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It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.

How can you call it silly when they fought for what you call abusive practices yourself?! Typical nihilistic cynicism, disregarding the actual hard work that went in to it and the progress that was made.

Remakes -_- I sleep

They fumbled the marketing for frontier so bad. There were always comments asking what the game is even about. They explained it so badly people assumed it’s vaporware. Barely anyone was streaming/viewing it on launch.

The menu has 7 chapters listed

Instant buy. Bit of a shame the demo didn’t have Steam cloud saving and I lost my save. Even though it’s been a long time since I played, would’ve been nice to have it either way and any possible effects it would have on the state of the game. At least the full version does have cloud save though!

Edit: also how tf has it been 7 years since chapter 1, wtf

Can’t read the article because of paywall but I’d say any level of government moving away from big tech is good experience and an example for top level government to follow later. All I could find is that they moved to a German provider.

Let’s make it a bit easier for Russian hackers shall we? Just put all our communications on the wire in plain text.

Season 4 Episode 4 if I remember correctly. He is credited as writer on the Wikipedia list of episodes. I can recommend the rest of the season as well, less than two hours

I’m glad for Laidlaw not getting stuck on Half-Life. It’s been a long time, people grow and move on. Imagine him feeling like this about Half-Life but writing for the sequel anyway out of a sense of duty, completion or other silly reason. It would be a total disaster. Half-Life: Alyx was fantastic, and felt like just another entry, a natural fit, in the Half-Life universe. This is not in spite of, nor because of, Laidlaw being absent from its development. There are simply a bunch of amazing people putting their heart and soul into these games.

I do hope the next Half-Life entry will be a regular PC game though. I wouldn’t wish it upon people who don’t own VR to miss out on another excellent game.

On a sidenote its crazy we got a Love Death & Robots episode based on Laidlaw’s first book. Definitely gonna watch that.

Haha yeah you definitely don’t want to do that. It was meant as a slightly ridiculous hypothetical. There are definitely better suited UI libraries it there.

Bit barebones reporting. Here’s an article that at least quotes portions of the interview: https://wccftech.com/epic-games-launcher-is-indeed-clunky-admits-epics-tim-sweeney/

I can only partially empathize with the argument that Steam is better because of 15 years of refinement. Yes, they have a big featureset, amazing APIs, developer kit, the workshop, the list goes on. There are a lot of technical challenges here.

However, what cannot be excused with this argument is the Epic Launcher UX being this clunky, lmao. Yes, making a bunch of UI is nontrivial and takes work, but its also not rocket science. The layered and staggered loading of different UI elements and overal slowness of the whole thing cannot be explained by the lifespan of Epic Launcher. Steam was just as responsive on my old Windows XP back in the day as it is now. Throw something like Dear ImGui at a bunch of juniors and they could make something that is snappier than what the Epic Launcher is now.

Google made a bunch of useful metrics called Core Web Vitals that represent responsiveness pretty well. I’m sure they would score awfully on all of them.

Don’t give any money to domain squatters.

It’s not that strange a thing to think about. Steam partners have abused the system before creating a fuckton of games just for achievements, trading cards and emoticons. Also Banana

Oh yeah KeyWe is great fun! Some levels took me and my partner two tries but it’s nothing too punishing. Highly recommended

Wow, didn’t even go into the quality of the sticks, triggers and buttons. Fine, I guess? Anyone can put the Deck, Legion Go, Switch and even an Xbox controller next to each other to make that comparison.

The performance issues are pretty much what I expect from any handheld that tries to push the resolution and refresh rate much farther than the Steam Deck or Switch. You won’t get any benefit out of it, just a higher price. Well, it’s nice for indie games probably.

You could make better use of the screen if you double down on the integrated graphics and make the whole thing like €1200. I’m not big on hardware knowledge but there are more powerful chips out there that fit in a handheld, right? Battery life would probably be terrible.

Me and the wife played a few coop games.

• DERU - The Art of Cooperation is a pretty puzzle game that is satisfying, not too difficult nor does it overstay its welcome.
• We also enjoyed the snake-esque puzzler OmoTomO. Only on itch, not Steam, so you have to install it via the desktop mode. When you’re willing to dig a bit itch grants you some shiny gold nuggets for cheap.
• In Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime you have to run around a spaceship to operate the different parts (engine, guns, shield). More straightforward than it sounds, and the pacing is such that you’re not rushed but do get some tense moments.
• Almost forgot Pode which is a very cute 3rd person puzzle adventure game.

Some games recommended by other people in the thread that we can corroborate

• Trine series is good platforming fun with pretty graphics and dialog that is a little on the nose sometimes.
• Kingdom: Two Crowns is good for a few hours at least, can’t say I cared about beating it because the levels just keep coming with only minor variations. Definitely a unique blend of tower defense and base building.

Personally I agree on Overcooked, once the novelty wears off it gets a bit frustrating because of the difficulty. Its still fun in groups though.

That is some amazing performance. 400 CCU on a single server. The zoning system and dependency graph with rollback are impressive as well.

Sadly people are already running automated scripts on it. I saw the black knights of 3 adjacent boards moving simulataneously to kill the white kings everywhere.

Ah yes, solving design problems by asking players nicely.

In a traditional MMO like World of Warcraft, it’s not like you build a base in the starter zone and leave it there for a week, because imagine how many bases would be stacking up. [But] that’s kind of how our game does work because you can end up with a lot of bases.

I’m pretty sure most people dislike destroying their own stuff or alternatively, cleaning up. If you’re gonna let them have multiple bases instead of just one, what do you expect?

Just speculating but: it sounds like they only tested this with small groups, and that worked. If that’s what you’re going for, you have to set up the game to play in small groups, not as an MMO… In hindsight they might wish they had put player bases in separate instances.

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