But counter to your point Steam has done a ton of pro-consumer moves since then…?

Gabe has been a billionaire a while now. Like $9.5B net worth with a yacht collection.

RJD2 is the shit honestly.

It’s the only real way to push back that other folks will notice if enough of us do it.

Last time I went through DC a few weeks ago they were using these. I saw a sign saying you’re welcome to opt out. Nobody even questioned what they were doing and were just going along. When it was my turn I politely said I’d rather not do the scan. Dude just glanced at my ID and waved me through. The next few folks behind me blinked and said they didn’t want the scan either. If enough people push back it can at least maybe slow down the normalization of constant surveillance.

Evochron, Dark Star One,X series (you may bounce off a few times but they’re extremely unique and deep games), older Elite titles, Freelancer!

To a lesser extent and a bit more survival crafty: Space Engineers or Empyrion with mods. Both have some additional community made content that adds stations/factions to progress against or for and are pretty good if a little janky.

It’s the pause in the flow of things to go get one and put it on plus difficulty finding the right size. Used em my entire life until my wife had an IUD put in. After a few ears she had it removed and going back to condoms was not super fun for either of us.

On the bright side for me, a vasectomy solved all these issues and was totally worth the minimal process to get it. This solution sounds like a dream honestly.

It really depends on what you want from your game. I happily spent hours in my lil hauler playing space trucker, and the only real thing that’s changed since then is I have access to bigger space trucks. I’ve been on a big exploration run for the last 80 or so hours of playtime and I’m enjoying being able to just relax and exist in my lil virtual spaceship. I don’t need to feel like a number goes up every session, but I’m a weirdo.

My buddies and I have been enjoying VintageStory for a while now.

Post 9/11 there were sweeping changes and a few high visibility hazing incidents that put a hard stop to that kind of bullshit. Not entirely a bad thing but I know what you mean.

You do use a riving knife still though…right?

Had a dude in my division on a US submarine like this. Stupidly gross. Ended up having a medical order that basically made him shower every day under supervision from our doc to ensure he bathed. Imagine the dude you mentioned but enclosed in a metal tube under the ocean for months at a time.

It IS cool, and I will die on this hill before I let these places tarnish the style!

Neat, will do!

The choice is made for me as a 2nd class Linux user lol

Text loads, it just requires a login. 🤷‍♂️

“…cross their legs…” 😱

Agreed. Like anything else though, I guess we choose between privacy and ease of use these days.

At the risk of being That Guy, Linux has come a long way for gaming and distros won’t pull this crap. Just sayin.

Cyberpunk flat out is unplayable with an NVidia card right now, just FYI. They broke something with the 2.0 update.

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