I love pretty much the entire discography, and Parpaing is possibly my least favorite. I like the invented language lyrics more, all glory to Corpsegrinder’s voice but the lyrics are too 80s death metal for me with the house of corpses and all.

That’s true, but it’s also a pain in the ass compared to Steam, was my point. I can click on Dishonored and have it ready in 15 minutes while I make coffee, or I can download like

    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 1 of 5) 2 MB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 2 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 3 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 4 of 5) 4 GB
    Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 5 of 5) 2.4 GB 

and then install it by hand, after which I have double its size in used diskspace and have to delete those files. Also, there may be patches to install. People don’t realize this, but Steam doesn’t actually necessarily mean imply DRM. I 'member the time before Ubishit launcher when you could just take a Steam install of Rayman Origins and plop the directory from steam’s common files onto another computer.

I use 36gram ones (ridenow from aliexpress) and they’re surprisingly great and very cheap. I now carry four replacements when randonneuring and it’s still only the weight of one butyl tube. Also, they’ve become better in the last year between two times I’ve ordered them - the valve used to be plastic, now it’s metal; and they added two rubber washers to fill in the space below the valve, which is nice since that’s where they used to stretch and balloon in the space. I use them with a road bike, 700c*25 They do lose air a bit faster than butyl, I’d say about 1 bar a week, regardless if ridden or standing.

edit: haven’t tried lighter ones than 36gr. since a friend who did reported they tend to stretch too thin in places when re-pumping 4-5 times.

liveservice games completely lost any goodwill

And yet gacha liveservice shit reskins some fantasy into SF or the other way around every few weeks and makes good money.

Since almost 100k people tried it on Steam at launch and the next day it’s a ghost town, I’d say it’s very much whether the game is good or not. And 3 vs 3 on huge maps, with prefight busywork that feels like it could be skipped with no loss, on UE5 (which might be a good engine, but from high-end graphics games I learned to expect smeary upscaled shit with lumen painting everything grainy and blurry, input lag badly disguised with motion blur, etc.). Also, they lost a sizeable chunk of players to their TPM+secure boot requirements, even people who don’t know computers realized it means ad-serving fucking corpos can trust your secure computer, not you yourself.

Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol

Good luck with that. I need it because I’ve fiddled with my screwdriver adjusting the cassette head position to load Scuba Diver on ZX Spectrum too many times.

I love Aphex Twin, but this is giving too much importance to streaming metrics.

Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0

Fuck right off

The very thing racist memes need to stay alive is literally articles like this, great job Guardian

It’s excellent, you can filter network access per app, or per IP, or isolate an app and allow it to access only certain addresses / ranges and the interface is really intuitive and user-friendly.

Up until today I was happy with turning off updates (as a precaution) and restricting Nova’s internet access (all phone network access is proxied through Rethink+), but this made me switch to Lawnchair and leave a 1-star review for both the free version and the paid upgrade token.

Incidentally, I completely missed this work of art until a few weeks ago because Glover dropped the official video on actor’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKnXFRW3LP0

8 Wars PLUS

True, sorry, this is another cover, I was choosing one to post not to spam too much Xiu Xiu.

They also made the best ringtone ever.

I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)

Because they have Occulus’ locked up in their basement and gimmick du jour is worse, now instead of just having a headset where you have to use their account and see ads for their shitty corpo vr chat every time you login you’ll have a mandatory llm paperclip learning your habits and shilling 24/7

Lyrics aren’t bad as well and holy crap she’s 73

This is some masterful bait, AI-generated, Charlie Kirk, “We Are”.

That’s a nice list

That’s a great question, some of them are this one and this here and also the entire album that has this one.

Yeah, I think he’s just on Orc and Soulympics from that album. I think he toured with them though and people love him so no wonder he tends to get stuck in the title. More people click on Mike Patton’s name than something like “Zu - Carbon”