Did you attempt to close your account following the HK tournament controversy?

I stopped playing Blizzard games after that incident, because I'm not willing to populate the servers of a game company that punishes people for saying a few words in support of human rights. (I might eventually return, since Microsoft has replaced their upper management, but I'm not in a hurry.)

I never deleted my account, though, so I'm afraid I can't offer another point of view on your situation.

These posts have become a "guess the game" game for me. I look at the thumbnail first, make my guess, and then open the post to see if I was right and maybe get a little story along with the answer. :)

I just discovered Galnet News Digest, too. Their posts are mostly summaries of official announcements, but having the highlights in one place can be nice, and they sometimes add helpful visuals of things that I'm not familiar with. I appreciate their humour, too.

I can't speak for the developers' intentions, but Power Play does seem to bring goals to a game that is mostly a sandbox with no "main quest". Perhaps that's what they have in mind?

Last week's merit changes made a greater variety of activities award meaningful merits, so chances are pretty good that you can now help your power while making money or doing things you like.

Yes, bounty hunting is one of the ways you can strengthen a power's hold on a system, although this might depend on which power you choose. Someone compiled a list a few weeks ago.

Do note that while solo players can reasonably progress their way to merit awards, it takes an enormous amount of work to sway control of a system, so that is best done in groups. Unfortunately, most Elite Dangerous groups seem to gather on Discord, which excludes those of us who can't or won't use it.

Then… Why not just price it correctly to begin with?

I can't speak for the people pricing these things, but suspect the answer has to do with whales, perceived value, shareholders, regional economics, and various other things.

I agree that lots of games are overpriced, though.

I saw this too late to claim Monster Train, but I applaud you for sharing your leftovers. Some of us don't have much of a games budget. Thanks for doing this!

It's about volume.

Selling a thing to a million people for $5 makes more money than selling it to a thousand people for $70.

They'll most likely return the price to $70 before long, so they can pick up a few whales who miss this sale and aren't patient enough to wait for the next one.

FYI, there's another type of macro pad that's becoming popular because it's cheap and widely available. It's sold in a variety of configurations and under various names, but commonly referred to as ch57x. (I suspect that code refers to a WinChipHead microcontroller.)

This project's readme shows some photos:

https://github.com/kriomant/ch57x-keyboard-tool/blob/master/README.md#supported-macro-keyboards

IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.

Instead, it's overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.

I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.

Don't forget to mirror suitable versions of the scarce dependencies. Sirit, the SPIR-V assembler, for example.

Originally, it wasn't. Codeberg used to run Gitea. Forgejo is a fork of that, which came later.

because they associate it with locking your PC to only running windows.

They're not exactly wrong. BIOS/UEFI bugs that make it a royal pain to use secure boot with anything but Windows are pretty common.

It's not about whether you benefit from clicks; it's about how the post affects the community.

Unlike a text post, a bare link to a video cannot be quickly assessed by readers to determine what lies inside. Instead, it demands that they follow the link to some other site and sit through at least part of the video, before they know whether it contains anything of value to them. Multiply that by the roughly 32 thousand members of this community, plus uncounted others who browse without subscribing, and it equals an enormous waste of other people's time.

I think it's fine to post a video that's likely to interest or inform people, especially if it shows something better than can be expressed in text. But in future, I hope you'll include at least a summary of the content, and ideally something worthy of conversation: your insights, criticisms, questions, or other thoughts on the subject. That way, the post would have a good chance of reaching the people to whom it matters while respecting everyone else's time, and be a decent contribution to the community rather than low-effort noise.

For what it's worth, I agree that GOG is good. :)

If you wanted to participate in this forum, you could have at least outlined your thoughts here, in text.

Posts like this one categorically earn a downvote from me, for treating us like a click farm.

I'm approaching a thousand hours in Elite Dangerous. Quoting myself from a week or two ago:

It’s different to most other games, by not being goal-oriented except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.

(To give an idea of the simulation’s scope: Around 85 million systems have been recorded by players so far, and those are a vanishingly small fraction of what’s out there. Space is big.)

I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate rival settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.

It’s an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.

One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they’re better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse. I use button combinations for almost everything beyond basic flight controls, since there aren’t enough buttons on a controller for everything.

Perhaps start by announcing your plan and inviting contributors in a game development forum?

https://forum.godotengine.org/

https://godotengine.org/community/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

An off-site transcript is no substitute for posting something of value in this forum. Lack of direct financial benefit from clicks makes no difference to any of the points I raised. (But as an aside, since you brought it up, "SUPPORT THE CHANNEL"!)

• Video-only link.
• No transcript, synopsis, or even point of view in the post.
• Provocative click-bait title.

No thanks. I come to discussion forums for discussion and legitimate news, not to spend my time slogging through some influencer's video to bolster their view count.

When they don't respect my time enough to at least outline their key points in text, and there's no obvious reason why the content must be video, I find that it's vanishingly unlikely that they have anything interesting to say.

One possible silver lining:

By removing dirt-cheap goods from the market, this could make it more difficult to ignore the underlying problem: People are not being paid enough for their labor to afford the things they need at home. Instead, they are expected to depend on subsidized/sketchy foreign manufacturing, while corporations and the super-rich are being allowed to extract a disproportionate share of the world's wealth from everyone else, hoard it, buy favorable legislation and policies, and avoid paying their fair share in taxes. This is already unsustainable; tariffs will make it more obvious.

(I don't imagine this is why Trump wants tariffs, but perhaps he'll accidentally place the straw that breaks the camel's back, leading lawmakers to face either reform or revolution. Unfortunately, I think it's likely to make things worse for the rest of us before it makes things better.)