Quoting: LoftyBTW It's of course somewhat scandalous to DRM a printer cartridge, although there is always a (weak) counter argument that a 3rd party cartridge could destroy the printer.

Random tangent: it occurs to me that if there were actually a non-infinitesimal chance of a 3rd-party cartridge destroying a printer, printer companies should be all over getting people to use them: "Oh, how sad, that 3rd-party cartridge broke your printer? Welp, guess you learned a lesson, and guess where you need to spend more money getting a replacement printer!" The fact that they'd rather sell obscenely expensive ink with DRM tells me that they know they can get a lot more money that way than from hypothetical printer replacements.

Quoting: LoftyForgetting the hardware vendor for a moment (sony, microsoft, nintendo, valve etc..) Do you think the seller has a right to keep their creative vision locked into a specific platform because that is both

a.) where they expected to sell it

and

b.) how they wished it to be played ?

Or does the creator, artist developer have no right to expect this ?

I don't think so, no. Consider a hypothetical example: someone makes, say, a puzzle game that plays on a touchscreen, with no sound effects. Someone blind wishes to play it, so someone else releases a version (don't worry about the details) that works on a different, tactile interface, maybe with added sound cues, etc., whatever is required to make it playable without sight. Does the creator have a right to say, "No!!! It's only to be played on a touchscreen, anything else is destroying the artistic integrity of the work and isn't how I wanted it to be played!"? (For a real-world example, think of the modders releasing Half-Life: Alyx for non-VR systems for people who can't handle playing in VR.)

Yes, you can indicate how you want people to experience your work. But Death of the Author is a thing, and once a work is out in the real world you can't realistically stop people from poking, prodding, and transforming it; that's just how art and culture work, new things transforming and building upon what came before.

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Drink…mayonnaise. Uh, sure Eric, whatever you say. (Release two immediate hotfixes for "yes I'm being held hostage and forced to add that", one for "no"! )

Jokes aside, I can't wait to jump in and try it out! Still have my very first save file, though it has a bunch of mods so I might need to prune some or wait a few days for updates. One thing I didn't see mentioned is that the new Meadowlands farm starts you with two chickens, making it great for playthroughs that want to go for more of a ranching playstyle immediately.

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Quoting: knroI have an issue in this game where ALL the images are not displayed in game (avatars..etc). I tried to verify, reinstall, disable all DLCs, all downloadable content ...etc to no avail. Unfortunately, I cannot play this game due to this annoying bug. Anyone have any ideas?

No, unfortunately. A quick search of the technical support forum turned up this, but I can't tell how similar that is to what you're seeing.

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Quoting: drjomsI don't have that option in my vanilla game.

I'm guessing Chrisznix is talking about the Globe Coverage option found in the vanilla game during planet generation. (Link to wiki.) Choosing a smaller globe coverage definitely has an impact on speed, and it's not like you ever interact with 99% of the map anyway if you pick the biggest size. Though I also have the My Little Planet mod to shrink the actual planet size down too (not just the fraction of planet that has land).

The lack of multi-threading is certainly one of the big pain points in the community, so it's nice to hear that at least some steps are being taken with this update offloading the pawn rendering logic to a second thread (so only 30 of your cores will be sitting idle, instead of 31. )

(For the record, 64 GB of RAM is utterly overkill for the game without any mods; I'm running about 550 mods, including a bunch of the large Vanilla Expanded ones, in 24 GB of RAM.)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guyit means the game's locale is based on a real star system

It's a fairly famous one as these things go – seven planets in resonant orbits around a red dwarf, with up to four of them being in the right temperature range for liquid water on their surfaces. Wikipedia notes:

QuoteExoplanets are often featured in science-fiction works; books, comics and video games have featured the TRAPPIST-1 system, the earliest being The Terminator, a short story by Swiss author Laurence Suhner published in the academic journal that announced the system's discovery.[333] At least one conference was organised to recognise works of fiction featuring TRAPPIST-1.[334]

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QuoteAn exact release date wasn't given, it was just said the release date is "is in one month".

It's gotta be during the solar eclipse next month, the new main menu art even shows an eclipse in progress. If it isn't I will be very unhappy with Tynan.

And finally, wall lights in vanilla! That was on track to becoming the "I never play with mods, but of course I'm using X mod" mod.

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Non-gestalt machine empires‽‽ 😯 Finally!

Oh, and a new Crisis sounds pretty neat too. And more origins are always fun.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyDash it! I thought "Whoa, a game about space monks!" but no, the star system is just called Trappist. Major letdown.

The system is named from the survey, Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST), which is named after the traditional beer from the monks.

Looks pretty interesting from a quick glance at the video, I'll have to check it out when I get time.

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That's nice of them to add that option in for screenshots.

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Quoting: Slayer5934This could actually be the start of something worse, like steam and open source taking a reputation hit.

Steam, maybe (though I personally doubt it), but how would anyone connect this to open source? Steam isn't open source. It wasn't even a security issue, just bad actors abusing normal functionality in unforeseen ways (though hopefully the fact that it happened will cause Valve to make some changes to prevent it happening again).

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