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My favourite journalistic practice is when outlets lump up everyone playing video games into a single group called “gamers.”

Could it be the next Stranding type game?!

Don’t be silly, for these types of people you can never make enough money.

Non-AMP link: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/05/06/stellar-blade-sales-selling-out-in-one-country/

The way I see it, that number is a baseline figure for what their services would be offered for in exchange. If someone came up to me and said “here, I’ll give you $53 and in exchange you’ll let me surveil you for a year” I’d say no, but maybe someone else would’ve said yes. Then, as an experiment, maybe we can let the market take it from there, now that there’s a price and some form of discovery mechanism.

Maybe you shoot boomers?

The Arc cards are the most price efficient graphics cards now, that’s hardly garbage.

Probably because “installing unsigned code from an unknown source” is a mouthful. Installing implicitly means “from within the walled garden” on these devices.

The piracy bugbear has been raised as the reason why corporations aren’t selling enough since mp3 was invented back in the day. It isn’t always the case. OnlyFans is pirated but the piracy doesn’t affect their bottom line enough to drive them out of business. If you think about it, lots of pornography on the internet is free, and they’re still okay. It’s a much more nuanced discussion than “piracy is stealing” than the corporations want you to think it is.

Edit: if I had to guess, the niche they serve or the value they add on top of “just porn” is something their customers are willing to pay for.

Takes a bit of getting used to, but Earth Defense Force 4.1 or 5.

Giving cheat authors instant feedback in terms of detection results in cheats getting better at evading detection more quickly.

Thank you, I was wondering about the voice synthesis and if it was part of the AI model they used.

It’s true. Pragmatically speaking if you don’t have access to the server software you can’t play it if the servers go down, and besides reverse engineering or the goodwill of the developers I’m not aware of any games with online components that continue to be playable after their servers are taken down.

Some fighting games let you filter games by connection and even connection type (wifi warriors you should be ashamed), but the primary matchmaking is skill based, and that still seems to work.

Some games don’t sell well but go on to become cult classics, so if it was just bad timing maybe Immortals of Aveum will too.

What is the patching process when running with Majisk, without OTA? It looked like quite a PITA to me, but I’m using Graphene for the same reason you are.

Edit: I found this

https://grapheneos.org/usage#updates-sideloading

After sideloading an update I’d probably have to do what Trevor posted.

It’s not supported. According to the devs rooting defeats the purpose of Graphene OS.

They don’t use trackers, they are not targeted and they respect your privacy.

In that case it won’t matter to anyone that I skipped them.

I haven’t tried playing PSO2 on the Steam Deck, just the original.

A game that receives updates in a regular manner. There is an expectation that players support these updates by buying things, and to encourage this live service games tend to have things that try to be habit-forming or are available for limited periods of time, such as battlepasses.