It has been over a quarter of a century since SimCity 3000 was released in 1999.

First off, rude.

Secondly, great write up. :)

At this rate, Google will pull so many features the Home Assistant, Whisper/Piper combo will have parity.

The only thing I’m missing from my OSS voice assistant is, “where is my phone”… And I’m fairly certain I could figure out how to get that working if I tried hard enough.

I love mine. It’s great in handheld mode with Moonbeam/Sunshine streaming from my gaming desktop, and it shines in docked mode.

And it’s a very capable Linux desktop too if you want to go that route.

It’s gone now. I should have grabbed a copy when that NoClip documentary dropped a few years ago.

If anyone knows of a mirror, I’d love a link.

Yeah grab that. It should get you started. The full deluxe edition has everything, so if that’s not much more, play the $9 and see if you want to upgrade.

I have an absurd number of hours in the Hitman series, and for $9 that’s a steal.

I don’t know about this. Part of what makes the Hitman series so great is dressing up like a clown and knocking out your target with a fish. I just don’t see the sophisticated James Bond doing the same level of crazy.

Holy shit that referenced poem hits fucking hard.

Yes! Freelancer is an amazing (albeit slightly dated) game. It takes some effort to get set up, but it does run quite well on Linux.