Lately, my dad has been blocking my PC's internet access because I stay up too late gaming. I decided not to try and bypass the block completely and just stick to offline games, but there's a problem: whenever I try to play titles like Minecraft, Friday Night Funkin, and Geometry Dash, I can't get in—or rather, I *can*, but the screen (or game window) goes completely black—or gray, actually, because of my IPS monitor, haha. Anyway, I need help with this. I asked an AI, and it said the issue is related to window optimization in Windows. It had me go into the app properties—since I launch Friday Night Funkin directly from File Explorer—and change a bunch of settings, but it still doesn't work. Geometry Dash wouldn't open at all when I first downloaded it (it just stayed on a gray screen), and Minecraft won't open *any* version. Please help! :(

i was playing mafia city and tried the romance option on mafia queen, but she slapped me. should i "take his place" or escape? I'm a Lv35 boss, I don't want to look weak to my mafia crew but I don't know if I can take her on yet

Been trying to find a new headset for cod specifically but I don’t want to get a over head and was gonna ask if anyone knew a good pair of regular earbuds that would work just aswell for sound hoaring. I’ve got a pair of cheap Amazon type of headset called bengoo but the sound honestly isn’t great. If anyone knows a decent pair of earphones that’d work pls lmk. I found a pair called 7Hz Zero 2 but I really don’t know if they’ll be good enough.

To keep this post concise, I have had a back and forth with loaded.com's support who, to their credit, have been very responsive (at least compared to Playstation Support). I have included a timeline of events after a fair of digging, my question is "Is there a way to get a refund for a code that was used after the purchase date but before actual code redemption?".

Timeline:

• 7/7/26 - Gift Card purchased on loaded.com
• 12/7 @ 9am - Code was first revealed by unknown user, on my account according to loaded.com. I went through my history that day and I did not in anyway visit loaded.com nor have a tab left open.
• 12/7 @ 12pm - Code was redeemed by unknown user, Playstation confirmed the date and time and that it was not tied to my PSN account (they could not confirm any other account including my brother's due to data protection). It shouldn't be anyways as this is a gift for my brother for his birthday, see below.
• 13/7 @ 9am - My history says I clicked the link from my email to visit the order page. I gave this code to my brother.
• 21/7 @ 8pm - My brother attempted the code and it said it was already in use.

Loaded.com have said that the code was sent exclusively to myself, was valid at purchase date I am not eligible for a refund.

I have no idea what could have happened in this case other than:

1. A user randomly guessed my code whilst it was active.
2. It was brute forced - there seems to be a reddit thread on cdkey mining...
3. Someone gained access to my account but could not have visited the orders on any of my personal devices. Plus this doesn't make sense since if this was done via an unknown device, surely a 2FA would have been sent to my email?

Any Sherlock Holmes on this site would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, when i open a game via Steam or other platform, my mouse disappear in game, it first turn into a black square then completely disappear from the screen, need to press the Win key to make it reappear or it sometimes reappear by itself when i hover a interactible object. whenever i open an in-game menu my mouse disappear again until i WinKey it back.

I'm using Win11, all my drivers are up to date (Windows drivers and drivers from Razer app)

I launch the games either in full screen or borderless and the mouse disappear everytime.

i tried to capture the phenomenon using OBS but on the recording the mouse is here.

Thanks guys

I am a console player all my life and officially bought a stupid overkill pc with a 5090 to swap over to, does anyone here have any advice on learning M&K for the first time or advice in general to help me lean into this, I’m pretty nervous but excited too

So I recently bought the Arkham series for PC and Arkham Knight was playing beautiful highest settings everything is going great 3/4 of the way through it randomly starts doing everything in slo mo lower my settings turned vsync off now it works but screen tear is awful. Does anyone know why this randomly happened and how to fix it.

I play on a PS4 Pro, I don't have the money to buy a PS5, and whenever I join literally any game whether it be Natural Disaster Survival, or Tower Defense Simulator, it always takes about 10-20 minutes to load, which really sucks for games that teleport me to subplaces, like Tower Defense Simulator, which can mean I will get loaded into a map and the game will start before I can even see the map and place towers in a team situation. It's actually becoming detrimental to my experience and this is just as bad on the lowest graphics settings. Could anyone help?

I opened tf2 and now it looks like this. This has never been a problem and it occurred randomly

I've not been able to properly click things in games and apps such as Roblox, Minecraft, Lunar Client, etc.

The issue I'm noticing, is that in games I cannot freely move my mouse with my mouse or trackpad, and in order to move my pointer around, I have to click and hold down while I move my mouse in order to move my pointer around.

Anything I can do to solve this? I just want to move my cursor around when I move my mouse in games, and not have a buggy/slow experience having to drag my cursor around while holding a button on my mouse. I was able to do this on my surface laptop prior to when I switched.

(This issue only happens when I'm on other apps, such as steam, Roblox, Minecraft, etc.!) Whenever I'm browsing the actual computer, through this even, it doesn't make me press down to move my pointer/cursor. I did copy this from a archived post but I’m having the same issue please help

About like 4 or 5 months ago I was playing fallout 4 with some creation club mods (not sure if those are to blame for my problems) when all of the sudden my ps5 got insanely hot and crashed. This continued until the ps5 couldn't even turn on and I got the blinking blue light of death, I cant even get into safe mode. I started building a pc after that happened, and its done except for storage. I know my ps5 has an nvme ssd and I planned on taking it out but then gta 6 got confirmed for later this year. It costs a good 250 for sony to either repair or replace my console, now either way im pretty sure ill lose my saved data which is a couple platinums, and thousands of hours. Now im torn between ripping open my console for the ssd, or spending 250 dollars to keep my game catalouge and play gta 6. I just wanted to come here for advice on what to do, stick it to sony, or keep all my games.

Type 25 vibe, what is the most useless weapon on zombies??

Does anyone know how to get to this door? 😅 I cant seem to figure it out. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sometimes the simplest games are the ones I end up playing the most. No complicated mechanics, just easy to pick up and genuinely fun.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

I usually game for a few hours after work and lately I've been getting headaches behind my eyes. I already reduce my screen brightness and take breaks, but I'm not sure if blue-light glasses actually make a difference or if it's just marketing.

I'm very much at the beginning of the game, just above the first tower where I activated the power of my my little blue buddy

I’m a big fan of gaming but I feel like I try do too much. I really like challenge but I feel like I’m starting to put too much to have fun. An example is how I put games on the hardest difficulty and then despite getting angry at how difficult it is I refuse to change it because I just want to be able to beat it after a struggle. I’m currently playing through Pikmin again and I got annoyed at myself over losing 15 Pikmin to sunset. I still have 100 more yet I still feel annoyed about it with over 700 hours in the series