I know that this is all just theater to just destroy any semblance of free speech and privacy on the internet but if I'm completely honest I also don't even understand people who freak out about kids looking at porn. Like, I get protecting children obviously from predators (fucking Roblox), but also I saw hardcore porn on the internet super early when I was like 8 and the only trauma I ever felt was the fear of being caught looking at it by my parents, who were otherwise pretty chill about me seeing really violent media.
And before me and the internet, kids were looking at their grampa's/dad's porn magazines or finding it in the woods or getting some 18 year old to buy it for them. It was harder but I'm telling you they found it.
I feel like a bigger concern for kids right now is microplastics, lead poisoning, and climate change and you don't see nearly the same hysteria about that shit in mainstream politics.
Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.
Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While this nonsense is not a deal breaker for me, as I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I'm playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I'm dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I'm not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It'll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don't have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
The real opportunity for equal-tasting, cheaper, better for the environment “meat” is development of and efficiencies gained by scaling the lines of plant-based imitations like what Impossible and it’s competitors are doing.
I've had impossible burger and while they're OK tasting they're not equal tasting. Further, after eating one I felt very strange, like my body had some sort of reaction to it.
I get the motivation to try and stay around and make things better but I'm well past that. I've been trying to change minds for a while, I can only assume I'm just bad at it.
I also don't really owe this place my time and energy. If people in this state want to wallow in shit that's their prerogative but I'm not getting pulled into that shit if I can avoid it. Though it looks like economically I wont be able to avoid it. Moving is expensive and if I move I'll need a new job and the job market is terrible right now.
This merely reinforces my decision to not buy it because it only is going to have manipulative EBMM for its main modes instead of a server browser. Even if Portal has a server browser, they know the average player is going to stick to their match making system.
I bought 2042 and I did play it a lot but my experience was sort of existentially dreadful. I kind of understood its match making was keeping me playing longer by sandbagging my progression on its overly bloated exp requirements. It was like watered down drip feed fun. Fun enough and low barrier enough that I kept jumping on. Every other BF game felt way more mechanically rich and because they lacked match making they were more fulfilling to learn and play. You start out sucking, and you slowly get better, feeling yourself win more often over time. There is satisfaction in starting out bad and being rewarded for your efforts to learn the game that EBMM steals from you.
Its painful for me though. BF6 looks like such a waste. It checks so many boxes for me in that it looks like a great pvp military shooter: fast TTK, robust map editor, point buy loadout system.
As someone who is morally aware but also morally lazy and eats meat, this gives me hope that cultured meat is actually a threat to the meat industry at this point. Otherwise they'd not be making it illegal.
I 100% would replace all of my meat consumption with cultured meat as long as its reasonably umami/fatty/tastey/varied. Because I know how awful the meat industry is.
Plus it'd even be safer and healthier, especially given the destruction of food safety in this country. Little to zero communicable disease risk.
I unfortunately live in one of these prohibition states though. Just reinforces the idea that I need to get the fuck out of here, this place fucking sucks and the people here can suck shit.
The problem with local community organizing is that not every community is equal.
My local community are normal friendly people mixed with secret racists/homophobes who are also mixed with blatant racists/homophobes. Because I live in rural bumfuck.
Sure, I could try and connect some of them but I could get a shit spewing hate surprise, or run into someone who is bigoted but keeps their bigotry private with a friendly face, so by being friendly and cooperative I'm enabling them.
I intend to move ASAP to a moderately more progressive area soonish but its a more expensive place so it's taking me a long while of personal austerity to save up to comfortably make the move. And a lot of good people don't have the finances or opportunity to escape these wretched awful places. They're a lost fucking cause.
I want to play more often than my close friends want to play because I'm a tryhard meaning that if squad play is crucial I'd have to coordinate with random people on the internet over voice chat and that sounds... potentially unpleasant.
Maybe 99% of the time my interactions will be nice, but that 1% of bad times with randoms over voice chat will unfortunately stick in my brain.
For me, the nice thing about BF is that I can team up with my friends in a squad or play asocial solo and have a great time either way.
Unfortunately, also as a tryhard, I despise Engagement Based Match Making. And it seems the main mode of BF6 is also going to have that and I just have zero desire to play a pvp game with Engagement Based Match Making after the experiences I've had with it. Skill Based Match Making can be ok if I get to at least see my rank. I just want to know how much I'm improving as a player and I can't get that with Engagement Based Match Making. I only experience what is essentially hollow algorithmic match fixing.
Twisted Metal (1995) via Duckstation. Installed using Emudeck.
Playing normal difficulty, abused save states on the first character, Sweet Tooth. But after that stuck to only saving in between levels or level password.
Playing the characters in order from Sweet tooth moving right, on the final rooftops level atm with Crimson Fury.
Game obviously is janky as hell but its deep in terms of learning curve. I'm more familiar with TM2, but always want to play through TM1 at some point.
Also watching the cut FMV endings on youtube after beating each character. They're delightful.
I'm on my brother's premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I'd pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I'm going to just stop watching Youtube.