I wish it was a sequel instead of a remake but remakes are much easier for a business to justify.

Not sure this has any real consequences for gamers?

Not for me…

That still involves a process where my butt hole gets wet.

I remember a Reddit post talking about how predatory this game was

I don’t like the wet feeling.

At one point I saw a bunch of people in a Reddit thread saying they liked it a lot.

Agreed, I don’t understand people who actually like curved screens.

No less than $899 for the Pro I wouldn’t be shocked if it went up to $949 or $999.

A few years ago I was on team keep the jack but at this point it’s not as necessary. USB C headphones exist, wireless headphones have gotten quite good, and if you use one pair of 3.5mm headphones if you keep a dongle on it it’s really not that inconvenient.

Honestly reddit.com/r/usenet was the best but we know how that’s going. You can web search but basically you pay for a provider, sign up for indexers who are like torrent trackers and provide .nzb files. You use either SABnzbd or NZBGet to download the actual files. Sonarr and Radarr are automation tools. There’s some other concepts like retention and backbones but that’s not as important to get started.

https://frugalusenet.com/ is a good provider to get started. https://www.nzbgeek.info/ and https://nzbplanet.net/ are good indexers for beginners. I recommend SABnzbd over NZBGet as I don’t think get is actively being developed for anymore.

https://trash-guides.info/ is very good for Sonarr/Radarr set up but it can be quite overwhelming for non-technical users or beginners.

I also just remembered cache exists so poke around https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZU9NxnpPelwJ:https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq/&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I gave up on torrents a while ago and just focus on Usenet. It cost money (~$3/mo for a provider and another ~$2-3/mo for indexers) but it’s encrypted and doesn’t rely on P2P.

Also don’t forget that DVDs exist if you want to go a more legal route.

I don’t know how Discord became the end all be all for everything. Maybe it’s because it’s so easy to start a server? Either way as you said it’s terrible for searching and having asynchronous conversations.

I’m not a fan of Discovery or Picard and that “flavor” of new Trek. If you had criticisms or negative comments about anything it could get you banned on r/startrek if you didn’t go above and beyond to justify it.

Go take a look at https://startrek.website/post/225 and see how the admin reacts to comments they don’t agree with.

Has to be a TAM deal but I’m unavailable with Miami’s cap situation.

You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage.

You have to worry about it yourself though.

Thank God that didn’t happen.

I see that so much in games these days. I’m fine with a game that improves a formula but it’s clear there’s a lot of just straight up inferior copying going on.

I should say that Reddit without RES would probably be much closer to what I’m seeing on Lemmy now.

Why? It’s a less mature platform with less features and not enough content. I get the idea of it being attractive but it’s like Mastadon without the content you’ve got an uphill climb.