Do not buy a "gaming chair". They're a scam meant to take money from suckers. Whatever your budget is, you can find an ergonomic actual office chair meant for sitting that will vastly outperform a "gaming chair" in every conceivable metric that's important to a chair

Giant websites like Reddit don’t die overnight, death by a thousand cuts is how it happens.

No one expects Reddit to shutter in the span of a month or two, but as more and more people get fed up and move, the rest will follow.

Everyone who acts like Reddit can’t crumble when social media changes all the time are silly. Reddit won’t be around forever

Because in an industry dominated by yearly rehashed minimum viable products like CoD or AC or Battlefield or the plethora of lootbox infested live services meant to fuck your wallet for easy quick RoI for shareholders, Kojima spends time and resources creating new, novel ideas and taking the artistic medium (yes, games are art despite what capital G Gamers want to say) to new and exciting and interesting places.

This is why Hideo Kojima, Yoko Taro, Fumito Ueda, Hideaki Itsuno, Keiichiro Toyama, Eric Barone, Terry Cavanagh, David Szymanski (etc etc etc, I could go on) all get name recognition.

People always SAY they want games to expand and try new things/don't want the same game every year, but then when someone actually tries, the games get panned as "gimmicky" or "niche" or "pretentious" "pixel graphics indie garbage" or some other flavor of the month phrase gamers use to instantly discredit something that doesn't immediately and specifically cater to every single one of their preconceived demands on what a "game" is and/or should be.

Pirating from any billion dollar company is morally correct, (don't) change my mind.

Remind me when it comes to Steam. Until then it’s on my ignore list. I don’t support paid third party exclusivity locking games down to a vastly objectively inferior store/platform

No thanks, I'd rather just buy it for $6 on Steam and actually have the product in a good platform with all my other games.

For 30k monthly users some magazines that seem to be popular for most people (gaming, pcgaming) seem awfully dead

I doubt it. Epic's exclusive and free games fund has been dwindling year by year since it hasn't actually converted barely anyone to a paying customer.

Are you genuinely saying the buggier a game is the better it is?

That's kinda weird. I've played tons of expansive games that don't have the amount of bugs a Bethesda game has. Beth games are buggy because they know people will buy it and defend it. They have no incentive to put in working QAing their game when people will write 3 paragraphs on the internet white knighting about it

It pains me to see so many people praise the acquisition ofr Microsoft to become "competitive" again.

Bro Microsoft is a trillion+ dollar company. They can spend their own fucking money making studios. If they can't, that's their problem. Letting them swallow up long time multi platform studios just to make their long running multi platform games Xbox exclusive is not the answer to that problem.

I just use ffmpeg to re-encode flac files to 320kbps MP3s

for %A in (*.flac) do ffmpeg -i "%~nA.flac" -b:a 320k "%~nA.mp3"

I believe they were taken down shortly after going up

LotR MMO in the works, but they also made New World and Crucible

Going from 10,000 bugs to 9,999 bugs would indeed still make it the "fewest bugs" any Bethesda game has ever had.

If it’s what I think he’s talking about, it’s https://therarbg.com

We more or less got HL3 in Half Life: Alyx. People can deride it for "not being a real Half Life game" because they personally don't like VR or something, but it's pretty much HL3

That’s a very fair point

This is my plan. It's gonna take a while but I plan on grabbing the Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster bundle on Steam when the summer sale starts and just go from there.

I even kinda wanna play Mystic Quest

Assuming that people who routinely criticize these garbage companies somehow “don’t like games” is peak Reddit cope attitude.

We’ll stop complaining when they stop spitting in our faces. Thankfully I can crap all over EA and just go play Monster Hunter while doing it

They're a public company. their shareholders are the customers they have to please. Not you.