I get where you’re coming from, but awards shows shouldn’t be participation trophies. The panels should give the awards for each category to the games they think were the best in that category.

And games aren’t made by a single person. If they decided that E33 shouldn’t win Best Music because it also won Best Art Direction, that’s unfair to the composers and musicians who worked on E33.

It’s like ebay in 2003.

I have no issue with the Best Debut Indie and Best Indie being the same game.

If Silksong had been the voter’s best Indie, it couldn’t have won best debut because it wasn’t Team Cherry’s first game.

But if they’re going to give the best Indie award to E33, they kinda have to give it best debut. Otherwise they’d have to give one of the awards to a game that was not the best in the category.

Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning?

I’m perfectly fine with people making money in exchange for an excellent product, and Expedition 33 is a fucking masterpiece.

Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.

Do they have 5090s in them?

And that last bit is wild because the one that doesn’t require Windows for PC gamers is the one owned by Microsoft.

I do like Inkscape a lot, but GIMP simply isn’t a viable alternative for photoshop for most users. The interface is horrid and the capabilities are limited. Adobe knew what they were doing with their strategic buyouts of developers.

Google is ending AOSP support and has announced they’re gonna stop allowing sideloading.

I have trouble finding time to game these days. Easy modes let me experience the games more quickly. It’s not always the “best” way to experience a game, but I don’t have more than 1 or 2 hours a week on average to play games these days.

Clippy (actual name Clippit), was an avatar for the Office Assistant User Interface introduced in Office 97. It read the contents of your documents and would pop up and give you advice, and was basically an attempt at an intelligent agent, but 30 years ago.

It wasn’t nearly as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit, but that’s largely because the tech to be as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit didn’t exist in 1997.

You can’t just pick up an instrument and sound good. That’s not how they work.

If you want to just be able to make music in a pub without having to work at it, use a phone. Otherwise, you’ll need to put in a great deal of time and effort.

That being out of the way: guitar. It’s an instrument with loads of resources on how to play, doesn’t need to be accompanied by other instruments, and is very controllable when it comes to volume.

And you don’t have to be amazing to play something fun.

I feel like putting stuff back in the correct spot would fall under, “Yes, that’s part of your job.”

But now the API-based tool i used no longer functions

I used a tool to overwrite mine right before the API bullshit went into effect, but searching for my account, it appears they were all restored.

Is that store-brand “Cap’n Crunch?”

Because the corporate Dems are scared when people actually show up to vote in the primary. That’s why we need to keep doing it to replace the Democratic leadership.

Why are you trying so hard to keep people from doing that? Are you an idiot, or are you a troll and actually want things to stay as they are?

You know what causes more harm than Democrats? People not voting for them because they’re not far enough to the left, and therefore moving the entire country to the right.

What teaches the Dems to move to the right is that those on the right actually get votes.

That’s a thing, but the biggest thing is that PCs as a class have been falling in numbers. As media consumption devices, they’re outmoded. Phones, tablets, and cheap smart TVs have taken their place.

A typical family of 4 might have 1 laptop for when one is actually needed, whereas a few years ago every member of a suburban household would have their own computer.

So a larger part of the market is enthusiasts and techies, who are more likely to be using Linux, and gamers, who are using devices like the Steam Deck and Legion Go that run on SteamOS.

I am a scuba instructor and professional underwater photographer. I’m also obese.

Scuba is not a sport that makes one fit - especially as you get better at it and improve buoyancy skills to the point you aren’t even having to swim most of the time. When I dive, I’m essentially just existing underwater, not even supporting my own body weight.