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Wow! I can’t say no to Injustice 2. That game’s been on my wishlist for a long time. If there’s something on your wishlist I’d love to give back at some point. 💛

Oh… Crap. 😅

This makes me think they intend to shield GOG from a possible more or less hostile acquisition of CD Projekt by one of it’s shareholders.

They’ve also had server issues that caused games to be permanently removed from users’ libraries. Free to keep on a bad service isn’t reliable. Whoever clings to their EGS account for the freebies should backup (and patch if needed) the games they intend to keep. Same thing with some games bough from Ubisoft and EA apps. But don’t bother with anything purchased through a Microsoft app. That’s burnt money.

It’s a very personal decision. I won’t say someone’s braver or stupider for coming forward in support or confession of doing something that might be interpreted as illegal today or down the road. But that person, if chased by authorities, could either become a head on a flag or a head on a pike. They could become the reason everyone pushes back or the reason everyone runs and hides.
So I’d say, under doubt start with an alias. Own it publicly when you’re confident doing so will improve things for yourself and others.

Each EU country and state has a different set of laws. Think of it this way: if authoritarian jerks always had it their way it would be illegal to use an ad-blocker, send encrypted messages to your contacts, own a house, get a prescription for much needed medicine or even sit close to a person of a different skin color.
In uncertain times use pseudonyms, hide your tracks, keep things clean and tidy and leave your own party early.
But please if you’re sure the info you’re sharing could benefit most people break free from the abuse of, let’s say some Big Tech company, keep it up and count with my blessing. 💪💛

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.

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.

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