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The Best Buy near me had a PC Games section up until maybe about a year and a half ago, and I swear they had a copy of Spore there as well. And The Sims 4.

I bought Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop there. They were both just Steam codes inside of a DVD case, but I wanted to get them anyway because I figured I was running out of chances to own a physical box for a modern PC game.

Oh man, I had forgotten about Verticalscope. People often mention forums as the last remaining part of the pre-social-media internet, but they might not be aware that there is a big, publicly traded holdings company gobbling them up very quickly. Identifying independent forums would be a great thing to talk about.

Good idea for a community, hope it will be active. IMO there are some non-corporate internet concepts that don’t really fit into existing communities. There are already communities like !fediverse@lemmy.world and !smallweb@lemmy.ml but there are also non-corporate ideas that are unrelated to the fediverse or to small websites. For example, worker-owned news websites. It may be a big website, and it might not have fediverse support, but it’s still a way of removing corporate influence from the internet.

Hadn’t heard of this before, great idea!