MentalEdge

That’d be like paying for internet service being used to screw you.

A usenet account is not in itself proof of anything.

Yes, since most games are simply unrated.

But the “playable” rating does not require full steamdeck support, it just means the game runs. A “verified” rating means a game is a fully seamless experience on the deck.

Do you know about co-optimus.com? Is that the “third party” you mentioned?

I don’t know of anything better. Setting your filter and sorting by user rating is pretty effective. Aside from that I sort by release date and check back every now and then.

They do, though?

There is a “shared/splitscreen co-op” filter option.

Combine that with a controller support filter.

Op didn’t install anything on their system yet.

It sounds like maybe the usb drive is a bit crappy.

I’ve had trouble with cheap ones crapping out partway through being used, but be fine once you re-write the files to them. Twice now, yours worked, but then stopped working suddenly for seemingly no reason.

The drive might also be getting too hot. That happens with the Kingston DataTraveler drives I have. If I try to read or write continuously for too long, they shut down for thermal protection, and I have to let them sit for a bit before they work again.

Did you try re-doing that?

The EFI partition is something that exists on the storage device being booted, so if something is wrong with that, then the problem is something on the USB.

Since windows still works, the EFI partition on your computer must be fine.

You can also give Ventoy a go. It replaces the need for Balena Etcher/Rufus.

After you install Ventoy on the usb, it will continue to work like a normal usb drive. Now you just put the .iso file you want on the usb. Or multiple at a time, even. And you can continue using it as a usb drive without removing Ventoy or the isos. It wont care if there are other files on it.

When you go to boot from it, Ventoy will show you a menu of the isos on the usb, and let you pick one to boot. Makes it really easy to try a bunch of different distros if you want.

And it works with windows isos, too.

Did you install anything yet?

It sound like you set up the installer usb, tried it, then went into windows to free up disk space, and now the usb no longer boots?

If I got that right, tell us more about the usb drive you used, and the software you used to make it bootable.

It was probably said as a joke at some point, and just became normal.

The same way I’ve started using irradiate. It’s technically accurate, but normally a word used in much more concerning context.

Hence, funny :D

I’ve also used “nuke” but recently “irradiate” has been funnier.

I assume you’re referring to stuff like Tarkov or Star Citizen?

These games basically work the same as live service games, except they pretend to be “in development”.

But I’d hardly call it a boom. There’s only a couple truly big money makers, the rest are grifts that don’t really go anywhere, but might have small vocal cult-like fanbases.

Then there are games that really do use the “Early Access” model to fund getting the game made. It’s not really like kickstarter, or preordering, because you do get something in exchange for your money, immediately. And you can look up reviews and videos and see exactly what you are getting. People don’t buy early access games just to wait a couple years to play them. They buy them to play them right now.

And it has brought us games like Satisfactory, DRG, Hades, Subnautica, Everspace…

Even Baldurs Gate 3 was an Early Access title. You could buy and play it for YEARS before “1.0” dropped and became the explosive success it is today.

Those games got made because they were able to sell copies to fund their development throughout the process. And instead of trying to please clueless investors, they had to please the players.

I don’t really see why you’d be salty about this part of the trend. Obviously some stuff is not worth buying, but that’s true whether a game is finished or not.

It both wont ever happen, and has already happened.

ET only had the impact it had because the industry was small. Relatively speaking.

Today, production (both indie and AAA tbh) is diverse enough, that no one game could ever taint the whole industry to that extent again.

What we are seeing, instead, is more and more people who resolve “I’m never giving ubisoft/blizzard/EA/a gacha/a mobile game my money again” but still buy and play games. They just start getting more and more invested in what kinds of industry practices they want to discourage/encourage.

As an example, pre-ordering, while still something people do, is now pretty much universally understood to be a bad idea. No Mans Sky and Fallout 76 were such massive phenomenon, merely mentioning one or the other is a complete comeback to anyone trying to tell you pre-ordering something is a good idea.

Sure, NMS became a good game, eventually, but that didn’t retroactively make pre-ordering it a good move when it only became worth buying 12 months after launch.

Another great example, is Suicide Squad. People were interested, right up until it was revealed it was a live service game. Hype fell off a cliff, and nothing WB did could have brough it back. It wasn’t what fans of the Arkham games wanted. People passed it by before it even launched.

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Concord.

That’s the removal of the uterus, for those not immediately aware.

No more menstruation cycle, and the “downtime” that comes with that.

Insanely fucked up. Worker first, person second.

Played this too on the weekend, aside from clearly unfinished stuff, I was thoroughly impressed.

They even thought of solo/two player cases, with a robot crewmember that helps out with more stuff the fewer human players are on-board.

A whoo boy, the sound design is delicious. The first person guns, the ship weapons and engines both when flying/using them, and hearing them when running around the ship. The jumpdrive. The MUSIC.

The team is clearly pouring their souls into the game and it shows. The vibes are excellent.

It is.

Both me and a friend I played with did so on linux. No extra fixes, just install and play.

Those get taken down on a regular basis. Not to mention the atrocious bitrates that is all they can manage.

Meanwhile, a high quality BluRay rip on my drive ain’t going anywhere.