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Facsimile of owning your own games. The aesthetics of ownership while maintaining Steam's full control of your games
needs steamless and goldberg emu
I do agree, but the Steam DRM is trivially easy to bypass. You could also just put the pirated version on it instead. The bigger issue is that consumer SSDs degrade pretty quickly if they aren't powered, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Idk, maybe unpopular opinion but I feel like Steam is a reasonable middle ground. The DRM means games actually come to the platform, its convenient, and if they ever take away a game I want to play that badly I'll just pirate it.
Gog is cool and all and I respect the idea behind it, but there are hardly any games on there and never will be. It sucks, but it's the reality.
It's 1996 and I have to blow on a cartridge to get my game to work 
It's 2026 and I have to blow on a cartridge to get my game to work
Finally, a legitimate use for those $15 "1TB" drives off Aliexpress that are actually only ~120gb!
this is so cool. I'd love to see some devs lean into something like this as a counterpoint to Sony's ending discs, just having it as a collector's option would be cool, like the gaming equivalent to vinyl.
(would probably be better to do it with GOG copies of the games, though. DRM free, no auto updates, just a script that mounts and runs)
I NEED THIS
I feel like SD cards would work better. But maybe the SSDs have better read speeds.
Way better. But yeah this sounds very expensive
edit: unless you get them for 7€ somehow
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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