I would be fine just playing Bad Company 2 on community servers if that is an option. Haven’t bought a Battlefield game since. I don’t see that trend changing any time soon.

Oh my god, this truly was one of the biggest reasons I didn’t use Linux in college. After I built a rig with two SSDs, it felt so much easier to get into Linux.

On the one hand, no DRM and competition pushes me towards GOG. On the other hand, my Steam Deck pushes me to Steam. Yes, Heroic Launcher is amazing for Linux gaming, but I’ve encountered a few games that didn’t behave right. Dragon Age: Origin is the biggest offender with the DLC just not activating out of the box on GOG.

The only thing I can’t get working on Sunshine on Wayland is a visible mouse cursor. Makes streaming Baldur’s Gate 3 with a cursor a pain.

After seeing a DankPods video on modding an old iPod, I’m pretty tempted to pick one up. I like the idea of picking up some quality IEMs to last me maybe a decade with it. I hate how disposable some tech has gotten.

What’s the difference from Chromium? Main “selling” point?

Company responsible for one of the most played games on the planet unable to pay its workers. Feels like someone at Epic is horribly irresponsible with finances, or just maybe infinite growth is impossible and harms everyone below the execs.

Not to mention the community controls are great. Larin did a fantastic job adapting the game to a controller, but I much prefer the flexibility of keyboard and mouse and the Deck’s input options are fantastic.

I never actually grew up with an N64 so I didn’t play Golden Eye as a kid. I did have a GameCube and Timesplitters 2 which was loads of fun.

I truthfully emulated ToTK on my main rig, then streamed it to my Deck with Moonlight. At the time (launch week) I had a bit of issue emulating it on Deck to my liking, but I know at this point it’s not bad around 20-30. I played a lot of Street Fighter 6 on my Deck, with only World Tour mode running at 30, everything else is 60. I’m also working my way through Transistor, picking short indies to hammer out one at a time. Pretty much everything I want to run on the Deck will run, with the exception of Xbox 360 games, but I’m still able to run the unreleased Goldeneye 007 XBLA remaster without issue.

If you’d like to play Nintendo games without emulation whatsoever. Tracking down a Switch that is easy enough to hack, and dumping all your games and saves can be a big ask for your average Switch/Deck fan. I only use my Switch to dump new releases I buy to play on either my Steam Deck or main rig. I beat ToTK fully through emulation, though that was on my main rig. I also could absolutely not live without the massive backlog that is the Steam library.

Every new YouTube headline makes me feel better about hopping on the early bird pricing of Google Play Music.

Meanwhile I will be wearing my pink “Bad Guy” Vegeta shirt and cracking jokes with my friends AFTER the movie, like a true American.

I use Posteo myself. Similar to Mailbox, $1 a month and I haven’t had any issues.