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I assume that means the second cour does not get better? I’m not up to date right now but the first cour was sort of uninteresting.

Tower of God Cour 2 ED - Falling Up - Stray Kids are back for the second cour and I really like the ED. Felix’s deep voice in the beginning is always a treat.

That’s cool, was really missing them in the first cour.

Didn’t watch the video so not sure if it was referenced but there’s also the very interesting CCC talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k

Take a look at the Finamp desktop client. It comes very close to the Plexamp client from back when I was using Plex.

I like how their first image is a woman laying in the grass after their SD3 fiasco.

Did anyone try it? How does it compare to Flux?

Kodi/LibreELEC is able to do all of it, but IMO it’s not a good experience for browsing YouTube

You can do the browsing on your phone and then share the link with your media center through Kore/Yatse and it will play it automatically.

but I spent most of it trying to remember who everybody was or why I care about all these meetings and that somebody is being rude to somebody.

Good that I’m not the only one who struggles with this in every new season of Re:Zero. The end also did it for me though, now I’m excited again.

I felt the same, they really just ended right in the middle of THE fight.

Season was pretty good though, excluding the end.

IMHO the Plus version is a downgrade since it is made for consoles and does not require you to modify files on your own system.

I played a few hours on PC yesterday and if somebody is saying it looks worse than the PS4 version I’m questioning their sanity.

On the other hand, raytracing, HDR and frame generation are all completely broken and it is a disgrace to charge 70 bucks for a remake of a 9 year old game and not even do basic QA on their PC port. You also need a PSN account to play your singleplayer game.

In Sound Mind (same developer) is fantastic by the way.

I have exactly the setup you described, a Raspberry Pi with an 8 TB SSD parked at a friend of mine. It connects to my network via Wireguard automatically and just sits there until one of my hosts running Duplicati starts to sync the encrypted backups to it.

Has been running for 2 years now with no issues.

I would argue that even restricting sales to your own store is anti-competitive tying. You’re avoiding competing on the merits of a store using exclusive licensing of a creative work.

A creative work which you made yourself, which you can sell wherever you want.

Should you sell it everywhere so as many people can play it as possible? Sure. Do you have to? No.

Again, not a fan of the tactic, but they are trying to break an entrenched monopoly with a ton of network effects which is near impossible.

Let’s reverse the roles for a second: EGS is the big player and Steam is just getting started. EGS suddenly starts paying all publishers to only publish on their platform. Does that sound like competition to you? You don’t break a monopoly by using tools used by monopolies.

Their launcher is perfectly fine.

Fine? Yes. It does the bare minimum of being able to buy a game and start it. Does it do everything I expect a modern game launcher to do after existing for almost 6 years? Nope.

But they are. They’re not losing that much money, even with a tiny portion of market share. Valve having far more market share means they should be able to do it for an even smaller percentage than what epic is using, especially since Valve has 21 years of infrastructure to lean on.

They are “not losing much money” while providing a fraction of the services Steam does. They say 30% is too much, we can do it in 12% and yet they severely lack in social features, have no modding support, no VR support, no in-home streaming, no Remote Play Together, no Big Picture, no Family Sharing, a barely functioning Steamworks alternative, no Steam Deck support, no Linux support and absolutely zero open source contributions. That’s just the obvious stuff I can think of right now, every single menu you open in Steam you find a barebones menu in the EGS.

They don’t even need 21 years of infrastructure for most of these, they just need to fund development of it. Which they seem to be unwilling to do so.

I’m not saying you should, I’m saying it doesn’t make them villains or a bad company.

But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.

It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.

I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.

Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with 8% 12%.

They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.

Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.

So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.

Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.

I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.

Monday Night Combat

Well, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.

What a shame, they could have made a really big splash on the EV market if they released back then for ~25k. Perfect small car for the European market. Now the ID3 is here so they probably missed their chance.

This had terrible consequences

Ha, they never learn. They also blocked most of Cloudflare in Austria a few years back.

Fun fact: It was the first IP block they tried. They haven’t tried again since then.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/

I still remember how confused I was when story DLC was announced for a game which I considered to be complete story wise.

Turns out the story was not complete.