That was my reaction watching it on Twitch. Playing it in person is way more fun, the nostalgia got me. Still, Skyblivion will probably be better-looking as well as having better mod support.

The audience participating in the performance by pretending that it’s real is central to the meaning of kayfabe. That never changed, even if it only recently expanded to some media that’s in your news feed.

It might. If some day they don’t control the browser, whoever does control it might be hesitant to build in features that are only there to spy on users for Google. Cookies do at least have some other uses.

The AI-generated speech animations are strangely exaggerated like it’s some kind of lip reading training program. There’s no hair physics. You don’t get a shadow in first-person mode. The persuasion minigame UI looks worse than it used to. Sometimes the NPCs look off to the side while they’re talking to you as if the camera’s in the wrong place. Considering that the main point is to make the old game look nicer, they seem to have neglected a lot of little details.

Brilliant marketing trick: Keep people waiting for the next game in the huge blockbuster series for 14 years and they’ll be eager for whatever they get

Eribees and Mortalbeef will be streaming it on Twitch as soon as they can download it, along with many others. Might be interesting.

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Seems like a sign that it will not be optimized at all.

Oh shit, Jerry legit blocked it: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/1468012/Fedia-reporting-issues-with-specific-servers-e-g-lemmy-ml-lemmy-one-startrek-website/comment/8379246#entry-comment-8379246

It’s unfortunate IMO. I thought it was just some kind of weird mbin problems causing lemmy.ml not to federate, then I mostly forgot about it. Although that server is not without problems I’m sure, it’s a huge piece of the lemmy world to be missing and it’s a pretty small world to begin with.

Why did it get defederated?

ACE sure did go downhill since they released Ace Stream.

It’s been a lot of years since I paid any attention to games that don’t run on linux, but I remember one of the first I found that did was The Ur-Quan Masters — a free (as in GPL) version of one of the best games of the early 1990s.

I can’t say for sure, but the internet seems to think so: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heres-how-to-get-the-ea-app-on-steam-deck-with-bottles/

Yeah, running non-steam games with steam proton works well. One way to do it is bottles.

I’ll be surprised if experimenting with ways to capture and contain the modders in order to extract money isn’t one of the main goals of the project.

That’s technically within your legal rights I guess, just like (depending what the fine print says) it’s within their rights to throttle all your traffic one way or another to a low speed including the stuff you actually need to go faster. The places that always have low speeds for everyone are like that because they’re designed to cater to people who don’t give a shit about what their fair share might be and just want to max out their connection. Those services are fine for torrenting, useless for everything else. Windscribe isn’t one of those but it could become one if enough of its users think like you and insist on it.

Hopefully they’ll set a soft 2TB limit or something before they do that, though.

Them calling it “unlimited” when there’s a limit is wrong, but so is using all of the available upload bandwidth 100% of the time on a cheap home VPN service when you consider the current market prices for data transfer. Mine’s limited to 2Mbps. Seems fair for $7/month or whatever it is.

Edit: Oh right it was 2Mbps. I spent 20 minutes surveying datacentre prices around the world to come up with that number, but bandwidth prices vary widely and might’ve changed by now.

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I thought it said “arachnonym” and was looking forward to seeing some spider names.

Caltrops are easier to deploy.