I have good news for you:

https://www.polygon.com/24074441/gigantic-game-relaunch-rampage-edition-steam-release-date

The art style reminds me of Scavengers Reign.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 3: Disqualification from office for insurrection or rebellion

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Are there any 5.5 physical sourcebooks? Were they ever planned at all?

I haven’t been following One D&D news, but I got the impression they were focusing on a subscription-only model, so I’ve been planning to stick with my 5e books or switch to an ORC-licensed system.

Does it have feature parity with Element yet?

Not yet. It’s in beta.

https://element.io/labs/element-x

EDIT: Nheko is NOT a mobile client.

If you specifically meant mobile, you could have said so. Your statement was, “every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.” Nheko disproves that statement. It also suggests that some alternative mobile clients might handle E2EE at least as well as it does. You might want to try them.

By the way, text search with end-to-end encryption happens to be tricky to implement, and Matrix projects aren’t funded by corporations with deep pockets. Tempering your expectations regarding development speed is probably worthwhile here.

Correcting some misconceptions…

Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels

That’s true of regular Element for Android, but it’s being replaced with Element X (which is built with Rust). I would expect search to be added there if it isn’t already.

and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?)

I have done it in Firefox, so that’s false. Perhaps you had trouble with a specific browser?

plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

Nheko handles E2EE just fine, so that would seem to be false as well.

Since you’re looking for recommendations, it would help if you said which clients you tried and what problems you had with them.

In case you haven’t seen it, you can set a Features: E2EE filter on this list:
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Sid Meier’s Pirates! is a wonderful mix of exploration, sea battles, romance, swordplay, trade, and subterfuge.

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is one that I’ve only played briefly, but I remember it having a fun style that made me want to try it in depth some time.

I just learned about that as well. I hope Larian dilutes or buys back Tencent’s shares.

I don’t know whether I would be comfortable murdering pokemon, but if the gameplay turns out to be great, I would give it a try. I think I’ll wait on this one until it develops a bit and there are enough reviews to balance out early adopter (dev friends & family) bias.

Direct link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/

*r34 ;)

I meant that I ought to use it for its intended purpose after all.

(But yes, I would still like the option of replacing the OS.)

I bought one during the clearance sale for the price of shipping, assuming that it would be abandoned but maybe still useful as a low-power linux server. I guess I ought to set it up and take advantage of it.

Thanks, Valve, for not letting these things become instant e-waste.

*Yuzu or Ryujinx. Not Cemu. Not Dolphin.

Valve was scanning your DNS cache

The story I read was that they didn’t collect or report anything, but just flagged a user if the cache contained a known game hack site, and that they stopped doing that years ago.

Not comparable to what Epic was caught doing, IMHO. Still, if there’s an article with more detail, I wouldn’t mind reading it. (Maybe it was part of their anti-cheat system of the time?)

somehow they managed to invent like 90% of all “evil” MTX and DRM in the process

Having worked with DRM systems since long before Valve existed, I’m reasonably certain this is just plain false.

In Steam’s case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It’s just not built for efficient use of resources.

Epic cons:

Also:

• Epic has already been caught scanning and collecting data from files on people’s hard drives that are totally unrelated to Epic or its games.
• Epic’s habit of interfering with game availability, through exclusivity deals.

Ties with Tencent (super anti-consumer chinese state-owned megacorp)

To be more clear about it, Tencent is Epic’s largest investor, so they obviously have a great deal of influence over and access to anything they want from Epic (likely including user data) and they directly benefit from Epic’s growth.

Steam pros:

Also:

• Actively funding and supporting development of linux gaming technologies for more than a few years now, to the point where linux is now very much a viable gaming platform.

Steam cons:
Drm

Given that DRM on Steam is entirely up to each game publisher, I don’t think it’s appropriate to list under “Steam cons”. I’m not even sure that any of my Steam games have DRM.

If you mean that most Steam games expect to find an instance of Steam running, you should know that is not DRM, and it’s trivially replaced with the open-source Goldberg Emulator or a similar tool.

Gog
I don’t know anything besides the fact that it has drm-free games

Another plus for GOG is that they let you download games with a web browser. No special app required. (I think Itch.io does this as well.)

I don’t think getting freebies from them counts as supporting them

I do. Some examples off the top of my head:

• giving them access to your stored data, by letting their code execute on your computer
• giving them access to your behavioral data (a form of biometrics), through the same
• giving them access to your system fingerprints, through both code execution and account creation
• giving them legal influence over you, by agreeing to their terms
• giving some of their legal arguments greater weight, by increasing their market share
• giving them greater sway with publishers, such as when seeking exclusivity deals, by bolstering their user count
• giving them greater value to investors, by the same

There are probably other ways in which it supports them. Those are just the first ones to come to mind.

Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.

Civ 4: Baba Yetu