Ohhh, the next few months are going to be awesome! Horizon: Zero Dawn in a week, and then shortly after Flight Simulator. And later in autumn we’ll hopefully see Halo 3: ODST and Halo 4 as well 
In other news (the title says it all, lol):
Emoticon requests @Aemony
Emojis are locked in height and width, so I had to pick up working variants from the below site.
https://www.frankerfacez.com/emoticons/
We won’t implement all requested emoticons – that way lies madness. 
That Nvidia logo though… I probably need to swap that one out… done
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Guess Intel won’t be getting one until 2021 - 2022 huh.
And yeah roadmap for the roadmap is a step above a teaser for a trailer though by this point that’s become a bit more common to see.
Gaming wise I’m looking forward to seeing how the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn will turn out, plus what Sony or it’s affiliated studios might be wanting to bring over if that works out.
But for now it’s more backlog stuff.
Should clear out those JRPG’s at some point, learned about a elderly woman recently too who made my own little collection seem like nothing never-mind all the physical goods.
Impressive.
Learned about a elderly man a while back too who was clearing From Software games like they were nothing, don’t know if I would even be active at 70+ years when it comes to video games though that’d be fun.
Old people enjoying video games are the best thing ever 
Yeah I like how it erases the the whole for kids thing plus when you have some real enthusiasts passionately talking about it and nowadays using media to discuss or showcase or even stream gameplay and what not.
Old Grandma Hardcore or something like that I think was one of the earlier ones I learned about back in 2011 or so and Skyrim.
Time flies, that’s just a bit short of a decade by this point come to think of it.
EDIT: Well there was the DOOM phenoma too in the early 1990’s and just about every workplace had it going on as far as I’ve been hearing it, I don’t think id Software every fully recaptured that either although things changed quickly back then so in a few short years it was full 3D as Quake made it’s debut and all sorts of other fancy changes and new things software and hardware wise and for the game industry overall.
I’m in love with these new push notifications. I usually find them completely obnoxious, but when they’re coming from the forums for my own software, it’s really handy to glance at the notification and decide if it needs my attention 
Steam’s forums are from the stoneage, if even. So is their moderation.
Check your DMs @Kaldaien
This. Totally have thought this for YEARS now. The forums were bad 10 years ago, yet no updates or TLC is given to them. What’s their priority? Hot Take: Literally nothing that people give a shit about.
Upcoming Guide:
Would you guys know which version of SK to use with Final Fantasy XV? I have these (3) files I pulled earlier this year:
I’m now writing the guide and don’t remember the situations to use other versions besides the MAIN one. Some clarification would assist me GREATLY in this.
The old version is on GitHub as SK_FFXV_Compat.7z, and the new version (including debug symbols since I rewrote my debug loader and can now get working crsh logs in this game game) is SK_FFXV.7z.
Source: random Kal post
SK_FFXV_ReShade.7z is just, well, bundled with Kaldien’s custom ReShade.
ReShade one can probably be skipped because I believe they don’t often come with ReShade shaders, and I believe many of the ReShade shaders intended for the official ReShade v4 isn’t compatible with the v3.6 or whatever the custom ReShade is based on.
You can also check the properties → details on each bundled DLL file to see what version of Special K they’re using.
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Thanks, Aemony!
So it looks like those assholes at Steam are neither going to change my user name to indicate it has been banned, nor ban me in individual forums as I requested both in Steam Support and publicly.
They would rather lecture me on the way things work (which are verifiably wrong). It looks like my only option to let people know I cannot reply to them is to delete the account, which is insane. WTF is wrong with Steam?
This might take some kind of social media campaign to get fixed 
That was required in 2017 when I could not get the (now terminated) moderator to delete my NieR: Automata thread.
Just putting this here, do with it what you will because moderators are ignoring me:
Those jerks (Valve) took my store application fee and kept it for themselves after they removed the software from the store.
I got robbed, then insulted by incompetent moderators, now I am on a mission to destroy Valve Or at least, convince a lot of people to move to a better place of business. Just have to figure out who that better place is. As much as I despise Epic, if they can build out their platform, it could be a contender.
I have put in a request to have Kaldaien’s account deleted. Maybe the Customer Support team that handles those requests can actually read? I’ve had enough ripping my hair out with the wonder twin moderators that don’t even know what these bans do and normal Customer Support that just copies and pastes a response that tells you the same thing you already knew and pretends that is an answer.
… Wouldn’t that also remove all of your games on that acocunt…?
I can’t help but feel that such an extreme measure really isn’t worth it.
Should be some confirmation step for it but I don’t know if Valve even does full account deletions since losing access to valid purchases would have to be confirmed as accepted from the user requesting such a action instead of just having it as a limited functionality account.
…But that Steam API tie in is a fu…mbly little solution that restricts way too much when the entire community bits should be separated in it’s entirety from stuff like … well just about everything else also using the API bits which just feels like a outdated legacy system that no longer functions as well as it did now that everything else is tied to it as well.
Ban and resulting blocker should be “moved forward” so you lose forum posting access or something like that but resulting client functionality isn’t terminated or broken just because a bunch of users hit the report button enough times against another user or whatever leads to these things.
(The weird permanent of sorts permanent blacklist thing and resulting lengthier subsequent bans is a issue as well and the discussion around ban reasons and discussion back and forth with mods and appeals would be a topic unto itself.)
EDIT: Something more tiered or dynamic and way better managed and less everything on this one API and then the ban is APIBlocked=1 breaking it all because some old code practice that is severely out of date now that there’s so much on this API as well outside of the community discussion boards.
I’m not planning on doing that.
Just pointing out that neither the volunteer moderators, nor Steam Support is willing to assist me with my paper weight of an account. They just tell me things I already know, and nothing happens. They love to talk about how they think things work, but never actually do anything to help anyone.
Ironically, if my password manager loses its password for Steam, the fact that I cannot recover my account (directs me to Steam Support, who will just paste a message rather than reading the support request) makes my account as good as deleted.
Just FYI, not that it even matters since I wasn’t using it yet… I shutdown the private GitLab server because it was going to bring my server costs up > $60/month. GitLab is a resource hog. I’ll just use gitlab.com and cloud storage.
I really do need Patreon to support moving off of Steam :-\ I hate that. Things were so much simpler, but Steam’s a @#$%hole and this is for the better.