TLDR: Supporter packs and game soundtrack as “dlc” is basically free money

Appreciate the kind words. I have had various approaches to try and “treat” this over the course of the last 15+ years, including the ones you named, like I mentioned, not exactly a new phenomena on my end.

If there was a suicide booth or a euthanasia clinic for people who just want to peace out, I’d have visited it 15+ years ago or any day since then, including today.

Also while I understand the notion that access to substances and firearms and whatnot might increase the risks of impulsive momentary courage (or stupidity), an average home and convenience store offer many items which can effectively facilitate the deed, don’t need to be super elaborate with hugging a grenade or slobbering on the barrel of a shotgun for an effective method… granted if the plan is to go out with a bang, who am I to stop it.

Sucks about the tumor though. May you easily outlive the expectations if you so desire

I can see where you’re potentially coming from.

But I don’t think you comprehend how violent an act of suicide is in almost all cases.

It takes an insane level of commitment to go through with that the first time, more so for the subsequent attempts.

Also of the people who really aim to end it, succeed on the first try.

I don’t know about you, but if given the choice, I probably wouldn’t be here. There’s nothing particularly wrong with me physically, I just don’t want to be here.

Been the case over a decade ago. Pretty much back as long as I can remember. Still the case today.

I do agree with the point that a humane way out will probably have a net positive impact in almost all cases. Especially if it comes with “here’s a list of things you should consider doing to lessen the impact on your family and significant other” or something of the sort. Needless to say, but should be entirely optional.

I don’t think I agree with the “other treatments” mentality though. That just sounds like what the Americans are doing with their abortion clinics trying to emotionally blackmail people into not aborting their child by forcing you to listen to heartbeats and look at ultrasounds.

And shouldn’t need to be terminally ill or old.

If I wanna peace out (humanely) at any age past adulthood, I should be able to.

Vampire survivors.

Very few of them do, grand majority are just game key cartridges.

Same here and the battery is holding up pretty well even after all these years which is a nice surprise

I guess they took the L in more ways than one

Dibs on plants

Personally I opt for spring water, much more palatable

I still remember playing StarCraft 2 shortly after release on a 300$ laptop and it running perfectly well on medium settings.

Looked amazing. Felt incredibly responsive. Polished. Optimized.

Nowadays it’s RTX this, framegen that, need SSD or loading times are abysmal, oh and don’t forget that you need 40gb of storage and 32gb of ram for a 3 hour long walking simulator, how about you optimize your goddamn game instead? Don’t even get me started on price tags for these things.

Software and game development is definitely a spectrum though, but holy shit is the ratio of sloppy releases so disproportionate that it’s hard to see it at times.

Homie installed an alpha version of a distro instead of picking the stable one, ran into issues, something something picture of dude shoving a stick into the wheel of the bike he’s riding.

This is very much the best approach, help your kids along when they need it, but don’t make it the main source of their knowledge, anything else they should have the freedom to explore further on their own or ask for help to get there

If it can be corrected in 30 seconds or less, mention it so they can address it, if it’s something that can’t be fixed on the spot or quickly, then no.

If I want the tuna salad, I’ll order tuna salad.

Also if I’m walking up to a sandwich shop or a restaurant that serves tuna steaks on a grill or something of the sort and say “I’ll have the tuna” the assumption is, they know I what I mean (variance for multiple dishes not included).

Is it really that different though?

Lets say you get the 1 month pass, play any games you want and are part of that “service” for the duration, once it runs out you lose access to the games (unless you crack the downloaded files for them which would be like not returning the “rented” game I guess)

Personally just feels like the same scam cable tv was and now transforming into streaming services with ads.

Don’t microslop and friends peddle some game pass and similar subscriptions? Game rental with extra steps.

Geese are at least forthcoming with their intent to mess you up

Very much of a similar mindset - don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

While GoG is certainly not without its faults or shortcomings, at the end of the day they’re trying to stay true to their mission and delivering on it consistently.

I actually went to look into the examples mentioned above.

Hitman was apparently playable with “some targets” and other stuff locked behind online functionality but the base game was playable without. So this part definitely feeds into the “screwing people in new and exciting ways” that you mentioned.

For Deus Ex MD - apparently the binaries themselves were actually the DRM free ones, but the package that they gave GoG basically redirected all the DRM calls to Steam, which… resulted in a weird situation where it’s half stripped of some DRM measures while the other half required an actual crack to kill those calls that were redirected to a different platform entirely… so overall I wanna chuck it to a lazy “let’s get some brownie points and release it on GoG but let’s use this intern to package and ship it cuz we can’t be arsed to do a proper release” type of scenario.

Do I blame GoG for not checking it throughly? Yeah, a bit, but at the same time the onus should be on the providing party to deliver an adequate product that’s up to the requirements of the platform and if it’s not, maybe have a financial penalty clause for non-adherence in the distribution contract or something, I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer or anything.