Multiple leviathan class creatures detected…are you sure what you’re doing is worth it?

My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:

Ori and the Blind Forest

and

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.

It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to replay again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.

It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.

Krafton is paying out $3 for every $1 earned. They made a shit deal.

Heh

I use GeoIP restrictions on WAN and use a TLS offload on a load balancer in front. Problem is the older members in my family look at me weird when I give them a URL, username, and password. They just ask if they can use their Apple or Google account “like we do with Plex”. So…for now Plex stays.

Jellyfin is great and I run both. However, sharing access with family is a PITA compared to Plex. I paid for Plex Pass lifetime at the $75 and have no reason to fully move. Keeping Jellyfin around in case Plex tries to rug pull lifetime passes, though.

Temptation intensifies

Well it’s usually cheaper during early access. I got the game for $32, so you could just grab it and then wait for full release.

I’m never usually an early access person, but Unknown Worlds has a proven track record. They’ve released two games from early access after a very open development period. Plus they fuck over Krafton if it sells well, so win win IMHO.

Yeah I own Destiny 2, but when I converted to Linux, I stopped playing it. It wasn’t good enough to dual boot for one game.

I’ve gotten my money’s worth out of the $74.99 I paid for Plex Pass Lifetime several years ago. If they ever get rid of my Plex Pass and try to say “Lifetime didn’t actually mean Lifetime”, I’ll be gone.

My Xbox 360 RRoD’ed on me twice.

It also had its disc drive die THE DAY I got Skyrim on release after waiting in line for it.

I spent the next several hours learning how to flash the firmware of a broken RRoD’ed Xbox 360 so that I could replace my drive with its parts.

It was simultaneously the best and worst console I ever owned:

Best because I have a lot of fond memories playing Halo 3 multiplayer, Skyrim, etc. with my friends in my college apartment we all shared.

Worst because it was an unreliable piece of shit.

That’s the fun part…

Kind of. Game Freak isn’t a subsidiary of Nintendo, but they work VERY closely together to the point that Nintendo has a lot of say.

I mean…Zelda ToTK was basically “BotW, but better and with Garry’s Mod”.

Almost every Pokemon game has been the same formula, but with a few new things sprinkled in. Legends Arceus was one of the biggest departures in recent memory, but it was still a lot of the same, but 3D open world.

Mario Kart is 80% the same with maybe double carts, flying mechanics, etc. added in. This time they added a kinda sorta open world.

They change the formula a bit, but their innovation is usually leaving the base that works alone and adding a flavor packet.

Nintendo has had very few original ideas in a long time. They know they can just keep churning out remakes and sequels to their franchise library of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Starfox, Pokemon, etc. and keep raking in the cash, so why change the formula?

People buy this shit, so there is no motivation to do anything else.

[EDIT]

Wow. A lot of Nintendo fans really don’t like me saying this, apparently.

I mean…they could just make electric engines. Ya know…motors. Something they ALREADY MAKE for hybrid vehicles.

I’ve been playing Mechwarrior games since I was a kid playing MW2 Mercs. I’m a certified “Mech Dad” now.

I’m not sure which one I have more hours in, but it’s either Mechwarrior Online or the Mass Effect trilogy.

Probably. I haven’t looked that deep. I only know that Steam Flatpak asks me to install the steam-devices package from my distro for device support until I do.