AwesomeLowlander

That’s pretty much the point. The steam deck was a huge success, but the only reason it could exist and be such a success was because they had the freedom to do what they liked and not worry about management with attitudes like yours.

Good thing you weren’t working at steam, huh.

Pretty sure that’s how it should be working on any UI.

Is that not how it currently works? I was under the impression that’s how it works for me at least. What behaviour are you seeing?

BTW, you get a DRM free copy even if you buy from steam. You just need to link your Factorio account and you can download the installer from their website

You could just buy it direct from their site

Not familiar with multiplayer. What’s the reason for saving a local copy of the game?

You do not. Assuming the devs didn’t implement DRM, you can dig through your Steam folders to find the executable and launch it directly.

There’s nothing shiny about factorio, everything’s semi-rusted.

A little too subtle there, methinks

Or you could interpret it in context of the rest of the article, but that’d require you to actually read it

More of a ‘I’m the only one dumb enough to make public what my social media accounts are and interact with the fanbase’

What’s your point? It’s not like he’s bashing twitter or anything.

Tldw?

Nice, I think yours is the most relevant so far.

Do you often go into a book or movie knowing all the tropes that exist within that story? I don’t even understand the logic here.

What happens when the story is not set on Earth?

Well OP didn’t specify Earth. I can think of some stories where it transitions from high fantasy into sci-fi but is not set on Earth, which is definitely not under the ‘Earth All Along’ trope.

if there was a name for this genre, it would spoil the whole game/movie/book for you

Not really. A work doesn’t have to be marketed as a specific trope, that doesn’t mean it isn’t categorised as such. There are entire categories on TvTropes that carry mass spoilers - looking at any of the examples will spoil that work for you. This is just one more such category.

Seriously. There’s a dozen links to TvTropes and almost none of them match OP’s description, but they’re all upvoted to high heaven. Not to mention the unrelated replies talking about their favorite stories which don’t actually match the trope either.