So it’s really just that the battery adds a bit of weight, and someday the thing will fail and maybe cause electrical failure of the gamepad.

Emphasis added, yeah this is among the reasons I’m asking. The other reasons I’ve noted, but this underlies a lot of it. I don’t know how long the dual-use ones’ batteries may last if I’m primarily using them wired, so instead of having that in the back of mind, I’d like to get a wired controller for when gaming on devices I’m already close to (which is mostly PC, hence asking for it specifically).

This is a good list, but y’know a niche ya missed? Pressure sensitive buttons, only really useful for those emulating old games that used them, but still a fun feature to remember.

Yeah in hindsight I’m kicking myself for not having gotten one like that, but I had trouble finding wired ones at the time (and didn’t think I’d get tired of the battery maintenance), which surprised me.

The cheap part of PowerA controllers is a little of why I asked, as I’ve not had an opportunity to ask anyone that’s used them.

isn’t space just like, an inverse ocean?

Speaking of brotymology, what’s a gender neutral version of bro/man?

Space-based has me interested, I’ll give it a look!

Thanks for the heads-up! I’ll have to give it a try.

Oh, no offline version I take it? 😔

Slay the Spire is great for sure, but for this I’m asking about deckbuilders with the style of deck-vs.-deck like Magic. In other words opponents use cards as well, and you may unlock the cards they use yourself as you play.

Monster Train is close to this, but has its own spin leaning into roguelike design as well.

Thanks! However I was asking about single-player games without microtransactions.

Could be (at least fediverse style), but not sure who/what to follow or how to filter out what I mentioned.

Stuff as in anything, intentionally broad there.

Non-commercial is harder to nail down, but by and large I mean not-for-profit, sort of casual hobbyist activity with zero interest in trying to turn it into a business/side-hustle. People discussing/sharing their original stuff simply for its own sake.

Not fan work, coverage of commercial works, etc. Nothing against that stuff, it’s just easily found and readily available.

Clonezilla is a great tool, but as someone that doesn’t regularly use it (albeit I probably should), I don’t remember the commands, so I really appreciate Rescuezilla for its GUI.

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll give them a look.

I’d say so! I’ve been after more like both honestly.

…Is there a different series that happens to share the same name, or did you really mean a hentai?

For what it’s worth, I hadn’t seen that article before, so I was honestly curious about more up to date info on the situation since what I’d last seen.

About 38 minutes in (after scrubbing through to find it, please podcasters include transcripts) I think I found what you were thinking of. However it’s one of the other people that uses the platform mentioning something they’d seen suggesting what OP mentioned, without saying where they saw it.

Inb4 “Substack Nazis boo Nazis Nazis Nazis.” That is incorrect. There were only like 3 neo-Nazis, with about 10 followers apiece, but anyway they kicked them all out some time back now, because the entire internet was yelling at them.

Do you have sources for these claims?