Quoting: XpanderPeople still pre-order games?
That's quite a shame tbh to give money without having a product for couple of months. You will not be able to refund then afaik.

I pre-ordered Digimon Story Time Stranger based on two factors: Cyber Sleuth was awesome and the demo for TS was awesome. When a team I know will make a good product is working on a product I know I will love... I don't see why I wouldn't pre-order it.

Though on Steam (at least) you can just refund it if it turns out not to meet expectations (so long as you play less than 2 hours and ask for the refund within 2 weeks after launch).

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Quoting: Liam Dawethe French indie studio Accidental Queens announced they're closing down.

Oh, that's unfortunate.

Quoting: Liam DaweThe developer confirmed in Steam announcements for each title that they will be gone on January 29th.

What the hell. Instead of doing the Helium Rain thing and making it gratis, or better yet: open sourcing it; they just go 'get it now or get fucked'? Well, it's their games, they can do whatever they want with them.

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I'm just looking forward to 6.6 for the ability to constrain workspaces to a single monitor. I have downloaded a KWin script which does that, but it gets messed up after my PC awakens from sleep with the monitors getting their indices switched. First-party support would be helpful.

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I love Arch, I keep bouncing between it and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (I'm on TW at the moment, but I was running Arch for most of 2024 and 2025). I don't think that these 'user-friendly' Arch distros are a good idea. Arch users are really meant to understand our systems and keep up to date with the Arch announcements so we can keep things running. I realise that sounds a bit elitist, so what I mean to say is it's easy to overlook something and break something, therefore a distro which wants to make Arch accessible for users who don't have an interest in reading all the announcements and documentation should set up a testing platform to test updates before delivering them to users and maintain patches to prevent breakage. Taking ownership of AUR packages and integrating them in the distros repositories would also help avoid issues propping up.

That said, I guess these distros are useful for Arch users who can maintain everything in the system and who don't care to manually set up their systems, although it seems to me like it creates a huge burden on the user who then has to figure out everything the distro's set up does. ...oh well, maybe I would be convinced by an Arch distro which sets up SELinux (which is what drew me back to OpenSUSE).

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Digimon Story Time Stranger. Not only do I like the game for gameplay and story reasons, but I really appreciate it on a technical level. Saving is instant. The game feels very responsive. Frame rate is silky smooth. Absolutely lovely game.

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I bought The World Next Door (I played the demo and liked it) and Misericorde Volume Two (I loved the first part). Considering I have a large backlog to work through, I don't think I'll be buying anything else this year.

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My backlog clearing progresses with 123 games played (and still I have a ton of games from different bundles which I have yet to play). Most of my Steam gaming happens on the Deck, as GOG doesn't track me like Steam does I can't know for sure, but I expect that the real stats would be more balanced. I'm also 1 whole percentage point over the Steam average at 15% playtime for 2025 releases (which is doubtlessly because of Digimon Story Time Stranger).

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Quoting: rea987Fuck. Is there a Firefox fork that supports DRM for Spotify, Netflix, HBO Max etc?

Waterfox [External Link] supports DRM if you need it. I also like it because they have the foresight to look for sponsors so if/when Mozilla goes entirely off the deep end Waterfox can go its own way. The LibreWolf devs, on the other hand, have already stated that they won't be able to keep development going if Mozilla implodes.

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Quoting: PhreezeBut is it really necessary? usually you KNOW what day it is

Do I? After hours of breaking my brain I don't have the mental capacity for knowing which century it is, let alone which day of the week.

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Customization galore

I tried COSMIC about a month or two ago and I was vastly underwhelmed by its customisation options. No clock format, no window decorations,... I know it's not KDE, but I want my clock to show the day of week (for example, Thursday), date in %F format (for example, 1970-01-01), and 24-hour clock without seconds (for example, 00:00).

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