Might be, so better check like this user did:

Just checked my wife’s laptop. Local account, secure boot off, windows 10. It had a message telling me to setup a microsoft account to ‘finish encrypting the device’. I clicked turn off, and it’s currently decrypting the hard drive. Blech.

That’s my current state as well: if I kill myself just like that, the ones in power won. So I’m not letting them win. Either by surviving or… your option.

It’s mostly depression porn with a lot of crying, but not exactly badly written. Dystopia also doesn’t really fit in my opinion, the story plays in our time and world with magical sci-fi elements trying to help common teenager problems. Emphasise on trying.

I played the GOG version of Sacrifice and it worked fine.

Ouch, that YouTuber just called marathon “a new universe” XD

But seriously, that video cemented my worst fears:

• narrative will be written in the last 6 month of the game development???

• the art style is fine, but it looks nothing like the original marathon to me. It reminds me more of the art style from NeoTokyo.

• the gameplay is completely bog standard, nothing special about it

Who is the target audience for this game??

Marathon fans won’t find any campaign here, while extraction shooter fans already have different games that deliver their fix, especially since this one seems to be full price.

And 4 years development for 3 maps and 4 characters hints at a lot of trial & error with emphasis on error.

We laughed at the Republican party maybe 10 years ago, nowadays there are a lot of far right parties getting strong all over Europe =(

What rebounding are you talking about? The Dow Jones is at a currently stable 10% lower than 1 last month. I don’t exactly see a rebound there, except the short high some high hours ago, which then decreased again.

Thank you for explaining my point in more detail. They charge more because they can, correct.

That would only be true if you ignore every other part of the price calculation. For example because the numbers of sold consoles are much higher than in the past, more people are buying the games, leading to more income for the game development cost, leading to the same prize.

See? By ignoring every other influencing factor I can also argue the complete opposite of you.

They obviously meant the Chinese add-on, which recently was released for the Remaster. The original Chinese add-on was only released 2016, so not even 10 years ago.

Agreed, but that wasn’t what the other comment demanded. If we treat other people like Nazis treat their victims, you are a Nazi yourself.

That Nazis do not get the benefit of the doubt or a public soapbox or platform is something I agree with and hopefully what the other commentator meant instead of executions and ovens. But it is important to not dehumanise Nazis and not stoop to their level. They are all too human, that is the problem.

No idea about your specific legal situation, as it heavily depends on where on earth you are.

But what sprang immediately to my mind is that it sounds highly illegal if the manager is indeed right. They knowingly let you do things, which apparently they know you are not allowed to do. In a health care environment, which normally have some kind of control instances.

So regarding the “benefiting you”: have a talk with your old manager about somebody telling the control instances of your profession. Orrrr maybe they could help making the transition easier for you… For example by paying the training for you.

Admit it, you are an Austrian, right? Always with the “get them back into Germany”. But not this time!

Ragnarrox did two very interesting video analyzing the themes and topics for each game (1, 2) and McGee himself commented on them that he felt understood.

And I seriously think they did the first game dirty by porting it to consoles. It was designed and programmed with a certain input (keyboard+mouse) in mind, a controller will make the impression of the game much worse for the player.

See it more positive, don’t look at the amount of comments, but rather at the votes:

the 2 highest main comments and most of the high voted main comments are agreeing with the main gist of the post. That there are then people discussing that is a different thing, but a majority of the people watching this post agree that there is a problem and recognize it.

People who feel attacked by it are naturally more interested in answering and sending their own viewpoint out into the ether. But most votes are not agreeing with them. So majority of those here in this post are on the right trajectory, but of course still have to do the walking towards that direction.

That does not seem to be what research shows, but rather your personal experience:

For animated children movies, I found that 80 % male leads are reported for 1990-2020. Source

Couldn’t find data for children movies in general.

And I found for children books that there is still a slight male overrepresentation on average but in general it being around 50 %for the last few years. Source, search for “Fig. 2”

I feel like it’s awfully interesting though that we have ‘parallel discussions’ whenever someone says “hey this specific thing sucks for women.” […] The answer to that isn’t “we need better male role models in movies” (though it would obviously help as well) as it’s dodging the original question.

Yes, perfectly agree with you! I think both are important points and needed to tackle the issue of patriarchy, because if we don’t teach boys to be better, they never will be and grow up to ask “but what about me?” when they read about feministic topics.

And I fully agree, the way the op posted it with “counter point” already send the discussion in the wrong way.

Yes, it’s not a counter point but rather an also important parallel discussion. We need to have higher standards for male role models, or we will continue to have incels fill the space.

I mostly disregarded the gameplay (aka grading of pictures) and just considered it an exploration game: find the locations and also the environmental storytelling bits. And I highly enjoyed it for that.

I sadly was spoiled regarding the story, so I didn’t have that “wait, what exactly is happening here?” Moment. But nonetheless, the atmosphere really fits its name and considering how the real life is going, I sadly predict it’s going to be more and more relevant. But same as you, the last level hit me hard. I consider it good game design, that the game really trained you well, so I immediately understood what I needed to do to end the game. And it kinda felt natural, because it is the only thing left to do at that moment.

I highly recommend it, if you can overlook bad execution as a price for a great idea.

As said, the gameplay itself is not the best, but the environmental storytelling and atmosphere is great!