Voice acting is good for accessibility. If I wind up playing this version, though, I'll turn it off because it's bad for immersion.

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I played through Dungeons of Hinterberg about... a couple of months ago. For a game that's basically just an advertisement for Austrian tourism (just like how Darkened Skye is an ad for Skittles, a bit more subtle than Cool Spot or the like), it's pretty good. As a former Souls player I kinda find it too easy, but I guess that many would consider that a benefit rather than a detriment. Just a shame that the Persona-style social links are a wee bit too superficial. Also silly that it does the 'oh no, a bad thing is going to happen, it's important that we prevent it as soon as possible' thing where you can just spend as much time as you want loafing about without any repercussions.

Also Soul Reaver is great, but I think everyone knows that by now.

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I have been playing some Neverwinter Nights 2. I have merged the Tome of Battle, Kaedrin's PRC Pack, and Races of Faerun mods and have played through the Original Campaign, Sean Maxhell SoulPath, Tomoachan, Asylum 1 and 2, and a few more modules. Currently playing through Dark Waters, but unfortunately the Tome of Battle additions don't really seem to work with it.

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The Plasma update isn't great, whenever I switch to desktop mode the screen brightness gets set to 33%, even though I always turn it down to 5%. I actually wanted to report that bug, but I didn't figure out where I needed to go (Valve's GitHub? Somewhere on the Steam forums? Is there a 'report issue' button somewhere?).

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I've been using Brave's search engine and it seems fine (if you don't mind the little AI helper at the top). I suppose I could give Qwant a kick in the tires some time.

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To be honest, this would've been more interesting if When Pigs Fly was still a thing (is it? I don't actually know).

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So like, you stealth up to a wild saddle and put an arrow through it before it can get away?

Actually 'hunting for them' means picking through chests in randomly generated mineshafts, dungeons, nether fortresses,... looking for them. There have been various mods which add their own recipes for crafting saddles, but this isn't the first time the Minecraft devs have added a quality of life improvement that used to be part of a mod (used to be that near every tech mod added its own version of copper, which of course resulted in mods being created to make all that stuff compatible with each other).

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The Steam app is 1) not open source, and 2) not available on Ubuntu Touch. That all despite the fact that its 2FA code generation is standard TOTP. Yet they don't allow you to just use regular TOTP 2FA because they want to show a pop-up for trades. So yeah, Valve can go deep-throat a cactus, I'm just gonna stick to e-mail + SMS.

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I am quite annoyed at Monster Sanctuary because they did release early access in-development builds on Itch, but the full release is only available on Steam and, much as I love Valve, it feels like a bait-and-switch.

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Ah well, we'll always have RBR (Richard Burns Rally).

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