His comment didn’t address two key issues for me:

• The “crunch”/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
• The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

I’ve been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising “We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.”, is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can’t rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

Not to mention, it’s worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is “most likely to remain the same”, which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

Don’t get me wrong - I think an included battery that’s rechargeable through USB is fantastic. Less customer inconvenience. But they should either go with a standard that’s easily reproducible or go with regular rechargeable batteries.

If it was so easy to replace them, with each Li-Ion battery being different for every type of device.

Since I got those from Ikea, I just want devices to go back to those types of batteries instead of internal battery packs. Still got to appreciate the Xbox controllers sticking to that principle (for now).

I’m honestly a bigger fan of the classic DOOM I/II (199X) soundtracks. Despite being obvious parodies of existing rock/metal songs, they had a certain appeal. Especially when someone makes a very good cover.

I get why people like 2016’s DOOM’s more “metal” approach, but for me nothing beats an adrenaline-rush song when ripping and tearing those damned demons.

any game with a story

Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory, Rimworld, Starbound…

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one’s not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

I could see both ads and subscriptions work (although, the former might be “useless” for those using adblockers, after all, so I’d see persistent/static sponsorship ads similar to how some FOSS projects do it to be more likely).

Especially the latter, for certain services that focus on providing value. A friend of mine mentioned Misskey for example, apparently being used by some Japanese artists. Considering Twitter’s on its way out by being harmful to commission artists, I could see someone spin up such instance and ask X amount for providing a marketplace for commissioned goods.

To add to the folks owning both a Switch and a Deck:

Keep in mind that the Steam Deck might be more “unstable” than a regular console like a Switch. Not just games or controller config tweaks, but also general system stability - I’m speaking of experience with the beta software of the Deck.

Despite that, if you’re tech-savvy enough or are happy to stick with only Verfiied/Playable rated games without tinkering, the Steam Deck’s highly recommendable. Even for party games, as you can just use any vendor’s controller on the Deck basically. Don’t need to get 4 of one vendor or the like.

From what I read - there’s a remastered version that includes the DLC which is prominently advertised since March this year (which is also the version coming to Humble Choice). The remaster apparently had huge performance issues, but those have been (recently) resolved after few patches. Seems like typical AAA “We’ll fix it” behaviour, sadly.

Remarkably is that buying that remastered version doesn’t provide a copy to the original (probably due to IP ownership lying with Obsidian/Microsoft than Private Division themselves).

That’s definitely part of the charm that got me to wishlist it so long ago in the first place!

I’m doubtful - only because I don’t get sucked in that easily anymore with games. My backlog continues to grow, and I still haven’t even beaten Tears of the Kingdom yet lol. But I got high expectations for Persona 5. I love me some flashy turn-based RPGs.

I got Dragon Quest 11 before as I prefer the turn-based combat in RPG, but that’s no where as flashy and catchy as Persona 5. So P5R definitely would get beaten before DQ11 haha.

• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
• Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
• Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I’ve heard it got a great modding community)
• Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
• Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn’t pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG’s new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG’s own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
• Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that’s been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
• Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn’t wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
• True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)

My bad, didn’t read the part you didn’t get it from Steam but some other place. Then I understand wanting to stick with the DRM-free version for sure. Have fun with it!

The remastered version or the original? Might wanna refund if it’s the former. Humble Choice (at July 4th) will contain at least the remastered version (the Space’s Choice edition).

I’m honestly really happy with the performance of P5R at Medium settings on Deck.

Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:

• Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)
• Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn’t have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)
• Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)
• NOMAD (another classic emulated title)
• Castle Crashers (one of my “indie titles to get” games on the old list)
• Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)

Agreed! Although I got the Rad Edition through Humble Choice a while back. They’ve been killing it this year imo, making it somewhat worth every month.

In what ways is NBA2K a great sim? I only know it because of the Ultimate Team mode.

I noticed someone mentioning 299, so about 40 more than a Snackbox. Couldn’t find any official source for it, however.

Little shoutout to /c/gamedeals at CompuVerse. The instance owner got a deal bot running there, cross-posted the Humble post of mine from there.