I’ve been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I’ll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I’d just as soon play single player games anyway.

I’ve been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I’ve no excuse other than convenience. But I’m done.

The ad company that fucked developers over a few months ago?

So long losers!

Not good ennough. Doxxing should carry criminal charges.

I don’t go back to it (Win 3.1 games are a PITA to get running), but I really wish someone would remake Millennium Auction. It was a very clever version of the old board game Masterpiece.

China doesn’t need the USA.

The USA needs China.

System Shock, the remake by Nightdive.

I’m old enough that I bought and played the original SS back in the day, and it was transformative.

Just search for Slime Rancher.

Hmm. Let’s see here…

Steam: 147
GOG: 174
Epic: 286

I’ve paid for about 2/3 of the Steam games, probably a quarter of the GOG ones, and maybe two or three of the Epic ones.

No idea what Steam has to say, but I’ve played more games for longer than Steam has been around, so here’s a guess of mine in no particular order:

• Skyrim
• Morrowind
• Fallout (3, NV, 4, London combined)
• Ultima II
• Doom II
• Grim Fandango

None.

Because I hate people.

Finished Fallout London last week.

This morning I finished replaying Grim Fandango for about the 12th time.

The Bethesda RPGs: Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout series (although most of the hours probably into NV, which wasn’t actually Bethesda).

I have. In fact, I backed the development of it.

Definitely worth playing. Maybe a bit less memorable than the original, but also a bit more consistent. There are no huge difficulty spikes like the Meat Circus in the original.

The story is a bit more complex, and a bit more muted. Most of the levels are less memorable. But absolutely worth the time to play and enjoy.

Grim Fandango. Despite the weird tank controls, it created such an amazing world - and all in a point-and-click adventure. My home PC is named Manny, our NAS is Eva, the router/firewall is Glottis, and so on.

Also, Psychonauts. Just a perfect 3D platformer.

Fallout London - a FO4 mod. (really, a makeover and whole new game.)

“Yeah, I was skeptical at first but the polycule might be the way to go.”

“Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone.”

Games, economics, and politics aside…

FromSoft has to be about the worst name for a company ever.

“Five mistakes” were actually one point repeated over and over, for a ten minute video.

In other words, clickbait.

Interesting points, but you’re missing an important point: This isn’t necessarily about the definition of what SHOULD be or MUST be preserved, but whether studios should be allowed to PREVENT it from being preserved by those who want to.

I’d say Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2). Everything about the atmosphere in that game was immersive - graphics were good enough that I didn’t notice they were graphics. I genuinely felt cold, wet, hot, windblown, or joyful at the various weather/environment situations in the game.

I guess I shouldn’t be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?

Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.

And so hard to play, so yeah.

Not gonna happen. It’s a lot of work, and they’d rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).

Even better, don’t use Twitter at all and don’t support its insane fascist asshole billionaire owner.

Seriously, why even continue talk8ng about twitter? Let it die.

More garbage linkspam. Time to block this spammer.

Can we please not turn this group into ads/sponsorship/shitposts?

It would be nice if there was some editorial restraint, rather rhan mindlessly posting every single article from eveey single gaming site.

Same as I’ve been saying for 25 years:

Fuck Sony, and fuck their anti-consumer practices.

Think about it: even if you can get a psn account and play without a problem, this is being done to exploit and commoditize you.

Fuck Sony.

Microsoft needs this.

The OS is no longer your property.

Microsoft is not in the business of providing what users want from their computer.

I fought with Broadcom’s shitty website for hours, but finally have Workstation Pro, in which I will test my workflows in Linux.

Games and Lightroom will be a challenge, but I’m going to avoid Win11 at all costs.

How is this not fraud?

It’s a simple question. They are deliberately misleading and lying to customers for unlawful corporate gain.

More likely autotranslated.

It wasnwritten in a different language, then machine-translated.

I thought the same, and made a similar comment. alessandro replied veey shortly, proving (beyond a reasonable doubt) that he was a human.

However, he posts gaming stories incessantly, and without regard to whether they’re worth posting; nor does he bother reading what he posts. So while not a bot, I’m filing him under ‘karma whore.’

This is the definition of late-stage capitalism.

Capitalism could be loosely defined as:

• Take something
• Add value
• Sell at a sustainable profit

Late-stage Capitalism replaces the last two stages with:

• Sell at a maximized profit
• Scour the sales path for any remaining money
• Grab it all
• Take back the thing you initially sold

Myst was the most beautiful shitty adventure game ever. Riven was more Myst.

Imma give this one a pass.

My first real MMORPG was Dark Age of Camelot, and it was fantastic until they decided to protect cheaters who paid. After that was Guild Wars, which was almost as great. I bounced around between a handful of smaller ones until I came across RIFT, and instantly loved it. So much borrowed from the previous games, but the idea of rifts was really damned cool.

About once a year I log in, and realize that it’s turned into an unplayable disaster. Then I log out, feeling sad.

We need to stop promoting this bullshit.

You really don’t need a full article to say ‘late-stage capitalism.’

There’s nothing behind this but corrupt behaviour and greed.

There’s a lot of siloed misinformation here.

• it’s not because of a slowdown in the industry
• It’s not because of poor game releases/sales.
• It’s not because companies grew too much/quickly.

FURTHERMORE…

• It’s not just gaming.
• It’s not just IT as a whole.
• It’s everywhere.

This has nothing to do with performance or the economy, and everything to do with late stage capitalism. Companies have a round of layoffs just to bump up their year end statements. Worse yet, they then proceed to hire people back for less money.

It’s money-grubbing evil, no more and no less.

I didn’t know much about Unity when the mess started last fall. I did, however, recognize the Unity ad platform on mobile games. They are distinct in that they are willing to advertise absolutely anything for anybody - including phishing apps apparently published by organized crime syndicates.

So for ALL of their behaviour, both ad and engine related, I say Fuck Unity.

The entire article sounds like it was AI generated. “Faced with this, Capcom was not indifferent.”