I remember when iTunes was called SoundJam MP and that was much nicer than iTunes. I still miss its eclipse visualizer.

Hopefully this works out better than the time they made iTunes for Windows

I think the biggest thing in gaming in the next few years will be Godot giving indie devs the ability to cheaply create games without needing to license an engine.

Yeah, if I saw that movie I definitely wouldn’t have wanted to sign up to go kill bugs after I saw it.

Maybe it should be rebooted as a gritty, Vietnam-esque series.

I mean, if he didn’t want us killing bugs he shouldn’t have made it look so cool.

Luckily, our fascists aren’t cool at all.

This is why the humanities are important

We’re dealing with people who read at a fifth grade level at best. They barely understand the text, let a lone the subtext.

I don’t know about the others, but Roblox and Minecraft have environments that are designed for infinite replayability. It’s like being amazed that kids are still playing with Lincoln Logs or Legos.

Exactly! Ads are designed to force you to engage with them. Even noticing the ad at all is engaging with it, and they’ve got teams of psychologists figuring out how to make that second of engagement influence you.

People who dismiss the influence of advertisements seem to forget that companies wouldn’t spend a combined $615 billion globally every year on something that people can just “choose” not to engage with.

I probably wouldn’t play as much Civ VI if it weren’t for the expansions or monthly challenges. Does that mean I’m playing an eight year-old game?

To be fair, adding skins is a lot easier than fixing performance issues, and probably involves different, non-overlapping teams

Finally got on the Lethal Company bandwagon and I think I’m gonna have a lot of fun playing it with my kids.

Just call it “paid updates.”

Anyway, I’m really looking forward to the optional co-op mode. It made Raft a whole lot more fun, and adding it to Subnautica would be great.

Motherfucker nuked my capital I’ll spell his name any way I goddamn please

I’ve got 1500 hours on unmodified Factorio. If I installed mods I probably would waste away in front of my screen.

Which would be bad because then the factory would stop growing.

Just one more turn, man. That’s all I need. Then Ghandi will pay. C’mon man I’ll go to sleep right after, I promise.

It would still be the same amount of data at the endpoint, regardless of where they’re stored. It just costs the ISPs more for upstream bandwidth because it’s not cached in their data center.

Though a company with Sony’s reach might be able to convince ISPs to put gaming machines in the same place.

But as for the stream itself, it’s just h265 encoded video, not really different from any other video.

True, I do have unlimited data, mostly because there’s actual competition for broadband where I live. But it doesn’t use that much more data than streaming video, since it’s just streaming the screen of the cloud PC.

Having used a cloud gaming machine for the last couple years, provided they have sufficiently distributed datacenters, this would work out in their favor.

I’m sure manufacturing PS5 consoles is a pain, between design, manufacturing, shipping, sales, support, and all the other stuff. If they could take the same hardware and put it somewhere with climate control, redundant power, and no toddlers shoving bread into it, they could make them a lot cheaper.

Then charge by the hour and you’ve got a way for people to get hooked into the Sony ecosystem without dropping $500, expanding their available market. Plus the game makers don’t have the expense of discs anymore. (Which sucks for us but “it’s just business.”)

However, like someone else said, this is a nothingburger written to get clicks, so everything I said is baloney. But I hope it was interesting baloney. Like that Lebanon Sweet Bologna. Mmm… with some Herlocher’s mustard and horseradish.

If you’re starting off in slippery conditions is good to start in a higher gear so there’s less torque and you don’t exceed the lower amount of friction with the road surface.

If you’re driving in the snow you don’t want a lot of torque starting out. When I’d drive a manual transmission I’d start off in 2nd rather than 1st for this reason.

Electric motors are famous for having maximum torque instantly, so unless it’s got an accurate wheel slip sensor it will apply too much torque and just spin.

Then there’s the problem of it being super heavy. The best car I ever drove in the snow was a Scion xA. It was so light it would float above any accumulation. My motor scooter was even better.

My problem with banning TikTok is that it’s not because it’s an app that harvests data and causes psychological and social harm, but that we’re banning it because it’s not an American app that harvests data and causes psychological and social harm.

It’s not actually a game, but I spent the weekend migrating a bunch of my Minecraft servers to Docker from standalone boxes. Went surprisingly well.

Now I just need to switch from Infrared to BungeeCord+Geyser.

This is the first time I’ve seen “Steam deck” used for a non-Valve device. Gaben may have made the next Kleenex or Bandaid

This is going to be the pattern at all these places doing RTO: The ones who are capable of getting WFH jobs will get them, and they’ll be left with their least capable folks.

I’m sure they discussed it internally. It went something like this:

Manager: “Our last item on the agenda is the KOTOR remake”

All: laughter

I don’t like using blockquotes for things that I made up

“Just let us read everything on your computer, bro. That’s all we need to make it awesome, bro. Trust me.”

Got back into Civ VI after a while and I’m continuing my playthrough of every Civ. Currently playing as Qin Shi Huang (Unifier) and crushed Georgia because they declared a surprise war on me.

Also, I made this turkey in KSP for Thanksgiving

Civilization, Marathon, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and F/A-18 Hornet

To expand more on virality: Platform algorithms reward posts that get engagement because it sells ad space. Posts that trigger our lizard brain get engagement.

I’m in the middle of a Subnautica replay and it’s very much “fuck man where is the thing” combined with “I swear that thing was right here last time I played.”

So the people who built that reactor were incompetent and ignorant?

The last nuclear power plant built in the US bankrupted Westinghouse, was 7 years late, $14 billion over budget, and is set to raise electricity rates in Georgia.

Nuclear is not a solution.

The games I like to play have to make UX compromises on consoles that they don’t on a device with a mouse and full keyboard.

If you want to venture into the third dimension Satisfactory is on sale this week

I was too sick to do rocket science for the past week so my Joolian mission has been on hold. Though I did decide I’m going to name all the ships after Bubble’s kitties.

I’ve been doing a second play-through of Subnautica while I recover.

No, the logo is basically identical

If you want to get really snarky, figure out who wrote the mods and cc them on the reply saying “For your convenience we have included the authors of the installed mods on this email so you can work with them to resolve your issue.”

I’ve worked in software support for a decade and saying “We can’t support you because you modified this” is pretty standard. And with automated replies they don’t take too much support time.