I gave up on getting it at a discount lol. I waited 5 years

If you own your car (not paying off a loan or a lease) you can remove the sim card/ internet module from your car. It may cause some features to stop working (nothing that impares the vehicle) but it stops the car from actually sending the data it’s collecting

Just a heads up to you creative folks, the pieces of fiction that have changed my life probably weren’t produced by folks attempting to make life changing fiction. They are usually pretty small and simple stories that were a bit heavy handed with their themes. Or a small part of an overall series that resonates with me

I didn’t even know there was a 3rd one, I thought everyone was talking about the second one this whole time.

I’m not entirely familiar with the process, but I think Goldberg uses steam architecture, but replaces calls to steam servers with locally emulated ones. And I think Steamless emulates the DRM check locally, to spoof the call to steam servers. Neither tool requires internet or active steam servers to run. If the internet disappeared tomorrow, as long as I had my game library downloaded, and the latest version of those two tools installed, I could play all my games forever. Of course, I still prefer to buy my games as physical copies or offline installers from GoG, but you kinda have to go where the games are.

You aren’t wrong, that’s why I use Goldberg/steamless to keep my library of steam games safe, even if steam shits the bed

I’m curious how it is for other languages, but I find that in English I can usually understand someone trying to explain something using incorrect words and bad grammar if we go at it long enough

lol Sure bud

How so?

Why bother starting discussions on the internet if you’re just going to bow out as soon as you’re called on your shit? That’s not how rage bait is supposed to work, I thought you were good at this

lol You’ve now slipped into the most pitiful version of rage bait, the kind that ignores the comment you are responding to. You got me, I was wrong. You aren’t a bot, you’re a happy, successful, self-actualized person.

First, it’s not that you dislike something that makes you a bot, it’s that you are so unreasonably angry about an easter egg.

Second, it’s not that you dislike something that makes you a rage baiter, it’s that your arguments don’t make sense. You are less entertained by a scream than using the controller as a controller? So is everyone. No one is saying this is the most fun or best feature of the controller, so you aren’t actually saying anything that goes against the people that like the scream.

“They got mad because I think it’s a ridiculous feature” Actually, I’m not mad about that. I also think it’s a ridiculous feature. There’s no argument there either.

If you don’t like the scream, that’s okay. I know it’s not for everyone, and many people won’t even hear it. But to say that steam is pushing this as an advertisement for the controller is misleading. To say that they should have just focused on making the controller a good controller is misleading. I have the controller. It’s a great controller. It has more features than other controllers, and those features were executed well. I bought it before anyone posted anything about the scream.

You say you use a dual shock controller. That has a speaker on it. If unnecessary features make you this irrationally angry, I’m shocked that you would prefer a controller that they had to add in a whole extra physical component to the controller just to give it a pointless feature, over a controller with an easter egg using the hardware that already contributes to the actual experience of using the controller.

Except you don’t care. About either of these things. At least not to the extent that you are putting on. You are just trying to make people upset as a ragebaiter, or trying to spread unnecessary discourse about a product as a bot.

Sure, I don’t doubt that steam pays for reviews and news coverage. But I’m going off of statements put out by the company, because if I don’t, I’d just be speculating.

it’s pretty telling of the userbase that all news you read are about this though. Explains why you all got butthurt

Again with your pointless rage bait. That’s not an actual argument, you are just telling a lie as though it’s a fact. That’s what ragebaiters do, that’s what bots do. I don’t actually consume game journalism at all, the only place I will see it is when I read a headline on Lemmy. I haven’t even read the article this post links to.

Steam hasn’t advertised this easter egg at all, but have advertised all the “proper” features. The only people mentioning this are fans and journalists, many of which have already gone over a normal review of the controller, and just like to call out a fun easter egg when they see one.

That’s not an official feature, just a third party project that uses the vibration motors to play music. Sometimes people do things just for the sake of entertainment. The way you write suggests you are a bot or rage baiting, so I can understand why you may not know about basic human emotions

The Wilhelm scream playing on the Steam Big Picture mode home screen a small percentage of the times you drop the controller seems like a harmless feature, especially since it didn’t take adding any parts that weren’t already being used for things players actually want

I don’t use the internet for much these days, but I am on graphine OS and I have yet to be blocked from websites due to it. My adblocker prevents me from some, and not allowing javascript prevents me from some, but I’ve never seen that QR code or had any site prompt fro Google play services

I set aside time to buy it as soon as they were available. I had two other friends doing the same. We each bought 2 controllers. I’m certain there are bot purchases, but I think there are more real people than you’d think

I got on right at the listed launch time, spammed continue for ~20 minutes, and got my order of 2 controllers through. Had a buddy who tried the exact same, spammed continue for 50 minutes, and ended up getting hit with “out of stock.” It was really luck of the draw.

Almost the entirety of my physical music collection is game soundtracks. I like to put them on while working or doing chores. It’s more relaxing than regular music for me.