The whole point of my favorite games, especially the single player versions, is the escapism. The “I do not want to think about the current world or its problems”. You start throwing ads in the game, that aspect is completely removed. I will never play a game that has this in it. Walking through Tamriel and some fucking beverage or mobile game pops up and I’m gonna fire bomb some game execs million dollar house.
Yeah exactly.
Digital games are fine as long as I have to ability to trade and sell. That’s the only thing physical media gave me that I cared about.
I love Skyrim. I really do. But my problem with Skyrim is (and I totally realize this is my own doing), is I have purchased it so many many times… Xbox360 (x3)
Xbox One (x2)
Steam (x3)
Switch
PS4 (regular and VR)
PS5 (I think this might have been a special edition)
And I’m not even counting the DLCs
Now these all weren’t just for me or so I could have a copy at my girlfriends house so not sure that would count. But I’d be scared to count how much money I’ve thrown at Todd.
I have tried so hard to like Returnal. But the constant starting completely over EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME just gets so old.
Yeah I totally missed that.
Well TIL … I subscribed to the first two but the last one didn’t work for some reason.
One think I miss from reddit… /r/datahoarder
These were my people. I probably have 100TB but it certainly isn’t in my home directory. I’m not sure if I should be immpressed or freightened.
Until you can’t download it anymore.
The “retro” gaming market is going to absolutely suck in 30 years because you don’t “own” anything.
Does it matter if you are? As long as you are having fun and enjoying yourself.
But oof… the game crashing and 10 minute load times. Either that game is horribly optimized or you got something wrong with your machine.
I have seen the temporary->permanent happen so many times even in enterprise IT.
I’m not a windows hater per se, but I am for using the best tool for the job.
And in my opinion windows is not the best tool for self hosting. There are things windows does work well for that meshes well with self hosting and that’s docker. Honestly I’d focus on that for a lot of reasons but primarily because it’s a very easy to deploy self contained way to provide services. And the differences between docker on windows and Linux is almost negligible.
This probably doesn’t help you much right now but I have a QNAP as well. And I too despise the QTS software. But I found out that TrueNAS can run on it pretty easily. I have an NVME drive on a usb-c enclosure that I installed trueNAS on and it boots fine into it. If I ever wanna go back it’s just a remove the boot drive and reformat (the ZFS pools are compatible unfortunately).
I lost an entire semester of college due to UFO: Enemy Unknown (a.k.a. X-COM: UFO Defense). This was in ‘94. I really need to go look at the later games. But man I loved that game.
Well in his defense, that language was sorta AI generated. Very glad the project isn’t. This looks like something I’m very interested in.
I’m 55 and I share the sentiment. The difference is I’ve been in IT for 30+ years and I still get giddy when I’m setting somewhere and can access my own servers that I run.
Isn’t that the good thing about a laptop … essentially built in UPS?
It’s all about time management. I have lots of requests from family/friends that I don’t want to have to do lots of work on. My stuff I want I tinker with. I’ll transcode and optimize and make sure the naming is what I want. Other stuff… don’t care. If it’s watchable it’s fine.
It is. Cops are bored that time of night so anything like this gets blown outta proportion
Certain games this might be ok in, depending on the game. I mean say like in games like Cyberpunk and there are ads everywhere. It’s part of the world. Maybe that. But some ancient fantasy game, fuck no.