Playing Persona 5 Royal on the switch every time I have 15 mins or more to spare. It’s almost replaced doom-scrolling entirely for me. Excellent game I failed to get into years ago but this time I think I started while I was in the right headspace.

If you are considering this game and are at all busy, get it on Switch if you can. You frequently go through 40-60 mins of scripted events/dialogue without a chance to save, so the ability to suspend and pick up where you left it is a life-saver. It also prevents me from getting distracted by other games whenever I open Steam. Maybe I’ll finish it this time.

That sounds plausible. I guess we’ll see if real physical games start popping up soon.

I was probably just unlucky with it. Had a drifting controller replaced also within my short time with it.

Yeah PC is much better, we bought this for Demon’s Souls and the other exclusives we figured would release. Just became my partner’s go-to Genshin machine until it started making blinking rainbow artifacts very much justifying the epilepsy warning.

If only my PS5 could outlive the PS4.

The PS5 GPU killed itself (just) out of warranty and Sony refused to touch it without payment.

I thought the problem was that they only offer 64GB for Switch 2 and it has a per unit cost of 16 USD for 3rd party publisher. This seriously eats at the margins per unit especially for cheaper titles and makes them opt for the key cards instead.

Smaller games could fit on smaller and cheaper cartridges and bigger games will fill the whole cartridge and require additional downloads to be playable.

Game key cards are just digital games with added plastic. Sure you can resell/lend them but that is as far as any benefit goes.

In 10 years from now if you pop one of these in your console for some nostalgia you’ll be met with shut down download servers and disappointment.

Yeah now how will we give all the AI crawlers exemptions from uploading their ID and proving they are of age?

Some I’ve tried/heard of (sorted by amount I’ve used them):

• Language Transfer (Audio-based course in the format of a teacher-student conversation with explanation of concepts etc. Completely free but takes donations)
• Clozemaster (Mostly fill in the right missing word, small challenges format)
• Memrise (Memorizing common phrases, spoken by a cast of real people with distinct dialects etc.)
• Mango (More feature-rich, similar to Duolingo but better IMO. Many libraries offer this, worth looking into)
• Babbel (Barely touched this one but think it’s similar to Duo)
• Lingonaut (New thing, don’t think it’s live yet but I think it’s focused around community-driven features that Duolingo cut out to replace with AI)

Do you have some community around you? The US looks like a sad place to be any kind of minority right now. I’m certain there are many others feeling the same things as you. You’re not alone.

Yeah, I can’t pretend to know what you’re going through. We want you around though, that I can say for sure.

Don’t let the fascists decide your destiny, directly or indirectly.

I don’t know you but I want you in the world. I’m sorry that you’re going through that.

It’s coming along better than before. I’d mostly attribute it to immersion training with podcasts, books, and video games in my target language. I am horrendous when it comes to sitting down and taking the time to study deliberately, but I do learn quite a bit from procrastinating in my target language.

Poor guy, maybe he should get AI therapy.

Why would he fight this law?

If SKG get what they want I’ll be even better off when buying games on sale 8 years after release.

Imagine it’s already unsupported and thus:

• Time-limited FOMO events are disabled or left in a predictable cycle
• Can decide to play with friends instead of forced to play with cheaters the publishers can’t seem to keep out of official servers
• Related to previous point but toxic players usually follow the bigger player bases to have more harassment targets and you can ban them yourself if it’s private server or p2p
• Offline play and LAN: play with your travel companions on handheld devices without internet or during outages
• Cash shop shutdown if one existed

Games are ironically going to get better, like a fine wine, as they age and lose support. The alternative is that publishers make them as good at release so people don’t wait until end of life too buy it.

Downer take: I don’t know if this has been addressed by SKG but my biggest fear related to this is that publishers will push controversial updates that fundamentally change the game like EoC in RuneScape or disable core features before shutdown. That way they can say they left it on the newest patch. The game works, but nobody who enjoyed it before is going to want to play it. Even in this scenario the added regulation is a net positive though.

They can’t replace him with a suit. There should be a shaman council that speaks with his spirit to make further decisions for Valve after his passing or retirement (they can just speak directly in this case).

I mean the only good alternative to Steam is GOG but there you’re not dealing with DRM.

Yeah, well familiar with wine going back over 10 years of using Linux as primary OS with the occasional foray into getting my games running on Linux. Most of this time I have just kept a copy of Windows available for games though since it’s been way too much hassle getting things to run until the last couple of years.

For the games that natively run on Linux I don’t see any difference in how they’re preserved. Haven’t encountered anything that doesn’t run on modern systems.

With that said they could get an easy win by making a Linux version of Galaxy and borrowing Proton to run non-Linux titles.

Then reading the manual on the bus home or in the backseat of the car. 😊

I still go to the local GameStop sometimes and pick up a used Switch title I’d like to keep and play again in the future before they all dry up. Sadly they come with no manual.

I’m afraid I’m fooling myself though and that one day when I dig out the Switch after not using it for a couple of years it will be a swollen mess of a fire hazard (with mega stick drift) and all those physical copies will be worthless without cartridge-dumping hardware and emulators.