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It’s a consequence of retail. Because carriers in the US determine which phones most of us can access, with the exit of LG from the market the Android landscape in the US was effectively reduced to Samsung. Other manufacturers may as well not exist for all the average shopper is led to believe – the brick and mortar store where you pick out your phone gives you two options: iPhone or Samsung.

Certain markets too, perhaps. I’m in the US with an A32 because I’ve just flat-out stopped paying for flagships, and I haven’t seen any junk in the most recent update.

Yes goddammit, now let’s do it again

In that you aren’t simply pirating the stuff because Adobe’s cracked to hell and back? Makes you an outlier I’d bet, but it’s not weird.

What exactly does Sabbath mode do? Is it like a burst of deep freeze so the appliance can power down Fri-Sat and stay cold, or what?

Asking as a renter with Sabbath mode on the fridge in my apartment.

Not a Skyrim modder, I take it

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I think the peaceful vs chaotic option in Dishonored can make sinking into it a little less straightforward than the others, kind of like Deus Ex – except Deus Ex is a more complete espionage experience than Dishonored, where non-violence is sort of just a roleplay choice.

I say go high chaos, even if it feels like the game de-incentivizes it, and just enjoy it as a shooter experience. If you decide you want to do a sneak playthrough afterwards, you still can.

Sweet, I’ll keep an eye out for that DLC. I have the rest of it in my backlog (I think), but having been waiting for the whole thing to actually play it.

I also just recently got back into first person games, after growing up with OG Doom, Hexen, Quake etc.

Some recs that I really enjoyed:

• Dying Light – the best of the parkour-style shooters I’ve played, including Mirror’s Edge. Great melee too.

• Doom '16 is a great, really satisfying shooter that I recommend, but Doom Eternal is a whole other beast; I’d compare it more to Thumper, which is an intense rhythm game a la Guitar Hero. It’s stressful and I haven’t completely finished it, but it is an experience.

• Dishonored 1&2 are both outstanding stealth FPS, with a painterly art style that stays looking up to date. Adds some superhuman powers to the shooter formula.

• Prey '17 – also by Arkane, Bioshock-like, spiritual sequel to the Dishonored games.

• Borderlands 2 – great guns, great villain, and so many memes that it probably feels like a reddit time capsule at this point. Mechanically it’s missing some 2023 stuff like crouch sliding, but it is outrageously smooth gaming with the most enjoyable spread of enemy types in any game that I’ve played.

Is this a new Long Dark DLC? Have they made progress on the game?

3 plays great on my PC. I made the mistake of playing 5 first, so I found the graphics & mechanics a little underwhelming (I thought 5 looked pretty great). But the game is good; the villain seems to be the series’ fan favorite.

4 might is the sweet spot between 3’s gameplay and 5’s graphics. 5 is gorgeous, but it’s gameplay is a tad more kid-friendly than 3 and 4. And I love 4’s James Bond villain.

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My impression is that Sega’s always been pretty chill & receptive to interest in respectful revivals of classic IP.

It’s been nice to watch a large company respond to that interest with more accessibility, and not less (Nintendo).

The majority, yeah. Users didn’t go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.

The fact that this is the most-reported item about D4 that I’ve seen is kind of blowing my mind. Blizz was never not going to make D4 online-only, but the fact that in 12 years they haven’t sorted this out is astonishing to me — deliberately walling off your product from anyone without an uninterrupted connection, and then failing to actually guarantee a connection to those who pony up.

I guess the lure of multiplayer brings in enough paying customers that it’s not a dealbreaker for Blizz, but I don’t know why I’d play it when Grim Dawn (hell, and D2 Resurrected) exist.

We’re conditioned to invest, both financially and emotionally, not only in what a game is right now, but what it will be in a year. We cling to roadmaps like lifeboats and wield Reddit threads as weapons of sentiment for or against the developers we’ve hitched our wagons to. It’s a fuzzy parasocial relationship that only gets less healthy the more money is wrapped up in it. I’m sick of games that glare at me with dollar signs in their eyes from the moment I press play.

This review heated up fast

/r/notheonio . . . .

sight, that muscle memory is gonna take a while to rewrite.

FOSS, donations

ngl I always assumed that was a placeholder sub without any content, just to sustain the meme that /r/lounge was a thing