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For the one or two who haven’t heard about this…

https://www.steamclaims.com/

If you haven’t read about that, I highly suggest doing so. For the one or two people who aren’t already at least somewhat aware, litigation has commenced because it appears that Steam is and has been in violation of antitrust laws, not allowing game manufacturers to sell their games cheaper than the required asking price for them on Steam. It was determined that all of this had to be settled through arbitration rather than class action suit and encompasses the last four calendar years of any Steam game purchases you might have made. Seeing as how I’ve bought Bub alone as many games as I have on Steam (and the Steam Deck!), I’ve signed up to receive settlement should it be determined that Steam has indeed violated antitrust laws and is to be held accountable. I have problems with Steam that I’ve had for awhile, but their monopoly on PC games has made it impossible to avoid them or to avoid transacting with them when they are literally the only vendor selling the majority of computer games. The security of their API also leaves a lot as a whole to be desired, and it’s something that they have shown no interest in fixing, so any win is a win nonetheless.

You can also get up to three times awarded in damages, and most lawyers taking these claims on will only take a percentage if successful (and given the sheer number of people requesting services, I support this).

There are just no words for any of this.

At some point, I need to change some of what is in the About Me pages that I have up on here… especially with the information that I’ve found out about ancestors of mine and what Genomelink has revealed to me in terms of ancestry. But given what has been in the news so much these past few days alone, I’m not going to.

I am getting ready to resume streaming for real this time! The second monitor that I got the gaming computer has been coming along smoothly, and it’s been fairly easy to set the things I want to set up on it to make switching panels as seamless as it can be for someone who trips over things as often as I do. I am considering upgrading the webcam to one that a lot of streamers use, and possibly getting a keypad that I’ve seen a lot of streamers use. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the keypad, so I guess we’ll just see.

I also have a few content creation organizations interested in me, and one has asked me if I’ll join their team.

This resolved itself much quicker than I’d thought!

After only an additional day of investigating, I have the second monitor hooked up and functional!

Entirely as expected, all I needed was a different cord because another HDMI cable and splitter was not cutting it giving me the results that I wanted in order to be able to game and stream on a second monitor.

I’ve set up almost everything that I want (and, in the case of streaming, need) on that second monitor, and am deliberating upgrading our computer’s webcam after so long. I’m also considering getting a streaming keypad to be able to queue things up even more easily and with no more than single button presses. That should cover just about everything “professional” I’ll need to stream, and stream well, at this point in time!

With luck, I should be able to take pictures of these things as they come along over the weeks and months!

One cord, and then world domination.

It seems like I need a cord that I don’t have to hook the second monitor up to the computer.

So I am one cord away from world domination… er, improving my ability to stream and use the computer.

I should have access to that cord soon, and then I can use it to hook the monitor to the computer.

As soon as I saw this, I had to post it here.

I am currently looking into setting up two monitors for the gaming PC, as I’ve more or less mapped out what will sit where on the desk. I’m also going to work on making the light sources a bit better, moving them around too. That isn’t something that’s never been done, though, so the second one on that list isn’t going to take up a significant portion of my time at any point. This should make gaming and streaming much easier!

Look at these hard drives just dying in these streets.

One of the external hard drives supporting Bub’s gaming computer, and one of the things that makes him happiest in the world, seems to have… for lack of a better way to put it, “died of old age”. I’m currently having someone I know look at it to see if anything can be done to repair the mechanism by which it consumes power — I do science, not technology. It’s an old 1TB HDD from like… 2011 or 2012, I want to say, so it can’t just be dropped into new, functional hard drive casing. Best case, with the games that (are? were?) being shuffled onto our newest and largest hard drive, I’ve made room for some more games for Bub… and anything else that I might want — or need — to put somewhere! Everyone wins, but especially my wallet.

Being wired has its advantages, because re=downloading these games is not taking that long!

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