I just turned off notifications for everything, except Signal and banking apps. Most convenient solution IMO.

Kingdom come II was profitable after the first day. EGS is just a black hole.

Wake me up when they remove the Ubishit launcher from all their games on Steam.

Why does Civ VI have In-App Purchases?

I wonder if they release it DRM free on Steam too.

“He doesn’t care about money, political influence, or bathing. Just games.”

Does he care about games? I used to watch him years ago, but then he turned into a misogynistic drama farmer and rage baiter who occasionally plays games.

Just open browser and go to Lichess. Best solution IMO.

Honestly, Valve should just ask for proof that you are 18+ if you want to sell items on Steam market or trade them.

Easiest solution IMO.

I guess I can see that, but I never said that it is cleaner. It’s the same for me. It’s not dirtier. It’s not cleaner. It’s only faster. Eating the banana sideways might look weird to other people, but there is literally no advantage for me to eat it normally.

When someone tells you that they finished a book in a really short time, the first thing you think is probably that the book is really good and they had to like it. You probably don’t think, “oh, that’s not really reading. You technically just skimmed through it, you don’t know what you even read.”

Some people read faster. Some people listen faster. It shouldn’t be that surprising.

I don’t know what to tell you. It looks like to me that you seem to think that somehow I am wasting my enjoyment of the media. Or that my consumption of the media isn’t the right one or fulfilling or something like that.

As I said before, I can understand everything. Why should I listen to or watch something in normal speed? It’s just a waste of time in my case.

When somebody can hit a target that is 300 meters away, why would you tell them to shoot at the target that is only 100 meters away? What’s the point in that for them?

I don’t know if that is a good analogy, but I don’t know how else to explain this.

When I am cooking, cleaning, etc, I listen to audiobooks. Not at those same speeds as YouTube videos. Between 1.25x and 1.8x, depends on a narrator again.

I thought that was obvious. Time.

You would not believe how much time I have saved over the years by doing this. When I can finish 30m video in less than 10 minutes.

I don’t know about you, but when I come home from work, I don’t have a whole evening to just watch yt videos.

This way I can finish the videos I wanted to watch a lot sooner and then I can go and do something else.

Gradualism

At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.

Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months. Then 2.2x and so on.

Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video. I can understand everything.

Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that. If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.

Still can’t set the video speed above 2.25x? Otherwise it’s useless to me.

Kadokawa owns 60% of FromSoftware

Sony will own 10% of Kadakawa.

It could be a lot worse. Hopefully, this means there will be no PSN shenanigans.

I don’t know about the game, but the book is good.

The devs are working on the game and recently they released a book from the game’s world.

I really thought it would be shit, but then I saw that it was written by a known scifi author, so I thought it would be at least readable. I was pleasantly surprised and the book is actually really good.

The book in question is:

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton

StoryGraph

Goodreads

I bought it during the steam’s autumn sale. It was 90% off. And a few days later, it is 95. A bit scummy if you ask me… I don’t care about the money. The difference in price is like 1.4 euros. It’s the principle of it. I can still just refund it and buy it again.

Rockstar next?

Yep, Muskrat is playing Frostpunk and completely ignores anything that doesn’t make him money.

Edit: Actually, not a very good comparison. Because in Frostpunk, you are actively fighting for your survival. Elon probably doesn’t even know what that means.

I don’t want to put you down or anything, but this is very surprising to me. 100+ hours from multiple play throughs feels really small to me. You clearly love the game. So I am wondering why was your first time so short? When I love a game, I want to experience as much of the content as I can in my first playthrough. It took me 185 hours to finish Cyberpunk 2077 without the DLC. I haven’t played that one yet. I am waiting for a new PC so that I can play the game on max settings.