People who buy these things to play whatever Windows-only anticheat games seem willing to put up with a lot of jank. The issues you’re describing were exactly the sort of things that made me initially skeptical that the Stand Deck could deliver. Valve really managed to pull off something that is quite stable and easy to use compared to other devices in the same category.

Half Orc Barbarian already gets you like 50% of the way there.

Some sort of bug or mod issue caused Lae’zel’s camp clothes and underwear to go missing by default so the first camp cutscene with her threatening Tav she is completely nude. It’s very intimidating. I thought it was a one off thing but it happened with two other characters too so now shamelessly nude Lae’zel is part of my head cannon for the game.

I imagine the other characters telling her to put some pants on and she’s just like “Chk! No, make me.”

I use slang ironically until I can’t stop. It’s lit fam.

I’ve had exactly this happen to me. It was my own fault but it took a bit of work figure out.

Herobrine or some sort of “Evil Steve” version seemed obvious to me.

Every country in the world belongs to America Chicago.

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“Smoking a pack of fags” can be a bad idea or a truly horrible one depending on where you live.

I don’t really engage with the online mechanics in Elden Ring… Maybe I should? I’ve put hundreds of hours into the game otherwise. I rate and leave messages but I’ve never summoned help for co-op or invaded people except for Varre’s quest where I always just get obliterated by people who are way better prepared than me.

I take no delight in killing but Russian forces could leave Ukraine at any point and put an end to it.

I doodle so it looks like I’m taking notes but I’m probably just drawing whoever is speaking like a cartoon monster.

Backups need to be reliable and I just can’t rely on a community of volunteers or the availability of family to help.

So yeah I pay for S3 and/or a VPS. I consider it one of the few things worth it to pay a larger hosting company for.

unless they open source their code and/or provide some public interface to test and validate feed content

This honestly seems like a good idea. I think one of the ways to mitigate the harm of algorithmically driven content feeds is openness and transparency.

I like a lot of FFXII even though I get why it isn’t as beloved as others.

Home on the loam.

Using computers, liking comic book characters and tabletop gaming have been mainstream for like 20+ years. Lifting is cool too though. I just let people like what they like.

I’m from the Midwest US and I know there are words and sounds I pronounce with a Midwestern accent but I can still type and spell them correctly.

If’n I typ lik dis den o’course people gonna think I hev the big dumb or that I’m a mole from a Redwall book.

Look upon what thou has twat and ponder it.

Froggy what that tongue do?