Another problem is that physical is a red herring. You don't own modern physical games any more than you own digital ones, as the famous The Crew shitshow has demonstrated. It doesn't matter if you still have the fancy disc, if you can't even go past the main menu when the publisher decides to shut down the game. In the end DRM is the only deciding factor, not if the game is digital or physical.

Anyone here played Shadow Gambit The Cursed Crew?

It looks lively, but I'm not quite sure how the game plays, specifically on a gamepad. The tags say it's real time strategy, but doesn't look like any real time strategy I've played.

I'd be interested regardless, but if it's not a great on a gamepad I'll wait until I have some time to game on my desktop.

The one just named "Half Life" is the definitive version now, the one that got the big update yesterday.

Source is the same messy version as it was before and they haven't touched it. Though it will still be in our libraries for legacy reasons.

Valve themselves recommend you ignore Source exists.

"Fixed screenshots not including Steam user interface elements." WTF? I thought that was a feature, not a bug. One of the things that really bugged me about screenshots on the Deck was Steam interface appearing on screenshots. I don't wanna have message notifications or whatnot appearing in my screenshots.

And here I thought they had finally fixed that.

What a coincidence, I just got Chrono Trigger this Steam sale and I've been tinkering to get Reshade to look nice with it this weekend. Though with worse results than you, I was stuck at the "why do none of the shaders look nice at 800p" part. I will definitely try your setup, it looks fantastic!

For hooking Reshade into the game I used a Decky plugin called LetMeReshade. Quite convenient. https://github.com/itsOwen/LetMeReShade

I haven't played in some weeks so I'm not aware of what is broken. The post and comments in other communities lead me to believe that the issue is with SMAPI itself, no each individual mod. So in some days when SMAPI is fixed it should be enough to update that, right? And leave my installed mods as they are?

Uh, not like I can think of any use case for having the UI show up, but if some people want it a toggle is perfect. I am happy and everyone is happy.

I wasn't so sure about NSFW etiquette in here so I erred on the side of caution

If anyone wants to play Doom with GZDoom and easy mod access, I've been doing that for a while via Luxtorpeda.

Add it to your compatibility layer list like you would ProtonGE, then choose the Luxtorpeda compatibility layer for DOOM. Once you launch it you can choose either straight up GZDoom or qZDL+GZDoom for easy mod management.

Finally managed to complete the regular Community Center for the first time!

I also visited Ginger Island and I managed to fish almost all the remaining fish. Only one to 100 the fish log.

I'm re-reading Mistborn yet again in anticipation. Sando bless

Even in numbers, a weakling is a weakling still!

Legit my favorite place to get books. Actual stores that sell books wish they had the quality StandardEbooks releases have.

"Always on" and similar extreme DRM measurements I believe are more of an issue compared to physical vs digital media. DRM free digital copies for example can have way longer lifespans than a physical copy (potentially "infinite"). But as soon as you add the requirement for some company server to be up, the game has a hard expiration date. But that's an altogether different discussion.

I hadn't though much about your first point, it is true that specially the input devices can change the feel of the game drasticly. I suppose people with special interest will seek out some of the classic gamepad clones that are available nowadays, but most people will just play with the console default.

I didn't think of that, TIL

The biggest issue imho is digital-only games that have been delisted. I'm not to worried about people not being able to play them to relieve memories since pirating them will probably be easy enough. But pirating does defeat the whole point of collecting I assume. I guess people can still assemble a full collection of physical releases only. IDK how collectors of the 3DS are doing it right now after the closure of the digital store, for example.

Thanks! It's nice that it happened with a screenshot I took of one of my favorite games ever. If I remeber correctly (it's been a while) it was kinda luck to get these screenshots. Since the only way to get them is to finish a race, while you see the results a playback of your driving will be playing in the background, the moment you push "next race" the background replay will freeze and those effects will be applied to the image, while it's being used as a loading screen to load the next track. So you have one try per race to get a cool screenshot (though the game is pretty in itself too).

Finally resumed my farm after a couple months hiatus. I am days away from finishing my first in-game year. I also did a bunch of fishing, so I'm only missing the octopus, 3 of the special fishes and the ones from the island/sewers/witches lair.

Community center is chugging along, but these last bundles are taking longer than the previous ones.

Yeah, that one seems a bit more limited.

I haven't played any of those, but it does look like it might be doable then.