Nice try, CIA, nice try. You’ll never catch me.

*Windows XP.

I hope we’re talking about that Linus, and not that Linus. You know, the one that works with computers, and not the other one that works with computers.

How do you tell stories without reasoning in the first place?

You don’t.

It’s just not possible.

Everything else just gets layered on over the years.

There’s basically no difference between Reddit and Lemmy as far as quality is concerned.

There are still dumb takes and braindead moderators on here.

What sets Lemmy apart is that the platform itself isn’t enshittified with NFTs and ridiculous API prices.

“Gmod and roblox”… My brother in videogames, this is literally LEGO.

Would certainly recommend Drive: Rally for a fun, easy to pick up and put down arcade rally game.

I have it on my Steam Deck. Works well on it.

Doing the boycott “right” means not paying money. Corpos think each pirated copy is a loss. That’s how they explain it to their investors too:

“Look at all this money we’re not making because of those damn dirty pirates!”

What if I’m on the table telling the truth?

That’s just one case of professional laziness in an entire ocean of medical horror stories caused by the same.

Well… Piracy it is, then.

You can literally get that sleek glassy look on Linux too.

Ridiculous excess. Probably also has three times the ingredients.

Tem Tem is way closer to being a proper Pokemon game and has been on Steam for years.

Steam engines.

The vast majority of our power comes from making something really hot and boiling water. Coal plant? Oil plant? Gas plant? Nuclear fission plant? Geothermal plant? The grand holy grail of energy production that would be a nuclear fusion plant? All steam engines.

Yes, unbeknownst to everyone, this is what a steampunk society realistically looks like.

The rest of this month.

I know. I like online content as well. Some of the games I spent the most hours in (Warframe, Helldivers 2) are these kinds of games. But if a corpo lobbying group is forcing the choice between “Enshittified always online” or “never any online content ever anymore” I’ll choose the latter.

Yeah, that’s weird. They should be written in Klingonese.

… as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist…

There are third party options for this.

… and would leave rights holders liable.

Liable for what? A service everyone knows they’re no longer providing? Are car manufacturers still liable for 50 year old rusty cars people still drive? Can Apple today be held liable for a software vulnerability in the Lisa or the Mac II?

In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

Then don’t design games that way. Don’t make games like these. This is good news, actually.