@ArdainianRight They're just a prelude to the transhumanist dystopia that's in store for us.
@dave The berry is safe. Trust the experts.
@Nebukhanezzar @ryo Minecraft was the best selling PC game of all time and it was never on Steam.
@PhenomX6 @beardalaxy @ryo @Melon It's not much of a problem for indie games though. If the file size is small enough (which would really only be possible if your game was made "from scratch"), you can even use a CD as opposed to a DVD. AAA games however would probably need to distribute their games on HDDs at this point.
@PhenomX6 @beardalaxy @ryo
>Anyone who grew up around school kids and kids on the library PCs
Except that can't happen anymore because any school network has Active Directory (or equivalent) which heavily restricts computer usage by having all accounts on a server. I was in 8th grade when our district did this and before that people would bring flash drives with flash games, ROMs, or whatever. I think I even brought games I made using batch files for friends to play.
After they installed active directory, everything you did was tracked, and the only things you could really do was use Microsoft Office or browse whatever sites that weren't blocked.
It's probably even worse now, because schools prefer even more locked down devices like Chromebooks or iPads for students.
@vriska I want that keyboard controller.