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Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries.
  • There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

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    Can i talk with a person who passed away ?
  • If I tell you I'm your god and you should give me all your money or you won't go to heaven, you will rightly call me a liar, even though you can't really prove that I'm not.

    You won't say "oh I guess there's no way to prove he's not god, so I'd better give him my money".

    In science, the default stance on something existing is that it doesn't, unless there's solid proof, or at least a compelling scientific theory suggesting that it does.

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    Steam is a ticking time bomb
  • Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

    More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

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    What does 'eat the rich' mean to you?
  • That's why we need a remodel of the economy to go along with it. The only way to stop the creation of more "rich" is to get rid of capitalism altogether.

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    Treedome 0.4.5 is out: Encrypted, Local First, Note Taking App
  • How does this compare to Joplin?

    Is there, or will there be a self-hostable server to sync notes between devices?

    And does it support Markdown?

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    Dragon's Dogma 2 mods negate the need for microtransactions on PC
  • A step in the right direction would be no pointless MTX, as plenty of other games are doing right now. There are no microtransactions in my copy of Days Gone, for example. Nor are there any in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

    And even if it's the popular thing to do, that is not an excuse to let them get an inch. "Oh, but he only beat you a little!"...

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    Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life?
  • One reason is the more you're forced to work, the less energy, and, more importantly, time you have for preparing healthy meals. Therefore you're more likely to go with preprocessed, prepackaged meals or straight fast food which will make you fat fast.

    I've got a relatively cushy job and cook my own, relatively healthy meals but even I find myself going for that store-bought pizza when I have a particularly busy week.

    Moreover, unhealthy, preprocessed meals are basically drugs in terms of the dopamine hit, so you're more likely to go for them if your life sucks and you're sad about it.

    Add to that the lack of education on healthy eating, which I'd bet is easier to come by when you're at least middle class and bam, you're a fat poor person.

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    Software people, how do you do releases?
  • We deploy to production with every single commit, but releases are behind feature flags.

    When we're ready to release a feature, we just toggle a flag and we're done.

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  • Some time ago I bought a physical copy of Rat Attack for PC, because I had fond memories of playing it on a Playstation Demo Disk.

    Unfortunately, while the game itself technically works, after I get past the first "chapter" ("House"), I get a message saying "You need to download the next part of this game to continue. Visit the Freeloader web site? Press OK or Cancel to exit the game".

    Pressing OK does nothing, while Cancel does indeed exit the game. Looking at the game files it seems that all of the files are there (I can see the files for the other levels and they seem to have the same size as the one that loads correctly).

    Freeloader no longer seems to exist and even searching sites like myabandonware turns up empty for this game. Am I screwed and this game is lost media now, or is there anything I can do to get it to run past the first couple of levels?

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    Hello!

    I have to RMA my Steam Deck (one of thumbsticks grinds against the plastic case) and I'm trying to backup my non-Steam games (and their Lutris configs).

    Apparently Discovery uses flatpak, so Lutris config files aren't where the internet says they are (~/.config/lutris/games/, ~/.config/lutris/system.yml, ~/.local/share/lutris/pga.db).

    Could anyone please tell me where I can find these on the Steam Deck and what else I might be missing? I've already backed up ~/Games but I'd rather not have to re-add the games manually :(

    Bonus question is if anyone has any tips for painless Steam Deck backup/restore :)

    EDIT:

    After a long search, I was able to find it. If anyone else is wondering, the Flatpak/Steam Deck Lutris config files are located in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/config/lutris.

    For some reason, Lutris-installed native Linux games also treat ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/ as their home folder (e.g. Stardew Valley stores its saves in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/.config/StardewValley instead of ~/.config/StardewValley).

    If anyone can say why this happens, that would be very appreciated!

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