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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • His comment didn’t address two key issues for me:

    • The “crunch”/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
    • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

    I’ve been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising “We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.”, is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can’t rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

    And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

    Not to mention, it’s worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is “most likely to remain the same”, which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.






  • Gotta go for ProtonMail. Have been running it for a year and I kinda like how it’s doing.

    An additional feature is SimpleLogin’s “Hide My E-mail” Aliases, which are “burner” e-mail addresses to use with pre-determined SimpleLogin domains (you can add your own domains as well to go around Proton’s custom domain limit). Those are included in the full suite and Family subscriptions. (10 a month when subscribing for a year)

    There’s also a cheaper variant for 3.50 a month but it lacks the SimpleLogin feature. You can get SimpleLogin seperately for 30 a year, however.















    • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
    • Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
    • Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I’ve heard it got a great modding community)
    • Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
    • Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn’t pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG’s new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG’s own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
    • Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that’s been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
    • Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn’t wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
    • True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)

  • Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:

    • Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)
    • Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn’t have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)
    • Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)
    • NOMAD (another classic emulated title)
    • Castle Crashers (one of my “indie titles to get” games on the old list)
    • Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)