“Games as art” isn’t about pretty pictures. At that point, games are no different from movies. A Tale of Two Brothers is a short puzzle game that uses the contols as a way to directly enrich the story. I consider that game as “games as art” way before considering any of the cinematic AAA games that have come out in recent years.

DRM-free games exist on steam. It’s up to the publisher if they want DRM, not Valve.

From what I’ve heard, steam does not charge for the generation of steam keys. So every steam key sold off platform is a loss of sales for them. Restricting the price of keys sounds perfectly reasonable in this case.

I hit that point, needed to add a few things and changed settings around, and everything broke. I tinker with little things way too much to use Nix.

Ublock Origin is the only mandatory extension i can think of.

Some other extensions I personally use are:

Gesturefy is useful if you want to control things with mouse gestures (holding right-click and then drawing a shape to activate commands)

NoScript for a little added security, with the cost of having to manually enable javascript on websites that literally can’t function without it.

Any extension that runs userscripts.

Dark Reader for websites that don’t offer a dark mode.

I prefer wired accessories. They don’t need to be charged, and I don’t have to worry about them having connection issues.

Piratebay is still around, but it lacks good moderation. I’ve heard that it’s still fine to use for non-executable files such as media.

Is this armpit?

Are we normalizing political violence now?

This comment made me realize I haven’t installed thefuck on my most recent linux installation. I have evolved past the point of making common mistakes.

A medieval peasant would be wishing they could est like this.

I at least have a valid reason for being grumpy. Trying to get sleep was almost impossible with neighbors lighting off fireworks throughout the whole game, and even slightly before it too.

As someone who used NixOS as a daily driver for a few months, I also agree with not recommending NixOS.

In case you haven’t deciphered where the cut off points are:

• Cassette Beasts
• Pseudoregalia
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Chants of Sennar
• Gloomwood

Here are my recommendations then:

CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.

Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.

Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.

It actually is now. Both EndeavourOS and CachyOs have installers that set a good baseline to build off of.

Never even heard of it till now, so it probably didn’t work the way they wanted it to.

That argument is stupid for anyone who understands how games utilize DRM and DLC. As long as DRM is not involved, there is literally nothing stopping you from getting the DLC from somewhere else. Things are slightly trickier with DRM, but not impossible.

If I’m remembering correctly, price parity only applies to keys sold off platform, rather than the game itself because they don’t profit from the keys being generated.

Where did you hear that? I use DP to connect to my monitor and I can play sound through it.