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Was planning to play Leisure Suit Larry 4 instead. 😬

Whether it's a rage-click community, a community made for an agenda, or both, I don't know, but in either cases, I wouldn't see as surprising for the mods in such a community to be very trigger-happy. Best you can do, I think, is to block communities and individuals with such a profile, and to recommend others to not engaging (remember to explain why if you do it, btw).

At least Sega and Sony mostly dropped their fearmongering/correlation fallacies ship after the Bleem situation, but companies like Nintendo and Irdeto insist on being setbacks to the market. And with devices more and more closing down on what the user can do, despite being glorified computers, a friend of mine would even say that "console modding is an act of self-defense". Furthermore, if piracy is as rampant as such companies insist on saying, I wonder how much wouldn't be a "problem of service", as GabeN once said, and/or if perhaps they're using correlation to justify limiting what people can do.

I'd have 4 main solutions I can think of, and that can be used together if needed:

• VMs for running Steam and for games that MUST use Steam.
• Emulators, wrappers and source ports for games that allow that, e.g. BSNES for running River Girls Zero, Joiplay / Artemis / EasyRPG / AquariaOSE for games that use compatible engines, etc.
• Having a separated computer you can use 100% offline (requires sideloading games)
• The annoying idea some users give that strays from the original question, but that I think that is valid for once - to get the games from places that openly distribute it DRM free

About "aujourd'hui" specifically, from what I could find and compare a while back, it's the equivalent of Portuguese "o dia de hoje" and Japanese "本日", which would be a more formal way of saying "today".

Alternatively, it could be a way to kill what people look up to by fatigue through fatigue and disappointment through less than ideal re-imaginings.

Mint seems decent all around. No cutting edges nor it's specialized in any areas, but it's a jack of all trades, and rather stable.

Can't remember many either, specially when ignoring characters like Alucard, that don't seem to have the archetype of an older individual, be it emotional or physical, despite the character's actual age.

Now, the few cases of older protagonists I can remember:
One Strike, if you consider games with a simulated old style, has an older playable character among the roster of characters.
And though also not an old game, but heavily inspired by Castlevania 3, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon has an elderly playable character, and his play style reflects that.
And one of Gunbird's playable characters is also an elderly individual, and... (spoiler)

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in the joke ending, he even wishes to be young again.

Dunno if that'd be too young, but Gall Gruner from Tales of Heart, which according to the wiki is 45 y.o., does give a strong "older person" impression throughout the game.
Final Fantasy IV and V have older protagonists too, and in IV specifically, the character's age plays a role in gameplay.

Short version I wrote for another news piece but that, to my understanding, should apply for this too:

The text is obtuse and the article’s title and cover are pretty clickbaity, so here’s a tl;dr:
In the US, according to the article, it’s possible to lend multiple forms of digital medias and software as you’d do with physical medias. But when requested to extend this understanding to games too, the US Copyright Office denied the change.

Finished it! Found it to be much better than the first game indeed. ^_^

I'm playing the PC version of SMCP, and the only difference I can notice, maybe due to the better hardware, is that the game seems to be a bit faster on PC than on PS2. And have yet to test any of the other collections Sega made for/with the Sonic games.

Dunno how much you played of the franchise, but if you got stuck early on (e.g. the dreaded Marble Zone in the punishing first game), maybe you could abuse save states? The franchise got several emulated releases, and I imagine it's not uncommon for them to allow such a function natively. And at least to me, Sonic 2 plays much better and I remember kid me finding Sonic 3 even sharper.