I thought Stardew Valley was more about the social aspects than about the resource gathering. Still, may be interesting to see how it will hold up against Graveyard Keeper and Factorio.

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Why are people so happy to destroy their work they (used to) put their heart and soul in, instead of allowing it to live on?

Because if they destroy the existing game it won't compete with any games they release in the future. Just look at how Rockstar removed Grand Theft Auto 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas from Steam when it came time to release the Defective Editions.

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I picked up Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller during the sale and it's pretty neat. The graphics during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes are a bit ugly and the characters' movements seem programmed rather than motion captured, with all the silliness that goes along with that approach... but overall it's been a great adventure game (no 'combine a cactus with a whoopee cushion to make a fragmentation grenade'-style puzzles) and the first of the 5 cases took me about 7 hours to solve, so if that keeps up I'm definitely going to get my money's worth out of it.

I've also bounced off Elden Ring, I'm just not enjoying it as much as Dark Souls 1 & 2. Either I'm just bad at reading the tells from the ER enemies or their attack patterns have a different rhythm than the DS 1 & 2 enemies.

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Taros said:

Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog

I also picked that one up. Pretty neat stylistically, but man that ending. Not as bad as some endings to some media I've experienced, but still... good thing I also picked up Night Cascades, that was a great palette cleanser. Couldn't spend all my money, though, gotta save up for when Double Shake gets released.

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It'd be neat if the Bazzite devs would join forces with the Arkane Linux (https://arkanelinux.org/ [External Link]) devs to make a distro. The quality of Arch + the stability of an immutable distro with the Arkane tooling would be fantastic.

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For me the anti-DRM stance is more important than GNU/Linux support... even if I do recall that there was some controversy around a title which could not be played multiplayer if it weren't launched from Galaxy (quick Brave search shows Aragami 2 and Monster Train). I already have my favourite games on GOG backed up, but I do think I'll start adding a little extra when buying stuff (as I said, I consider DRM to be worse than I consider GNU/Linux support to be nice).

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Some more focus on A11Y is always welcome. As the saying goes: we're all merely temporarily able-bodied.

The workspace enhancements are neat, I guess, but until we have monitor-independent workspace switching it's just not great.

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Skipping it entirely?

Yeah, that sounds good. I think I'll have one of those, thank you.

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I just came to the realisation that to own a really good game (like Symphony of the Night, Arcanum, or Chrono Trigger) I could be persuaded to pay 80 USD, but paying that amount to LICENSE a mediocre game? I'm sorry, but that's just not going to happen.

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The market for video games is the largest it's ever been, there are permissively licensed libraries available for everything under the sun, and with modern tech you have basically 0 distribution costs; yet game developers remain underpaid. Clearly there is a huge inefficiency somewhere, and as the saying goes: a fish rots from the head down. Instead of making games more expensive maybe game devs should fire the C suite and get some actually competent people in place.

EDIT: as an addendum, on the topic of so-called 'review bombing': people have the right to leave negative reviews when they are not satisfied with something about a game. If that something is 'the developer said something stupid on xitter', then you can shout 'death of the author' until your face turns blue, it remains proper use of the review system.

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