One thing to keep in mind is that dual booting can work to highlight what you’re missing because generally all of the games that run on Linux will run on Windows, but the reverse is not true. It becomes easy to just default to windows so you don’t have to reboot to play something that doesn’t work in Linux and that can undermine the attempt to switch the OS.

Seems like they could just release the server software for the online only games. I’m pretty sure people are reverse engineering it anyway.

Companies have been pushing that for many years because they wanted wages down.

This is all payback for the power the workers gained during the pandemic.

0.286x damage done, 3.5x damage taken. Doesn’t scale well at all. It would be nice if it were more granular and they had separate sliders for damage done and damage taken.

Usually I have to find another song to replace it.

Same. I often wake up with random songs going through my head in the middle of the night. Sometimes it’s not the same one that was looping when I went to sleep.

Invisible weapons are all the rage these days.

2021. This whole thing blew up and they backed down.

To me Veilguard felt like they wanted to make a fantasy Destiny game then changed course halfway through. The free roam zones felt like destiny areas, complete with areas where you knew something would spawn but it would be random which types of enemies it would be. Then you’d find a quest swirl or character and press x and it would dump you into a story mission.

But the movement wasn’t as fun as destiny. And I’m guessing trying to cram a fantasy rpg into areas similar to a shooter causes problems with ranged combat, which would also explain the very cramped areas you’re always doing combat in.

Every story mission was also basically a hallway with a bunch of short, dead-end detours containing 1-4 things to pick up that vary between materials, lore, or equipment. It felt like a paint by numbers rpg.

Rook was essentially Master Chief and nothing your team did mattered much except thematically. I watched them beat on weak mobs for a long time without actually killing anything.

I couldn’t always logically connect outcomes to what the game was showing me, either. Like, I lost two team members because I assigned them to do specific jobs (and the game had a pop up pointing out that this was why they died), but the loss seemed completely disconnected from the actual job. It would be like assigning Gale to break a magical ward (because the tooltips and/or dialogue suggests he can do it, and historically he’s a good it), and he does an outstanding job of it, but then some random magic mirror pops up out of nowhere and teleports in a devil to kill him and the game says, “Gale died because you assigned him to break the magical ward.” Like, what does a magic mirror popping up from nowhere have to do with me assigning him to break a ward?

It also had frustrating bugs sometimes. Like moving my camera to the side when I’m trying to attack something. Or deciding to fire an attack at a nearby enemy that I’m not trying to attack. Or wasting my ultimate because it vanished into the ceiling.

I’ve done both. It just depends on how much money I have at the time. Or whether I’m moving often.

Honestly, I don’t want age signals sent at all. As long as I (the parent) can use parental controls to limit app access, that’s all that matters. Give users the option to deny ad personalization and that protects children from ad personalization. Companies don’t need to know anyone’s age. Meta is pushing for more data, but this feels like an underhanded way to take a middle road that gives Google more data (but not as much as Meta wants). We should take the high road and tell them both to butt out.

The site is also set up so users get recommended images to pin to their own boards. What’s not clear is that when that happens, Pinterest seems to assume some sort of shared ownership. So if the original image is removed, anyone that pinned it is suddenly counted as the new owner.

I had pinned images to one of my boards that I used to keep a board of art that I liked, thinking it was like bookmarking. Then I started getting emails saying I had violated copyright because Pinterest couldn’t tell the difference between me pinning something it recommended that I pin and me uploading an image.

I went into my boards and saw that some of the art I had pinned (I uploaded nothing) had changed to look as though I was the original uploader and/or owner.

I deleted everything and quit the site after that.

93% vs 77% doesn’t strike me as polarized. 16% difference?

77% doesn’t even seem that bad if it’s a style of game I like. From about 2001 I used to see sci fi movies that looked interesting as long as they had at least a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score because my tastes were different.

Is there something I’m missing? I haven’t played either game and I haven’t looked at reviews. Won’t buy KCD (no character creation) and probably will eventually buy Avowed.

To be clear: these are phishing techniques. They aren’t breaking the encryption, they’re getting the user to let them in.

Big mainstream games that are heavy on sex, like Baldur’s Gate 3, are a recent phenomenon.

Heavy on sex? Just which mods did the author install?

I don’t think it’s just the backups. Apple’s site says it’s things “such as” wallet, notes, photos, documents, bookmarks, reminders, voice memos, shortcuts, messages backup, and device backup. The such as seems to imply there’s more.

It should have an account creation process like those old RPGs where it asks a series of questions then says, “we recommend this server: <blah>. It is <one short sentence about its content>” then has click next to proceed or click “I want to choose another server” to just get a list.

1-hate, 5-love Do you like capitalism? Do you like tech? Do you like sports? Would you prefer a large server? etc

It should also be possible to skip the quiz and go straight to server selection at any point.

What kind of porn is in this thumbnail!?

I wish everyone would stop saying “humans are social animals”.

Not in the U.S., but my last ISP had a line in the contract that allowed them to sell my browsing info to advertisers.