WTF are you talking about? Giving money directly to a couple creators or donating to some charity won't get more content made. Whether I like the prices or not (I don't), some of the money I pay to Netflix (for example) gets reinvested into making more shows. Paying money to a fucking thief does not get more shows made and never will. Nor will donating that money directly anywhere. Shows get made when the companies that make shows are making money. Not thieves.
The criticism isn't that you get a lot of crap you don't want. It's that you're paying out the nose for a lot of crap you don't want. Netflix had (arguably, granted) a much higher ratio of watchable shows, no commercials and at a fraction of the price!
The issue is that now all the best stuff got parcelled out onto their own streaming platforms so you no longer get that high ratio of watchable stuff all for one low price. Parks and Rec isn't on Netflix anymore. Neither is 30 Rock or Futurama or Bobs Burgers. Neither is Daredevil. Etc etc. To get all that content that used to be in one place, I now have to go to Peacock, Hulu, Disney+, etc. It ends up being the same problem of having to pay a huge monthly fee to see everything I want except instead of paying it to Comcast, I'm paying it to 10 different streaming services.
Oh you want to watch Parks and Rec? That's $10/mo or whatever the fuck Peacock charges. I wouldn't know because I'm not paying for an entire streaming service to watch one fucking show. Same goes for every other garbage streaming service with one or two good shows and no other redeeming qualities (looking at you Paramount+, Apple TV+, etc).
The issue isn't that there's a lot of crap I don't want to watch. The issue is that there is very little I DO want to watch on each and if I were to buy them all, I'm paying the same amount I was before for cable.
So your argument is that it makes sense to pay pirates because content creators aren't getting paid enough? If we all switch to paying pirates, there will be no more content to steal. Hell, even if a large percentage of us switch.
Look, I get pirating content when you're poor and can't afford it. But if you're actually paying, WTF dude?
It's very frustrating to feel like I'm back to where were were before the streaming revolution: paying HUGE amounts of money to get TONS of content I'm mostly not interested in.
The only saving grace is that I can get it all without ads still, so I'll take that win.
In the article, they talk about the bundling of services as a bad thing, but I feel like if I'm going to pay for everything anyways, I'll happily take that huge discount, TYVM.
I just... will never understand paying money to pirate things. Like if I'm paying money, I'll just pay it to the people creating the content so they create more content I like. If I'm pirating, it'd better damn well be free otherwise, what's the point?
It's been bugging me in BG3. Mostly because it takes a while to load and when it's finally loaded, I have to press a button then WAIT AGAIN for a stupid animation before getting to the main menu so I can then load some more.
Gimme a command line to just automatically "Continue" please. The pretty animtions and menu were fun at first. Now I just want to get back to my brain parasites as quickly as possible. I'm sure that has nothing to do with my brain parasites.
So I swapped to linux again about a month ago and I'm frankly shocked at how much better it is now, especially for gaming. While I don't have first hand experience with the games you listed (in linux), based on the games I have played, I have no doubt those games will all work just fine.
Honestly, I don't see myself going back to Windows at all at this point.
Am I looking at the right thing? Melvor Idle is $10 on Steam? Is there a free version somewhere? I find it hard to imagine paying that much for an idle game. I paid $2 for Space Plan but $10?? I just... this can't be right.
The real trick is figuring out how to install the HD executable into the same prefix after that. From what I gather, vanilla Freelancer doesn't work in linux well because of dx8.
Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, when I double click setup.exe, it opens ProtonTricks, rather than install anything. I tried running it through the terminal window directly and it looked like it installed but when I tried to run it afterwards I got errors like it couldn't find the files.
I dunno, I will probably just end up dual booting. This is EXACTLY the kind of experience that kept me from linux for the last couple decades. I am positive with enough effort I could get it working. I just don't want to put in that kind of effort; I don't want a new hobby.
Fortunately, when I'm not trying to install a 20-year old game made for the wrong operating system, things DO just work. :-D
I picked this up a few weeks back to see what the hype was about. Did nothing for me. Might be because I'm sick to fucking death of the "open world adventure" genre... they all feel like reskins of the same game I've been playing since, oh I dunno, Assassin's Creed 1?
Hogwarts does nail the feel of Harry Potter but that's not enough to keep me interested in a genre that's played out.
I too am playing on Linux after making the switch last month. BG3, surprisingly, runs perfectly right out of the box. No settings changes, no command line parameters, nothing. Hasn't crashed once. I'm really impressed.
It's by the GloriousEggroll guys, and I really liked it a lot. I would still be using it if it worked better with my laptop's hybrid Nvidia graphics setup. When I get around to swapping my desktop to linux, I'll almost certainly go with Nobara first.
FWIW, Pop!_OS is where I landed for great hybrid graphics support.
Thanks for the tip! Looking into it, I don't see the game files anywhere, just mods. Do you have to pirate it? I owned it 20 years ago, but I don't exactly have the CD's sitting around anymore.
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I wish Amazon worked that way. Sort by reviews and you get random Chinese garbage with 1 5* review from the importer's mom.