And it starts. *weary sigh*

Windows 7 SP1 support notification

Applies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Summary

After 10 years of servicing, January 14, 2020, is the last day Microsoft will offer security updates for computers running Windows 7 SP1. This update enables reminders about Windows 7 end of support. More information about Windows 7 end of support can be found at www.microsoft.com/windows7 or you can review the frequently asked questions.

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Knew it was coming, knew they weren't going to support Win7 forever, but it's still goddamned aggravating to be reminded of it. Welp... guess it's time to finally start thinking about seriously looking into Linux or whatever. Or else I'll just start using my Win8 laptop as my "main" computer (at least until they drop support for Win8, a few years later). Or maybe both of those things.

I mean, just because Win7 stops being supported doesn't mean I have to stop using it immediately, but it does mean that hackers/virus writers are probably going to redouble efforts on it once they know that their shit won't be immediately counteracted, so... yeah, there's that to consider.

(I hid the update, by the way. Let's see if they "unhide" it next month, like they kept doing for all the Windows 10 shit a few years ago.)

Blugh.

If there was a way to tell an entire day to just fuck off, go away, and leave me alone, and have said day actually do that, that's what I would definitely be telling today to do.

"Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy" on Steam.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is now available on Steam, for whom it may concern.

"Should Difficult Games Have An Easy Mode & Is Cheating OK?"

"Should Difficult Games Have An Easy Mode & Is Cheating OK?" (Watch on YouTube)

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Before watching the video, I will say that the answer to both of those questions is "Yes." My only possible exception to that would be MMO games or otherwise multiplayer-only games, in which your cheating would be adversely affecting other players, but then, I personally give just about zero shits about such games and almost never play them, so whatever.

Now to watch the video.

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And yep, I agree with both Pat and Ian 100%. Also, I couldn't give any less shits about being perceived as a "real gamer" or whatever because I beat Dark Souls. What I played of Dark Souls, I liked it well enough, for the most part. I never finished it, though. And I used the Wiki and all the crazy cheese I could find to make it through some of that stuff, before just realizing, "Why the fuck am I even playing this to begin with?" and then I just stopped, because I didn't care anymore. I might someday go back to it, but... meh. And I have yet to touch any of the later games. I did watch the Best Friends play through DS1, DS2, DS3, and Bloodborne (though they played them in the weird order of DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, and lastly DS1), and I thought that was cool. I avoided the comments under those videos like the plague, though, because they were filled with whingy assholes constantly complaining about how Woolie and Pat ("Best Friends" Pat, that is, not to be confused with "NES Punk" Pat, obviously) were "playing it wrong" or what the fuck ever.