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Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me

They might not be getting money from you, but they’re getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)… Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.

Just like every project, you engage with it only as much as you want to. You can just use the arch install script, update pacman every couple of weeks and stop there.

It speaks to your willingness and eagerness to tinker with your systems, that’s pretty much arch’s core audience.

If you like to mod games you’ll probably want arch linux as it’s heavily modular - you choose everything. You can use the archinstall script to get you setup or follow the installation guide.

It’s not, physical sales have been dwindling in general, although part of the reason for that is the push towards digital.

The solution here has never been to keep producing disks, what we need is proper digital ownership laws that let you resell game keys and force stores like steam to disentangle them from your account.

Path of exile 2 was at its hardest in 0.1, at this point it has fully embraced power creep and it’s going in the same direction as poe1, less challenging content and more clear screens with 1 button to get loot.

Do you really own your game if it can be unilaterally taken away from you ? Copyright law is fucked and the software industry is happy with the status quo - no owning a license that’s behind dozens of pages of TOS is not owning a game.

Nobody’s giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you’re “buying” can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.

the heel of the show

i’m not familiar with that idiom. if you don’t realize you’ve been getting an increasingly shallower version of the same character you’ve not been paying attention, it usually happens naturally in tv shows (flanderization) - like how homelander is suddenly asexual and breast milk obsessed. but yes the writers are pulling in every stop to make sure you hate the character because they understandably don’t want people to root for the main villain which for some reason is trump 2.0, as if we needed yet another portrayal of that. the amount of shows that don’t degrade after season 1 is incredibly low unfortunately.

Yeah the writers didn’t like how part of the audience sided with homelander in the first couple of seasons, so they did what writers do and took a hammer to the character.

It’s unlikely that whatever issue you’re having with your games is because of the desktop environment.

Not everything has to be romantic, true enough, but not having any romance at all is a problem too. For example in your scenario, 15 year olds are teenagers going through puberty and they will be horny, continuing just because they’re dealing with life and death doesn’t stop that - people in the military certainly don’t abstain from sex.

The pitt doesn’t show much romance on screen, but it’s constantly there in the background, with pretty much every character being driven by their ongoing relationships or lack thereof.