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Its dominance was really established with the glorious LinuxCon WorldWide 2021

lol that’s how I approach turn based rpgs, using items is admitting defeat

Anybody who’s ever played a classic Resident Evil-style game knows the feeling of getting to the final monster with all the hoarded ammo for your ultimate weapon (magnum/hunting rifle/flare gun/whatever)… Only for the monster to die in like at most a single-stack of shots because it turns out that the “ultimate lifeform” is weaker than a moderately sized car -_-

In about 2 years it will drop into the 300s and people will tell you not to buy the 8600XT because it can’t compete with the 7700XT

This is so true it hurts at a physical level lmao

must’ve been a shock

ooooh ok! interesting, good to know thanks

huh what sorry I spaced out for a sec what did you say

Oh I didn’t mean disrespect against it, it is just the first school-soundy thing that came to mind.

With that said I I will admit I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head what trigonometry actually is.

If they wanted me to follow some rules that I’m apparently expected to know to make everyone comfortable, maybe they should’ve taught me that in school instead of trigonometry -_-

A 100%, some of the things that you hear from the industry are crazy. If you offered me twice my current salary to be a developer in the AAA videogame industry, I wouldn’t take it.

trying

That’s the keyword right there. Everyone wants to phase mainframe shenanigans out until they get told about the investments necessary to do it, then they are happy to just survive with it.

I’m currently at a company that’s actually trying it and it’s being a pain

They are offering me a ~40% raise to be in a 50/50 system and I’m considering taking it so… Apparently, that.

The only correct dimensions for pants are the dimensions that allow you to steal a second pair of pants underneath them

mid 90s to mid 2000s style was the peak I won’t hear otherwise

I have to agree with this, for certain games limiting the saves is the correct answer honestly.

Something like the Fear and Hunger series wouldn’t work as well with unlimited saves anywhere because a large part of the appeal is to have to struggle and power through horrible conditions, that would be lost if you could reload every time one of your pals got their arm cut off in a fight and stuff like that

That’s a decently long list lol, Medieval 2, Rome 1, Rome 2, Attila, Napoleon, Shogun 2 sorta… (I don’t dislike the ones not listed, I just vibe less with them)

If you count mods and expansions, the list gets much larger, Medieval 2 Kingdoms, Empire Divided, Age of Charlemagne, The Great War, Divide Et Impera, 1212, 1100, The Third Age… And there are even more that have piqued my interest but haven’t had a chance to play.

Aaaah it’s such a rich series!

For me, it’s any of the Total War games I like, or Battlefield 1, or Left 4 Dead 2, or any From Soulslike.

I like to call them evergreen games, because I’m a total snob. The kinds of games that you can always go back to no matter how long it’s been, that you always know how to play by instinct at this point, that always entertain, feel weirdly comfy and make for great choices when you don’t know what you wanna do. God bless them.

Frustratingly, yeah, by a lot. Anyone who put money into a non-renewable energy etf at the lowest point of their prices in 2020 would have more than 2.5x their money by now.

For me, the main concern is that Epic doesn’t have a system of purchasable keys, even after all these years. Most stores in PC have had a system with keys that has allowed users to purchase games from 3d party sites such as GreenManGaming and the like. That system has been one of the key reasons why prices have stayed in check in the platform, and why cool stuff like HumbleBundles exists.

Without this kind of system, every time a game is exclusive to the Epic platform, it, in effect, has a single price point with no possible competition or alternative, which is no different than a console ecosystem… And a lot of the pricing on those is not great, to say the least.

Until they have that, supporting the growth and consolidation of that store would be potentially shooting myself in the foot as a consumer.

EDIT - Turns out, I had my info somewhat outdated, this was introduced at some point recently, at least with some retailers.

However, on second check it doesn’t apply to games with Epic Store exclusivity, apparently (or at least the ones I’ve checked). It seems to only apply to games that are not exclusive. So concern still valid, unfortunately.

If someone has more info about it I’d love to hear it because it looks unclear at the moment.