I wish those little PCs would make a comeback.

But smartphones have changed that, largely.

There is a desire to go back to dumb flip phones, though, and I wonder if that could help bring small form factor PCs back.

It shouldn’t be when they were talking about making that shit retroactive for games that were already released. Unity proved they cannot be trusted. Besides, developers should move to other engines for the sole reason of sending a message to the other guys in the industry like Epic’s Unreal Engine. Pull shit like this and you’ll lose out on the developers. Make them realize that Unity was a failed experiment and no one wants to be like them.

True, at the end of the day, he did irreversible damage to Unity’s image with this move.

In his defense, he likely wasn’t alone in making this decision or approving of it, so there’s that.

Did they really encourage it? Genuinely curious as I never heard that before, but that’s wild if true.

Addressed an issue that could cause V to become invulnerable to all damage.

I don’t know if I’d call that an “issue”

Half Life 3 confirmed

I found out about GOG because I was looking for a really old game and found it in a torrent. The torrent mentioned it came from GOG and I checked it out and ended up buying the game from there.

The game is Mob Rule and I got it well after its original release but this was still some time ago I happened to pick it up at Big Lots when they used to have obscure PC games. It was a ton of fun but I lost the CD and couldn’t find the game anywhere, not even torrents, for many years until one year I searched for it again and found it.

Very thankful to GOG for bringing it back and giving me the chance to have it digitally now so I will be less likely to lose it again. Thats what game preservation is about!

My brother bought this for me for Christmas last year and it’s a ridiculously fun game. The mods are a lot of fun as well.

It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.

Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. The Crash developers did this in the PlayStation 1 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.

Need to develop a system that doesn’t serve up cancerous ads and relaxes on the rules so uploaders don’t feel the need to do dumb, unnecessary shit like censor a car crash.

I would love an addition of first person like they did with GTA V and RDR2. A new way to experience RDR1 would be amazing and first person is my go to in the other games because of the immersion.

Thank you for highlighting that. I read it and see the same thing being said.

Anyone who has one of their headsets already knows of this with the Remote Desktop app (not a Meta developed app, just some third party developer). They suddenly released a new version that required the headset to be connected to the internet for the app to run. It pissed off a lot of the community for good reason. Lots of folk who bought the app legitimately and needed to use it for offline purposes couldn’t anymore.

Regardless….all this is seems to be Meta making it easier, or giving developers another avenue to implement such measures. Shitty practice in most cases, but not as bad as the title makes it out to be, for sure.

I’ll be avoiding those apps/games like I already do. I do appreciate that it’s listed in the description because I back out of most apps/games that pull that sort of crap.

You’re absolutely right. While we can’t for everything like a Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch, there are a lot of smaller devices, mainly the IoT stuff, that should be powered by standard batteries but does not and this needs to change. A lot of them prefer to get a cheap Chinese battery that either gets soldered or pinned to a board than allow a user to switch out batteries.

Sometimes it is nice because you can charge but other times it’s dumb like when it’s a cheap battery that is dead and won’t charge anymore.

That’s the same for me with Powershell and bash scripts.

Granted, I also never tell the AI certain details, like file names or folder locations. I always give it generic names that can’t be linked back to me so easily and then input the real information once I’ve copied it out.

I’ve had to do follow ups with the AI like when I get an error and continue using the original fake information.

It’s been really good at helping correct errors that come up as a result of what it gave me, most of the time. I can remember at least one time where we went around in circles and I ended up scrapping it and restarting in another direction.

Blood Wake on the original Xbox.

I was a kid visiting my friend’s house and we went over to his neighbor’s house and started playing on this new video game console I never heard of. He pulled up this game that was boats battling one another on the waters and it was so damn cool. My grandmother coincidentally bought my brother and I an Xbox shortly thereafter and it was one of the first games I bought used from EB Games. That storytelling was something else. Not state of the art, but just so cool being drawings and the world setting was amazing, being ancient but with modern and some futuristic/magical weapons too.

I still play it sometimes on an emulator. Just sad it never gets talked about or ever got a sequel or remaster, not even some backwards compatibility love :/