In C++? I’d rather be shot, thanks :P

I don’t really think this is a good argument. Other games offer enjoyable experiences on normal difficulties and then offer a serious challenge by scaling up in higher difficulties. I remember original God of War (ps1 or ps2) was stupid easy on default difficulty and quite hard on the highest difficulty.

Your point 2) is just your biased view of the world, really. You think other people can’t enjoy something as much as you unless they do exactly as you. Different people like different things and it’s nice to have a choice. I don’t think gatekeeping game genres just because is a good thing.

I enjoy souls games and I’m okay with their difficulty but I honestly don’t get how the possibility of an easy mode upsets so many people. It doesn’t require much development time, if any, to scale down enemies.

This isn’t like implementing something that doesn’t exist or that fundamentally changes the gameplay. Scaling already exists.

It has literally 0 impact on your experience and would allow others to enjoy the game as much as you do.

I don’t agree with this take that people should pay to work. Journalist have family to feed as well.

I often wonder how news websites are supposed to survive. People (myself included) want unbiased news websites without paywalls and ads.

How are they supposed to pay their staff?

It’s a gigantic money sink, it’s going to be extremely hard to come up with a profitable (or break even) alternative.

I’m always wary of buying second hand phones. How healthy is that battery going to be?

Here they are discounted a lot, very often in the 40 euro range (new)

But 5 bucks discount is nothing, you can get so much better in other venues.

In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don’t understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn’t down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?

We used to have GAME stores everywhere and they occasionally had really nice deals. I loves those stores, it’s a shame they went bankrupt.

100% agree. Charging for the unlimited email alias is fine but 2FA? :/

I have worked in retail to help pay for university. It was a miserable job. Dealing with people made me a worse person.

I am very “passionate” about Proton Pass but don’t take me for a Proton chill, I have a lot of criticism about their other products.

This is crazy to read, thanks for sharing! How did you store/remember all the passwords?

This is not a real solution. You’re supposed to have a unique password for everything. Managing that notebook would be an hassle, not to mention backing it up. It would easily have dozens of records, if not hundreds.

I’ve been using Proton Pass and it has been a game changer for me. Hot take: I think Proton Pass is Proton’s best service.

It creates not only a unique password for each service but also a unique email address alias. If a website leaks my email address and I get spam, I know exactly who did it and I only need to swap 1 login credential.

Has a built-in 2FA and passkeys. Works great in the browser with proper auto complete, even for the 2FA code. Works fine on Android and password in both browser and applications get autocomplete.

Proton Pass can be used by everyone, regardless of their technical level, in every device. My mom could easily use this across all her devices. I’m told Keepass is fantastic but having it sync across all her devices would be challenging for her.

Most Proton services feel kinda underbaked but Proton Pass is excellent.

You can export all your passwords to an encrypted and password protected file. I ocasionally back it up to a USB device so that I always have an offline copy available.

Still, one of these days I was logged out of my proton pass on Android and couldn’t connect to the internet. I was locked down.

It really is crazy. I’m happy that keyboards are becoming more mainstream. Too many people use shitty keyboards! Invest in your tools, people!

It’s not lightning that adds up to the price, it’s stuff like aluminum case, quality mechanical switches and yes, keycaps.

Unfortunately these gamer keyboards have the worst keycaps you’ve ever seen, the cheapest Chinese switches money can buy and the highest amount of telemetry on that oh so important software. It’s pretty disgusting.

The mechanical keyboard trend has been around for a while and it’s really worth checking out if you use a keyboard for 8 hours a day.

If you don’t have time to tinker maybe consider another distribution more suited to your needs. Waiting 5s for every action is not a time effective solution.

But don’t Razer products actually have a decent support on Linux?