due to the way causality works it would be pretty difficult to tell a story in any genre where someone’s opportunities in life are not strongly correlated to circumstances from their past that are outside of their control (like their birth)

And he’s right! It might not be as good as the games that came before it or after it but that bar is so high that it can still be a great game despite it

“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding 😎”

Indie games are kind of this, but it’s hard to make the “paid more” work consistently at scale. Largely because there’s a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.

Almost always food

and the funny thing is that these games launch in such a bad state because the publisher paid for the marketing push to happen on a specific date, so come hell or high water, the game is gonna ship by that date

don’t get me wrong, deadlines are extemely important or your project will just end up with infinite scope creep, but games are a massive artistic and technical endeavour, which are two things that can be extremely difficult to estimate

there’s gotta be a better way

“I CASt pissed off angel that’s going to whoop your ass”

here I was thinking op was talking about the 9th level spell that can summon an extraplanar ally. the CAS of D&D

we’re all forced to work within the system, normies do so without questioning it

These extensions work first by looking at the contents of the page you’re on to detect a paywall, and then make modifications to the page that remove the paywall. There’s no way for the browser-creators to guarantee that the extension isn’t also silently adding a hidden element that captures everything that you type into that website, in addition to the paywal removal, so they’re basically trying to warn you such a thing could happen.

And that is a genuine risk from every extension in the addons store, but I would say that risk is potentially even higher with a piracy extension installed from a github relese. (Not this one in particular per se, which I have no opinion about, just in general.) If it makes you uncomfortable, a reasonable compromise could be to create a new browser profile for use only with this extension, or maybe even use a different browser entirely than your daily driver.

The game has a ton of subtle mechanics that it doesn’t really go out of its way to tell you about. So there’s a degree of mastery and cross-polination of strategy and builds that take advantage of those mechanics between groups, which adds a lot of fun for me. I respect how that’s not for everyone though.

yeah this is exactly how it works for “self-driving” cars: https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/cruise-av-operations-require-1-5-remote-employees-per-vehicle-report-claims/

this reads like a bill wurtz lyric

Hard to tell the logo from the low res but it’s because it’s using playstation’s streaming game service.

Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much… they can visit each other in the hospital when they’re sick. For example.

I bought a PS5 so I could play PS4 games without having a jet engine in my living room and it’s absolutely fantastic for that. Also Demon’s Souls was very pretty and faithful to the original, very fun to get the platinum. Returnal was ok too.

(because he already knows, so being inundated with this information would be annoying)

Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there’s a decent chance you’ll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you’ll have to request a reup.

“hey guys check out my photorealistic remake of the mona lisa”

Although I have my grievences with Valve for other reasons I do have to commend them for their efforts to make linux a way more viable gaming platform than I ever could have imagined. I think a full 2/3rds of my steam library is playable on linux, which is pretty good considering that’s not something I considered when buying them.

I know it’s possible to rip nebula videos with yt-dlp but I don’t know of any sites hosting them