Colorblind and subtitles are designed to include people, so they can enjoy a game or any other content, that otherwise would not be accessible for such individuals or would be otherwise diminished in quality or reach.

Difficulty tiers were created to extend the longevity, by adding extra challenge or even content to a game. Many games have - or had - content that was only accessible by playing one difficulty setting after the other. I don’t personally agree with it but it is(or was) a thing.

And isn’t Sony putting forward what the company understands is a new and useful feature to their games? AI autoplay? That is their thought on how a game should be enjoyed/played from that point onwards.

And in the chance I haven’t made myself clear enough at this point: I am not on a quest to prove others wrong. This is my take on the feature Sony will be inserting on their future games. If others find it good, good for them. Enjoy.

You’re generalizing your own values and goals and they’re absolutely not as common as you think they are

Isn’t that what we are all doing, while engaging in this discussion? Better yet, isn’t Sony doing that exact same thing by thinking that putting an AI autoplay function into the games is what all players want or at least a gross majority?

Nobody is debating based on the sharing and comparising of proof and facts here; we are all sharing our personal view on the subject.

I am not on a quest to prove you wrong over me being right.

Do as you will, it is your life.

But it is through learning from small, inconsequential things like games, of any kind, to deal with controversial or unpleaseant feelings that many kids acquire coping mechanisms to handle real life situations. Situations with no cheat code, dificulty setting or pay-to-win mechanisms.

Wanting an escape, a tension release valve is fine. Just pick the right one.

It’s more than obvious we are completely opposite individuals.

Yes, I would - and have - replayed a game after using cheats. It’s not about knowing the game; it’s about knowing if I can actually beat the game without resorting to cheats.

And, yes, I will rewatch an entire movie if I’ve missed a scene for any reason and the movie was somehow catching my interest. Not on that moment but I will rewatch it again when I have the opportunity and see how much the one scene I missed adds or not to the entire movie.

That’s really funny. It never stops to amaze me how convenience replaced well considered options.

You spend the money, you get to keep it. The logic of guaranteed satisfaction is non-sense. Unless it is defective, what other reason is valid to return anything?

One way or another, we need to live. And it is impossible, for all practical purposes, to produce everything we need to lead a well balanced and reasonable life.

It holds a degree of validity, but like all absolutes, it leaves out everything between complete lack and total abuse.

Cheat codes are one thing. You can abuse those to even smoth your learning curve to later beat the game clean.

The same logic can be used for difficulty settings: you play it, in harder and harder settings, to have a new/added challenge.

Dynamic difficulty I’m unaware of what it migh actually be buy I risk I have an idea.

The game playing itself? Sounds like a movie.

But I hope you are right.

Search enough and you’ll discover that every company on the planet has some shady stuff in the closet.

Best we can do is support the small, more ethical, companies and exploit to our best the others.

Games are already too expensive and it has been made known. That is a sure way to make people abandon platforms.

And so it begins?

Thank you for considering Lisbon in your thoughts. It’s very appreciated.

So… What’s the point of playing then?

Games are expected to pose some sort of challenge, of difficulty, to keep the player interested. Even if it boils down to pure frustration at some point, making some turn from it, even learning how to deal with it is useful. Games are some of the oldest teaching tools we stumbled upon.

This another move on human and individual agenda, on learning how to exist, to an extent.

This isn’t funny.

Because I like having my disk properly partitioned, to keep things properly separated. Unlike windows.

And no, I haven’t queried any AI. Because why question a machine when I can ask real human beings and learn from them instead?

I’m going to sit down today and get into it seriously. I’ve just been replying to comments that I can clarify with no need for me to be messing with the computer.

I developed the habit of formatting my disks before a new install, so I’m going to push that hypothesis aside for now.

Before installing Debian I tried Sparky and I noticed it had set up a /boot_EFI and a /boot partition, which sounded off to me, so I wiped the SSD clean and manually partioned it, leaving only a 1GB /boot, configured for EFI.

NVRAM is not completely off the board but I find it odd to just flare up as an issue now, under Debian, and having no problems under Mint or Sparky.

I’m fairly confident at this point that the worst of my problems is to be found between the chair and the keyboard.

If I could, I would award myself with a medal for being a glorified idiot.

I’m a sucker for Debian. It was my first good and reliable workhorse. First love is hard to forget.

I’m on track for that, I admit.

As I read this, I’m trying a freshly installed live image.

I have to try… I’m already too invested in this stupidity to just quit at this point.

Why am I interested in a somewhat rolling release of Debian? Because I’m a dreamer with not enough technical capabilities. I like the stability Debian offers and the years I’ve used it as my default distro is a fond memory.

The bare bones mentality, the basic, clean approach to the UI/desktop distro customization and the minimal starting software package was a big plus, especially when using very underpowered machines, like I had then.

What is not a fond memory is having an OS remain static for such a long time span to the extent it feels like jumping into a completely new OS when migrating to the next release and lacking on having newer versions of software. Yes, I do know Backports are a thing but nonetheless.

But the more user friendly distros overcompensate on this, by overloading the starting software package and bloating the distro. Polishing can be too much.

No, I am not about to go and try LFS, Gentoo, or whatever distro that puts me in charge of everything. I have a life. Kind of. But still.

Like you say, I want things to work, I don’t mind doing some work but I really don’t care about nor need the extra bells and whistles the (excessive) polishing carries.

End of rant.

I’m going to torture myself trying to figure whatever might have gone wrong for a bit more.

Through a cable, to the onboard SATA ports…? But somehow I don’t think that was the answer you were expecting.