Yes you have. Your top search engine results are ads at a minimum, even on DDG. Also most people use a browser extension for ad blocking, which doesn’t block all ads by design.

I really disagree with your first sentence. A few of the icons are obvious, but most are extremely vague. I actually use a Mac every day at work and I can’t tell you what half of these icons are for (I guess I don’t use them). For example the rocket icon, the book (is it a reader or a dictionary or what?), Safari’s icon looks like a map app since it’s a compass.

I don’t know what the history/clock icon is for and the app store icon is just terrible, and has even fewer context clues in languages where the word “app” doesn’t start with a Latin A character.

Icons rely on all kinds of assumptions and cultural cues. They might as well be hieroglyphics to people who aren’t familiar with them, which is why they need to come with labels or tooltips.

Gnu, Firefox, and gcc are not terrible

Gaming on 8K because it’s a pixel art game

How does mass effect have even remotely similar mechanics to bg3? The dialogue is it

If you’re willing to put some effort you can get the original on PC and mod it. It looks much better with mods. The mods are pretty easy to install and it won’t cost you $180 over however many years to get the full story

… But it is FF7. It’s not a new game.

If you really didn’t want to play FF7 again you’d play literally any other game

The way I see it, Tuvok and Neelix died in an accident, and a separate life emerged from it. The crew just couldn’t accept their deaths so they killed Tuvix to get them back.

I don’t see it as a logical decision but an emotional one. How Tuvix came to exist doesn’t matter, he was still a person, and they basically murdered him to get their friends back. He wouldn’t be the first living thing that wasn’t “meant” to exist.

Either way it’s a very difficult moral question and probably the best episode in Voyager as far as emotional impact.

I’d prefer a bloodborne remaster over ER DLC

The London tube is full of soot from the days when they burned coal in there. It’s the only subway I’ve been in where every time I walked out, there would be black tarry shit in my nose.

Also, the brakes for trains throw all kinds of dust into the air in subways

Based

It should be bg3 just based on how much influence it’s having on the industry alone.

Picking totk as the #1 game this year is just contrarian nonsense.

For real, how is totk better than bg3 from any point of view? It’s basically a rehash of botw with very little in terms of new ideas. Nintendo fanboyism is so lame.

Really annoys me how half the rock songs I like proudly announce what an absolute scumbag the author is

You can’t solve this problem with money. People don’t want multiple game launchers. It’s like asking why Apple hasn’t cornered the desktop market when they’re one of the largest companies in the world.

Valve 100% knew what they were doing with HL2.

It would be nice but I like Heroic launcher a lot. I probably wouldn’t bother installing a gog Linux client.

Even closer? Implying that steam ever cared about digital ownership?

Because there’s no money in Linux. Valve can afford to target Linux for long term growth because they aren’t a public company that has to answer to investors every quarter. People mistake that for valve being pro-consumer, which they’re not.

Lol it is literally steam’s fault and they intended to be this way from the very beginning. They intentionally cornered the market with HL2. It’s incredible how people act like this just accidentally happened because valve made a supposedly good product.

For real, Steam literally took off because they made HL2 exclusive to it. It doesn’t matter that it’s a first party game, the effect and intent was identical. They could’ve made it generally available but chose not to. They forced people to use their proprietary product to install a game.

It’s crazy how many people shill for valve on Reddit and lemmy when they’ve already done most of the shit Epic gets accused of.