ok the ending was kinda weird, and i have Questions. but that was still a really good comic. i'm pleased.
note to self: when you get around to writing 'hench!' you should include a zombie apocalisn't. have some villain unleash a zombie virus, assuming it'll go like in the movies, but instead the CDC quarrantines the neighborhood within 15 minutes, swat teams in shark diving chainmail corral the infected and shut them in so they can't hurt anyone, and everyone else gets decon showers and orange blankets. the superhero scientist who comes up with the cure gets a nobel prize. the supervillain gets laughed out of the villain club. rocket and shoe roll their eyes and are like "thank fuck we work for a sane mad scientist."
lately it seems like every game is only avaliable through steam. steam is annoying. why doesn't anyone sell the fucking game directly. i don't want to participate in the steam circus. i don't want my computer pestering me with steam stuff every time i get on. i just want the one goddamn game. why is it like this.
when i do the zombie apocalisn't: rocket, who is only like 10% faster and stronger than a regular person: "what do you think, baseball bat? fire axe? we gotta bash their heads in, right?" shoe, whose supervillain power is always having a lot of guns, producing an over/under shotgun/grenade launcher: "rocket, zombies are made of meat. they're not even wearing kevlar. mall cops are more dangerous than zombies, because mall cops can call 911."
Best as I understand it, it's so that they can get around having to put DRM in the games. If it's available through Steam, Steam does any DRM for them and also makes sure that customers only need to pay for the game once and can put it on any computer they want. Humble Bundle stuff, I think, doesn't require you have Steam to use the games, but does have an option to link it to Steam (so that you don't lose your copy of the game if something happens to your computer).
I’m guessing for a lot of games you could probably bypass steam by pirating them, but. Then you’d have to pirate them.
i guess i see the utility, but it means i can't play my games if i don't have internet, even if the game itself doesn't need internet.
You can go into an offline mode once you're in, and as long as the game is downloaded and doesn't have some other dumb DRM, you can play it.
but don't i have to log onto steam to do that? which takes internet. like, when my internet goes down for hours, steam can't check that i really have an account, so i wouldn't be able to get at my games.
It only needs to check that you have an account upon starting up Steam itself. So like, if it starts when your computer does and you don't fully exit out of it, it only needs internet access once per time your computer starts up
Also it's possible to start Steam on offline mode so long as you've already logged into Steam once on that computer (screenie taken like 5 seconds ago, i turned off wifi on my laptop to demonstrate)
Also, once the game is installed, you don't even have to have steam open, iirc, you can get at it through the start menu. might vary game to game? (my issue is the game itself needing internet when it really really shouldn't)
Requires you specifically setting it up so that you can access it from the desktop or start menu, when you install it, if I recall. Or at least, I remember always getting prompted on whether or not I want to have it installed so that I can start the game from the desktop, when I install/reinstall something.
That's just asking if you want a menu icon added for you. You can add shortcuts to the exe file that gets launched manually, if you want, or even just launch the exe direct from its folder if you really want (it's in steamapps\common)
It's a per-game thing, in my experience, where some require you to have steam open (though not necessarily online), and others can just be launched from the executable even with steam closed. (If I had to guess, older titles are probably more likely to lack this requirement.)
my momentary desire to play 'dream daddy' has passed. i don't even really like dating sims. that's seebs's thing. so thanks for your advice and info, all, but enough about steam. let's talk about paul blart zombie acopalypse. or stupid life hacks. or how i have a doctor appointment today to discuss my left leg being numb, and how nothing can be done about it.