Maestro

Are you from the EU and did you sign the #StopKillingGames petition?

I really liked Days Gone. Great game.

ZFS isn’t built-in. I don’t know enough about btrfs to recommend it.

Bog-standard Debian with LVM. LVM can also do RAID, but you could also do mdadm below LVM if you prefer. Keep it simple.

Yes, I do the same with my wishlist. The only expensive games I consider are multiplayer games I can play with my friends. I bought Deep Rock Galactic, Sea of Thieves and Valheim for that reason

Have you considered to become a patient gamer? I always wait for a game to drop in price before buying it. That way you know from other people’s experience whether it’s a good game or not, and you save money. On hardware too! No need for the latest hardware if you don’t run the latest games.

I personally though ED was quite shallow. Deeper than e.g. No Man’s Sky but still very “fake”. The economy is just a bunch of RNG, nothing real. I recently got into X4: Foundations which is much better IMHO. It really simulates the entire economy and production chains. You can carry out supply chain attacks on your enemies. It’s like a cross between ED and Stellaris.

Never heard of this before, but it looks pretty good!

If they can use PPC then they will. It’s far more lucratieve.

I’m also jealous of people who’ve never owned these games and other bundles like it. They get to experience something for the first time.

That would be me! Your comment made me buy the bundle. I never played any of the Mass Effect games. Truth be told, I have no idea what they are even about 😄

The point of advertising is bidding and tracking, so they will be loaded online, always. But they f they go over the same connection as the game itself then pi-hole can’t block it.

Looks great. Is this from the makers of Don’t Starve and Rotwood? It looks familliar.

I’ve had it in Early Access for a while. It’s a great game!

Dead Souls? Did you mean Dark Souls?

There’s plenty to do outside the latest expansion

If you treat it as a single player game maybe. There are very few players outside the latest expansion. Maybe a few power-levelling alts. Some quests are almost impossible because you’re supposed to do them with multiple people and there’s nobody around.

I prefer the Elder Scrolls Online way. It has far less power creep and more sideways progression, so people run all content all the time.

They are not hiding that you need a subscription to access the latest expansion. But they don’t tell you the rest of the game is dead so you need the latest expansion to do basically anything.

I prefer subscriptions too. I balk at asking full price for a game, and then finding out you need a subscription on top as well.

Remember, that’s the third time you have to pay! The first rug pull is when you buy the game and then find out that the entire world is utterly devoid of players because everyone only plays the latest expansion. But you can’t access it because you don’t have a subscription. On top of a full price game.

Besides the switcheroo, I also think it’s sad for WoW. Its world is massive and beautiful and utterly dead. Everyone is only in the latest zone. The game would be better named “Zone of Warcraft”. I love how e.g. Elder Scrolls Online solved it. They made all zones viable. You will see players everywhere. It’s a real contrast.

The US is a third world country when it comes to healthcare

You can’t just drop that and then not explain…