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for some reason I always think the 360 came out much earlier than it really did.

god has it really been two decades?

Gamecube-PS2-Xbox 360 Era. It was a time when game developmental costs had come down a bit, the demand for games was pretty steady, and the market wasn’t oversaturated. It allowed AAA devs to make some big creative swings and return a steady profit.

There’s a lot of different genres that are popular today where you can point to a game from that era as the progenitor. Stuff like Resident Evil 4 for the third person action shooter, Devil May Cry for spectacle RPGs, Katamari Damacy and Pikmin for uh…whatever the hell they are.

I don’t think AAA has ever been as creative as they were during that period. For over a decade now, pretty much all creativity in games has come from indies, with AAA being comprised of copycats.

Been pretty good. swapped over to Bazzite, which does just about everything I need for a daily driver. Only real annoyance is my VPN. I haven’t been able to successfully connect through the openvpn configs that PIA provides, so I’ve been setting it up through terminal every time I log in. I think if I really sat down I could set it up to autologin, but it only “costs” me like 30 seconds and sometimes I like to connect to a server that allows port forwarding instead of a non-PF closer server. I also like getting to make the choice of which server I connect to vs autologging in to the lowest latency server.

I still have to use Windows 11 for work though, and holy shit do I prefer running two commands in terminal when I login to dealing with all the dumb fuckin bloat that OS has when I go home.

“No no no, we’re not gonna be like those other guys. We’re even worse!”

Yeah, getting PIA running without the native client has been a bit rough. These days I’ve just gotten use to starting a terminal as soon as I log-in, but I probably need a more permanent solution. maybe it’ll be switching to cachy as well.

I think it is a little interesting that the U.S. isn’t even bothering with pretense anymore. Everyone with a functioning brain knows Iraq was about oil, but back then the U.S. made up all sortsa shit about terrorism and WMDs to give themselves pretext for the war.

What’s kinda weird is that the U.S. is still offering that pretext, and saying shit like Fentanyl is a WMD so they can use the exact same rhetoric, but then they’re also openly saying they just wanna rob Venezuela. They can’t pick a lane.

Yup, and every time I have to deal with Windows bullshit at work, I get a little bit happier that I don’t have to deal with it when I go home.

p sure that’s the gamble Ukraine is taking here. their assumption is that Russia won’t, but they don’t want to seem like they’re the ones holding up an end to the war.

I mean, do you pirate games? If you’ve never gone to a torrent site in your life it’s not surprising, but FitGirl’s repacks are so numerous that it’s hard not to notice them if you do pirate.

I think this is the big difference. For the really successful companies, their proprietary engine is their baby, and they have teams spending dozens of hours every week trying to improve its performance, squashing out bugs, doing refactoring, etc. I’m thinking of companies like GrindingGearGames and DigitalExtremes who’ve been on their engines for over a decade and continually push improvements with every major update.

I simply don’t believe that work is being done at Bethesda. I’d be shocked if it was. It feels like they treat maintenance of their engine as some kinda punishment they make junior devs go through or something. At this point, they’ve accumulated such a mountain of technical debt that it might honestly be more efficient for them to start from scratch, which is a pretty damning statement.

I mean to each their own, I was not impressed by the lack of meaningful roleplaying decisions and the lack of other faction questlines. I felt like the game had very little to offer outside of the main storyline, it really felt like settlement building took too much of the scope despite being rather lackluster. I also think “good with mods” is the same as “fun with friends” in that it applies to literally any game.

In case you were wondering, Starfield was much of the same. Lots of “Yes, Sarcastic Yes, No” dialogues, lots of focus on the main story, with the big twist being that they added lots of New Game+ easter eggs to encourage replaying with the same character.

There’s absolutely no way it’ll be able to live up to the hype. Fallout 4 was a disappointment compared to the rest of the series, Starfield was a disappointment, I just no longer have confidence Bethesda can produce good games.

how on earth were you doing that? do you have a Linux phone?

closed source instead of open source nvidia driver.

This is where the problem really began. though afaik, you can get a version of the bazzite distro with the closed source nvidia drivers already installed, so did you select a different one? Nvidia gave me nothing but issues when I was trying to migrate to Linux though. Ever since I switched to AMD, it’s been smooth sailing.

god I don’t even care for Palworld, it’s just clearly not a game for me, but if their spat with Nintendo ultimately ends with Nintendo losing a bunch of their bullshit patents I will buy a copy to sit in my library untouched

I mean, actual civilization isn’t a monolithic culture lasting 5000 years.

The issue isn’t the premise. Humankind works with the exact same premise, and that’s a great 4X. I’d definitely argue it’s better than Civ 7. The issue was the execution.

It’s not going to sound fun, but if you’re looking for something useful that will bolster your application, the answer for all compsci degrees is business.

absolutely crucial. All my devices are always connected through a VPN, and usually I try to route my traffic through a different country. When your country is paying for a service to monitor citizen’s internet traffic, anonymity is worth paying for.

The Last Epoch subreddit is currently in meltdown mode, seems like this news has kinda ended any potential goodwill and community the devs had grown. Real shame, because it was a cool competitor in the ARPG space, but the last update was incredibly underwhelming. Between that, this, and the fact that they’re going to be charging for future expansions, seems p likely they go under in another year.

Wow really? The thing that everyone was warning the dumbass tech-illiterate politicians who pushed this bullshit law through would happen, happened? Wow I am just so incredibly shocked, who could have foreseen this coming, apart from everyone?