I just finished D:OS2 (again) last night. Perfect timing.

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There was a fun article yesterday about a guy dealing with the Monotype shakedown.

I can’t figure out how to strip this weird Voyager url handler to the Lemmy post, so here’s the actual post

https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down

I took someone else’s recommendation here and picked it up last week. As an old, solo player I’ve been killed by players twice out of 30ish games.

Most all the solo players I’ve met are friendly and offering help on voice chat.

I’m an old fart, so I don’t want to play any games with kernel level anti-cheat. I’ve yet to encounter a game that doesn’t work in Linux.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle had some AMD driver issues early on, but I was able to tinker a short term fix until they fixed it. MachineGames’ engine has always been wonky on release.

I have a first gen Define XL that’s probably closing in on 15 years old. Still going strong as my primary desktop case. The only problem I’ve had is little cheap plastic connectors to attach the feet to the case broke. I know they’ve fixed the design for recent versions but I can’t justify the cost when the rest still works fine.

I don’t recall the names of them all. There were a couple I bounced off of like the House Party one and the platformer with insane controls.

There were a couple that stuck with me like the Bubble Bobble soccer one, the paint racer, Bushido Ball, and the one where you make a chain reaction to blow up demons and save pilgrims.

Camouflage/Chameleon got its hooks in me though and I cherried it in just a few sessions.

Yeah, I don’t buy from them anymore since Ziff Davis bought them. I wonder what kind of tax breaks they wrangled out of it.

I’m playing the “demo” and just met an elf companion who said something like “whoopsie! My gods are real and they’re going to destroy the world! 🤷” And it just undercuts the whole story.

Marvelization is the perfect way to describe it. There are zero stakes.

Origins had humor and snark, but it was mostly used in service of the story and themes.

DAO sets the tone during the harrowing when one Grey Warden candidate dies drinking Darkspawn Blood, then Duncan straight murders the other candidate when he freaks out.

Veilguard just seems saccharine and safe.

Not sure I’d have bought it on launch day but definitely early as long as reviews were positive and it ran okay in Linux.

I kickstarted the first one, so I’ve got no problem waiting until it’s on GoG or at least Denuvo-less on Steam.