Quoting: ArehandoroSmells of Palantir.

Some of that personal data is indeed being sent (currently experimentally) to Persona, a company in the Peter Thiel orbit, via his founders fund (they are on the board and a lead investor).

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/ [External Link]
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/persona-188f/financial_details [External Link]

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Quoting: PyreticI am beginning to worry about how many charity bundles there have been lately.

A message from the GoFundMe CEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsXEkR5OVs [External Link]

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This is bad. The way Project 2025 is going, and the way much of big tech is complicit, there will at some point be a follow-up decree to treat LGBTQ topics as adult-only, requiring a major target of right-wing hate to doxx themselves when they are first in line for a revival of the nazis' pink triangle badges, driving them underground, and making the community fragmented and unavailable to most.

Book bans targetting school libraries in red states like Florida are already disappearing mentions of LGBTQ people and the history of race and slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021%E2%80%93present) [External Link]

We pretty much need decentralised alternatives and going back to socialising offline.

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In further GPD shenanigans, they misrepresented videos from streamers playing on Steam Deck by splicing their handhelds into the streamer's footage, naturally without permission: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gpd-are-getting-quite-desperate-against-the-steam-deck/

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GPD does have form claiming association with prominent third parties that never actually worked with them. It can't be naive on their part.

Previously, they claimed Valve was working with them on official SteamOS support for the GPD 4, which was also inaccurate: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gpd-win-4-handheld-plans-to-support-valves-steamos-in-2025/

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To help answer the question: "which of my Steam games were released in the past year", here is a SteamDB page:

https://steamdb.info/sales/?displayOnly=OwnedGames&min_release=2025-01-01 [External Link]

(You either need to be logged-in to SteamDB, or fill the form at https://steamdb.info/calculator/ [External Link] and follow the "Filter their owned games" link. And you need relaxed privacy settings, or possibly the SteamDB extension lets you bypass that)

For me the only game released in 2025 with significant playtime is Silksong (played it a ton, but much of it was grinding uselessly against the sister splinter boss fight, which I haven't passed, though I found a sequence break around it). If we include 2024 games, Moonlight Pulse is another metroidvania I quite enjoyed, though I did hit another wall with a boss fight.

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I started with HL2, I found it easy to get into, the narrative is excellent, supports the action well and keeps things moving along. After that you have the two episodes that give you more of that world.

HL1 was harder for me to get immersed in, I haven't gone back and finished it yet. Technically there are no issues, Valve is still maintaining it well.

But you could also start with the original, and skip ahead to HL2 if the original doesn't work for you.

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That's just a few days' notice. The game has been available for very cheap before (1,50€ in the past year on Steam, according to ITAD and SteamDB; some bundles though not too recently). The current best offer (excluding vouchers) is on WinGameStore.

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Leveraged buyout means EA now has to service and pay down $20 billions of debt that it didn't have before (Ars Technica puts it simply: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/how-private-ownership-will-change-electronic-arts/ [External Link] ). So, expect EA to become a worse company to employees and consumers both.

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The gamepad trouble I have is that the analog sticks and triggers are lost if the pad is unplugged/replugged.

Filled the bug report form.

I'll keep playing on Linux though, our gaming platform isn't Microsoft's to control and it needs use and polish.

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