Where. I keep reading it over and over and the only one I can find is someone derisively commenting on “the same way it applies to other streamers”.

Twitch guidelines are basically written in such a way that they can just freely do whatever they want and this “rule chabge” seems to continue in that spirit, singling out vtubers.

Yes, the model. Vtubers typically don’t show their real appearance. Some do, but some don’t.

vtubers are streamers or content creators that use a puppeted avatar, instead of camera feed of their real face/body.

Some avatars are quite risque, but this rule apparently only applies to the avatars, while the real stuff is still fair game.

No they don’t. The dev has to opt to use Valve CEG (custome executabke generation) for that to be included in the game files, and that is entirely optional.

On these games, you can do exactly what you suggest.

Here’s a list.

Heroic can actually do that too, now.

Not sure what you mean by with or without GOG, but their whole thing is that none of their games have DRM.

AFAIK, you end up with identical installs even if you use Galaxy to download and install your games, and the installs will continue to work even if you uninstall Galaxy. The actual game files are exactly the same.

I think the installers boil down to convenient self-decompressing archives for getting the game files onto your machine.

If you have the game files for a GOG game installed using any method, those can be moved around, copied, and run with no problem.

Build software using contractors.

Use software to make game using contractors.

Finish game, end contracts with contractors.

Company now has literally no-one on payroll who still knows how to do anything with their “in-house” tools.

Fuck everything up for years, and get literally nothing done, because you keep trying to finish things with a revolving door of contractors who all have to learn to use your in-house crap made by other contractors who aren’t around to answer questions or update documentation.

Switch to UE5 because all the contractors already know how to use it, as you won’t consider hiring actual employees again.

Note that a lot of games on steam don’t have any DRM, either. It’s probable that if you have large library, a lot of your installed games will run without steam, if you go and start them from their exe.

So you can likely archive at least some of your steam games by simply keeping them installed, or even squirreling away the install folder somewhere.

How tf did they think a PS3 era piss-filter would improve things?

There is so much you could absolutely tear into, what the hell do they think they are doing?

It wasn’t for me, either, but I’m fairly certain the point of Goat Simulator is that there isn’t one.

People don’t hate these companies because they “don’t cater to them”. They love or loved the games, but these companies then turn around and try to screw their own fans out of every cent, nugget of personal data, and free time, that they have. There is no anger like the anger of a true fan.

To get that pissed, you had to have cared quite a lot to begin with.

The rest, are simply indifferent.

That, is why people are upset enough to experience schadenfreude when their stocks and releases fail. Because that is an event that SHOULD be proving to these companies that if they keep pushing the bullshit, they soon won’t be catering to anyone anymore. Hence it’s something that gives fans hope that they will pull their shit together and get back to doing right by their own franchises and talent.

And we are not all in the same boat. Some of us just want good games.

Even when companies like Ubi make good games, they come with a shitload of strings like “but the monetisation is unethical” or “the devs were forced to crunch” or “the company leadership did nothing about a festering company culture of criminal mysogyny”.

Simply by operating as ruthlessly as they do, these companies are slowly convincing the world they are “non-decent” institutions. Such institutions need massive restructuring, when the don’t deserve complete disassembly.

And angering your fans is a process that only goes one way. Every fan you piss off enough to make them swear to never again give you a chance, is one you probably wont ever have as a customer again.

Yeah, some will be malicious enough to cheer at the individuals getting screwed over when megacorps eat shit. But every sane person is cheering because there is now a large pool of talent looking to do something good with their skill, out from under the thumb of managers demanding every mechanic be optimized for monetization, rather than gameplay.

This person isn’t wrong to be disgusted with people who cheer at jobs being lost, but he is also MASSIVELY out of touch with how his own company is operating, and how it is coming to be viewed by the world as a result.

Sony is trying really fucking hard to piss off PC players, right as they were warming up to playstation games coming to PC.

Yes, but you can no longer buy just the “complete edition”. The only way to get and play zero dawn on PC right now, is to buy the bundle that also comes with a preorder of the upcoming, more expensive, remastered version.

I can only add a bundle to cart, one which includes both zero dawn and its upcoming “remastered” version. I can’t buy just Zero Dawn.

Are you sure you can still buy the actual normal “complete edition” that came out on PC years ago, and not this more expensive bundle?

A local place makes a pepperoni pizza with blue cheese and honey added. It’s fucking amazing.

Could we get that for recording, too?

Good.

One side of your deskpad may be grippier than the other. I noticed this with my pad when I flipped it once. The keyboard side seems to have become worn and become rough on a visually unnoticeable level, so my mouse now slides way better one end of the pad than the other.

Also, others have suggested teflon replacements for the skates.

You can also get “universal” adhesive glass mouse skates. Once I tried glass skates on a mouse I never wanted to use anything else.

That said I benefit from this most when I use my mouse for gaming. It might be pointless for average use, but the extremely low friction is very comfortable.

No.

You’re asking me to label all the drinks as hard liquir, no matter what the actual alcohol content is.

And I’m telling you some of the stuff doesn’t even contain any, and the stuff that does, has a wide range of percentages.

You’re pulling those two words from the second rule in some of my communities.

No nudity or especially lewd content, keep things merely mildy arousing.

Which forbids everything more than mildly arousing, and invites literally everything less than that.