I haven’t been a Ubuntu guy in a long time, but Canonical consistently designs the best wallpapers for their releases.

I already spend an hour of troubleshooting a bunch of problems trying to play modern games on Windows 10/11

There’s nothing saved on my system I couldn’t afford to lose. All my work stuff is saved in Google Drive for better or worse. I have a few small files in a personal Proton Drive that I backup manually. I wipe my own system a few times a year and I rarely ever save anything first. Honestly very refreshing to live your life like that. Other than my cat, pretty much all my possessions could disappear tomorrow and I’d get over it pretty quickly.

Buzzword spaghetti.

I imagine he still owns plenty of Apple stock so he might tell you to buy Apple just because of that lol.

I think cloud gaming is their solution to gaming on Linux. In which case, yuck.

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The videos only being 6 seconds long really helped with the appeal.

Totally agree with most of what you said. Trust me, I’m ready for a new Civ game. Just don’t feel like getting gouged especially for a series that routinely goes on deep sales.

I would’ve bought it day 1 assuming reviews come back okay, but I refuse to ever spend $70 on a base game. I’ll wait for a sale if that’s what they’re charging.

There’s no Clash of Clans style micro transactions if that’s what you’re concerned about. There’s not pay to win. The in-app purchases are just for more content. The Anthology bundle should include everything from what I can tell.

I don’t think Nintendo will ever do it. Goes against their most basic philosophy.

Mastodon has to be one of the most heavily moderated social media apps I’ve ever used. I’m sure it depends on the instance, but that’s kind of the nature of open source. Anyone can use the technology to post what they want. That’s why defederation exists. In what way would you want it to be even more moderated?

That bad, huh?

Haven’t seen anyone mention the biggest deal breaker with these for me. The thermal and dust management is truly awful. They tend to overheat and collect dust super easily. You’re lucky if you get 4 years out of these things before they burn themselves out. And guess what? Barely repairable to boot.

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.

That sounds very wholesome. My friends just talk about their kids or about how we never talk anymore.

Feel like I’m the only one surprised by this. I play games quite often, but I’ve never watched the Game Awards. I’m barely even aware that it exists. Never heard anyone in real life mention it.

I like the game overall, but the criticisms are definitely legitimate. The dialogue is so overwhelmingly cringy sometimes and that’s coming from someone who just beat the new Life is Strange. For some people, including me, that’s not a dealbreaker and the rest of the game is pretty solid. For others, this is understandably too distracting to make it worth playing.

Edit: before I get accused of not playing the games, see screenshots below.

Reminds me of ESO a little bit.