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Wasn’t the entire point of not using “Windows 9” branding and instead going straight to “Windows 10” from 8 that they didn’t want the last version of Windows to be 9, that they preferred a nice round number.

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Isn’t there a Black Mirror episode of this

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What’s an example of an upgrade in another similar game that enables a “weird” build?

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I’m not a DRG superfan and didn’t expect to enjoy this, but the progression feels very solid and it’s a lot of fun. Surprisingly addictive.

While it’s not DRG, it feels extremely faithful to the original game and doesn’t have that “too-vampire-survivorsish” feel that some of these games suffer from.

I can’t really pin down what makes it so playable - my best guess is the pacing of the upgrades and the mix of the 4 classes feels like it’s just right. Tunnelling through walls (and the mining speed upgrades) is also a particularly interesting mechanic.

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Can I play devil’s advocate a little bit here, because I was really unaware that this ever worked for anything except indie artists on Bandcamp. So Bandcamp works for them or for discovering new music obviously.

I didn’t know artists ever sold digital music on their websites, but that does make sense, so I checked - if I google Taylor Swift and go to her website, there it is, digital music purchase. Great.

I went to U2’s website, and the only music I can buy there is vinyl. I don’t want vinyl, I want digital. You can buy merch, but I’m after music, not merch. Looking further, there’s all sorts of galleries and information about each album and song, but you still can’t buy the music.

Other mainstream artists I googled didn’t even go that far. Googling them brought up a wikipedia link, social media links, tours. All stuff I don’t want. Now your list has “contact artist via social media” - setting aside the fact that it’s unlikely a popular mainstream artist will even reply to anyone at all about anything, this is a real point of friction. I don’t want to have to contact an artist to find out some alternative way to get their music. If I’m buying something online, there needs to be some way to buy it online and ready to go. If we have to wait a couple of days or weeks for a reply that may or may not come - the process failed.

If I had to guess, they would probably say something like “it’s on spotify”.

So yes it probably is a supplier problem, but it seems to me that this is happening for the majority of popular artists if a majority of music people like is mainstream. I assume if you like the majority of indie music then that’s probably not the case.

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Can anyone use this? Right now?

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This is an old message I only just noticed, but maybe that’s better anyway…

…because my ChatGPT app is up to date and doesn’t have a headphone icon to the right of the text box. There’s a soundwave icon that lets me use speech to text, but that’s not what this is.

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I don’t know if I was blind the other day or if it wasn’t there, but the headphone icon is definitely there now. Cheers!

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per month

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The event is a celebration - why would they bring up layoffs?

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HotS isn’t really dead - you can play it now and it feels as good as ever. We all want to see continued balance patches and more cosmetics and heroes and maps but the fact is that it already feels balanced and has enough cosmetics and enough heroes and enough maps.

That’s not to say we won’t love more or that we may as well stop playing it, but the real question you’re asking here is if the game is dead - it is not dead, and therefore won’t “return”. You just load it up, pick a hero, click Ready - and it’s “returned”.

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why would you pick Zelda 1 over Zelda 2 if you think 2 is more fun

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But couldn’t you go to where the alternative dungeon’s keys are, get those and come back to get the earlier dungeon’s item that way?

I can’t see how you can softlock?

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Do you have discord open on your desktop PC?

10+ minutes sounds like about the amount of time it takes for discord to recognise you’re away (ie. auto-away status). If it thinks you’re there (ie. online status), then it shouldn’t be also pinging your phone. It’s the same as when you have discord on your phone and open and it doesn’t ping you with every message while you’re already looking at it.

I just had a look at Matrix and it seems that the settings let you choose between Off/On/Noisy. Apps like whatsapp default and keep you stuck on “Noisy”.

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They ban everyone who attempt to use a custom client?

I’ve been using Betterdiscord for years and have never been banned. Matrix looks good, but I don’t think you’re selling it well by throwing Discord under the bus without some very clear and obvious justification - nobody will be inclined to believe you.

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Why doesn’t Matrix just call “spaces” servers? By calling them spaces, they have created a learning curve for no reason.

Even just saying you have to download a client called Element to access Matrix is not intuitive. To access Discord, you download a client called Discord.

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I just signed up and tried to figure out how to join any remotely interesting community. There were none.

There were a bunch of public communities - not many - and I think the most interesting ones in the public room list were either Element Android, Telegram, and Rust. And Rust is one of my most hated games that I wish I’d refunded.

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They created the “inbox” button on the desktop client because when you’re in a ton of servers, finding where the notification was a big pain point. The notifications tab covers the same thing for the app, and it’s very readily accessible now. I think before the update it still took about 3 taps to get to the “Inbox”, and only then if you knew where it was hiding.

GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)

While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.

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High quantity, low quality?

Maybe video games should be priced at value per hour

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

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I don’t know if I want to be punished for doing well

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Boomer’s Adventure in ASMIK World

Gameplay

Review & Explanation

I never figured out why they gave the world such a weird name, or didn’t just call it Boomer’s Adventure

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It’s a full remake, not like a port or a rom

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Contraband Police - it’s like Papers Please, but since it’s in first person, it’s more complex - you have to manage the whole border crossing area with the few staff you have, you have a car that you have to manually drive to a supply shop and to drop prisoners and contraband off at, and you can get ambushed along the way or at your base, where you’re manually be shooting at smugglers with guns you buy.

Shadows of Doubt - A game where you play as a detective in a city and you have to solve cases (sometimes murders) and often end up committing crimes yourself along the way. A lot of cases solved used by matching faces to names to fingerprints to voices to jobs to blood type, eye colour, hair colour, age, and so on. Extremely addictive and often hilarious, despite how buggy this early access game is.

Dicey Dungeons - A roguelike deckbuilder with 6 different classes where you roll dice against cards with different effects and your enemy does the same to you. I don’t love roguelikes and really don’t like deck games but this one is really appealing, and has a great soundtrack. The different classes play through a LOT of different “episodes” where the rules of the game change.

also playing a lot of Heroes of the Storm every goddamn night

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Is paint 3d actually any good?

I had such a hard time using it for basic things that I’d look for wherever they’d hidden away traditional paint instead.

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OK which distro should we use

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Yeah I don’t get it. Did microsoft say they would stop forcing edge on users?

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From taskbar settings, they removed “Never” combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons.

Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can’t do that in W11 without a third party patcher.

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Wanting good usability isn’t petty

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Do yourself a favour and get Bitwarden or similar. Browser password managers are way too vulnerable.

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Er, what’s a modern anti chat game

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Is Tom Holland now better known for Uncharted rather than Spiderman?

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake. My god, what a disaster over the original.

I can’t bring myself to continue it even though (I think?) I’m half way through the game, because while the Sector 5 reactor in the original is, by good game design standards, just a replica of the Sector 7 reactor with less going on - since you’ve already done the same thing earlier on, in Remake they decided to make it an enormous labyrinth that you can’t find your way out of, just because. I guess they needed to extend the playtime.

That’s just one of many, many things wrong with the game despite an amazing original, but it’s the spot that completely prevents me from loading it up again to continue on. I went and started a new game in the original instead, just to be sure it wasn’t the nostalgia glasses talking. It wasn’t.

But I guess it looks really pretty.

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I didn’t follow TOS and can’t follow what’s going on with the Gorn in SNW.

It seems really strange because every SNW episode has been episodic and they’ve been such great episodes, that now they’ve gone back between episode 1 and episode 10 with this Gorn arc, it’s souring the show for me.

Like maybe if this made more sense to me, fine, but can we go back to Spock and Chapel and T’Pring all dealing with their we-can’t-do-this relationship and Erica wanting to get out of the pilot’s seat for a while, and La’an dealing with a past and a relationship she’s forbidden to talk about, and M’Benga trying to deal with a dark past, and Uhura learning she’s more than she thinks she is… all that great stuff one episode at a time and then why not an episode perfectly mixed in with a musical as the penultimate episode to the season finale.

Oh, and by the way the Gorn are back so I guess there’s a new big uninteresting threat that Pike and the crew have to deal with to finish things off… OK. But why?

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I love SNW and greatly dislike Lower Decks, so it was pretty enjoyable for me when the crossover episode happened and the crew of the SNW all looked at the Lower Decks crew with expressions on their faces in the same way I thought of them, throughout the entire episode

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Just like real friendship.

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When does Chrono Trigger really start to get good? I’ve tried to play it a few times but it never fully holds me.

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This broad ain’t playin’ with a full deck!

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So that Sisko could do a song with him as a little icing on the DS9 cake

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Can you ELI5? I’m reading the comments and still not comprehending what’s going on here.

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