It depends what you are after.

Even though Google has a long history of killing their products I doubt they’d do it to Google Drive anytime soon. You could upload it there and make it publicly available. Proton Drive is newer and preferred by a lot of people for numerous reasons. It has a 5GB limit. You could probably use that.

I feel like the key is having at least one other place where it is in the event one service dies.

That said there are paid services out there that would likely keep your files indefinitely and are unlikely to shutdown anytime soon.

Kind of reminds me of how I played The Long Dark. I turned all of hazards to minimal and treated it like a walking simulator/exploration game

I mean you aren’t too far off. Honestly I wouldn’t mind it. I would rather have a feature rich simpler looking game than something that’s fancy and shallow.

I’d be more than impressed by something just basically recreates the original Sims experience.

That’s kind of like Tiny Life. It is similar to the Sims but with retro graphics. Lots of people bought it as soon as it hit early access when a lot of core things were missing.

Kind of similar in the unpleasant aspect but I’d say someone who doesn’t know when to stop and take things seriously.

If you are looking for information related to Tor you could probably find some discussion of it in privacy focused communities and instances.

Maybe try searching related topics like Tor or the podcast Darknet Diaries. If you are looking for a fake Rolex or the onion versions of news sites like the BBC you can just search for those directly instead of jumping through hoops to end up there anyway.

I would say the Internet as well. It has dramatically shaped how we interact with the world and has made a lot of information more accessible.

There are probably better overall answers like farming, the printing press, vaccines, transistors, and fertilizer but I feel like a lot of them are if we didn’t have X we wouldn’t have Y situations.

It seems like this website works. It didn’t prompt me for a login but I didn’t test it to see the end result. Might be worth a try.

Steam, for its faults, is where it is because it is the best application to do what it does.

Yes others exist, and they’re all vastly inferior.

I’m not denying that. As a consumer I like a lot of what Steam does. I am a big fan of what they’ve done for the Linux gaming community for example. I am saying because they are so dominant in the market they can do things like keep their commissions high and push publishers to sign price parity obligations.

I imagine a lot of publishers feel like if they don’t have a choice but to list their games on Steam. The alternative would greatly limit their reach.

My initial point was Steam isn’t directly overcharging players like the title of the article implies. I feel like the title should have been about the cause and not the effect.

I mean abuse in the way where they are taking advantage of their position in the market.

There are several online game retailers publishers can utilize and being profitable is always going to be part of their business model. Epic would do it in their own way no matter what Steam did.

Even Humble Bundle isn’t perfect. You can read this article for more information but they trialed removing the slider that decides where your money goes in 2021 and even now the Default Donation and Extra to Charity options still only give the charity a small percentage.

It’s just an unfortunate reality.

I am not a fan of the title the article uses. It seems more about Steam abusing their near monopoly in a way that hurts publishers. The overcharging aspect seems more like a byproduct

It’s better than blindly scrolling through your dad’s photo library but not by a ton

What are you trying to do that you don’t think you can do on Linux? Also there’s ways to install Windows 11 on unsupported systems.

If it works mind following up in an edit or comment so anyone who stumbles across this post knows?

I feel like if OP embraced it and was confident enough about it that might not be the worst nickname

Most of the time that should be very easy to filter out. Was it not tagged with Unl (Unlicensed) or Pirate in brackets after the ROM name?

It’s the same thing you would usually do to delete ROMs in foreign languages.

That said there are a lot of unlicensed homebrew games out there that are genuinely great like Micro Mage for the NES

You might want to check out curated collections like Tiny Best Set. It will cut out a large amount of low-tier titles.

If you are into reviews and box art I feel like the easiest option would be to look at ES-DE, LaunchBox, or RetroArch depending on your device.

It seems like you are looking for some kind of middle ground between sets and individually picking ROMs so I am not sure.

I also don’t know what you meant by “don’t know what romsets are real or not”.

The PCGamingWiki is also another good resource especially for older or more obscure games. Most fixes are Windows specific but they can be used on Linux. For example here is the page for Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit where it links fan patches and an open source engine recreation.

If someone is really desperate there’s always the option of searching GitHub issue pages like dxvk to see if it has been documented, if there is a temporary fix, if a fix is on the way, or if it’s going to remain a constant issue (ex. FiveM).

Ah my mistake. I wasn’t sure if it was a subtitle like Alan Awake 2: An American Nightmare.

You may want to try searching around GitHub. There’s a few posts regarding vkd3d.

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/1754

If you scrolls down to the bottom there are a few potential fixes mentioned in the form of launch commands.

There was this comment on Reddit as well

well there is some good news and bad news…the good news that i got it some fixes from other sites that it all need to do add env command line to your proton terminal is add this

export VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_EXT_mesh_shader VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_0 VKD3D_SHADER_MODEL=6_5 %command%

then my fps went from 12 to 45 to 51 fps…and fbi lettering is restored as well, weird??

it looks like it disable vk_extension_mesh shader from use since vkd3d-proton is broken and bad news is its running 60% slower than windows 11 23h2 during testing both os…i lost fps is not cool dude who make vkd3d-proton 2.10, better fix it soon with next revison sooner

Still mostly spitballing but maybe it will get you going in the right direction or someone else can elaborate.

Some people use Usenet for that kind of thing. I typically stumble across things I have been looking for on other social sites. For example someone makes a post with Adult Swim pilots and specials and other people will add additional material they happen to have. Sometimes it can help to think of what category what you are looking for is under then lurk around there for something like a bundle or a mislabeled version.

Probably not the answer you are looking for but thought I’d mention it