Not sure about current options, but I came across a physical copy some time ago. Wine was able to install it and run it without much fuss. Iirc I didn’t even have to put the disc back in to play.
I didn’t get around to sticking with it though, so there might have been more issues down the line, past the first bit of gameplay.
Amazing game. I remember hearing folks describe it, before I ever played. I couldn’t get my head around the concept. Then you play, and all the rules just make sense.
When I played through Portal in dev commentary mode, I was surprised at the time to realize they’re basically trying to teach you things through the whole game (or at least heavily signpost). Made me realize a lot about game design, and design in general.
If it ever does calm down and stabilize, beware. That means something expensive is about to break. It’s always something!
But really, it does get a lot less hectic after you close, get utilities and address records sorted, finish any big upfront renovations you want to do, and get most of your stuff unpacked.
I think so. If you’re a human and you’re not a jerk, then interacting on a platform you want to see flourish is a good idea.
It might fail. Any given platform may fail despite many people’s efforts to make it work. But that’s not a good reason not to try.
Yep, and you can grab an extension like Enhancer for YouTube to get customized looping behavior too.
September 25, 2025
Yep. And to further mitigate any rage induction, the store replaced them.
https://bsky.app/profile/megannicolett.bsky.social/post/3lqv6v72abk2m
So yeah, I think that post is spot on that it’s kinda no big deal in any direction.
Sure, that’s on Nintendo a little bit.
But who staples things directly to the box of a collector’s item or an of expensive piece of electronics? Store was asking for trouble. The staple would have bothered me even if it didn’t touch the screen.
Not exactly games I guess, but https://neal.fun/ always has neat stuff. I think some of them are relatively recent.
There are lots of great things to do, but most important is to build a habit and keep working at it. Engage with the language every day, and work up to consuming content designed for native speakers.
Duolingo and similar apps are helpful, but don’t put all your eggs in that, or any single, basket. Also do Anki or some other flashcard thing. And at the very least a beginner textbook or grammar guide is good to have. Early on, mix time between textbook, apps, ‘comprehensible input’ videos. Work your way up to reading, and look for graded readers to get started.
(Also, as Duolingo gets worse, consider alternatives like Memrise and Mondly. Or even paid stuff like Busuu, Lingq, Pimsleur, Babbel, Rosetta Stone. Also, your local library may give access to Transparent Language or Mango. Although of course I can’t vouch for most of these personally.)
Another rec: check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for a cool community. Good place to ask questions and get support.
There are probably a ton of cool learning resources specific to your target language. Look online for communities around it.
Yeah! Songs are a good addition to learning activities. You learn several words deeply, with great repetition, and it’s fun.
But I agree you need to be looking at lyrics and using a dictionary. It can be too easy to just listen to songs as music, and not get any language-learning out of it.
Kinda, but I think phrasing it that way overstates how bad it is right now. Generally, you buy a physical game and you get something that’s a reasonably complete product, playable to the end without ever patching.
Basically every game has a patch, but it’s usually minor bug fixes, optimizations, or extra content that’s not so important.
Truly broken and deeply unfinished games shipping on cart/disc are (were?) still kinda the exception.
Probably means no general direct this summer.
But that’s also what we thought when the Switch 1 direct happened right before the Switch 2 thing. Crazier stuff has happened. /shrug