Ah, First Hunt. The demo that made me hope for a good DS Metroid Prime-style game.

And then we got Hunters instead. Boooo.

General opinion seems to be this is definitely a game.

Warner Bros is trying way too hard at this multiverse thing.

They did say that GOG didn’t mean “Good Old Games” anymore at one point, trying to change their image a bit, but even then they never really stopped doing that really.

They chased lost licences for a bunch of old CRPG, they made preconfigured DosBox packages for games that needed them…

They’d be crazy to stop that. As you said, it’s one of the things that set them slightly apart from the competition.

Cool declaration of intent, and they definitely do a lot for tweaking and packaging old games so they’re in a playable state.

But it’s a bit amusing to see The Witcher in there. I mean, yeah, I certainly hope you’re maintaining that one.

Isn’t that the wreck of a port with botched controls, horribly misshapen characters and “enhanced” textures that misspelled environmental text everywhere? Occasionally completely missing jokes by doing so?

Was it supposed to be fixed in any way at some point?

Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while… Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?

It’s not a actual writing tool, it’s a basic text file editor.

Yes, so much yes. I’ve got that on mine too, and it’s a pain. it has very small, close “buttons” too, setting the temperature is an exercise in accuracy, when it reacts at all.

And yes, the tiniest drop of water fucks everything up completely.

Capacitive buttons on anything are annoying, they’re unreliable as fuck. They might trigger with the slightest accidental touch, but then they’ll act like your finger doesn’t exist for a dozen pushes.

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Bright colour on dark background makes sense IMO.

This, however :

https://www.digitalretropark.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cpc-01-1320x990.jpg

My 80’s computer was (by default) bright yellow text over bright blue background.

It probably sounds quite bad. It was. You could change that with a few commands but you’d have to do it each time you boot the thing, and I didn’t bother, it was “normal” to me.

That didn’t prevent young me from spending hours copying lines of BASIC code from magazines, but it was tiring. Nowadays I’m just like, seriously, who thought that colour scheme was a good idea?

[De Beers] stating that the economics of lab-grown diamonds for jewelry were not sustainable.

“That’s cheating, we can’t throttle the market of these shiny rocks! The indistinguishable ones you need are still those we’re killing people for!”

I hope one day you can make a perfect gemstone for the cost of a burger, so people just stop caring about them at all.

The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.

Sounds like it’s working to me.

Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.

That’s the same timeframe as the one used in the article, and sure, they could have made it explicit again, but implicitly it makes sense because it’s the one that’s useful for a direct comparison.

Turns out, the implicit timeframe that should be clear after reading the article was the right one, and it’s pretty damning for bitcoin as is. So again, I am not sure what point you want to make.

In 2023, Microsoft and Google consumed 48 TWh of electricity (24 TWh each).

Your point?

The data in the article was for one year. This is the same unit.

For that you’ll have the Ultimate™ Edition. It has about 30% of total content.

The Sims 4 is not quite a fan favorite. It is disappointing that they may be working on it for another 5-10 years

There’s no way what they had in store for Sims 5 would have pleased the fans disappointed by Sims 4.

Sims 4 was already a last minute attempt to correct course of something those fans never asked for. An always online multiplayer skinner box, probably barely simulating anything at all. They only shifted when the terrible SimCity 2013 crashed and burned.

It was too little, too late, Sims 4 at release ended up the most incomplete release a Sims game ever had and even after many updates is still the most boring experience you could have with the series. Even the bugs are not the entertaining kind.

Guaranteed, Sims 5 was going to try more of what Sims 4 was supposed to be.

Life By You, published by Paradox was cancelled, for some undisclosed reason, not even to the developers themselves it seems. It was supposed to be close to release.

There are other life sim projects in progress (the indie Paralives I think is the one gathering attention right now).