Community MetaSteam | February 2026 - Romeo and Rogue: Dead Citadel Requiem

Not sure if I'll be able to play Requiem today, got stuff to take care of after work. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a session later tonight. I seriously can't wait to check it out, RE has been one of my favorite franchises ever since the original's release.

Decided to revisit Parasite Eve this week and I think I'm actually enjoying it more than the first time.

Damn, that He-Man game hits my nostalgia so hard, I was obsessed with that stuff as a kid.
 
I'm sorry to get all political here, but given the recent takes on privacy etc. I really have to add my 2 cents.
Especially since I feel like some opinions are verging too close to libertarianism -- that most vapid and childish of all political frameworks.

The reality is this: with the global ascendancy of capitalism, the realistic choices you can make are between multi-national corporations and billionaires having all the power, or governments (and international institutions) having at least some of it.

The difference is that, as a normal person, (i) you do have some say in your government; you have zero influence on multinationals (no, when the vast majority of revenue comes from B2B, even the [always tenuous] idea of "voting with your wallet" becomes completely immaterial); and (ii) government policies, actions and so on are documented and can be designed to have oversight -- private corporations do not.

This is why billionaires are on the side of championing (their idea of) "freedom of speech": because in our capitalist framework, what this means in practice when taken to its logical conclusion is that they have almost infinite control over what kind of speech gets any sort of mainstream platform.

Of course this does not mean that every government initiative is good, or well-planned, or well-executed. But going from that to the idea that we shouldn't even try is exactly what the Epstein class wants.
(Which is of course also why they destroy all good governance and meaningful institutions when they get a chance to, as we can observe in the US; "proving" that government doesn't work)
 
I try not to post party political stuff too much, but let’s celebrate a rare win for the UK.

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(The Green and Labour bit, not the Reform bit - though good that they lost a seat they thought they were gonna win)
Glad Greens are doing better but Reform will win the general election, too many gammons in the UK
 
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Wait, I see people saying they have raytracing in RE9 with AMD cards? Is it just linux that doesnt have it? now im even more confused lol

capcpom gonna capcpom
 
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Dont see how legislating what corporations can and cant do online is opposed to preserving privacy of people? Corporations being able to do what they want with our data IS why they are now in the backrooms of every government wanting even more of our privacy. So yeah I do think there should be tons of laws that dictate how much data corporations can have of ours. Now that is a different conversation than about laws about content, because bring on the liberated boobs!

Corporations are people too.
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Glad Greens are doing better but Reform will win the general election, too many gammons in the UK
Reform wins when the opposition to them is divided.

What this shows is you can be pissed off at Labour (which, let’s be real, is most of the country right now), yet build a coalition against Reform and win.
 
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The reality is this: with the global ascendancy of capitalism, the realistic choices you can make are between multi-national corporations and billionaires having all the power, or governments (and international institutions) having at least some of it.

The difference is that, as a normal person, (i) you do have some say in your government; you have zero influence on multinationals

This worldview is entirely predicated on the notion that democratic institutions and the mechanisms to impose checks and balances will hold up when tested. It's understandable that you think so given where you live but you should realize that is not the reality everywhere in the world.

Democracy operates on a sliding scale between what you personally experience all the way to essentially autocracy. Elections can be rigged. Politicians can literally be bought or assassinated. The power of the federal state can be deployed against politicians to bring up bogus charges of income tax fraud or anything else really. Courts can be packed with pliant officials who are ideologically inclined to favour the government, and those officials can be offered lucrative 'consulting jobs' after retirement. The fourth estate can be co-opted to become propaganda arms of the government while those that oppose it can be endlessly harassed including throwing journalists into jail. Governments can conjure up laws in the name of national security or anti-terrorism that can straight up ignore due process.

All of this, by the way, has happened in my country and I'm sure you'll recognize a lot of these things happening in other countries in the world (such as the USA, like you mentioned). The difference is that the institutions in the USA are still holding strong and citizens will be able to vote out bad governments. That is not true everywhere.

So no, I think the idea that citizens should automatically and always side with the government against corporations is shortsighted. Corporations have one motive; profit. That is relatable, understandable and predictable. Governments are far more dangerous. They are sanctioned to use violence against you. They can restrict or deny your rights. There's a journalist in my country who has been imprisoned for the last 5 years for taking part in a protest against the government. He was arrested under the pretext that he was involved in sedition and so he is denied bail. His case hasn't even started yet. Can you imagine that? Being imprisoned for 5 years and your case isn't even in court yet. His constitutional right to liberty has been trampled.

I'm not saying corporations are good but governments can be much, much worse. And the absolute worst case is when the corporations and government start working together. That is the real nightmare scenario. There was an article in the newspaper here the other day that really got me thinking. I'll post it here in a spoiler and you can read it if you wish. It's about how capitalism and government are now aligned due to the rise of AI and what some of the consequences of that can be.

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The Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor in the Ally is significantly more powerful than the AMD semi-custom chip in the Deck, so there's only one explanation for the stark difference in performance: drivers.
Last time I checked the difference was negligible, paired with the fact that the Deck was also extremely more power efficient than the Z1 Extreme (Even against Z2 Extreme but whatever)
Aside that It doesn't surprise me at all, i warned everyone about the risk of having too many handheld on a lineup and having no support at all along its lifetime was a given. This things are not a GPU where you just rely on Nvidia/AMD for driver updates and that's all, there is a reason if Valve drop updates for Proton and SteamOS on a daily basis even after 4 years on the market.