The first negative review I found:

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware.

Important Info in Terms of Service:

• Mods are a bannable offense

• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable

• Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area

• You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers

• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC

Collected Data Types:

• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address

• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender

• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information

• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address

• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications

• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)

• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest

• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)

• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

If all this is true, it’s a bit much. I don’t touch anything that comes from Gearbox anyway, but I still find it concerning.

Considering the Steam Deck’s screen is 1280x800, I think it might be ok.

It looks great, but why wasn’t Ocelot moving his mouth while he was speaking?

I hope it does really well, can’t wait to try it.

VIII has always been ugly

I don’t agree with this. It definitely wasn’t considered ugly back when it was new. In fact, I believe the over ambitious models for the hardware as you put them were considered a big improvement compared to VII’s.

It’ll probably come with Denuvo anyway.

I finished Expedition 33 a few days ago, I think it deserves all the praise it is getting.

I was playing Breath of Fire III but had to stop for a couple of days and now I’m struggling to find it interesting again, unfortunately I have this problem quite often.

Might try Breath of Fire IV

I played it last year emulated and loved it. The story is interesting although a bit sad and the game has this melancholic and kind of dream-like atmosphere, the music helps with the vibe too. The graphics are some of the finest spritework from that era IMHO, I quickly fell in love.

Not only with Chuck Berry:

https://youtu.be/6_sQLIUi0mQ

https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=6_sQLIUi0mQ

When I was 3 or 4 I bit a bar of soap my grandma had in the kitchen thinking it was cheese. Also when I was 3 or 4 I brushed my teeth with soap because I couldn’t find the toothpaste. Oh and I ate a whole blister of contraceptives around that age too and my parents had to take me to the hospital.

I’m sure I did more stuff like that around that age, I was fucking stupid and I don’t think I got much better when I grew up.

No, no, no. You must convert them to DSD512 to fully enjoy them.

In case someone hasn’t seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing:

https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=JzS96auqau0

https://youtu.be/JzS96auqau0

If email is all you want, Tuta Mail is a good alternative with a free tier.

Here you go:

Four former Volkswagen managers have been convicted of fraud for their roles in the so-called Dieselgate scandal, which erupted when U.S. regulators discovered that the company had installed software to cheat emissions tests on millions of VW, Audi, and Porsche vehicles worldwide.

The court sent the former head of diesel engine development behind bars for four years and six months, and the former head of powertrain electronics to two years and seven months. Two others — Volkswagen’s former development director and a former department head — received suspended sentences, according to Der Spiegel and Deutsche Welle reports from the Braunschweig courtroom.

The verdict follows nearly four years of proceedings and adds to the mounting legal troubles for Volkswagen. Prosecutors had asked for prison terms of two to four years, while the defense argued the men were scapegoats. Appeals remain possible.

After being caught cheating in 2015, the company admitted to installing software in its diesel engines that activated emissions controls only during laboratory testing, allowing the vehicles to meet U.S. standards while in real-world driving, the vehicles emitted up to 40 times more pollutants.

The fallout forced CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign, although he denied wrongdoing. U.S. authorities issued an arrest warrant for Winterkorn in 2018, but Germany does not extradite its nationals. His trial in Germany was paused in 2021 due to health issues, but he remains a key figure under investigation.

Meanwhile, the arrest of Audi’s then-CEO Rupert Stadler in 2018 marked a dramatic shift, as German prosecutors expanded their probe into current executives. Stadler was accused of continuing to sell cars with illegal software even after the scandal broke.

Across the Atlantic, two former VW engineers — Oliver Schmidt and James Robert Liang — are already serving prison sentences in the U.S. Schmidt, who once led VW’s environmental office in the U.S., was sentenced to seven years after initially denying guilt but later reaching a plea deal. Liang received 40 months after cooperating with prosecutors.

Currently, German authorities are investigating up to 40 executives and engineers across Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche, with parallel cases against Daimler (Mercedes) and BMW under way.

OCCRP previously reported on Volkswagen’s 2017 U.S. guilty plea and multibillion-dollar settlement.

The Dieselgate saga has so far cost VW an estimated €33 billion ($37.5 billion) and the legal and financial fallout is far from over.

Thousands of European customers continue to press for compensation, while investigators on both sides of the Atlantic keep pushing for accountability at the highest levels.

Oops, I thought he was still on loan.

Real Madrid: Carlo, Modric, Vazquez

Real Sociedad: lose Alguacil and Zubimendi.

Maybe not such an emotional goodbye, but Kubo is most likely leaving too, since his loan period ends now.

I played Enslaved last year but gave up in the very last section of the game, can’t remember why. Fun and charming overall. I’m about to finish Expedition 33 and I don’t think I’ll start anything else on desktop for the next few months, summer is already here and my PC makes it even more unbearable. Handheld time!

You can always buy a used Switch 2 once it’s hackable.

https://youtu.be/7J1Av4bVQiQ

https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=7J1Av4bVQiQ