And look at the dumb shit they (we) are paying for now. We wouldn't "need"* an income tax if we reigned in fraud, waste, abuse, immigration, and other forms of looting the treasury.

*The air quotes here are doing a LOT of heavy lifting.

Income taxes are necessary

How does that tweet go? "Boy, I can't wait for The Great War [World War 1] to end so we can get rid of this temporary income tax."

You understand that even if you don’t have property taxes you never own your property and the government can kick you off it at any given moment simply because they want to?

Cool. So let's take away one of their reasons to do so, and we can work on the others later.

I've done similar. We ran a 15-player game server off some old hardware I gave to a guy to literally put in his basement, and a couple of us just VNC'd in to it whenever something needed to be done. Ran a couple of concurrent games, not even bothering with VNs VMs or anything.

Could be worse. You could've release an extraction shooter in early March this year.

For anyone who forgot: This is the Dustborn devs.

For OP: You could've included the

--SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/app/2458470/

2 in game right now, BTW
20 players for 24 hour peak
888 all time peak 3 months ago (at launch)

--Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2458470/Spellcasters_Chronicles

--Shutdown announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2458470/view/701017176467832970

--A quote from same:

[Blah blah blah, team fluffing, corpo speak]

The development of Star Wars Eclipse is not affected by this decision and continues as planned.

Spellcasters Chronicles will remain accessible online until June 19, 2026, when the servers will be shut down. All amounts spent during Early Access will be eligible for a full refund upon request. Further details will be shared in the coming days through the game’s official channels and Discord.

Those aren't problem glasses, those are for people who have a glasses fetish.

For the attention to detail autists out there: Notice there's no refraction on the lenses. They're purely decorative.

I already quit watching movies decades ago. This latest round of bullshit ensures my interest remains suppressed.

Best case scenario? Stem cell injections.

Bad case scenario? A little frozen treat for the flight home.

Worst case scenario? Delayed gratification.

If you don't understand the last one bless your heart and I'm not going to ruin your mind with that.

THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!

Streamerbait. They're... I'll say ok to watch, but they just don't have lasting appeal, IMO, particularly to play long term.
You need a good streamer who can either carry chatter on with the chat or a group of other players who all play off each other pretty well.
You said it yourself:

I have two groups of streamers that I like (Fooster/Fisk/Olafpawbelt and Splitsie/Capac/TFE/Shack) that play them from time to time and it's pretty enjoyable watching them.

It's enjoyable watching the people, not necessarily the game.

See also: : No one talks about Amogus anymore. Remember that game? It's sitting at under 2,000 average Twitch viewers these days.
https://www.twitchmetrics.net/g/510218-among-us

It sits at #106 for streamer hours.
https://www.twitchmetrics.net/games/viewership?page=3

At this point I'd like it if anything is the Finding Out part, but I've long since given up on that happening.

Best we can do is some gay ops (dumbasses running at the White House with guns), and more Forever War in the Middle East at the behest of our greatest ally®.

Kaya would never ever say anything bad about Hasan. She knows better than to go against Hasan "K-9 Volt" Piker.

It's freeware now, specifically the second half, since the first half/episode was already shareware. You can get it standalone or on Steam (coming soon(tm)).

Archive of Saada's defunct website: https://web.archive.org/web/20110717071112/http://www.exmsft.com/~ricks/

Fansite with the same same: http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/download.html

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4313160/Castle_of_the_Winds/

Tagging u/@MonkeysUncle3 and u/GamingTheSystem-01 so I don't have to spam this.

Multiplayer (well, 1v1) Doom. On the SNES.

Destination Earthstar.

Unreal World.

CLAYMAN! UP HEEEERE!!!

I met one of the artists for that through GG. It's a good game, but the controls take...... a LOT of getting used to.

It's simple:

If you'd end up on Alex Rosen or Chris Hansen's show?
In the ocean you go.

What kind of retard millennial or younger thinks they can win an election by not voting? You, seems like.

I'm neither of those things and I didn't write that. When you have to misquote people then you're wrong. QED.

I try to be more tolerant then "one drop spoils the stew"

Come join us. It's much better here.

You already included it.

He wasn't carried by boomers, it's just no other age bracket voted for him!

When you type out a sentence like that do you ever stop to think what you're saying, or was that some over Fauxgnaws from 15 seconds ago that wrote that, and it's not your problem?

Actually....

youngsters include up to age 60, maybe even 64

Ok, let's get you to bed, grandpa.

I don't know if anyone's done a breakdown of the exit vote tallies, but I expect it to break down into boomers vs millennials/zoomers with Gen X being split.

Gallerin *only* carried the boomer vote. Every other age bracket went Massie.

Juuuuust enough mail-in ballots to push him across the line, too.

1: This is not new information.

2: Oh no!

Anyway....