Clown pepe has beren used for hare, vyt all the other ones not really. It’s used in twitch widely just for the happy frog it is.

It’s a game inspired on a polish book made by a polish studio, which is the same company from GoG, the allegedly most ethical online game store.

I’d say that, as far as studios that can make a game this big, it’s one of the most appropriate ones for a game like this.

It’s been years since that oerk isnt a thing, 2.0 overhauled most of the gameplay.

Maybe don’t throw blanket statements about a game without even checking if they are applicable anymore?

Come on, a corpo slave employee not caring when Mr moneybags buys an expensive apartment is the most cyberpunk reaction ever.

Most of cyberpunk characters are incredibly well written tbh.

Endeavouros has a live bootable version which is just basically better Nobara in my humble opinion, you just need to install steam through pacman and for the most part you are good to go.

Android Firefox has access to adblockers though??

What’s wrong with these graphics? Is it supposed to be a high fidelity graphics game? These look good enough to drive a good gameplay. Idk about the game and you told nothing of the sort so I can’t give any opinion on it.

I went from newpipe to tubular since it comes with sponsorblock, but iirc the backend is the same.

No VPN or anything, it works great.

…I admit I didn’t do the math with the amount of bits they stated xD. Still, it’s like 10 times the amount of bits, you can get a stronger EC key with 5 times less bits compared to RSA.

… How about going for a EC key?? Staying with RSA is stupid at this point.

Bitwarden has a passkey service + a paid totp service, so I can always use either to log into whatever within two clicks. Yeah it’s less secure than a physical keychain but… Whatever, it’s better than passwords and as easy to use.

In any case, if you atore the backup codes in a place where you can lose them, that’s on you. Upload them into somewhere you control that has good privacy laws.

If you back up the folder of a steam installed game that doesn’t need steam to run, what’s the difference?

Owning the copy in a legal sense doesn’t affect most of the userbase tbh.

It’s all you said, but it’s also a product of it’s time. Iirc when it release there was an increasing amount of simulator games, and goat simulator pokes fun to all of those while having tons of silly references to the contemporary things.

The successors don’t have much of s point to me tbh.

It’s also not dependant on any DE tool and won’t fuck up with any update that resets gnome configs. Trusty cron will prevail.

With proper directory management I wouldn’t call it that inelegant tbh.

A bash script that checks the battery and if its below X runs shutdown -now ?

Then run it every minute with cron.

It’s not very elegant but it would work.

Yeah, as most 1st person view games it’s just less taxing in my hands. I agree that not being to half accelerate would feel bad, you would start drifting all the time and that would suck for control. Try using W as an acceleration button, not a “forward” button. If you see that you need to take a turn stop accelerating for a while and then S before you start turning, like with a car.

Bad cars don’t have good maneuverability is you full press the speeding stick, I imagine that that stick is an acceleration pedal and only full press it when I don’t need to do sharp turns. I would say that cars feel maybe too real.

Regarding your grim dawn complaint, did you not have enough level for augments? Augments and the crafted thingies you put on itels are what usually caps you until you reach suepr endgame in grim dawn. You don’t really need to be 100% capped anyway, I usually pick strong gear and augment/enchant it with resistances where I can to cap myself. The typical constellation paths also have resistances.

Dunno, I usually decide to lose that resistance and risk taking the damage and something else drops, it’s grim dawn, where most mobs die in 2 seconds and you can recover damage very fast.

You call them obfuscations, I call them fun. Having different ways to scale my killing machine is fun. having to design different and new ways to becoming a mowing machine is fun. I’m with you with the “endless progression” thing, that’s what I prefer from D2 and PoE, once you reach the top tier content there’s no infinite content.

Stardew doesn’t make you do NP-complete multi-knapsack-problems in order to even have a viable character

Oh come on, you don’t really need to optimize that much to have a viable character!

drown you in overly complex interactions so you can’t usefully plan in your head

You don’t plan for all, you just pick the ones that are useful. I enjoy using out of game tools to optimize my in game characters.

It manages to be fun without those things, but ARPGs seem to overwhelmingly rely on them in order to be engaging at all.

It’s a different kind of fun. Stardew is fun not really because of the farming gameplay loop, but the farming gameplay loop within a town with character interactions and tbh, I haven’t really finished all the content it offers because its simplicity bores me.

What you need to ask yourself is not how to remove those obfuscations, but what each game offers to the player. I assure you that neither SV, PoE, LE, GrimDawn, even D2 are designed to offer you the simple gameplay loop of “mowing the field of vegetables and monsters and getting the produce aka loot”. Stardew offers a chill experience with a simple gameplay loop so you don’t feel pressured into being good at it, alongside with a story around the townspeople and the farmer. D-clones offer a multi layered toolset with complex interactions to prepare better for the mowing, a big big part of the fun is in the preparation, for a lot of people the “mowing” process is more there to test the machine than to enjoy the game.

I honestly think that if you don’t like the layered design space that most ARPGs offer, it’s not your genre.