It’s a cake, so yeah!

Steam games do not need DRM to be sold there - the publishers chose to have it if it exists. Many can be run from the .exe without going through Steam.

The average age of people who play video games is 36-41. Most are not children.

True, this definitely feels like the end of the post-WWII era.

“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.”

In retrospect, that era being the “peak of our civilization” seems depressingly accurate…

2010

I was thinking, “Surely they’re older than that?” The ads ran from 2006-2009, according to what I found online. So not much older!

I miss being able to physically browse movies and rent video games, but that’s about it.

The American Schutzstaffel, or ASS.

It’s a regeneration table.

Shame the LCD was discontinued, though. $550’s a large ask for the “budget” option.

It’s the first syllable, but “k” and “o” are two separate sounds. “J” and “a” are as well. The “c” and “h” in “China” are not separate sounds.

Because “ch” is the first sound in the word.

Beautiful craftsmanship!

Shouldn’t it be chrap?

So Korean rap is krap?

Let’s see if I can remember all their games I’ve actually paid for…

Warcraft II and Beyond the Dark Portal

Warcraft III (I can’t remember if I bought Frozen Throne or not, but I certainly played it)

Then a long stretch until Diablo III for PS3, Switch, and PS4

Diablo II Remake, PS5

Diablo IV and Vessel of Hatred, PS5

Everything else I either played someone else’s copy or pirated it.