Pika

They do that with shipping items on ebay all the time. cheap item price 100+ shipping

I actually play satisfactory via epic over lutris. I also use the mod manager for the game. It's been awhile but I remember it being a fairly easy install. I am on debian though \0/

I was about to say, even without actual data to back it up, big companies are going out of their way to try and evade and block ad-blockers, and that costs man-hours to design, so obviously it's not a negligible number if they have decided its worth trying to pursue.

do you preorder games?

Nowadays? Not a chance. Preorders nowadays seem to be more of a incentive to allow a studio to just not have a decent final product because people have already bought in.

What about Early Access Games?

If I really like the concept, yes.

Do you feel differently about Early Access vs traditional preordering?

Early access is not pre-ordering, and as such is treated extremely differently. Preordering tells me that the product will be finished on release, EA means that it's going to need a lot of work for a finished product.

If you are open to the idea in specific circumstances, what are those?

I am extremly open to EA as it helps studios develop a product that otherwise may not be able to be created. Actual preordering is a strict closed door, there is very little reason in the digital world we live in to preorder a game.

How do you decide if a game qualifies?

I more likely will buy an early access game if I can open the page and not see:

• Major blockers:
  • Lack of Linux support or compatibility
  • Reviews talking about the game being dead
  • Reviews talking about how the developer ignores the community
  • Update history either showing no changes or minor changes stretching back for a few months(the longer the gap the less likely I am to support the studio)
  • Opening the developer page and seeing they are actively working on a different game. (this is an instant deal breaker)
• Minor Blockers
  • Developer responses in community pages saying "for support go to external site" usually discord. If you don't want to support your game on the storefront, don't use the storefront.
  • Update logs saying that they are actively working on DLC for their early access game. (free DLC gets a partial pass... but paid DLC for an Early Access game is a huge red flag for me)
  • No developer interactions in the community forums or an un-moderated community forum.
  • Toxic community in discussion forums or support channels (I understand this is out of the devs control at times but it still dissuades me from wanting to spend money on the games)

You are 1000% correct. I've been yelled at or have witnessed a few times people making a huge stink but clearly can't differentiate between the types of "ai" to even know what they are complaining about.

They just know "AI = Bad" so they get their pitchforks out.

the last time I burned a disk was probably almost 9 years ago now. It was Ubuntu server because at the time I had the concept of "well I should have a hard install source in case I need to do a full reinstall. I dropped that mentality almost instantly though as I realized that it was better for me to just do backups because there was way too much contents for a DVD and I didn't wanna have to reconfigure if it messed up.

this seems to be an easy solution for them tbh. Change focus away from banning or providing alternatives, and focus more on dissuasion. allow the service but have a carbon tax placed on those types of heat systems. People find alternative when services are expensive to operate. Could even avoid having it phrased as a customer tax by giving it to the company, and then when it's passed down its a "well it's a buisness tax that they passed down, complain to the company"

Like it sounds like the main issue in this at the moment is utility companies saying that you need to have customers want those type of services, You need to make it so customers no longer want those type of services, which generally means increase the price for those services. Focus on removing existing infrastructure when demand for said services are no longer present. You can try having alternatives installed as well, but a straight out ban, like what seem to be talking about there, I don't think should be done.

its not just graphic design either. The heavy push for monetization on sites like youtube and twitch is also impacting new creators as well. Like for example twitch forces a pre-roll (an ad that plays before you can even see the content) for anyone who doesn't run at least 3 minutes of ads an hour manually. I sometimes click on a creator out of curiosity but, all interest is lost as soon as I see the 40-60 second pre-roll ads. This impacts newer creators a lot more than big creators, but it seems they are the ones hit the hardest with said ads.

ah shoot yea thats true, I forgot about the BS that is "salary exempt"

Maybe this will be a boon. The entire reason the ram requirements got so high as it is is because software optimization was put on the back burner. Maybe a ram shortage where people can't obtain the ram needed will force the big name software devs to start being more frugal with ram. (talking to you chrome... whom currently is using 2 gigs alone just trying to show a twitch stream...)

You are correct, it has multiple sources but bing is the primary one.

Because it is. I understand the want for privacy and such, but it still sucks to have a prolonged topic, just to have the OP nuke the parent post which deletes the entire comment tree. I have communities that I have blocked or unfollowed because a good chunk of their posts just get deleted a few days after posting. It makes it hard to want to contribute to the communities due to it.