Fuk me. You people are hillarious.
A huge chunk of my focus is on holding back the years. Exercise, diet, restraint. It aint easy, and I fail a lot. The humor here hits home.

I like Steam enough that I haven’t bothered with any other platform.
I do hear good things about those other platforms, (maybe they are cheaper, and maybe they support old games better?) But all my games are in one spot on steam, and its simpler for me to keep it that way.

It does seem that there are people really outraged by the news story. I don’t entirely understand, other than people like to get upset about things. Being outraged is engaging and takes your mind off of whatever else is bothering you.

Thanks. I’ve kept it installed. I’ll pick it up.

I did the same with Obduction, and Stray too, now that I think of it. Yup, and with Talos Principle.
Puzzle games have to grab me. But I can be grabbed. I finished the first two.

I sure worked on Talos, but I got tired and just watched the end at the top of the tower on youtube. I did buy Gehenna, played it a bit. Never did Talos II, and Reawakened does not look good to me.

Mmm. And then there’s the abandoned puzzle game. Turing Test. Ya, its uninstalled. Apparently I completed Chapter 3. I don’t feel a shred of interest at this moment, either.

Fuk ya man. DOOM will never die. I still open up DOOM 2016 and play that first level on arcade nightmare, just to get a kick.

I’ve got a folder of all the D1 and D2 standard and freedoom wads. I copy it onto any new linux machine, and I install Boom or whatever.

I have a project that I keep picking up and abandoning for a DOOM OS. Its purpose would be to spin up on a vm, search for a local game, and join a bot to a deathmatch. Each vm would add to the load on the server. How many vms can it run? That’s the DOOM quotient. But I’m not very serious about it.

19 years. And the only bad part was Ubi. That’s it.
Honestly, with a record like that, why would I care that Steam has had games removed?
And, it occurs to me, in 19 years, how could they not have had games removed?

Steam has proven to be a far, far, far more capable and stable repository for my games that I could be … since May 2006. I got Steam because that’s how you bought Half Life 2.

Ya know what? I can still play Half Life 2. I’ve never had the slightest problem accessing any Steam game other than Ubisoft crap, and now I don’t buy Ubi.

Add it up, man. That’s 19 years of gaming. 151 games. And I have access to every bit of it, at my whim.
For some basic comparison, I have a couple digital pictures that old. A handful. And its shocking that I managed to keep track of them that long. An accident, really.
Steam does the job of safeguarding my games much better than I can.

Man. I got about 5 minutes into that game.
I think I closed it and started a second runthrough of Stray. Wanted the kitty, not the spaceship.
I should eat some mushrooms or something and give it another shot.

Ok. I’m not trying it. I mess with everything.

In a similar theme, I don’t like the latest TrueNAS because if you want to mess with the OS, you gotta force it. Annoying as hell. I built my own nas instead.

anprims

You made me look up Anarcho-primitivism. My world doesn’t seem much wider tho. I already knew there were crazy people out there. But I do like the name “Zerzan”. That’s kinda cool …

I use the web browser feature instead of tv apps. It circumvents a lot of the tv tracking. Of course, you trade it for web tracking.

I love lemmy. People try to be nice. Its amazing.

Ive learned that a nice simple bean base can be recombined endless ways. I’ve been making them w less spice and no meat, adding that later in the final meal.

No.
You can deny permissions and use it as a monitor.
YMMV on using tv channels, but that should work.
But no hulu for you if no smart tv.

You can connect, set it up, patch it, and then wipe it, revoke the permissions, make it an offline device again.

You can go back and forth. To use smart tv functions again, youd need to agree to the spy stuff again.

(Edit: I own a Visio and a Fire TV, so that’s what my response is based on.)

I have two smart tvs. One is my gamer monitor, it doesnt get internet, and doesnt even have the correct time. The other one pretty much only plays youtube music, it replaced my old stereo.
I don’t think they are getting much info from me.

My cell, on the other hand, there’s only so much of it you can disable before it becomes unusable. And you have to use it. The spyware is the platform. In both cases.

I’ve largely recovered from the american diet after colon probs, overweight, high bp, chloesterol, hypoglyicimic. I lost 50lbs under medical supervision, kept it off couple yrs now w good food. It can be done.

There is so much going on in that image. Layer after layer. It made me kinda dizzy.
I knew the threads would be cha0s. I was hoping someone would comment about the image itself. And wow. Hell of a comment. :]

I see no politics here. I see a clickbait article.
Not sure where you are coming from either. Looks like we’ve missed each other completely.
(K. I explained myself better.)

(Ya. I wasn’t clear. Fixed.)
I didn’t get the rules from this dumb article. I don’t quibble with anything the author wrote, but I sure don’t like their writing style. If you read the article, you’d know that, but don’t bother.

Those are the rules your guts want you to follow. That’s what belongs in your diet.

My nutritionist sent me to the bulk bins! Bean soup mixes. Weird black rice. There’s still lots of things I haven’t tried.