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Thanks for sharing these. I was going to check them out, but yeah, Google Play store is disabled on my device, so the links don't work.

An Aurora link to the app on Play would probably, or F-Droid, if it's open source.

As a current Switch owner deciding what to pick up next time I spring for a new system, the lack of anything portable from Microsoft and Sony is kinda wild to me.

Honestly, if I had not been burned previously by Xbox losing my online purchases, I think I would consider buying an Xbox for game pass.

I don't hate the concept, and I've heard great things about the Xbox game pass library.

I'm also not a big fan of not actually owning my games. I have 40 year old games that I still return to every year. The idea of finding something special on Gamepass and having it just disappear like a streaming show does... Not compelling to me.

Yeah. I stopped buying XBox after they let my account get hacked and restored none of my purchased content.

I occasionally consider giving Xbox another try, but then the whole tiers of systems and naming nonsense takes long enough to parse that I remember why I stopped buying Xboxes.

Have you looked at GrapheneOS? It's a big change, but it gets the job done.

Disclaimer: I shamelessy advertise it because I use Graphene OS and I want others to use it too so it won't become abandonware, forcing me back to a slow crappy phone again.

It really is pretty nice.

I went for it, and was delighted by how much more responsive my phone is. I haven't had a phone this responsive in about 5 years.

The privacy aspect is good too, of course.

I like to play though GunStar Heroes (a terrific Contra style bullet hell) with a self inflicted "melee attacks only" rule.

The fact that it's possible is one of the cool things about the game.

I had the opposite FF8 experience. I got lost like 3 times, and between over leveling and limit breaks, none of the bag guys ever got through their dialog trees during a fight. It was funny, but I don't recommend it.

I did the speedster pacificst build in DnDOnline once, because I liked to kite most enemies while charming a few to fight for me.

It was wild how that character could solo some difficult dungeons, but then a solitary guard at the top of a ladder was nearly impassable.

I do the same!

I would love to hear people's preferred early game alternate starters.

I usually go with the first non-Normal type Pokemon I encounter and build my team around it.

That makes me so happy.

Rarely. Require linear history for the win.

These are all very real possibilities.

Here's another: The big shot billionaire's agreed over drinks one night that their handlers - the staff that used to make them look smart - were overpaid.

I'm guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.

I'm getting sidetracked here, but I want to give my support of McD's turning every possible life event Grimace can have into to a new marketing event, so long as each comes with a new Gameboy color game.

I'm not sure, honestly.

Charitably, we could assume it's just from removing Google and various carriers background apps meant to improve my experience.

Uncharitably, I have my suspicions. For the last five or so versions of Android something always seemed to be using processor cycles and battery when I wasn't actually doing much with my phone.

But I never saw evidence of usage data exfiltration via Google apps - at least after I turned off the related optional settings.

In any case, switching to GrapheneOs was a startling and pleasant speed boost for me, whatever the real root cause.

I feel you.

I have found that searching for game reviews with the term "Cozy Gamer" finds games that fit into that after work funk, for me, when I have that time.

Indeed! I wish they would standardize this mode and add it as an icon to the back of the game box.

Edit: Also I'm old enough that I think of games as coming in boxes, still...

IDDQD

"Anything with a pause button."

Someone make this into a shirt with a cool gamer logo. I've found my gamer crew.