Especially when they have luxury of lubed switches, foam, dampeners/stabilizers, custom case material (that keeb def. Custom one).

For games, you'd rather use game repacks as they sometime provide smaller package for downloading. The most common one are dodi, fitgirls, though other repacker like el amigos, KaOs krew, Mr Dj also available. If you don't mind ddl, cs-rin.ru and torrminatorr also available.

Avoid IGG-Games they have shady history in case you use public tracker.

remember rtfm! Megathread, wiki, fmhy are available so you can browse easier as provided by the community.

I find it interesting that Gmod almost touching 20 yrs and sfm still relevant to this day, there is always that guy who animates memes on sfm.

If someone wondering how big is the Megami Tensei universe (the series as a whole), this picture below probably the closest I can get. There are other pictures too but I guess this one is the one that have connection between the games.

EDIT: I remove the image link just to avoid the headache of the lore and consistencies.

Imo what I like from this series (especially on the main line series) compared to the other JRPG games is that the mythology portrayal, the mature themes and the battle of "Law vs Chaos" is that great and doesn't shy away from source material. I couldn't explained it myself but it is just something different than your average JRPG.

::: spoiler Read at your own risk Literally in one of the mainline game, you have to battle YHVH :::

Oh and Megami Tensei almost always has banger OST if you all never played them.

Nothing more satisfying than making something that cheaper, and also exceed the quality of buying ready-to-use product.

CAD, EDA, IDE, and correct toolkits to the rescue!

EDIT: In case someone want to delve in hobbyist/maker/diy world, here are some useful stuffs that available free:
3D CAD:
Freecad - FOSS 3D CAD software that available cross-platform.
Autodesk Fusion - Not so great alternative but servicable, Free plan have certain limitation.

EDA:
KiCAD - Designing electronic project has never been so easy. This one far superior than Autodesk Eagle crap.
EasyEDA - Free online and desktop EDA software that can be used for alternative.

(Microcontroller) IDE:
VSCode/Codium + PlatformIO - Most affordable, off-the-shelf controller are programmable with PlatformIO and enough for most average joe projects. Arduino IDE may be superior for newcomer but I recommend this as you have more leeway in which framework and board you can get out of single extension for Text Editor.

Toolkits:
Digital Multimeter - Most common electronics can be troubleshoot'd with digital multimeter to identify the problem.
Cheap E-Bay caliper (or any cheap caliper) - For most DIY project, cheap digital caliper are enough to measure dimension unless you really need 3 digit precision.

Nice idea but unfortunately good luck convincing everyone to collaborate into single super-game and integrate each "X simulator" as DLC assuming everyone also adhere guideline and consistent

Tbh this is first time I learned japanese being divided over mods. As stated on the written article, Capcom and Square Enix on Final Fantasy are those that "worried" by mods because they deem some stuff are too "over to the top".

On Assetto Corsa for example Japanese players embrace modding because it is one of the only way to fully experience driving over real course like The infamous Shuto Expressway network that back in the day used for street racing.

"PUT DISPENSER HERE"

"Would you kindly?"

"Patrolling Mojave almost makes you wish for nuclear winter"

"ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ"

"Rise and shine mr. Freeman, rise and shine"

"Hey, you finally awake"

EDIT:

"I make my own luck"

(Several monologue from ezio saga and kenway saga is worthwhile unfortunately I couldn't fully text it all :( )

"Guys the drill, go get it"

"Ahhh, I need my medic bag"

"Mission failed, we will get them next time"

"ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!"

"Engravings gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever"

"Boss, try to remember the basic CQC"

"The numbers mason, what do they mean" perfect response when someone suddenly pop in 6 digits nuclear code

"Victory can't be achieved without sacrifice"

"The flags may be different, but the methods are the same"

Fallout 4. The amount of world exploration and itty bitty stuffs almost makes me lost myself in exploration, even though the story can be really short depending how you progress the content. On my first playthrough, I clocked at ~90hrs of play time and only just passed the 1/4 of story progression just because I sucked in sidequest and exploration.

Never thought I enjoyed the base building and assisting settlements aspects, Bethesda did great job on Visual storytelling speaking as Interplay/Obsidian Fallout fan.

Another case is STALKER Anomaly mod which can gives you theoritical endless playtime as long as you creative to build your own CYOA Stalker story. Though I don't recommend Anomaly if you're looking for the STALKER lore (as they're fan project) and should be treated as post-vanilla playthrough.

Nexus mods isn't shady, they inform user regarding data breach. They provide mods and have been serving mods ever since pre 2010 I believe (registered myself on that site back in 2014 ish).

Maybe slightly off-topic, I recommend to use Viva New Vegas guide as based on my testing the game is more stable and suitable base for modding up your New Vegas install, however also check out every mods you are going to install especially older mods pre-2018 (for me) as they sometime aren't optimized which may makes unstable issue with the game. Hope you enjoy the New Vegas!

Funnily the Persona series deals topic that is closer to our day to day live (i.e Persona 3, Persona 4) compared to mainline/other megaten spin off series.

::: spoiler As grim as it gets... In Persona 2 you have to battle against Nyarlathotep disguised as Fuhrer. :::

Meanwhile somewhere in between, we have re-releases like 3 skyrims, and 5 gta v across 3 generation of consoles🙄

Awh hell nah, no more JAAAAAAAAAAG :(

As someone pointed out on the comment, one of the reason is Money, the other one is safety and security based on Vehicle manufacturer claim.

Yet, nobody can stop you to sniff and monitor your own car CAN/OBD2 interface using as simple as cheap microcontroller and compatible OBD2 interface kit (e.g CAN Transceiver/Controller kit).

EDIT: So far this curated list helpful to me for CAN bus based protocol.

From my experience, I can install several repack without any issues on my Mint install (using wine). If you overwhelmed, the easiest way is to add the .exe of your game as non-steam game through the steam and the proton will handle the rest assuming you won't find dependency issues, if you stumble across problem try to search protondb for solution.

Personally I run my games with wine because I couldn't figure out how to make use of bottles and lutris (ye I'm weird).

EDIT: Also you can run your modded games on Linux, so far I have tried modded nfs mw (2005) with hard+, underground2, and new vegas, they are works like on Windows.

If shit happen, rtfm. gl op on your journey!

They don't want to miss out the "hype" but also Valve deem the hardware jump is not that much to consider "Deck 2". If only these manufacturer also consider bringing software optimization rather than keep producing portable handheld with small performance jump.

Imo NPU for average consumer usage is still niche (compared to something like CUDA/Tensor cores). Just like TPU, NPU is just another hardware acceleration for specific tasks that most of average user can be fulfilled with CPU/GPUs.

Hmm... If we want to stretch something further... How do I know water that I drink is something new or clean instead of treated water, pure water or even perhaps dinosaur piss that has been filtered from underground soil long long time ago? 🤔😳

Hmm, Black Flag doesn't have cloud save. Atleast these achievements could motivate me for another playthrough...

EDIT: Checked steam, they also added achievements for AC Revelations. If other Ezio saga and AC Rogue get achivements too it'd be real treat as holiday is coming to motivate people play the game again🤔