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But then they wouldn’t have gotten to go BRRRRRR on that case with a Dremel for two hours OR posts pictures on the Internet of this thing that they almost certainly never used for any sustained period of time.

And what is PC building if not those two things?

Flavio: “The guys from GOG are great, and they contacted me directly once to talk about Heroic, and they totally support the project and what we are doing, especially on Linux. I would say we have a really good relationship with them.”

Paweł: “Adding to what Flavio said, we currently have the affiliate deal with GOG, so any purchases made using our link support the project financially.”

Huh. I didn’t know this. This seems like a big deal. Makes me even more willing to consider Heroic’s GOG support semi-official, considering they support autopatching and cloud saves under GOG. It really feels close-to-native, especially given how sluggish Galaxy can be on Windows for large libraries.

Well, yeah. Half as much in Europe as in the US, it should be noted. But yeah, it does seem many corpos will either spread the US hit globally to mitigate the sticker shock in the US at the cost of giving some to everyone else (or just as a convenient excuse to squeeze more money out of people). It sucks.

But you would still have to report that you refer to global GDP or to global prices if that’s what you meant. Those numbers are going to be different either way. And that’s not what they are referring to anyway.

I am confused. How can you accidentally push a patch you have no license to acquire?

OK, so I get the headline for the US edition, but why is it the same in the UK/AU/CAD editions? Whose GDP, Tom’s hardware?

The other guy know what they’re talking about.

Local subtitle tracks to overlap with physical prop text are a thing, too, but not the same. Distributors do have “clean” versions of movies for local distributors and localization houses to recreate and overlay titles and text inserts. It is not that unusual for a TV station (and I presume a streamer, although I’ve never been behind the scenes in one) to get that clean version from the distributor when they purchase a piece of media.

Whether those will take the time to recreate the subtitles themselves, request a localized version or a version with the baked original text is up to how much the people in charge care or how much time they have to care.

IF that is the frame you get it sure looks like a blank background for that purpose. If you cut content for other reasons you… you know, cut the content. You don’t photoshop text out and leave the background that’s both more conspicuous and more work. I tried to verify, but Robin Hood 2010 is not part of Prime in my region and I’m not paying for Robin Hood 2010 for this (or most other reasons).

I would delete this one. It’s almost certainly misinfo.

The fashy outrage engine where any trailer with some amount of melanin triggers endless “WOKE FAIL” videos is in full force.

The process is watch trailer>check for nonwhite>RAGE video>if game bombs: GLOAT video> if game is a hit: quietly STFU and move on to the next target.

I have to assume the algorithmic boosting of this garbage is the result of someone at Google arguing that groceries haul videos and reaction videos were the bottom of the barrel and someone grab-my-beering that shit.

I mean, these idiots spent months doing “Expedition 33 is WOKE” outrage videos. That was, in fact, the top couple of threads on the Steam community forum for the game on launch day. I checked. Besides one thread hilariously trying to do “It’s a hit because it’s not WOKE” on the top page, the word “woke” is no longer in the first ten pages of discussions.

It’s such an obvious grift and it’s so pointless to even call it out. Everybody knows it’s bullshit. The creators know it, the fascistoid children following them know it, the game makers know it, the politicians taking advantage to indoctrinate young men know it. And yet here we are.

Honestly, I seriously doubt that the harassment is from the AC fanbase, and as a side sucky thing in an ocean of suck, it also sucks for Ubisoft that their game is getting associated with the backlash. It really seems like these are just political actors and opportunists exploiting the nazi child outrage farms for views, more than anything else.

I’d be shocked if most of the outrage, even the one whitewashed as “Asian men erasure” was genuine at all. Especially in the game series that opened with “hey the Crusades were bad, maybe” and spiraled out into assassinating the pope and playing as multiple black people murdering slavers.

Ooooh, THAT’s the joke they were trying to make. Believe it or not I hadn’t put that together until just now.

Well, yeah, but games would still have an eighty dollar sticker price in that scenario.

Yeah, I mean, free to play is the future, right?

GoG has decent manual integration. Steam has decent guide integration.

I think it’s a good idea on paper, but at some point having it in an overlay or whatever seems less functional than just bringing it up on a phone or a second screen, you know?

The GameFAQs era will become a bit of a lost age between the print magazine guides and the “IGN became a guide site so slowly we barely even noticed” period.

I wonder if there will ever be some specific nostalgia for it or it was just too short and grungy for anybody to care.

What did you do during the ten minutes it took to load tape games? Or the ten minutes it took to install them from floppy? Or…

Oh, wait, NES/N64, huh? You were into rich kid games.

So what did you do while you were getting driven back from the shop by your valet or whatever you guys had at the time?

All joking aside, I bet there was some divide between console and computer players on that front. I had binders of technical documentation from flight sims and entire novellas that came in RPG and adventure game boxes. The “here’s how to play through the first chunk of the game” tutorials were just one format for that stuff, but perhaps the most platform-agnostic of them.

And, of course, there were walkthroughs and guides in gaming magazines. Getting stuck and waiting for the next monthly issue hoping they’d cover the game was a subtle form of monetization for games journalists even then. “Pivot to guides” has happened before.

That’s… not how inflation works.

Inflation is a measure of price increase. If inflation goes down prices keep going up, just slower.

If prices go down that’s deflation and its own whole separate problem.

Yeah, and old games were just well designed with no handholding and absolutely didn’t include full bullet pointed tutorials for the first hour in the manual as a matter of course.

Gen Z/late millenials trying to interpret retro games they play on emulators with no manuals is the modern “people making extremely detailed marble statues because they don’t realize Romans painted theirs”.

That’s how you end up with Blue Prince and Dark Souls and stuff.

I’m confused, if you agree the terms don’t show any evidence of spyware or excessive data collection why quote this article specifically in the first place?

And if you agree that the listed information is standard, what is is the “shit like in this article” we’re talking about?

Not having split screen on PC is a bummer, though, and it’s likely mostly revolving around an outdated impression of how games are used on PCs. Unfortunately I believe BL4 is sticking to that policy.

I’m not sure how that makes pirating the game more or less justifiable, though. If what you want is playing split screen that will remain as unavailable on a pirate copy than on a licensed one.

I mean, do what you want, obviously, but while the “removing spyware” thing would have made sense the other thing doesn’t quite.

Oh, man, you may be right. I’ve gone back and forth the Igavanias so much I definitely don’t remember which “go underwater” upgrade goes where.

Gonna look it up because it’s gonna kill me otherwise.

Okay, yeah, got it. I remember now. They do a weird thing in that one where you have a bad way of moving underwater by using a weapon and you unlock the proper walking underwater thing after. So yes, you do need to kill enemies to get it as a random drop. It’s a super high drop rate, though. I think I didn’t remember because you have to be fairly unlucky (or be speedrunning and not killing enemies, I suppose) to not get it naturally, but you are correct.

RotN doesn’t have any progression requirements that aren’t scripted drops, off the top of my head, but I could be wrong about that. What ability are you thinking of?

Dawn and Aria of Sorrow do, but in fairness those are communicated in other scripted drops and are part of the “get the good ending” puzzles.