Beautiful Desolation available for free on GOG.com right now

Another game being given away for free on GOG.

I don't know a single thing about this one, outside of what is said on the store page there. I mean, the name seems vaguely familiar, but that's about it. And yet, I own this one on Steam already, as well. I certainly don't recall buying it, and it doesn't show up in my individual Steam purchase history.(Pre-post "EDIT")[1](/Pre-post "EDIT") Then my only guess was that it had come with one of the several Humble Bundle things I've bought over the years, but it didn't show up in any of that, either. Then, because this was a mystery and it bugged me, I checked some emails and found that it was, apparently, a game that I'd backed on Kickstarter years ago. I'd backed a previous game of theirs before that (and there was another game they released for free [which I also have yet to actually play, myself]), which I do recall doing, and I guess I hazily recall getting emails via that campaign about the new campaign, so I must've backed the newer game as well, which I guess makes a bit of sense given that it would've been back during the time when I was sort of backing shit helter-skelter (and, to be fair, this does sound like the type of thing I definitely would've been interested in backing), before I altogether lost all interest in Kickstarter and crowd-funding in general, for multiple reasons.

Anyway, to get back to the point, it's yet another game that's being given away for free on GOG.com.

(Pre-post "EDIT") [1] - Ah, it does show up on the "Licenses and product key activations" page in Steam, just not on the "Purchase History" page. Apparently I activated it on Steam on Feb 26, 2020. Kickstarter says the game was "successfully funded" on Feb 18 2017 (with an "Estimated Delivery" date of October 2019, so not nearly as offbase a prediction as some other KS projects), and it seems I pledged ($15, as I was apparently one of the "Early Bird" backers) at some point in the month or so prior to that. Yeah, I do now kinda sorta recall backing this, so... mystery solved, I guess? (/Pre-post "EDIT")

"Capcom is finally making Dragon’s Dogma 2"

Well, that is pretty great news.

Now... my main hope is that Capcom doesn't shit it up with unnecessary and unwanted DRM, DLC (I wouldn't mind proper DLC, eventually, that adds actual new content to it, after the fact, kind of like what Dark Arisen was to the original game), microtransactions and other such bullshit. I'm somewhat more okay with it being "always online," given the nature of the previous game, but I do hope they at least give the option to play it entirely offline still, the same as they did with the first game (even if the offline, generic pawns were complete shit compared to the ones actually created by other players that you could hire while online).

And, like, I hope it doesn't suck from an actual gameplay perspective, too. Honestly, if it were just more of the same from the first game, I'd be okay. I don't necessarily need spiffy new "RE Engine" stuff or whatever, but it just seems like Capcom is making everything using that, now.

PC games that don't support keyboard and mouse can fuck off forever.

I saw that Deadly Premonition 2 was available on Steam. I added it to my wishlist. Then I scrolled down and saw "Notice: Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise requires a controller in order to play. Playing with a keyboard and mouse isn't supported." I immediately removed it from my wishlist.

If you fucking release a game on PC, then you better fucking damn well support keyboard and mouse. Otherwise, you can eat shit and drink piss. I know I've expressed similar sentiments in the past, though I don't care to bother to look up the old posts in which I did so. Suffice it to say that I'll probably be expressing similar sentiments in the future, as well, if and when I see other games that I'd otherwise be interested in failing to support the most basic control scheme on PC.

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

Ah, so Final Fantasy VII Remake has finally crawled out of the putrid pit of exclusivity that is the Epic Shit Store? Well, that's great, I guess. Wake me up when it doesn't cost $50 USD even with a 30% off discount.

(EDIT) More accurately, wake me up when all three (or however many it ends up being) parts are fully released, are no longer exclusive to PS5, are also no longer exclusive to Epic Diarrhea Store on PC, and don't cost seventy fucking dollars each. For real, though, with each part individually going through these goddamn asinine exclusivity deals, apparently, it's going to take literally at least another decade or so before it ever reaches a state where I'd be remotely willing to bother with it. (/EDIT)

People who claim they hate Star Trek, because it is too "woke" now...

...are either admitting that they've never actually seen an episode of original series Star Trek, or they are admitting that they've hated Star Trek since 1966, or they are admitting that they've completely missed the point of Star Trek. Because Star Trek has always been "woke," long before the feeble label of "woke" was misapplied to everything under the sun by bigoted assholes who use it to try to subvert something that is good (i.e. the entire concept of not being a bigoted asshole, which was the actual meaning of being "woke," (EDIT 2)[2](/EDIT 2) back before the bigoted assholes started trying to subvert it) into something that is, at least according to the bigoted assholes, worthy of hate (because of course bigoted assholes would hate a concept that tries to persuade people to not be bigoted assholes, because if such a thing managed to catch on, it would mean that the bigoted assholes could no longer be bigoted assholes free of the consequences of being a bigoted asshole).

(EDIT) I thought that I'd already made a post like this, and, sure enough, I did. It's just that it was back in the days when the go to phrases of bigoted assholes were "SJW agenda" and "PC culture" rather than "woke." It all means the same thing, though. It means "we're being punished by society for being bigoted assholes when we act like bigoted assholes, and we don't like that; we just want to be free to be bigoted assholes without having to face the consequences of being bigoted assholes, and so we're going to be even bigger bigoted assholes towards anything and everything that might be trying to get us so stop being bigoted assholes, by labeling all of that stuff with asinine buzzwords like 'SJW agenda' and 'PC culture' and 'woke' in an effort to make a good thing seem like a bad thing, because we're bigoted and we're assholes." (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2)
[2] - Actually, the original original meaning of "woke," at least in context, was simply used to show that one was aware of the injustice and systemic bigotry that was and is baked into society as a whole. Because it absolutely is. And that's why bigoted assholes hate the idea of people being "woke" so much and why they're trying so hard to redefine "woke" as something bad.
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