Now now, don’t give them ideas.

The last time I legitimately played a Rockstar game on PC, I lost internet for a couple days, and after a short while the “offline mode” of the game suddenly stopped working and it demanded me to go online again. For GTA V. Fortunately I had The Saboteur DRM-free, so I played that to completion instead, and I had so much more fun. Point is I’m not going to pay for the privilege of a multi billion dollar game company dangling the ability to play another open world crime sim in front of me.

I can’t fathom downloading 70GBs~ just to play, of all things, a Call of Duty game.

I wouldn’t even pirate it, let alone play it.

I got a Windows license key back when Windows 10 launched. It works even with a fresh Windows 11 installation. You can end your search now.

(Funny thing is a couple years later, I would main Debian for about two or three years and it is still installed on my laptop)

Sagume Kishin, stage 4 of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.

I bought mine used in 2021, had to get it repasted, delidded, and even install extra capacitors to support the original Tokins, and she’s still kicking. We mostly play PS1 games on it these days. I will keep my console and my collection healthy, here’s hoping for both of us!

I was seriously looking to see if any of those were a literal aquarium PC case, like the Metalfish Y2. Still, they’re all delightful.

Oh, I also see PS3 games on the shelves, I know they’re not the focus, but that’s also delightful.

Dodging crap like this is why I buy games physical, or digitally but DRM-free. If you’re gonna buy Skyrim again, get it from GOG, they just sell you the game and then don’t do such crap like verify you own the license that you actually own…

Whenever I play Minecraft, I enable commands on for any of the worlds I play. If I want to do something with the world, I will, though typically it’s just active for when I need it. The most prominent changes I did was to stop the flow of time at night, and continued playing the world until I came back from the End. It’s now my forever world.

Or use Waterfox

Oh brother. The 9060XT is the only part I’m missing in my build.

Official Prism requires you to sign in with a Microsoft account at least once. But since Prism is open source, you can also download unofficial builds with no Microsoft anything whatsoever.

You can download both and see which one tickles your fancy more, but I prefer Mineclonia. There WILL be differences as Luanti is a fundamentally different engine from Minecraft, but generally you’ll feel right at home.

Currently the biggest differences for me are that lapis lazuli is stupidly rare compared to Minecraft, and there are no unique stepping sounds for other mobs so it’s like Alpha and Beta where a creeper’s footsteps can blend in with chickens, cows, and pigs. Dual wielding is also currently primitive, and Nether portals tend to put you in the middle of lava seas. Caves are stupidly dark but that might get improved on.

But I did manage to build myself a nice big house with an inner courtyard, and get myself to the End and come back with an elytra and shulker boxes.

The unofficial Minecraft Pocket Edition Launcher you seem to have alluded to in your edit is pretty nice, and feels almost as if it’s a native port of Bedrock to Linux. All the Google and Android stuff is abstracted away.

Minecraft already has too much big tech influence on it with Microsoft, let’s not add Valve’s grubby fingers into the pie now, shall we?

And yet the Microsoft account migration which can be easily defeated by a JSON file according to you has attracted a class action lawsuit. Curious. Almost as if circumventing it is not my point.

Microsoft account DRM isn’t enough for you?

We don’t want that. Fuck off Google.

Checks out.

You ask someone to see or find some cool alternative thing you’ve been using, they’ll insist it’s either one more app or come up with excuses to stay with the corporate thing. It’s always the corporate thing.

Isn’t it already restricted in those four countries? We need to pushback harder so the restrictions apply not to four countries, but rather to zero.