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What kind of legwork are you willing to do? Do you have access to an old computer capable of being used as a server?

I have not used this and can't vouch for it, but some digging led me to ethercalc. On the surface it looks looks legitimate enough to explore further. As I always would when installing anything or using an online service with sensitive data in play, I highly encourage doing your own research to be sure that you feel comfortable that it's legitimate and safe, but I didn't notice any glaring red flags.

I started back up the first Blasphemous after finally getting around to figuring out cloud saves on the steam deck (I just forced the windows build). I'd definitely like to get through it and into 2, but I feel like I'm bombarded with huge games I need to play this fall. It might work as a game I can play while watching TV. I started back up while watching 24 (I loved it when I was younger, but watching back I really didn't recognize just how great the writing was.)

I'm still hooked hard on BG3, though. A fucking lot of hours in and I'm still on act 1.

Yeah. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. It would be "save $500 to unlock" on categories where the "50% off" version is still a 200% markup.

I use the modcase. It's fine. The front reliably stays on, which is something some of those other designs seemed sketchy on.

It does block the top vent. It's fine for charging, but on rare occasion I (or the software) screw up and leave it running plugged in while the cover is on, and the overheating forces me to hard reset (I haven't hit the threshold to have it shut itself off, but the power management stays borked). For the price I'm happy enough with it, but I wish it vented properly with the front on.

While it can be used to hide a bad game, it's more of a general marketing thing in the era of trashy algorithm driven content consumption.

If everyone high profile uploads their review of your game on the same day, it hyper-accelerates the domination of those algorithms and everyone broadly interested in the space you're in is going to be exposed to it, probably significantly.

Codifying religious texts as actually legally sacred and more important than others is wild, though.

They're have more throughput. If you're somewhere high enough traffic they're pretty clearly the only way to serve it.

Saving?

I think you mean spending on obscenely high margin stuff.

That's simply not even loosely based in reality. Games that don't do controllers are an extremely small niche.

The industry just as equally couldn't exist today or at any point in between without controller support. Controllers are a thing because an overwhelming majority of gamers strongly prefer them.

As far as I'm concerned a game without it doesn't exist.

That doesn't make it a non-issue. Ignoring the obvious ethical issues, there are still serious costs to addressing conduct they're made aware of, both in terms of actual man hours and mental health of any employees, and the actual bandwidth of the abusive traffic.

Controllers are the reason the gaming industry exists.