This is fascinating!

Let me know when it does surgery on a grape 🍇

DVD readers often don’t let you read from DVDs until opened by a valid program… But stay unlocked after that.

What I’ve done is open in VLC, close immediately, then use dd to copy the contents of the disc to an ISO

Going Under is so much fun!

Would you recommend any in particular? :)

Definitely No Man’s Sky

It was bad at launch, sure, but the expectations of the game were way outta proportion to what a game could deliver on

Accessibility. People who can’t grab or use an XBOX controller with their hands need to use custom controllers, including things like foot pedals.

Have some empathy. These aren’t oligarchs plotting a foreign war, these are everyday people (half the country!) being forced into poverty.

I spend all day at work with a keyboard and mouse, so I try to use a controller for absolutely everything else

Immediately after, every single ISP in my area introduced “data caps”. If I use more than 1TB of total data in a month, they charge exorbitant fees. Fortunately, you can pay to remove these caps! …for nearly twice the monthly price.

Rogue Legacy! You are a knight invading an evil wizard’s castle. When you die, your children take up your mantle and try again.

Dying means you get to try again with a descendant that has different quirks, like “being left-handed” or “dwarfism”

Good. They should cry.

I recommend looking at the summary on Wikipedia. See the “Response” and “Publication History” sections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Publication_history

Similar research has been falsified, the third author of this paper left the university months ago, some authors filed patents on the material years in advance, and the underlying mechanisms haven’t been thoroughly explained.

However, they presented it in a way that is EXTREMELY straightforward to reproduce. There’s even a live stream on Twitch of someone working on it: https://www.twitch.tv/andrewmccalip So I doubt they’d make a claim that large when it’s so easy to disprove, and we’ll know for sure in a matter of days, most likely.

Wii (which naturally includes Gamecube) Switch (with its N64, SNES, and NES emulation) XBox 360 Steam Deck (Steam and all other Pc games, including emulators)

it’s a kind of game that features character collection via random drops from lootboxes and events

I feel the same!! It’s been almost ten years since I played it and it STILL sticks with me.

I feel the same!

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FF14 has PS4/PS5/PC crossplay, worth trying out imo. (Note that the base game story before Heavensward is p slow, and you have to upgrade to a paid subscription to invite friends to parties)