The person posting about a RAT is either unwell or trolling, dumping paragraphs of nonsense and screenshots that don’t actually show anything. Don’t let it get to you.

You can run ClamAV if you feel you need to, it’s fine. Install packages using your distro’s package manager. Don’t install random binaries or package repositories until you understand where the software is actually coming from. Job done.

When networking it’s easier for me to quickly pocket a card and deal with it later than take my phone out and scan a QR code.

No way I’m buying a Switch 2 for this, but I do really want to keep looking at it. It’s so good!

Between the DS/DS Lite/DSi/DSi XL, every family around me had at least one. Some of those parents, now grandparents, are still playing Clubhouse Games and Picross 3D to this day.

The amount of skilled manual labor that goes into building an instrument like that is intense.

I’m willing to accept that I’m just old and blind, but where does it actually say there’s a free weekend? I see plenty about the new mode and 60% off sale.

That kind of cognitive dissonance is what leads some people to give up ideologies like white supremacy. The endless rationalizing of hypocrisy is fucking exhausting. It’s a lot easier to just accept people as they are than build a whole framework around hating groups of people that allows for like, your neighbor, or an actor, or an athlete, to be okay because “well they’re different than the rest.” Or whatever bullshit excuse.

Sign an EO banning members of Congress and their immediate family from trading in individual stocks. Let them fight it in court and explain why it’s okay for them to engage in inside trading.

I don’t think I’ve been more surprised to see a game on a GDQ schedule than Richard Burns Rally. The 20 year old brutally difficult rally sim with a dedicated player base to this day. I can’t wait to see someone actually be good at it live!

You would quarter up at every fighting game in my local arcade. Definitely not a Capcom or vs. game only thing.

I’m pretty sure releasing a 1.0 of your project is against the terms of all open source licenses.

Now that’s very interesting and I really hope it works out for both GOG and the consumer. I definitely prefer not having a storefront directly tied to a specific developer or publisher (Steam/Valve included).

Recently switched from sway to niri on my laptop and loving it so far. The tiling+scrolling behavior feels very natural to me.

I’m saving up now to afford the lease on a nice certified pre-owned Dell in a couple years. My buddy Dave works over at the dealership so I should be able to lock in a good rate. And hey, with their super lease-to-own options maybe I’ll be able to keep it at the end! That’d be nice you know… something to hand down to the kids when they’re old enough for their computing license. Fingers crossed! 🤞

What I wouldn’t give for a “complete” Secret of Mana. Where they didn’t have to scrap a bunch of content to fit on a cart instead of a CD. Where everything from Pure Land forward wasn’t stripped down and rushed. I still love the game of course, but man what could have been!

Dan Ryckert would never miss a poop joke. Every Johnny Sasaki is thoroughly covered.

For MGS I will always recommend Giant Bomb’s old Metal Gear Scanlon series going through all 5 main games, Peace Walker, and Rising.

2026 is a new regulations year for F1 so the cars are very different, racing rules are different, there’s even an 11th team joining the fray. Yearly sports game expansions instead of whole new games is the obvious choice but for F1 specifically, this seems like the worst possible year to switch?

Dude it’s a blast. When they came out I played through each Dishonored once slowly, methodically, and non-lethal. Then immediately started over and hauled ass just slaughtering anything that got in my way. Both ways are valid and so much fun!

It would be nice if more people gave a shit about in depth reporting on the industry but it’s an ever-shrinking niche. I think that’s a problem with any “enthusiast press” though. The game industry is huge and has asinine amounts of cash sloshing around in it though, so maybe we just end up with a bigger gulf between sites regurgitating press releases and sites actually doing reporting?

Most importantly, it’s “press sneak fuck” thank you very much!