Gabadabs

You don't need to use steam to use wine and proton. I do this pretty much every day, playing games from GOG, or from itch.io. where you get the executable for the game doesn't matter. I'm currently part way through a run of Baldur's Gate 1 from GOG, and it's a Windows executable. You could set up a wine prefix manually, but there's options like lutris, bottles, or play on Linux to handle that for you. I've played games from battle.net and ea app as well, all on linux by setting up proton in Lutris.

You can run non-steam windows games on linux as well, even without steam installed.

The concepts you're sharing aren't slightly right of center, and frankly you're right for getting banned for saying those things. It's very odd to roll up to a social space that is maintained very heavily by left-wing people, and be surprised when we don't let your right-wing "politics" targeting us fly. You shouldn't be surprised when you use a right-wing dog whistle "Israel has a right to defend itself" when Israel is currently committing genocide, and you end up banned. Listen to yourself.

I mean... They aren't? Maybe do some cursory research yourself instead of making bad faith Lemmy posts?

Souls games autosave constantly, you can quit out at any time and reload to where you were. The only exception being that if you quit out during a boss fight you'll have to restart.

eBay. Better not to buy tech new.

I think it's incredibly overrated. Modern games already look incredible without it, so I really don't think it's worth the cut in performance.

I have time to play videogames, and it's my primary hobby - but I also don't date nor have any interest in having kids. I imagine it's a lot harder for people with romantic lives or kids.

Sure, but it makes it impossible for anyone that doesn't have a smartphone with Bluetooth to use them, and makes me have another account I don't want, among other issues. If the apartment's WiFi has issues, the machines lose connection and you can't use them, It's a vastly worse experience then using quarters or even just a card reader.

Why does every apartment I ever live in now never have laundry in unit, and requires you use a mobile app w/ an account to pay to do laundry. Why do I need to load a digital wallet that requires I pay a fee if I only want to add just the amount for one load? It's absurd. Let me put quarters in.

It's multifaceted, police do sometimes serve as a deterrent to or to protect people, but it's important to also recognize the position they hold isn't to help your average people as much as it is to maintain order for the benefit of the state. They are the internally focused gun that will just as soon shoot a killer as a black child walking down the street with a nerf gun. Either one serves the same purpose, stay in line or else, do what we say or else, they sow fear in the population while making the privileged feel some illusion of safety. They'll help you get your stolen car back, while also arresting a mother for stealing food from Walmart, or a homeless person for sleeping in their car. If you are any sort of minority, a police officer is a much greater threat than a help, and we've seen that in a history of high and low profile cases where police murder black people with absolutely no consequences, or in their use to suppress even the most by-the-book protests. Instead of solving the core problems that cause the majority of crimes, like poverty.

Happens, I'd bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor's package and accidentally grabbed yours. It's easy to make a mistake here and there when you're delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.