Not an American. Also, able to cook and doing so most days. Am I allowed to have an opinion now? Good.

It’s just not for you to decide which tasks other people should perform themselves or outsource for money as long as somebody is willing to sell that service.

Making your own food is a very basic and fundamental skill, which is also much cheaper than any other option, and it has nothing in common with your disingenous examples.

I happen to think building and repairing computers or fixing my own bathroom sink are very basic, fundamental skills which are also cheaper than other options. Do I go around and gatekeep what people shouldn’t ask other people for help about?

We pay other people to do the things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time, this isn’t different.

Did I stutter?

Make your own phone. Make your own toothpaste. Grow your own strawberries.

The argument isn’t about walking, biking or driving, it’s about delivery. A lot of take out is also delivered by bike.

What’s more ridiculous? 10 people each driving to the fast food joint individually or one delivery driver making a round trip to 10 people?

We pay other people to do the things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time, this isn’t different.

Yup, Heroic 2.17.2, GE-Proton-latest (should be 10-9).

Edit: switched to a way older proton, that seems to work (see edit in OP).

In Steam or Heroic?

Edit: switched to a way older proton, that seems to work (see edit in OP).

Also, slave labor.

Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of both sides of the transaction after you have built a sufficient customer and supplier base with initially attractive offerings that were possibly made at a loss.

First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.

Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.

When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won’t sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can’t use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won’t leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn’t have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won’t leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. “What’s a few more bucks a month, what’s a little additional ad before my game loads, what’s a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers”. That’s the enshittification part.

greedy devs

Publishers, mostly.

How can it be so hard for devs to just include some additional sets of glyphs and allow the player to switch manually? Then nobody would have this problem.

Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.

Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven’t seen from them, so let’s hope that’ll work out.

I’m hyped.

If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Assange.

Current polls at least suggest it’s possible.

I legitimately do not, and have never had, any of the usual social media.

“Well that can’t be right. Highly suspicious. What do you have to hide?”

Garbage out is what he aims for.

I use 2 8bitdo ultimate 2c wireless on my steam deck. Had to put the 2.4g dongles on short extension cables because of interference from the dock’s USB ports, after that they work flawlessly, both via 2.4g and via bluetooth.

You first.

Ok, but which? Can you sue them if Galaxy, a free tool that they provide for convenience and that isn’t required for the actual service, doesn’t work, or if it breaks a game? Name one thing.

I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use Galaxy.

Which rights do you have?