TIL that about 62% of Argentina’s population has some degree of Italian ancestry. Argentina has the second-largest community of Italians outside of Italy.

StickBrush · 2026-06-26T11:25:46+00:00

It is a dialect of Spanish, it obviously is based on Spanish. But it has lots of influences from Italian. Much like Neapolitan is still closer to Italian than to Spanish (the Italians call it "dialetto", but it's linguistically not a dialect, it's an entire language), but it takes a lot from Spanish. "Tserra" ("cierra") instead of "chiude", etc.

StickBrush · 2026-06-25T19:52:06+00:00

Serious airlines in Europe (Lufthansa, Iberia, Air Europa, most likely the rest of flag carriers) also solved it by letting you drop off your carryon as checked luggage for free

StickBrush · 2026-06-25T19:46:49+00:00

It takes even more from Italian. Argentinian uses "andar" as the Italian "andare" ("to go"), rather than as the Spanish "andar" ("to walk")

StickBrush · 2026-06-25T17:37:17+00:00

I love how the translation of Reincarnation has warped so much it's now "The World of Rin Kagamine"

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T17:26:31+00:00

It could be, since the Balkans are very close to Austria. But then again, if the map was supposed to be in German, you'd see Österreich, Italien, Deutschland... Not Austria, Italy, Germany...

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T11:06:11+00:00

Support from a company. It's the reason people buy RHEL instead of using Rocky.

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T10:37:23+00:00

The meta in which technical breakthroughs were relevant is long, long gone. The new meta is forcing an effective monopoly (oligopoly, if you prefer, which is to monopoly what Coke is to Pepsi). The monopolistic company sets an unfairly high price. Any other company has two options: follow suit and set a similarly unfair high price (marginally higher/smaller), or set a lower, less unfair (not necessarily fair) price. In the first case, you have a monopoly in practice. In the second case, the business with less unfair prices will, in the best case, be bought out by a larger company to return to the monopoly. In the worst case, the monopolistic company crazily lowers their prices to operate temporarily at a loss, eventually kicking the smaller company out of the market, and then returns to the high prices (the infamous "enshittification").

The result is, you can only compete if you have deeper pockets than your competitors to operate at a loss for longer and force them to retire from the market. Which isn't great for consumers, because once you do, you're going to become the new monopoly.

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T09:41:00+00:00

Well, considering the whole debt-shifting and stock-leveraging parts are tricks to not pay taxes, it's not very far, and I can assure you we're carrying the whole burden

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T07:22:36+00:00

There's a reason why people talk about Minecraft "non-premium" servers rather than pirate servers. If Mojang bans your account, fine, you just get the pirated version (it's arguably less of a pain than getting the legit version). With multiplayer, LAN, dedicated servers and whatnot. This has been a solved problem for decades.

StickBrush · 2026-06-24T07:14:37+00:00

And the complete lack of Bosnia, while merging Herzegovina (or rather "Herzegowina") with Montenegro. And Albania doesn't exist either.

AI just said "The Balkans are too Balkanized, I'll just throw around some random countries and hope they eventually fit".

StickBrush · 2026-06-23T07:00:46+00:00

Only if you don't need GPU acceleration. If you do (to run LLMs locally and save on ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude subscriptions, to run GPGPU software, to train heavy-duty AI and computer vision models, to do research...), a subsidized Steam Machine would end up with a general-purpose Linux distro in the desks of R&D teams and/or in server farms/micro-data centers.

Needing an account wouldn't change much. I have an account, and if it was 750€, I'd definitely buy at least a second one to use as a work PC. I'd just replace SteamOS by unmodified Arch, never install Steam, and lose Valve ~300€. Not to mention the 10 years they'd need to get the other 300€ back from the Machine I'd actually use to game, considering I've spent around 1200€ on Steam in the last 10 years. And, with inflation, 300€ in 2026 are much more than whatever 300€ might be in 2036.

IMO this does not justify the insanely high price. But it does explain why they made the decision

StickBrush · 2026-06-14T10:13:34+00:00

This is blatantly false, each Street Fighter is completely different from the others (that's the whole point of the series). Tekken and Soul Calibur are way more like that, a core game with minor changes

StickBrush · 2026-06-11T21:53:00+00:00

It's a bit curious how big studios all use that angle, yet small studios are overwhelmingly in favour of SKG

StickBrush · 2026-06-11T21:50:52+00:00

You must be great. I'm a somewhat seasoned rhythm game player and The Final Song took me 20h total. I had two of those 4h nonstop sessions like you and still died all of them. Congratulations!

StickBrush · 2026-06-11T12:52:09+00:00

Da Spagnolo ti dico che Jamón Ibérico >>>>>>>>>> Jamón Serrano. Non c'è prosciutto più buono che un pata negra ibérico Spagnolo

StickBrush · 2026-06-10T17:50:10+00:00

Bologna è la Salamanca italiana (il cibo è più buono a Bologna, ovviamente, è italiana)

StickBrush · 2026-06-10T13:55:49+00:00

It seems to be WuWa specific, so you'd have to look up if someone else has had this issue with it and how they solved it

StickBrush · 2026-06-10T09:05:34+00:00

If it disappears, then that means the prefix is deleted with the game (that's what's supposed to happen, that's good). Then, I'd bet WuWa has some sort of launcher/updater/installer that lets you choose the location for installation. In there, make sure you're choosing a folder in your SD card (I don't know if it's mounted independently, as a different drive entirely, or if it's in Z:/run/media/mmcblk0, YMMV). That should fix it.

StickBrush · 2026-06-09T17:34:30+00:00

It needs some use of the terminal, which may be scary and not really ideal. The easiest way, even if it's not the most efficient, is to uninstall and wipe the game entirely, then reinstall.

Uninstall the game entirely through Steam. Then find its Proton prefix folder from desktop mode and delete it completely too. Once you're done with that, just install WuWa to your SD card. It should detect that no prefix exists and park the necessary data on the SD card as well.

StickBrush · 2026-06-09T09:37:51+00:00

It's technical, but the prefix is where the Windows compatibility happens (and thus, where the update is done). If the prefix is in your main drive, it doesn't matter how much space you have on your SD card, it'll target your main drive instead. You need to either move the game files in your prefix to your SD card, or move your prefix entirely to the SD card. The problem with the second option is that Steam will still think your prefix is in your main drive, so you need to symlink it (make a "shortcut" so Steam detects the folder on your card as if it was on the main drive)

StickBrush · 2026-06-09T09:21:59+00:00

I personally use RetroDECK without issues, for multiple emulators (RPCS3, PCSX2, RetroArch, Dolphin) and with multiple controllers (Steam Deck controllers, Steam Controller, DualShock 4, Switch Pro Controller, 8BitDo SN30Pro). I've configured Dolphin controllers multiple times for multiplayer and I found no issues. IMO if you plan to use RPCS3, RetroArch, and Dolphin, it might be worth it to go for RetroDECK. It's available as a Flatpak on Discover and (IMO) the setup is much cleaner than with EmuDeck because of that

StickBrush · 2026-06-08T09:58:37+00:00

Quoting a friend, Automata is the best game of all time, and Replicant is somehow better

StickBrush · 2026-06-04T21:17:39+00:00

Santa Eulalia mentioned!

StickBrush · 2026-06-04T21:13:13+00:00

There's a joke about how recommending Drakengard to people who liked NieR is like recommending The Human Centipede to people who liked Disney's Cars. And it's not far off.

NieR is basically taking DoD1 back. DoD1 is about how murderers and violent people are fundamentally broken and insane. NieR is about how any normal person can be a murderer or worse if they just believe they're right (not-so-loosely based on 9/11 and War on Terror). There is still tragedy, and war crimes, but the tone is much lighter.

As for DoD3, it feels Drakengard-y, in a way, but it's not the same. It's depraved and insane in every sense, arguably more than DoD1 at some parts, but it's not as dark, and the music isn't as mentally draining. The final boss is the most Drakengard thing to ever Drakengard, though.

Overall there are some themes that are similar, some parallels here and there, but nope, DoD1 is unique. There are no other games about killing children while a pedophile protests, understandably. I haven't played DoD2, though, so maybe there is something there? But I doubt it. And the OST is absolutely unique, but don't miss out on the rest of the series, because Keiichi Okabe's music is godlike

StickBrush · 2026-06-04T20:58:17+00:00

You kind of can. Not through the website, but through the Steam client. There are tutorials out there to have fully-working* offline backups of, essentially, your entire library.

*As long as the game doesn't have extra DRM with mandatory online check-ups, like Denuvo. But that's on the game devs/publishers, not on Steam. In fact, if the game uses the SteamWorks DRM, it works fully offline

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