If you want to play modern or even recent games and indulge your locked down metwork desires I recommend getting a secondary PC just for gaming and run a separate vlan to fully separate traffic from your existing setup. There’s really no realistic threat vector there barring a state level actor or something equally serious but I’m happy to be corrected.

Yet the game still constantly crashes and has weapons and armor that have no effects.

The option to skip was there 20 minutes after launch until now.

It said required in the popup, but still had a skip button with no consequences.

Good point. I believe they do generate a temporary virtual card number but I’m unsure if it removes all potentially identifying information from the transaction.

My friend group all use the same one though to pollute the data.

Use cash for this strategy. If you’re using credit or debit cards they can separate the data that way.

I want to blame the company but from their point of view this business model works so I understand why it keeps happening.

Steam refunds are great for situations like these but I doubt the average casual knows how easy it is. The other platforms are much stricter on refunds.

There’s also the culture shift of gamers defending broken releases with “at least they fixed it!” Or “they released a roadmap for future fixes” that encourages early releases.

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A lot of the player count on steam is users AFK idling so they don’t have to get stuck in queue again. My discord friend list is a ton of idle users on Helldivers 2 all day and night

Plex sharing also opens up the ports, and is what the user is using already.

Plex Pass https://www.plex.tv/plex-pass/

But I was mistaken on which features were locked behind the paywall. They charge for hardware transcoding but it sounds like sharing doesn’t require the subscription.

Likely upnp or nat-pnp. Enabling "Enable automatic port mapping"within Jellyfin will accomplish the same thing without needing a paid Plex subscription.

Port forwarding doesn’t require VPN.

Does Plex Sharing not open up ports either manually or via UPnpP?

How so? You can use tailscale/wireguard or just port forward to remotely access.

No need to use Plex

https://jellyfin.org/

The DnD claim has a lot of validity, as a fan of DnD. Have you looked into it much?

The DnD devs are accused of working on Nexons game, stealing source code, leaving nexon, and buying the same assets Nexon used to rapidly build DnD from p3’s ashes. The main leader who quit nexon directly poached from the p3 team to build the clone game as well.

I’m no Korean law expert, but there’s something worth looking into there.

Palworld just has a similar art style, and the idea of catching monsters in balls. There’s a lot more mechanics to palworld than Pokémon has, whereas DnD was actually P3 but made by a new team.

And Pokémon did it to Dragon Quest.

There was an image of a Pokémon mesh or framework being very similar to a Pal’s, but the author didn’t mention they manipulated the size and perspective to make them look closer but other users noticed.

Nintendo is one of the most litigious game companies there is, and Palworld Dev is also based in Japan so there’s no international complications.

If Nintendo had an infringement case at all they’d already have buried Palworld.

Its slowing down recently but in 2021 and 2022 it was a very popular topic and many people did move from CA to TX.

https://blog.smu.edu/dedmancollege/2022/09/12/why-are-californians-moving-to-texas-and-how-that-might-change-the-state/

This is just Randy’s latest magic trick. Making a ton of his employees disappear!

Lots of actual calls for violence on here and people screaming nazi at anyone who casually disagrees with them.

Reporting the calls for actual IRL violence does nothing, mods don’t seem to respond or take action.