I wonder if this has to do with an increase in console players moving to PC, or at least adding a PC to their gaming lineup at home. That and the Steam Deck which we saw also increase Linux’s market share.

It may not necessarily be PC gamers moving to controllers as much as its console players who have been most comfortable with a controller.

That’s how I am. I’ve been a PC gamer for a little over 10 years now (played PC growing up with Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sims, etc. but not counting that until I got an actual gaming PC) but I was mostly into consoles before this. But controllers have been a huge part of my playing experience and I’ve always preferred it for most games except the top downs like Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon which I did play on console with controller but the PC’s ports doing have the same schemes available for those games.

Since I prefer controller over mouse and keyboard, it’s a lot of games pre-Xbox One era for me. But that is subjective because a lot of people prefer mouse and keyboard.

Games like Oblivion never had a proper way of getting a controller to work with them on the PC release and any tries to get it to work flat out suck. I’ve tried Steam’s button mapping and even that doesn’t work for a lot of these games. But working through an emulator helps translate my controller to the game with almost no issues.

Considering how the Steam Deck plays and you’re usually using it as a controller unless docked, this would be nearly any game from this time period.

Still runs Windows. Hard pass for that reason alone.

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I always go for 720 or 1080 despite having decent 4K TVs. My reasoning is file size too but because I don’t have a ton of space to spare for all the stuff I want to store. I have about 2TB left but that’s going to get used up eventually.

There are some things I’ll go for the high quality stuff like Super Mario Bros which looks amazing but that’s rare for me.

30GB for one movie is nuts.

Damn, I was feeling a little pre-nostalgic for that era.

I’ve started doing this. There’s this new chipotle mayo spread from Best Foods that is amazing. A few squirts of that on the cheese and between the tortillas and then in the pan with some salted butter. It’s amazing.

Huh, always assumed that Firefox was much older than 2004. I remember using it in 2005/2006 for the first time.

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Is that the case for Antarctica or is it colored gray because there’s no data for it?

One recent example I can give you is XnView. It’s a program that is free for personal use as an alternative to some specific Photoshop suite as well as some other paid photo viewers like ACDSee. But if you’re going to use this for any sort of commercial use, you need to pay for licenses for all computers you use this on. Such was the case for us since we needed it where I work.

Admittedly it’s integrity based for most of these programs. They are hoping that you are going to be honest about your usage and pay when you use it for commercial use. There doesn’t appear to be telemetry that reports back your usage as this is usually just some guy releasing his personal project. In the case of XnView, I feel it was a guy who was fed up with more recent updates to ACDSee and made his own that mirrors the older versions and just works.

We bought the licenses but I never really felt they were necessary to activate. But we had the proof if we were ever audited that we paid for commercial usage.

I pirate some stuff in my personal life, but these little guys who do this are seriously awesome and I try my hardest to follow their rules since it’s so convenient and helpful in my search and their approach is not ever privacy intrusive.

Another example would be WinRAR, if I remember correctly. They expect businesses to pay to use it but the general public of users just using it at home get the free, infinite “trial”.

Phew was worried for a moment there. Call of Duty is such a rare thing we never get enough of.

Also cost for commercial use, free for personal use.

I like this because it allows me a chance to test the full version at my job and then we purchase the full version when we’re sure we want it.

In my country it is illegal to share, but not illegal to download

By torrenting, you are sharing by default as it’s P2P. Even if you choose not to seed after downloading, you’re still sharing while you are downloading as other people who download after you are downloading chunks of the data from your partially downloaded data too.

So technically you are still committing a crime here.

Should that law change, it cannot retroactively affect something that happened in the past

Not necessarily. Very tyrannical governments don’t care and will tread on your rights even going backwards before the law was enacted if they so desire to do so.

Most laws don’t apply retroactively, but some can and do.

Unless Nintendo decided to go fully digital which is a definite possibility with each new console generation. Both Microsoft and Sony have made it known for quite a while that they want to go fully digital despite the constant pushback from consumers.

I think Nintendo could see value in a fully digital console as well.

Mostly on PC and Xbox One. I got the version for Nintendo Switch but just couldn’t. Its draw distance is horrible and there are glitches that freeze the game and force me to restart it. That combined with my recent “stick drift” issues caused me to give up on it.

I want a version for my Steam Deck, honestly. I wanted something portable besides the iPhone app which isn’t the same.

Duh. Always thought it was stupid back in the day how companies like Viacom removed CLIPS of their TV shows from YouTube.

You know what happens when I see a clip of a TV show that I like? I want to go see the full episode.

Fucking idiot executives just figuring this out. Though not all of them have as they still remove clips sometimes.

Nothing wrong with it though

Hopefully. But it feels like we do this very often. We get a drug or something else that does this or that and is touted as being the best at this and then a few years later we announce that it was a horrible decision and has harsh consequences. Cigarettes, plastic, trans fats, so many dietary trends…

I’d love to try it but I’m skeptical just for this reason. Hoping not to hear in a decade that all these people developed the same type of cancer or some other horrible ailment.

Most orgs would do well with basic UIs. As someone who has done help desk, users are fucking stupid more times than not. Microsoft is constantly changing their UI just because they feel like it and we’d get tickets because “Microsoft updated and I can’t find X anymore!”.

Yeah, it’ll take some getting used to for some users at first, but the lack of constant, arbitrary UI updates will help over time.

It looks outdated but that’s what most businesses deal with specifically because of dumb users and because businesses don’t want to pay to keep training users on new UIs or paying for support to educate users and a lot of it is gimmicky, not really providing anything new but just a different way of looking at the same screen.

There are some onion search engines that provide a little bit of context about the site you’re about to visit, much like how classic Google search used to look.

Because of that, I’ve been able to stay away from some sites that are obviously including cp because of the context provided.

I can’t remember the name of the one I use and I’m away from my computer, but if you google search for “onion search engine”, you should be able to find it or another like it that can do this.