EGS a shop? The closest thing to “Tim & Co.” is an old man in a van parked near elementary schools promising children tons of candy if they go with him.

I also played Mabinogi Duel and felt pretty hurt about it’s demise. Worst thing about these games as usually happens with app store titles is they were games as a service, with frequent online checks and so on, so the only way of playing them today would be to find a cracked/modded .apk file (might need a download for the obb folder) that doesn’t require any online checks and pray it’s still compatible with your smartphone’s firmware version. For now, I found Steam user Gooby shared these assets when working on a mod for Tabletop Simulator.

I played the Cabals games too on PC and mobile. Sad thing to see them go without proper credits. Here’s the game’s profile on MobyGames. You can also search for Cabals: Card Blitz there.
I remember searching for both games’ videos on YT years ago but they’re either deleted or buried.

Whoops! Saw this too late. I already own Blasphemous, but every game mentioned is JUICY!
Thanks for this giveaway and even more for keeping such a good instance up and running. 💛
I’ll share this post around if you don’t mind. It might be the motivation some of my pals need to join the fediverse.

Wait for the next big Steam sale and go wild.

Saw this earlier today. Good stuff! 👌

Yep. Matrix, specifically using the web and desktop Element client. https://ems-docs.element.io/books/element-support/page/exporting-messages
You can also select and delete several messages at once, but the easiest method to nuke a chat is to kick/ban all other members from it, leave it yourself and let it sit for a week until servers delete the room and all it’s contents permanently by default.
It also has a built in sticker library. If your want to build your own, custom sticker packs on Matrix have different guides depending on the app your’re using. Here’s some stuff on that. https://matrix.squirrel.rocks/stickers/

Just use Peertube or Odysee. But blockchain has never been useful for anything other than keeping a verifiable and more or less tamper-proof common registry in a decentralized manner. In other words, transactions. Trying to use it for everything, everywhere, all at once (loved the movie) as they’re now trying with gen AI won’t lead anywhere. And if what you meant is you want a video platform that pays in crypto you’ll probably find something like DLive still lingers.

Yours truly,

The NSA.

I only buy games on Steam, GOG and ItchIO. The main reason I don’t give a cent to stores from EA, Ubisoft or Epic Games anymore is their services and terms are horrible. I’m all in for supporting competition when it’s good competition.

Many gamedevs have been designing their games with the expectation that players will reach out to others online for help in solving a part they find difficult. It’s a way of bringing people together and keeping the game relevant. So if you feel you’ll be having more fun searching for info online than discovering a game’s many secrets on your own, go ahead. Just have fun and let others have fun as well.

I was originally interested in FBCF, but not being an always online game and even less at that price. If they wanted less risk they should’ve given players better options on how to buy and play their game.

I share this point of view, but from what I gather it seems to just be a shortcut to get the PGP setup done easier. https://www.openpgp.org/software/autocrypt/ I guess it could be a start for someone who’s new to this as long as they can export their keys and use them elsewhere later. There’s also work being done to have PQC in PGP if you’re interested. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2025q1/000489.html Pretty cool stuff.

My man. 👌

So good to know! Thanks!

1. Uninstall Windows
2. Install Linux
3. Enjoy

Love them all. Amazing games, each with it’s own neat peculiarities.

That’s easy to say now, but BG3 wasn’t getting much attention during it’s early access and other CRPGs like the Pathfinder games weren’t that popular either. BG3 has been a phenomenon for a multitude of reasons, so saying developers stopped making games like BG3 isn’t too precise either. The only game that gets close to BG3 in both features and praise is Divinity: Original Sin 2, which was also made by Larian.

Didn’t bother. I’m already too regretful about the games I bought on EA’s store and that I’ve been having trouble playing since they ditched their Origin launcher. Add the fact that BF6 won’t work on any Linux OS either and I’m out. I’m not paying a cent for games as a service that won’t ever serve me.

Folks at Digital Foundry have been talking about the matter. Most games made with Unreal Engine 5 share this among other problems.