I don’t know how that’ll fit in PEGI ratings, but, IMO, this is just a shady tactic to hide the same exploitation of gambling issues.

Then you just make it technically possible but completely impractical to get some stuff, and go hunt for whales while pretending it’s just about giving players choice. You know, for their convenience.

Just cosmetic is also not the defence game publishers want it to be.These are games. There is no vital need here, everything you do in these is to get some satisfaction from it. Including, yes, collecting cosmetic elements. They know this works, and they don!t want regulators to know that they know.

What’s wrong with just letting players know how much they!re spending and exactly what they are buying? Other than, you know, it would not be manipulative enough and thus probably makes less money.

It’s still directly referencing the stupid obsession over testosterone and how the lack of it explains why men are not “male” enough to them. That’s literally what the soy part is.

The word is shit, and so is its implication.

Current-generation consoles? You know you can’t put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?

It’a also masculinist shit, so.

“Paid random items”.

I’ve played many RPGs. I don’t remember one making me pay for every random battle. No, using a random number gemerator in a game isn’t the same as lootboxes.

Sounds a bit like those Anthropic researchers who keep finding new ways Claude did something unexpected and scary every other week.

We don’t care whether you’re scared or amazed : TALK ABOUT IT.

FMV advisors best advisors.

Especially culture dude. Those anarchy councils were hilarious.

I do have that between my 2 PCs. It works surprisingly well, definitely could be useful for stuff I can only get to run on the windows one.

Not too useful in that particular case though, since VR is already sort of streamed to the headset anyway, if I can do it from the windows server I don’t need the linux client in between. The thing that bothers me most is I’m still dependent on my meatier VR PC to stay on windows to keep using VR. For now, it’ll do, but with things going the way they are…

I also don’t have VD to experiment from my linux, but for now, it would just be nice to have.

Spiders are friends, they look after your packets.

Thank you, I think at some point I’ll end up getting the Frame, or at least a newer headset that’s guaranteed to be supported by their API, so I certainly hope it’ll work on Linux.

Sure, they’ve done a lot to make the transition to linux easier, and that’s great. Especially right now with Microsoft going to shit harder than ever. To me it sounded a bit overdramatic around Win8 when they went all “Microsoft gaming is over” but they were definitely right to start working on it.

But specifically for VR I tend to think they should be held somewhat accountable because, they sell VR games. I bought games there with the expectation they’d work, and they did, for a while. The fact they suddenly don’t without anything changing on my end is bad. Especially since one solution would be letting us go back to the version that worked.

Unfortunately for now the only good workaround I know is VD, which is Windows-only proprietary software.

For now I think the thing that I’ll miss the most will be Virtual Desktop. I haven’t tried my headset with this PC yet, I have a more recent one that’s still on Win11 for that, but I know SteamLink is completely broken for me and VD is what makes PCVR even possible for me.

I blame Valve for that need by the way. They had a version of SteamVR/SteamLink that worked well enough a couple versions back, they broke it in newer versions for my headset, and I can’t even go back to the one that worked because the only option is “previous” and we’re past that. Many reports later they still haven’t fixed it.

Interesting. I am mostly interested in running games. I’ll have a look into how Bottles work then.

I feel like for most if not all of my use cases that are not specific games, I can find some decent stuff running natively.

I am very much a beginner, and until now lutris was kind of my default answer for “how the hell do I get that windows exe installer to spit its entrails so I can run it through wine” (or even native engines like VCMI, Daggerfall Unity and Creatures Docking Station).

For everything that doesn’t come from Steam, obviously.

What is the more direct way? Does Bottles do that? I haven’t tried it yet.

Underwearology seems like a very situational skill.

So… this is still a ridiculous case, but they’re wealthy enough they aren’t too worried even if they lose it? All right.

That it’s easy to convince children to work for free?

In fact they should put random odds on whether you actually get extra power, so the customers can enjoy some surprise mechanics too.

I have never played platinum, but from what I gathered it is significantly improved compared to Pearl/Diamond. Those are really painful to play.

They’re really clunky and repetitve, but the worst part is mon distribution. There are barely any fire types in the games, to the point the Fire-Type elite 4 has only 2 in his 5 mon team. And one of them is the evolved fire starter. There is literally no other fire type obtainable at that point.

They decided to keep most of the diversity in the post game (lots of old species that get a new evolution mostly) so until you get there it feels like you’re meeting the same twenty different pokémon over and over again.

Bonus : Diamond has one dark-type easily accessible before psychic gym (which is already well into the game). Pearl doesn’t have any. Its only dark-type comes in very late game. It’s like nobody checked these games’ balance.

I think those games that are made to be boring and absurdly grindy and then offer you to pay to skip the boring parts are even worse. And they’re not limited to phone, too.

“Pay to not play”, when we ensure our gameplay loop is so bad that you literally think your time spent in it has negative value.

It was just me being very stubborn really.

Technically I went a bit further since I got full Sun/Moon dex next (though if I remember correctly not Ultra, I was missing one or two of the new Ultra Beasts).

It probably was just the right time really. The DS gens (4-5) are forever compatible because they just need local wifi to transfer. But 5 to 6 (and 6 to 7) need the pokémon bank and thus 3ds e-shop. I am not sure, but unless there is a third party way to do this, I believe that DS-3DS link would be broken today. And it’s probably too late to transfer them to Switch through… Pokémon Home? I think? Is that still a thing?

And I did that right on time for that mythical pokémon distribution, because even in the past games they were only distributed in time-limited events. So I’d have no other way to get most of these.

Except for Mew. Pokémon Ranch on the wii had a way to get a Mew if you had Diamond/Pearl and transferred ONE FREAKING THOUSAND POKÉMON from it. So, of course I did it, like an idiot.