Not sure that’s fair. It was the first pass at something that couple have been embraced, expanded and developed. Hell, it signposted the changed aspects and immunities of the orks as they grew.

But throw that into another harder game type where it’s on you to remember who has escaped and got wiser and it has real potential. Especially with the superhero meme of catching villains but never ending them. Some real organic potential to hit the pained hero arc where this one is such a pain maybe I should just kill this one…

You don’t need to worry. I think the patent expired on the Mach 3 a while back- there’s dirt cheap compatible handles and razors available here.

You don’t need one. The Lua files are directly editable. You can just amplify rewards or powers for anything that grants the resource. Amplified posiden powers wreck rooms and make it rain wealth.

On the graphical installer if you give a root password, sudo isn’t configured. If you don’t sudo is installed and configured with the default user as admin.

Ha ha ha. By what mechanism? Turns out they don’t have any authority on my Linux boxes, and (almost) no one is choosing to use this, save your Dev hours boys.

I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that “0.6 % Other” high.

Steam Machines flopped because everyone with the badge thought it was a licence to print money and marked up mini PCs to the point where it made no sense to not buy a dedicatd gaming laptop instead.

We live in a very different world with 1080p capable mini-pcs abounds and SteamOS/Bazzite showing how a gaming OS should be.

I would love to see them sell the controller and mini PCs through hardware partners that get that this is an opportunity to shift units, not mark up, but I’m not optimistic, and if I save $200 by not having a little steam badge so be it.

Ngl. Emulators now being on the app store is huge. Between that and easy SSH access to actually private boxes, I’m on the cusp of going back to iOS on my main phone.

1. And yet almost every single one had a “Buy” button on the purchase page, not a “licence” and I sure as shit didn’t sign a damn thing. I act like I own them, and will continue to do so. Half the EULAs contains some illegal bullshit anyway and the “also is any of this invalidates local laws, just ignore that bit” clause is relatively a lot newer than a lot of classic games which I probably do own because of this. With the greatest respect, laws are - effectively - requests when the entire population willfully ignores them.

2. Absolutely true. And this is where I have difficulty with this initiative. I am a heavy collector and patient gamer, I get to stuff years after release. As such I have always avoided heavily on-line stuff so I can use my own schedule, and that’s the sticking point here for me. In the current environment where it’s easy to see network requirements, and even refund games after testing it seems like this could be handled by vote with your wallet for the most part. However, I take a very different view of the current bait-and-switch of taking games without a hard online requirement and changing the terms in some way after release, and this alone is enough to make me support the movement. Adding launchers, additional account requirements, micro transactions post release should be heavily controlled. If you don’t state at release you will be adding MTX - or even DLC honestly - you shouldn’t be able too in my mind. It’s a different product.

I think the other thing that so many are either too young to remember, or perhaps not technical enough now, but in the 90s, you ran your own game servers, and it was awesome. It was hard back then, someone seemed an ISDN or leased line to handle the traffic and access to a decent PC or server - requirements that are now in reach of everyone with a joke connection, a multi core machine and a docker install. There’s no reason this couldn’t be handled that way again with the companies monetising “content packs” for the servers and letting communities flourish. But they like the control.

It’s going to be interesting seeing the outcome here!

I’m curious what the ‘right’ amount of people being supported that makes it magically sustainable. UK pop is close to 70 mil, with half a mil in Leicester (ISH). Let’s be generous and say 0.5% of the population gets these PIPs then. Tax Rates are upwards of 40% for some folk, logically we can afford to care for this many people (and more). Hell the massive Social Security bill is always 2/3 pensions. I’d suggest raising the retirement age a year, which would more than cover the discrepancy, but there’s some evidence that life expectancy is going to decline in the coming years, which in concert with the raising ages means retirement is going to be a luxury if they aren’t careful. Of course the actual solution to this is the same one that never ever gets discussed. Raise wages and increase Tax take, given it’s the wagies that actually pay tax, not the massive mega corps. I’d hoped for a visionary take on the Labour party, the focus being Great British Energy to get energy security, followed by a modern farms initiative to get food security. Instead we get the same old shit sandwich we’ve been being fed for thirty or forty years.

I… Don’t see the issue here. Let her spend her backhanders standing up a Mastodon instance, and then enjoy it being flooded with lettuce images, gifs and videos, we’ll find out exactly how censored it is within hours. It may even last as long as her stint as Prime Minister.

I think it was something to do with COVID stats during the initial outbreak, but yes, yes it was the UK government and their bizarre love affair with stupid tech choices.

If it didn’t AIMP has a folders section under my music.

There’s a couple of curators that “review” DRM in games. It’s not perfect but it helps.

There’s a few companies selling a very plasticky mini-pc that also has 2x 3.5" slots. Trialling it now for a homebuilt Nas, so far impressed. Worst problem is that the bigger drives can be noisy.

Aoostar in the US I think.

What mystifies me is usually when they do this sort of thing they throw it on Plus and get a mountain of players. Fall guys, and Destruction All Stars spring to mind as examples. I guess the effect isn’t so strong with the new tiered system, but it may have saved them some face.

So. Years back. When they did that ad where parents sent a kid emails to their own Gmail and then gave them the account details when they were grown up… Everyone who ever did that are gonna lose all their work if they don’t think to log in periodically. Nice.

Was an actual question - it wasn’t exactly universally hailed as a success, so I wasn’t sure if we were pretending it didn’t exist. I found it to be fine though. And last I poked around mod support seemed likely, but I got distracted by other releases so it’s not as ‘grabby’ as MoM was. I think the increased fidelity came at the cost of speed. But maybe that’s just because I can’t rely on muscle memory to bang through turns now.

Uh. Are you kidding? The remaster released like 6 months back.

There was a game for Amiga and ST called Eco. It was a great concept and a terrible game really, too slow, too random, and eventually too easy when you knew the pattern. But it was a great concept, and something like it but with smaller genetic steps/algorithm generated body forms. Think an entire game based around the creature phase of Spore. Or, spore as it was originally marketed I guess! There’s a couple of indies working on similar concepts at the moment, but nothing has quite ‘clicked’ for me yet.