Unrelated to the topic, but

led by a strictly limited physical collector’s release created with game preservation at its heart

This sentence is so funny. How is a limited edition made for people who want to pay extra and have shiny object on their shelves working towards game preservation in any form? It's so funny when they try to play "here, have more disposable plastic and pay 50 extra bucks for it! I swear you're ALSO doing it for a good cause!"

Very late to the party, but mayhaps we could even have thematic months on this community! Like, a theme per week, as to give enough room to breath to busy people.

I'm actually surprised 19% of homelabbers chose windows, lol.

Late to the comment section, but the game works pretty much on any distro, thanks to the XIVLauncher flatpak. I know the original launcher also works fine, but XIVL is such an improvement to the original, it really is worth trying out!

Used it on OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, you name it.

if there's one things all of my pets never wanted anything to do with after taking a sniff, it's gummy bears - even my old dog, which was basically a pig in disguise. Says a lot about candies, huh? (not that we would've fed them these deadly treats to them anyway, we're just curious about their reaction post-sniff).

100% agree. We've gone back and forth between dimensions and worlds, fought the strongest gods conceivable, yet the starting world itself feels mummified. I know solutions can't be easy (as suggested by @Kronusdark on another comment) but imagine how immersive it'd actually feel.

oh! had no idea. Those are supposedly the guys and gals who used to make the Doc Martens when those used to be of good quality, right? A tad more expensive than Nae, but on par with costs from Vegetarian Shoes.

It's a fantasy world! We've seen much worse, haven't we?

ooh, I see, thank you for your insight! I'm definitely eyeing Nae the most, and your opinion on them might seal the deal. I just wish they had more brown boots models for men!

You do have a point, there are things to do. But they've been the same four/five activities since ARR. Those activities don't really require you to actually explore either, you only need to drop inside of the map (thanks to teleporting) and go straight to point xy. That's it! The only thing requiring you to explore is the sightseeing log - an activity which very few players partake in without looking up a wiki.

It's still my favorite mmo, don't get me wrong! I just wish there was more unique content to each map in order to make worlds feel more alive in general, force more player to hop around instead of lingering around Limsa's crystal while waiting for queue to pop.

oh.. I don't even know what barefoot style shoes are 😆 will look into Ahinsa!

audible gasp

who would've thought?

While I agree that @[email protected]'s data isn't exactly correct in covering the percentage of games that can be played, their sentiment is not so random.

For example:

• Both the PS4 and the PS5 in the database you linked show that roughly 25-28% of games will require a patch to be played without "bugs that are either too severe or too many to provide a mostly flawless experience". That is almost one game out of three that, without internet connection/dead servers, will live in an odd limbo in which you own a disc with unpatched/crude software. One out of ten will be useless plastic. In comparison, a GOG installer can be re-downloaded as soon as a game is patched, and you can store it away locally once again.
• Often, buying games at launch means you don't have a complete package for the title, which nowadays comes in the form of DLCs and season passes. Those are not registered in any way onto the disc (naturally), and are only tied to your account. If Sony closes down services that check that you own such content, you don't have access to it anymore.

One could argue that Sony's going at great lengths to keep services alive; for example, the PS3 still lets you download and update content. One also can, however, easily imagine that there will be a day when such service is not considered profitable enough, since you soon won't be able to buy games for it anymore. What then? Can we realistically expect Sony to keep servers and checks alive for a console that does not generate any new profit whatsoever? I honestly doubt so.

oh gosh, it's time for another rabbit hole... everyone seem to have very high opinions of barefoot shoes! They do look comfortable indeed.

I ended up trying barefoot winter boots from wildling.shoes, and my gosh! I can't recommend them enough so far.

Any game made by Riot sadly uses the same shitty kernel-level anticheat (read: spyware), doesn't it? The game looks good, expecially as a free to play, but it's a hard pass.