Quoting: HighballAn interesting take on Copilot+Recall

Guess I'll get my big'Ol'bucket of popcorn ready.

An excellent and very useful read - many thanks for linking to it!

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Quoting: elmapulnever blame the victim.
you werent an idiot, and didnt had any good reason to suspect anything.

I take responsibility for my mistakes, though, and due to previous industry knowledge I should've known better. Really, I can laugh at myself for this - and I think most people who backed it can, since they gave us the choice to not attach our real names to it and most of us chose that!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIt is also what they call the newer one that's x86_64 to ARM, which is why they dropped 32bit x86 stuff. It doesn't translate 32bit software over.

I did not know that! Thanks for the info. I haven't been a Mac user for a loooooong time now, so I haven't kept up; When I last was, the original Rosetta was still current!

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QuoteOne of my favourites: opening a pizza box, and eating each individual slice of pizza for some needed HP.

That is ridiculously charming.

QuoteFor those of you who like following the lore, there's plenty of that to uncover. There's no cut-scenes or anything to actually get in the way of the action though. As you progress, and if you actually slow down enough to take a look around, there's a lot of datapads to find that will sprinkle in plenty of paragraphs of what's been going on. Emails between people talking about the world, their issues and strange happenings. A good few fun secrets to find too.

My ideal approach to narrative in games is a handful of brief cutscenes where necessary so you can take a breather (the form those take depends on what's most fitting for the genre or franchise), plus in-game lore like this. Sounds fab.

QuoteOr not, the easier difficulties are just fine for people who aren't quite so good at FPS games.

Since I get terrible motion-sickness from first-person games (unless they're very abstract - think GoldenEye 007 for the N64, or Minetest), keeping the play-sessions short is a necessity for me, which the lower difficulties do quite nicely.

Quoteit feels like a game from another time.

And that is exactly what I want out of a game.

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Quoting: elmapuli know we had some star projects like might n9 (cough cough) ,

I was one of the idiots who backed this one... Luckily I only threw in a fiver, but yikes, what an embarrassing mess that whole thing turned out to be! At least people came out of it wiser about Keiji Inafune being a credit-stealing glory-hound (the claims of him having created something he didn't were basically how he duped fans of the sorts of games he was aiming to create a spiritual-successor to).

Lesson learned right there.

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Quoting: LoudTechieDon't let the WINE devs hear you say that Pengling.
They'll be all like: "that's emulation(translating processor instructions to other processor instructions), W(h)INE(Wine Is Not an Emulator)".

But that's precisely what's so good about it! I say it with the highest praise.

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Quoting: Talon1024He even released all the source code for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, and Doom 3, expecting devout fans to do amazing things with them.

And that reminds me, I need to grab the WADs and set up a proper source-port sometime and actually start playing with some mods. (I'm still playing through the Nerve Software Doom Classic Unity ports as they come, right now, having never played before. I'm about halfway through Doom II, then I'll get it done. )

Quoting: Talon1024There is an enormous collection of mods and fan works for Doom and Quake, but many of these mods re-use most of the sprites, models, and textures from the original game, and/or include "new" assets derived from the originals by id Software, or taken from other games by other studios.

The things people do with it absolutely amaze me. I'm sure that you've seen "myhouse.wad" by now - the way that it works (part one, part two, part three ) is incredibly interesting!

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Quoting: LoudTechieI thought it was ROSETTA, but that's not the name Apple uses in its announcement.

Rosetta was the tool used when Apple moved from PowerPC to x86 in 2006. It was invisible to the user, and from what little I understand was fairly similar in principle to what we know on Linux with Proton today, but it wasn't gaming-specific.

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Quoting: pbBut then they wouldn't have gotten free coverage in linux media and reddit.

That's exactly why they do it - it's the same as how large publishers expect users of certain consoles to port-beg on social-media, thus doing free promotion for them.

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Quoting: kerossinI don't know who Garry Newman is but he sounds like the typical sociopath executive - everything's a product, everyone's replaceable, it's just business, it's allowed by law therefore it's right. Just because a law allows something doesn't mean it's right, plus those kinds of people usually only use laws when it suits them.

He's the creator of Garry's Mod, and thus would be legally culpable in this case. His personal website is here; He doesn't sound at all sociopathic.

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