 games will just vanish. OR you hold onto that PS6 for as long as possible but eventually Sony will shut the servers off for that hardware. OR (and what likely WILL happen) is those PS6 games you bought will be “upgraded” for the PS7 and you’ll have to buy them all over again. THIS is also likely the reason why Sony decided to stop selling first party single player titles on Steam. They’ve been planning this for a long time now.

It’s not a matter of IF you lose those games but simply WHEN.

eventually but that will likely be long after most of us are dead. old consoles and carts are built like a brick house and most of them are repairable even games that have batteries. Just look at the N64 for example. that thing is like the Toyata truck of consoles.

indeed. I’ll admit I used to frequently use fitgirl and dodi repacks but dodi retired and for whatever reason i can never get fitgirls stuff to work anymore on Linux. Steam it just works.

man just release another better version of the PSP/Vita. those things were awesome.

yeah no. one of the reasons plumbers or electricians generally do well is because their field isn’t saturated with plumbers and electricians. hundreds of thousands of each means salaries of said jobs will go down. thus nothing changes. Add to the fact both jobs A. require trade schooling and B. apprenticeships. Also they’re pretty much all unionized which you also have to get into. it would never fly, it could never fly unless you do away with trade schools, apprenticeships, and unions which leaves you with unqualified under paid plumbers and electricians.

This fucking leather jacket wearing mouth breather needs a strong reality check. preferably one that adds another hole to his head.

My guy, you’ve redeemed yourselves.

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of my all time favourite games and the expansion was incredible. I replay it all on a yearly basis with different builds. I do EVERYTHING in the game. it’s the only game I 100% every time. It’s a game I just don’t want to end and I avoid going to Embers like the plague every time. You grow attached to the characters (minus River). One of my favourite missions if not my most favourite one is “Pyramid Song” where you go to Julies old town that is now at the bottom of a lake. it’s beautiful. then when you get out you’re sitting at the dock with her and she tells you she’s leaving. and then…you just leave an the way it’s designed where its’ a long road to that dock you can walk away and then look back and she’s still there sitting at the dock and it’s absolutely beautiful, it’s so cinematic and it tears me up every time. I don’t want her to go.

The way Johnny starts out as a total prick and by the end I honestly don’t want him to go either, I feel bad that he’s stuck in my head and we’re both dying as a result.

it’s an emotional roller coaster of a game. it’s awesome. one of the best.