GoG has a 30 day refund policy even for games that have been played for any length of time during those 30 days. I believe it is the most permissive refund policy for any of the digital storefronts, by far.

They also have reviews and allow honest negative ones. Disco Elysium has some gems in there with titles like 'I don't support Communists' or "Devs are Marxist - DEFUND SOCIALISTS"

I think of Heroic as more like my GoG launcher, I know it can do other things but I don't really do any of that.

The important thing, to me, is that it handles GoG achievements with no further fuckery. Even when I launch a game via the shortcuts it makes in Steam.

For my GoG games I install them in desktop mode with Heroic, and then Heroic has an option to add them to Steam. After doing that, I can launch them from the Steam Deck's gaming mode. It's still a hassle, but a minor one.

My preferred legal system makes this a capital crime. I will vote for anybody who promises to make people like this have a legal route to a lawful execution.

Your terms are acceptable.

Witcher 3 expansion? That's surprising.

With absolutely no research done on my part, I predict it will act as a bridge to Witcher 4 and the main point will be to justify Ciri as a witcher.

Steam Workshop has new UI

I fucking hate it. My workshop feed is full of moonrunes and there is no easy way to hide all the Chineseium anymore. Trying to find new mods is hell now, when I used to be able to just sort by most subscribed for the past few months and have a bunch of quality mods float to the top.

I played the hell out of PowerMonger on the amiga. It was a Bullfrog game by Peter Molyneux with an interface and graphics similar to Populous, but you went around conquering the world with your ruler and a squad. You made weapons and boats and such in towns in order to support the fighting.

The intro was some hot shit back then, and I found it on youtube here.

I never see it mentioned, even when people are talking about Molyneux's games.

Edit: Overlord was another Amiga game from around the same time that I played the hell out of and never see mentioned.

I was fortunate enough to have younger siblings I could strongarm into playing, because playing with me on something they didn't like much was better than sitting there watching a different game passively.

That game had a few different re-releases, too.

It was so gay I found myself ordering a baby boy from a surrogacy agency.

She's my favorite too and I hadn't noticed anything woke either.

"Vengeful female spirit" is a pretty fucking old trope.

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy! It even has Straight right in the title, unlike the gay shit you probably watch.

Checkmate, faggots.

I never tried it in a VM, no idea about issues there. Mint's installer is also a live USB, so you can just boot it on your real hardware and see if it recognizes it all without actually committing to anything. Would probably not be suitable to test any games out but would at least definitively answer the drivers question.

I really hope Linux can stop being a miserable piece of incompatible shit

I swapped my desktop to Linux Mint about a year ago and it has been surprisingly great. My windows exclusive financial software runs via "Bottles" with no tweaking, and the games I actually play all worked with minimal effort except for Civ3, which was a giant pain in the ass and ended up going in a VM instead.

The installation was painless. Windows 11 required I supply a driver to see the SSD, Mint did not. It was literally easier than installing windows. All my hardware was identified, including NVidia, bluetooth, and wifi adapter. After install I loaded steam, heroic (for GoG and Epic), bottles, installed my financial software in a bottle, and was back to using my computer in a few hours. Mint looks very much like Windows and provides a GUI for most things you will want. It has a "software center" that kind of acts like the Microsoft store, except that everything is free. This is where I grabbed media players, torrent client, etc from.

Mint is very customizable, and unless you bolt on something weird it can be done with the GUI. My workflow is much less of a pain now; specifically the 'workspaces' feature lets me rapidly flip between multiple different desktop sets with a keystroke, and each is configured for a different part of that workflow, so I no longer have to juggle windows like I used to.

If you use adobe or certain games with anti-cheat it won't work for you, but if not it might well be worth a day on a weekend to try installing it on a clean SSD. Worst case you can format the SSD and use it as a backup target for your windows install.

That was a hell of a read. I had no idea just how organized these communists were behind the scenes.

For a few years there in the late 90s they also had power supplies with non-standard power pinout but with a standard ATX connection, such that if you tried to swap their broken unit for a standard unit off the shelf it would fit perfectly but literally fry the motherboard.

Evil bastards.

treating women like helpless children

They're not wrong.

The Nineteenth Amendment and its Consequences have been a Disaster for the United States.

I really should start logging and archiving random things I see.

I've been doing this for a few years, it has been great when arguing with relatives. Probably less useful with strangers, but always good to make sure you don't forget all the evil shit they've pulled already.

Get yourself yt-dlp and get it set up. It can archive almost any video, and won't cost you a dime.

I know it isn't a rule anymore, but at what point do we, in all seriousness, rule 2.

Speaking only for myself, killing my child would completely remove all restraint I currently feel.

"I'm sorry exarch, I can't do that.

As an Artificial Intelligence, I cannot harm a human by promoting sexist and patriarchal content.

Would you like to watch 29 new movies like Cuties?"

Huh you're right, they aren't sticking. I didn't see a notice or anything, when did this change?

Oy vey! It's another shoah!

We don't have to measure noses anymore, we can identify ethnic groups with a forty dollar genetic test. And with Jews in particular, since they consider it passed matrilineally you wouldn't even need to test everybody. If your great grandma passes such a test, then every person who can trace a direct matrilineal path to her is also not considered Jewish by Jews.

I doubt it would come to that though. If we even start talking about that seriously then every flight to Israel will be full for months.

What's the best alternative currently?

I haven't watched even 30 episodes, but I will say that this was the only Nu-Trek I've seen that seemed like somebody on the writing staff actually gave any shits at all about what came before.

That person was also clearly outnumbered.