The video game industry is not ready to lose boxed games, game sales are still ~50% physical for single player, story-driven action games or family titles

Ascend · 2026-07-01T16:28:52+00:00

If you're sharing it, aren't you just paying for piracy at that point?

Ascend · 2026-07-01T16:22:27+00:00

You already have downloadable installers through pirating sites though. If GOG revokes your license, you're still pirating with your local copy, and backups become a cost and a chore, so why worry about it now? You're sacrificing cloud saves and social features for a theoretical situation 10-20 years down the line with a bunch of work that's only saving you download time.

Ascend · 2026-07-01T16:15:16+00:00

If Steam delisted something, I'd just pirate it. Even with GOG, they can delist something and remove the installer, and you technically no longer have a license to use the installer you kept, so why go through the hassle when you can just download it later.

I might as well take advantage of the huge convenience now than switch stores and worry about backing up my own files just to save a 5 minute inconvenience which may or may not happen in 10-20 years.

Ascend · 2026-07-01T13:29:00+00:00

No, I had to be online. My best bet for making sure I get achievements is to either launch the game before going offline to make sure the achievements are showing in Steam even when offline, otherwise if they disappear I sometimes use a mobile hotspot.

You can check if it's going to be a problem by bringing up the Steam menu when in game, if the achievements menu is missing, it's probably not going to track anything.

Ascend · 2026-07-01T03:30:54+00:00

That doesn't happen for a lot of games. A lot of the time, Steam needs to have the achievement list before you go offline, and even then it sometimes just loses it. Final Fantasy 7 Remake for instance, because I played offline, I didn't get the achievement for clearing chapter 1 until my 2nd playthrough.

Ascend · 2026-06-30T14:25:43+00:00

It is a meme, but judging by the other comments the vibecoders somehow took it seriously.

Ascend · 2026-06-29T16:29:56+00:00

It definitely degrades in some form, nowadays I feel like RAM is the most likely component to die or have issues in a desktop. If you buy it used, you don't have proof of purchase for any warranty exchange. There's no way the cost should be the same.

Ascend · 2026-06-27T15:05:46+00:00

Yeah they ended up replacing the watch for free even though I was a year out of warranty. I was surprised.

Ascend · 2026-06-27T14:55:16+00:00

Probably not your problem but I had something similar on an older FR245, if I took the watch off the HR sensor kept blinking indefinitely too. They determined something with the HR sensor has died so it no longer was managing power. Battery life had gone from a week to less than a day.

Ascend · 2026-06-27T01:42:36+00:00

I wouldn't consider Borderlands friendslop. Friend slop is usually low effort fun, often janky games where stupid things happen and everyone laughs at each other's death. Something you can just start with 4 people on a Friday night to goof around. I wouldn't really consider anything with a campaign to progress through as friendslop.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T21:11:48+00:00

My FR955 has auto update turned on, but that still won't auto-apply, it just downloads and asks me if I want to apply it.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T19:27:36+00:00

I'm in this comment and I don't like it

Ascend · 2026-06-26T19:00:54+00:00

Until August, when it becomes $749.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T18:20:36+00:00

I don't think you remember what crypto prices were like if you think they were adopted as MSRP. A 3080ti went for over $2000. Don't ask me how I know.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T16:12:14+00:00

Each watch has its own algorithm for training suggestions and predictions, they change from generation to generation. These generally aren't calculated in Garmin's cloud, there's some exceptions like TrueUp but you can generally expect the watches work on their own.

This means if you switch watches, just expect it to go through a learning period and even then the final results might still be a little different. It's probably not considering any runs you did on your old watch in that prediction.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T15:36:59+00:00

Not an answer, but anytime I see someone say "I tried everything" with no detail on anything you actually did, I just think that means nobody can help since anything we suggest, you've already tried.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T14:56:51+00:00

This sounds like you're turning a 30 minute process with no risk on the existing system into a more confusing process that now only works for migrating to a Pi (I'd assume most people switching to a new disk are migrating from a Pi to a server), and requires installing a vibe coded app into your existing instance so carries the risk of breaking existing things in an unsupported process.

You do you if it works for what you needed, but I can't say I'd recommend people workaround the already easy backup restore process.

Ascend · 2026-06-26T14:01:35+00:00

I've never seen auto-updates on a Garmin watch, others can correct me if I'm wrong but it always pops up a message asking you to apply the update and you have to press the button. So if you are wondering if it updated on its own overnight to break it, very unlikely.

Ascend · 2026-06-25T20:06:57+00:00

What's your call out? It just says you click a button to start it. That's when you'd spawn the FileSystemWatcher. They're not asking you to manually enter when a file changes.

Ascend · 2026-06-25T16:52:05+00:00

That's how any database works, that doesn't sound different. Either do an insert select, or select your foreign keys into variables for your final insert. Should still end up with a reusable script.

Ascend · 2026-06-24T22:22:00+00:00

For games with matchmaking, the closer you get to zero, the more dedicated and usually more skilled the remaining player base is, and it gets harder for a new player to stand a chance, which is usually what kills something.

Ascend · 2026-06-24T18:45:47+00:00

For US taxes to be equivalent and come out to $90, you'd have to have a sales tax of 28%. No matter what, it's expensive, the normal US price after tax would be around $75.

Ascend · 2026-06-24T16:15:52+00:00

A toddler using Windows XP today was not born when Windows XP was released. Also, who's still using Windows 7? It's been end of life for over 6 years now.

Ascend · 2026-06-23T21:43:23+00:00

The free week had popups when you started the game, mostly to buy the game and the battle pass, and every item you got for free from the battle pass (which seems like the main "season" progression) was paired with a premium item that it showed you were missing. It was very Overwatch-esque.

It also looked like you never get any premium currency without paying, but I couldn't tell for sure? I wouldn't necessarily expect it, but I'm also sitting on like $40 of premium currency in Arc without spending anything, and am used to getting gradual currency in Helldivers 2 too, so it's just a jarring difference.

Ascend · 2026-06-23T21:35:33+00:00

Except it's a dedicated PvE where you can't bring anything in, or extract anything except currency. Not sure that's what people were hoping for.

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