If you want to play modern or even recent games and indulge your locked down metwork desires I recommend getting a secondary PC just for gaming and run a separate vlan to fully separate traffic from your existing setup. There’s really no realistic threat vector there barring a state level actor or something equally serious but I’m happy to be corrected.

Yet the game still constantly crashes and has weapons and armor that have no effects.

The option to skip was there 20 minutes after launch until now.

It said required in the popup, but still had a skip button with no consequences.

I had a similar issue and it was due to a typo in my Timezone field for Compose

Can you link some? I’ve seen some bad photo shops but nothing halfway convincing.

Some people claim it used to be “Stouffer’s Stove Top” brand stuffing, but the company reports they’ve never made any stuffing or product called Stove Top.

Kraft currently makes Kraft Stove Top stuffing, and people reportedly are misremembering.

I want to blame the company but from their point of view this business model works so I understand why it keeps happening.

Steam refunds are great for situations like these but I doubt the average casual knows how easy it is. The other platforms are much stricter on refunds.

There’s also the culture shift of gamers defending broken releases with “at least they fixed it!” Or “they released a roadmap for future fixes” that encourages early releases.

American Thanksgiving

Fruit of the loom, It’s possible, but with the amount of clothing produced with the logo it should be easy to find in thrift stores and the back of peoples closets. At least a few years ago when the idea caught on.

Thinking logically, are there agents going around stealing the items from homes and thrift shops to cover this up? It would have to be an ongoing process.

Stove Top stuffing is a bit trickier to debunk since the product was thrown away after consumption, its a lot less likely there is a mountain of old product that could resurface.

I’m not clicking TikTok but if that evidence is the logo trademark paperwork mentioning “cornucopia” you can search that same database for cornucopia and find other logos tagged with the label that don’t contain one. Seems to be a tagging system, not a 1:1 description of image content.

A lot of the player count on steam is users AFK idling so they don’t have to get stuck in queue again. My discord friend list is a ton of idle users on Helldivers 2 all day and night

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

The DnD claim has a lot of validity, as a fan of DnD. Have you looked into it much?

The DnD devs are accused of working on Nexons game, stealing source code, leaving nexon, and buying the same assets Nexon used to rapidly build DnD from p3’s ashes. The main leader who quit nexon directly poached from the p3 team to build the clone game as well.

I’m no Korean law expert, but there’s something worth looking into there.

Palworld just has a similar art style, and the idea of catching monsters in balls. There’s a lot more mechanics to palworld than Pokémon has, whereas DnD was actually P3 but made by a new team.

And Pokémon did it to Dragon Quest.

There was an image of a Pokémon mesh or framework being very similar to a Pal’s, but the author didn’t mention they manipulated the size and perspective to make them look closer but other users noticed.

Nintendo is one of the most litigious game companies there is, and Palworld Dev is also based in Japan so there’s no international complications.

If Nintendo had an infringement case at all they’d already have buried Palworld.

The next pi I get will be turned into an MT32-Pi for use with my Mister retro setup and classic PC games.

https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi

It can also be used as a midi synth if you’re into that

This is just Randy’s latest magic trick. Making a ton of his employees disappear!

Use Quality Profiles and default to a lower quality. You can set the profile for each item when adding it, or change it after the fact.

https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/radarr-setup-quality-profiles/

Nope, no Kickstarter or obvious public funding before the early access “release”.

There’s a chance some people weren’t able to get refunded but due to Steam’s refund policy I suspect most got their money back.

If it was always intended to be a total scam and never release they’d likely have used their own launcher to bypass the Steam revenue share and refund policy.

Due to the way Steam refunds work I feel this wasn’t their end goal unless they really didn’t think it through at all.

The theory i subscribe to is that they intended to release a “decent” game but had no experience or intent to make it themselves. The marketing hype machine was to build community hype, which would drive investor funding so they could pay for new talent or to just outsource most of the work. I’m guessing that either didn’t materialize or they mismanaged that plan.