[–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

    More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    A step in the right direction would be no pointless MTX, as plenty of other games are doing right now. There are no microtransactions in my copy of Days Gone, for example. Nor are there any in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

    And even if it's the popular thing to do, that is not an excuse to let them get an inch. "Oh, but he only beat you a little!"...

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    One reason is the more you're forced to work, the less energy, and, more importantly, time you have for preparing healthy meals. Therefore you're more likely to go with preprocessed, prepackaged meals or straight fast food which will make you fat fast.

    I've got a relatively cushy job and cook my own, relatively healthy meals but even I find myself going for that store-bought pizza when I have a particularly busy week.

    Moreover, unhealthy, preprocessed meals are basically drugs in terms of the dopamine hit, so you're more likely to go for them if your life sucks and you're sad about it.

    Add to that the lack of education on healthy eating, which I'd bet is easier to come by when you're at least middle class and bam, you're a fat poor person.

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    Some time ago I bought a physical copy of Rat Attack for PC, because I had fond memories of playing it on a Playstation Demo Disk.

    Unfortunately, while the game itself technically works, after I get past the first "chapter" ("House"), I get a message saying "You need to download the next part of this game to continue. Visit the Freeloader web site? Press OK or Cancel to exit the game".

    Pressing OK does nothing, while Cancel does indeed exit the game. Looking at the game files it seems that all of the files are there (I can see the files for the other levels and they seem to have the same size as the one that loads correctly).

    Freeloader no longer seems to exist and even searching sites like myabandonware turns up empty for this game. Am I screwed and this game is lost media now, or is there anything I can do to get it to run past the first couple of levels?

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