I mean I'm down as long as we're not talking going full tankie
I mean I'm down as long as we're not talking going full tankie
Two groups will 10/10 this game: access journalists and agenda-driven journalists. Everyone else is going to be a bit more critical, especially considering Baldur's Gate 3 exists and is still fresh.
For me it was Valheim, but BotW is a banger. They make it hard to enjoy games even when they're actually decent, like Enshrouded and Smalland. You can't help but feel it's been done better.
Plenty of church-going pro-lifers feel like they're doing the best for their communities and people in general. It's why when we make arguments we need to not talk down to people like they're idiots, because they generally are not.
If I was on the receiving end of a line that far up it's own ass I'd stop listening immediately.
It’s in the nature of males to seek control over female reproduction
Go down to the section titled "Views on abortion by gender, 2024" https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/
Audiophile equipment is just magic crystal bullshit for pseudointellectuals.
A lot of new users are coming to Linux not because they like tinkering with their setup but because they are tired of Microsoft tinkering with their setup. For these people Arch will probably never be the answer. That's ok, we should encourage all Linux adoption and the best way to do that is to start with the simple and familiar.
Nobody is mad that Civilization and Factorio cause us to accidentally pull all-nighters, they're mad that the latest Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Grand Theft Auto, and other similar games are designed to extract as much money as possible from people.
Once upon a time people worried about MMO addiction and that was before they added $40 horses. I was on the other side back then, now game publishers can go fuck themselves.
Tipping the individual creatives who made something? Sure. Contributing to the CEO'S bonus cheque? Go fuck yourself.
I urge everyone to install Adnauseum. You know what's better than trying to starve advertisers of info? Filling their ad profile for you with total garbage.
Not being diagnosed with ADHD until my 30's, I was concerned about taking stimulants... Man did they ever highlight all the ways I had adjusted my life to try and cope, and all the self-medicating I was doing with caffeine and energy drinks. While some adjustments were still necessary, I could finally do things like:
Considering how damn hard it is to get meds now because everyone else is abusing them, I'm off them more often than I'm on them. Back to negative performance reviews, stressful days, viciously hating what should be boring or mildly annoying tasks for anyone else. Only difference now is I don't hate myself because I finally understand what parts of this are and are not my fault. I mean that helps me live with myself but I'd really rather just have meds again.
To all the "boycotts don't matter" people: lol owned. Protest is good and just, and people do notice. Taking action makes a different so get out there and be fucking heard people.
Thanks for the point about the forums. I get why people use Discord: the things it is designed for it does reasonably well. The problem is people using it in ways it isn't made for, like forums or wikis. If your documentation, issue tracking, or patch notes are done via Discord, please stop for fuck's sake. There are much better options for this and you can even webhook them into Discord if you insist on it, but stop using Discord to replace forums.
I don't want a dumb phone but I would 100% take a phone with a back that isn't glass, high repairability, and full control over the OS. Make it THICC and put a big battery too.
Because YandereDev is a legendary moron I can't even tell if this is a joke or not.
This is a by-the-book and extremely predictable case of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
They also offer the Steam multiplayer backend, workshop, and Steam's social system which is becoming enticing again given Discord's latest behaviour.
GOG's gimmick is no DRM, Itch.io has the cheapest self-publishing costs, and Epic has... well I'm not sure really, but the other two have their place, but it's no coincidence Steam is the biggest.
Considering PVP is what I hate about Sea of Thieves, I'm skipping this. Too many cheaters these days, I'm pretty over PVP shit.
I honestly don't care about "underpowered hardware" and other similar crap. I do care about having to pay a sub just to get cloud saves, Nintendo's excessively restrictive policies, their obsession with litigating fans, their frustrating inability to understand modern multiplayer, and their increasing desire to rehash the same games many times.
The only reason I owned a Switch was for on-the-go gaming because gaming on phones is a joke, and now I have a Steam Deck.
I got asked by a team of first timers who have never done any professional coding or design if I wanted to chip in on a competitive MMOFPS they want to make.
That's not going to happen. Between the rise of cheating, the insane hardware and optimization requirements of an MMOFPS, the general lack of interest in the genre (most have died due to low player counts), and the sheer amount of time and effort involved in designing and balancing the game even after it's largely feature complete? Forget it, I'm better off buying lottery tickets than hoping for anything to come of that.
You don't tell the fucking UN to evacuate because you want to attack someone.
Unfortunately some people do not want to acknowledge that our large businesses are downright evil. For those who doubt this, consider the pharmaceutical companies that raised insulin prices up to hundreds of dollars a month. They did not give a single shit that people would die, so long as they increased profit from their captive audience. If big business doesn't even care whether you live or die, why would they care about the much smaller stakes involved in the federated ActivityPub space?
Just put my oldest child in school this year and I had to download FOUR apps. Four fucking apps. Why? This could have been a Progressive Web App and a push notification service. There is no need for this.
Make sure to add mandatory EGS accounts later.
Business saves money: "the goal of a business is to make money"
Employee saves money: "you just don't want to pay all the robber barons all the way in and out of work you lazy piece of shit"
A lot of management are coming out of "business schools" that are little more than indoctrination. These people don't know the difference between a leader and a manager and qualify as neither.
What about GOG and its DRM-free games? What about Itch.io and its exceptionally low cut and pretty much completely open-door policy? There are other services that are good. Origin, UPlay, Epic, and other stuff sucking does not mean they're all bad.
Someone who becomes good at something selling goods/services isn't exactly what I would consider offensive. Consider the guy who did Mouse Trap Monday videos who is now selling his trap commercially: do you have any idea how long he spent testing and reviewing traps to reach a point where that was viable? I suspect he spent thousands of hours on this.
Level1Techs sell basically the only DisplayPort KVM worth a damn, that's a pretty great offering to have. They don't bring it up much but it's there.
The plan for me is to go full-time Linux once I'm forced to move off Win10. I already use it a lot but I'm waiting on a few holdouts.
Bought around 7 years ago as well, got told the same things. I said I was taking a bit of a cost hit now to lower my costs in the long term because my mortgage payments will never go up the way my rent payments were.
Fuck me I had no idea things would get this bad, and boy am I glad I got into a home when I did. It really shouldn't cost that much to rent, this shit is absurd.
My wife played Pokemon and Mario Kart before we dated. After dating for a bit she took a bit of interest in what I was playing and even started playing some games on her own.
My wife liked watching:
She joined me or played some others on her own:
Stardew Valley
Rust (surprisingly)
Conan Exiles
Golf with Friends
Animal Crossing
Dinkum
Core Keeper
Terraria
Truck Simulator
Ori and the Blind Forest
Assassin's Creed Black Flag (she liked to gather supplies and do small secondary quests, or just sail around)
The all-time winner was Breath of the Wild, she loved to watch and play it, and sometimes I watched her play it too. She solved problems in very different ways than I did and it was interesting. Example: my primary way to kill Guardians was to deflect blasts, while she just rode her horse at them and cut them apart. You can imagine how nuts Tears of the Kingdom has been lol.
I feel it might be worth mentioning she did not enjoy watching or playing:
Monster Hunter
Any flight/space sims (Ace Combat, Elite Dangerous, etc.)
Factorio
Minecraft
Remnant
Deep Rock Galactic
Vermintide/Darktide
most Metroidvanias
Civilization
If I had to guess at what these share in common, its a lack of story and NPC interactions, or pacing that makes it less interesting to watch.
It's worth noting that the folks running the Homecoming server had a private server and the source code for years and hid it from the community. I don't just mean they lied, I mean they used control of all major City of Heroes communities to suppress knowledge of the server and ban anyone who spoke up. I would avoid using their server.
Piracy is a service and pricing issue. Plenty of people willing to pay, proven by the fact the streaming services were so successful in the first place. They're just not willing to take substantial pay hikes when they're going hungry.
An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don’t mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.
This seems like a very fair and reasonable way to deal with the issue.
I've seen some concepts for mall-like communities based around retirement homes and elementary schools. Add a library, some shops, and other services, and you're off to a great start.
The old-but-still-able folks can serve as crossing guards, read books to kids, play games with them, perhaps help with coaching or other tasks, etc.. The young kids benefit from the wisdom and time spent with good role models, the retirees get much-needed social interaction, structure, and purpose.
A man can dream.
Progressive Web Apps were supposed to marry these schools of thought, but maybe we hoped for too much because it's still garbage Chromium under the hood.
Just make everything for maximum interoperability I guess? I recently saw and forgot the name of a system for creating and displaying Github-like pull requests and associated discussions that are sent in via email. A very simple web interface displaying plain-text that could reasonably have been extended any way you like. I am beginning to see the appeal of the plain-text revolution.
The only 2021 protests where people weren't getting their eyes shot out by pepperballs and beanbags were the ones where people were armed. Message fucking received.
I keep critical applications running at work that thousands depend on. While I was at a union convention, one of my apps broke. I had to login that day and fix it while going over the budget with other members.
This is how the IT world is. I'm the only person capable of maintaining it and I must be available if things go wrong. The show must go on.
I'm an original PA backer so yeah I remember. I'm not pleased and I have little hope for this new game.
It's more better lol
Seriously though it's really well thought out actually. Each planet has unique challenges you will have to deal with and it's clear they put a lot of effort into designing these challenges and their solutions. Each planet grants new features that give you options you wouldn't otherwise have to help solve other problems. Lots of quality of life changes and an ever-improving user experience.
It won't win over people who didn't like Factorio but fans of the game will get more of what they love.