I used my disposable income during the year to drop money in my steam wallet. That’s how I saved for the steam deck the first time around.

People can change. Even if that baby thinks they can’t.

I trialed Tidal and thought it was fine. Just Fine. I’m trying Qobuz right now. It seems like all the things I like from Bandcamp but there’s also a paid streaming service. The audio sounds great on Qobuz and I like the option of buying HiRes albums for my local media server. I’m an iOS loser, and they just updated Apple Music with finally some good crossfade. I’m a simpleton and that appeals a lot to me. I can’t find crossfade setting on Qobuz for iOS. I feel like I would pick Qobuz over Tidal just for the ease of downloading my music to my Zune/iPod/subsonic/jellyfin.

Didn’t know they were NYP. My friend group has a thing where someone picks an album that we all sit with for a week and then write a review. That’s where I first heard PetroDragonic Apocalypse. Once I switched to Bandcamp full time this year and saw they were on there that was the second album I ever bought. The first was Shovel Night nearly a decade ago.

Who’s Steve Jobs?

Normally, I would agree with you. In the case of game keys, even though I have a physical cartridge now I have to make sure that servers are still up and available for me to download a game. So the massive market for retro games is kind of null and void if you’ve got a cartridge with nothing but a transferable license agreement on it and no way to actually get the game.

I don’t miss selling my two month old games for five dollars at GameStop.

I use jellyfin for unencoded audio and video on my clients that support it like my newer television, but I also use transcoded audio video on things that can't handle the higher codecs like the raspberry pi.

I too am curious, even though now it sounds like the premise has been spoiled.