Competition is good for consumers.

Not aware of donations, but Proton’s CEO was glazing Trump around the start of his second term.

Same except I’m using Limine. Cachy has been incredibly smooth for me, despite the reputation surrounding arch.

I mean, Doritos aren’t even potato chips.

Assassin’s Creed was so much better when they were still doing a present day plot. Getting out of the animus and playing as Desmond and unraveling the mystery of the present day was like half the appeal to me.

The Ubisoft launcher is a real pain to get working on Linux, at least for me it has been. There’s no official support so it’s all through WINE and such but it can be hit or miss in my expedience.

Legendary Edition goes for under US$10 fairly often.

That’s a shame. If you liked the first two or just want a really awesome SciFi rpg, you should give it a go. The reaction to the ending was really overblown imho. And it wasn’t retconned per se, it was expanded and more options were added.

I beat the game before any changes were made to the ending and I didn’t feel nearly at visceral as some people did. The changes they made also helped fill in any real qualms I had. Not to mention, even if it’s as bad as they say, the ending is like 1% of a trilogy spanning SciFi epic. It’s an incredible rpg series, one of the best ever.

Out of all the hate I’ve read about TLOU2, I’ve never seen anyone say the timeline is confusing. I also can’t see the tonal whiplash, personally. Both games are incredibly dark.

First day on the internet?

The idea of them is incredible. I grew up watching sci fi galore with holographic AI personal assistants, and AR glasses, and 3D printers, etc. The idea of these technologies is amazing.

The reality of them is a little different. It’s hard to get behind certain advancements when they are completely in the control of a handful of people on Earth who have more wealth than everyone else combined. It’s impossible to ethically endorse these projects when the companies responsible have time and again proven themselves to be untrustworthy. And I mean, you shouldn’t trust them with your name and age, let alone videos and pictures of you—and strangers!—naked in a doctor’s office.

The technology and the possibilities are awesome and awe inspiring. The society we live in is not ready for them. Hell, much of the world still hasn’t caught up with how to adequately regulate and legislate for the internet revolution that happened over thirty years ago, nevermind for smart glasses that can always be recording.

I don’t really have an interest in running a public board, and the reason I use(d) that subreddit was because I am also not interested in looking for the deals myself.

However, from another comment, redlib looks like a decent solution for the time being.

There’s zero reason to go to reddit intentionally

Know of a viable replacement for r/bapcsalescanada?

Really neat of you to do and to share, thanks. Not to sound ungrateful, but honest question… What good are these numbers if they are the floor?

Edited to add: filthy clanker.

I wish I still shared your optimism.

Edit: Adding this to My flilters in uBlock Origin seems to fix the issue for the time being:

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No bueno here, it just redirected me to a blank page. Still couldn’t use old reddit.

Would love to have a viable alternative to r/bapcsalescanada on Piefed.

Well, except that I’m theory, owning a lot of shares in a company gives you some leverage over that company to drive its policies and direction.

I’ve played every GTA since 3. Easily hundreds of hours collectively.

For a fair while, nobody was doing what they were doing really. They were extremely unique games. The freedom of the open world, the modern setting, the criminal drama, the high production values (of their respective release eras), the scathing satire. All of it combined was exceptional.

For my own personal tastes, I have largely out grown their style of expositional story telling and mission structures, but I still think everything I listed above applies and at that no one else is really doing what they are doing. In terms of a free roam modern, immersive setting, there really is no competitor in my opinion.

Having said all of that, know that I do not intend on buying GTA 6. Not because I’m not excited for it, because I frankly kind of am for all the same reasons, but rather for reasons that more have to do with the company, management, and my shifting priorities and set of values in my own life.

There’s been no confirmation of that, that I’m aware of. Only that it will not be part of the game at launch. This is no different than GTA5, which did not get its online features until about month after release.