Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs is just me, or does the phrase

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sound kind of rude?

It doesn't sound rude, it sounds enticing.

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Yes, that was surprising but welcome. To my shame, that’s a game I’m still to play.

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Get a room, you two.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: damarrin

I don't play many visual novels

Here we go again. :-) You should put this in your "about the author" box, it'd save you having to type this every time you write about a VN. You know they're not synonymous with sex and nudity, right?

I don't say it every time I write about a Visual Novel? And yes, I am of course well aware of that.

Which reminds me I have Werewolf still unplayed. I made the mistake of getting it from GOG and if it's not on my game list on the Steam Deck it doesn't exist... :cry:

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I don't play many visual novels

Here we go again. :-) You should put this in your "about the author" box, it'd save you having to type this every time you write about a VN. You know they're not synonymous with sex and nudity, right?

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Also, their About Us page is quite something else. A finer example of corpo-speak I have not seen today or any other day of this week.

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The logo is VERY unfortunate. As is the name, really. Both for different reasons.

Otherwise, cool.

Edit: I realise they probably were around before the stupid war, so why should change their logo. Still... it was the first thing that came to mind.

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My last few days have been completely
dominated by Dead Space. It was rough going the first day, to the point I was on the verge of refunding it, but it got very smooth as time went by and just today I noticed it was actually verified by Valve. Performance isn’t quite there, but it’s basically problem-free now.

I ran out of steam halfway through Skyrim and forgot all about it, perhaps it’s time I gave it another chance. Burnout may have something to do with it, I got through every Elder Scrolls game except Arena.

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Quoting: ShabbyXApple collects as much data as Google data, if not more.

Source? Because it sounds like something invented on the spot.

Actually, it doesn’t matter. Here’s a video about it: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/android-vs-ios-which-spies-on-you [External Link]

I know it’s a few years old.

Also, while it does matter how much information a company collects, it’s equally important what that company then does with it.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: ShabbyXYou'd think Liam would use a Linux-powered phone...

Depends how much of a masochist he is :whistle:

I have a Pinephone and as much as I love it, it's really hard work to use for actual basic phone calls.

p.s. I really need to use my Deck more!

I meant Android really, lol

I mean Apple _is_ pretty hostile to open things (like, I don't know, Vulkan?). It feels wrong to support them

Yeah, Apple is closed to the core, but Android is basically spyware so it all depends on what is more dear to you.

Personally, I've decided I don't need my phone to be an open device I can tinker with to my heart's content, I just need something that works and respects (mostly?) my privacy and that right now is Apple. It also helps their stuff is really high quality, looks excellent and gets updated for years and years.

Don't get me wrong, I see plenty that's awful in their ecosystem, but from my perspective it's the lesser weevil by far.

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