Why is this even an issue for you? Just play it like SP without thinking about online factor. Maybe you will stumble upon some player after a month of playing, giving you a proper “holy fucking shit” moment, but realistically why even think about it and why turn it into a turnoff?

I’m almost thru the game and I did not notice any sexual conducts with minors

EDIT: Btw. Something that I thought was only done for screenshots, but the nudity in-game is censored/pixelated.

Did it not work tho? This was my first itch.io purchase ever

Is moving to ARM architecture anti-user? They easily accomplished the (correct me if I’m wrong) best energy efficiency between all available laptops in the market. Granted, it was never marketed for gaming.

To be fair they did move to a completely different CPU architecture and ARM is a hit or miss in gaming. Some games are fine, but then there are ones like Minecraft that ran better on my 10 year old Intel than on a top of the line M processor

Windowed borderless mode

Do you not know how DLSS works? I almost never find sacrificing clarity for FPS an improvement

Epic is on track to becoming a google play store

“This could have been an email”

Escape from Tarkov, but single player (SPTarkov, not the paid upgrade). Lots of controversy surrounding the game, but I quite enjoy it playing at my own pace and difficulty

Ahh yes, the “army of 10 from future is invading army of 100 who have WW2 weapons”

It’s battlefield but for single player. Even the name is similar.

Having a third party updater attached to a kernel that could be hacked or tampered by malicious worker at any time (see Crowdstrike) seems riskier than just running teams, but fair point

Interesting. Pretty much no cheat developer is making cheats for Linux as far as I can see it. Tried googling for some and could not find any

Did you just make this up?

30% cut from developers. Steam machine. Valve is working together with anticheat devs on this, not alone

It affects only the most cancerous type of anticheat that’s been bypassed for a decade and introduces huge risks to your PC - Kernel level anticheat. People should stop playing any game that has such anticheat.

Personally, if I can’t recommend anything specific, I just recommend nord series to anyone. I’ve also used it myself and the few people that bought it were quite happy.

Do note that it’s a mid-range phone, there are definitely better phones, but for the price they’re pretty much perfect

I keep hearing about oneplus 15 being too hot, which is never a good sign when you want your battery to last

Attack?

Definitely Kenshi. Rather old title where the world feels somewhat desolated, but so well thought out at the same time. Every place has a story behind it

How is device support? Direct drive steering wheels, gamepad, VR, status LED or info displays (ie. Making your keyboard glow red on low health) and bunch of other things like my Sound Blaster G6

Rockstar: Abandoning and cancelling GTA V (single player) expansions and purely focused on milking online for pay2win. I’m not hyped for 6.

EDIT: The worst part - declaring war against modding community because it affected their online sales (since people enjoyed playing modded singleplayer). It backfired, badly, but they still went for it.

That’s mario

Imagine the games they could have made using that money. Potentially would make said company even bigger than EA. The budget allows for 25x GTA VI

This isn’t a problem. For the first time in a very long time, I actually have a queue of games I want to play and din’t just mindlessly scroll steam store or wait for big releases. In fact, I no longer follow game releases, there is something at any given time I can find to play

Premium gamer spotted

I mean, there is another good reason - privacy. Bitcoin is hardly private, which is the reason even dark web stopped using it and moved to privacy coins.

Bitcoin is the one that’s useless. It was the first crypto using very inefficient methods that don’t scale well, resulting in extremly high fees, times and power consumption, which equals to consumption of entire AI industry

Pretty much all of tech will see this price bump because of Trump

What’s even crazier is that I saw methods on bypassing kernel level anticheats 5 years ago. The BF6 kernel level anticheat was bypassed in the first hours of beta.

It seems wildly dangerous for the almost no effect it brings to the table when it comes to cheat sellers.

EDIT: IMO the future are AI anticheats, something to similar in what we sas in Battlefield 4. It doesn’t stand on your PC, it analyzes your playing behaviour on server side and bans you if you’re sus. I’m not talking about LLMs, but deep learning anti-cheat.

I sometimes forget GenZ are now adults. Some now do porn.

I mean, NSFW games have always been very mediocre. Most of them aren’t even real games, but interactive novel

https://infosec.pub/comment/17258261

https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content

https://support.stripe.com/questions/prohibited-and-restricted-businesses-list-faqs

https://www.thegamer.com/steam-gaming-industry-visa-payment-processors-adult-games-banned/ (scroll down to Visa’s statement)

Another side note - If it was Visa/MS themselves, they could not switch to other payment processor as all card payment processors work with visa/ms.

Steam is awfully silent, but that’s pretty normal of Gabe, transparency has never really been the strong side for Valve. Then again, steam never mentioned Visa/MS. In fact, they never mentioned any company names, only itch dared to do that, but seeing as both got hit at the same time, you don’t need to be a genius to figure out steam has likely the same problem as itch.io

UPDATE: Valve finally responded. MS now clearly looks complicit in this. There is some serious chain of blame game going, the whole thing seems rotten. What’s seriously worrysome about this is rule 5.12.7 mentions mutilation of a person or body parts, which would potentially also put many shooter games under the ban. Still unclear where Visa stands in this and if they’re involved.

https://kotaku.com/mastercard-denies-pressuring-steam-to-censor-nsfw-games-2000614393

Apparently payment processor. Singular. Stripe. Visa/MS never changed it’s policy and still allows NSFW content, they’re not even a payment processor. It feels a bit bonkers now that internet bombed them when they weren’t even involved with this mess and it was just Stripe. On the bright side, itch.io already announced they’re ditching them and are in talks with other payment processors.

Uhh, I don’t think ancient roman is a good example, unless barbarism, constant expansionism, slavery and patriarchy is your thing, and I’m skipping over a lot of other fucked up shit like forced sex based on status quo. While their culture was indeed rich, they were far from being an example country.

EDIT: Even carthage, the country rome destroyed, would be a better example.

This somehow caught me off guard. How is a world where you have to walk many hours from point A to point B is too small for you? Can you even realistically explore it all?

This made me think. For an European, are there any good alternatives to Visa/Mastercard/Paypal? Seems like we’re dependent on US payment systems

“You should stop reading books and just listen to random internet strangers” is definitely a take