What I’m hearing is that Sonic and Mario are going to sometimes render with a full set of five fingers (since AI often randomly adds extra fingers)…

Great game. It’s like Slay the Spire with more pizzazz.

Because I have my entire extensive library on steam, I’m kind of stuck with them. And while they are not abusing that presently, I’m fairly confident they will someday.

Yeah. I am confident that long term access to classic games is a torch only sufficiently carried by software pirates.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore things like the Atari 50th Anniversary collection, and what Evercade is doing with esoteric arcade titles. (And I delight in throwing money at them.)

But only a small fraction of the greatest games get that kind of loving licensed treatment.

For the rest of gaming history, software pirates are essential.

An important and timely warning that will probably go unheeded.

Powerful people sucking at tech is one of the ways we get a different batch of powerful people who suck at tech.

Good point. Most people suck.

I do miss the goofballs from my old WoW server though. They were pretty great.

Oof.

“The COVID-19 pandemic made team stability difficult,”

Makes me suspect they were woefully behind the rest of the field in development practices. My team, and many others, gained productivity when all the wasteful manager ego stroking in-person meetings stopped.

Alternately, it tells us they rely on a weird dev kit with a lot of esoteric hardware. Though I would still call that out as being super out of date. Nothing is particularly hard to emulate today, for teams that prioritize having rebuildable test environmenta.

Just wild.

Bummer about the layoffs. Probably won’t fix their agility problem, though.

“Smart as paint, ye are lads! Smart as paint!” - Long John Silver

“He’s got one leg, Jim! Count 'em: … … One …”

I’m still playing endless Luanti while waiting for Guild Wars 2 to get SteamDeck verified.

Edit: Downvoter can’t handle that Luanti is an MMO, now. I can’t help that I’m the world’s most accomplished self-hoster. (This is sarcasm, humorously implying that I’m hosting the world’s biggest Luanti instance, such that it qualifies as “massively multiplayer”. Which one might almost believe if they read my post history… I’m pretty active in both the Luanti and self-hosting communities.)

The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.

Ha. I suppose that counts!

“Dwarf” getting added as a category was a publicity stunt write in campaign by Deep Rock Galactic players, if I recall correctly.

There’s not a ton of games with the tag, but both DRG and Dwarf Fortress tend to get a lot of play hours by their players, I think.

I kind of get that. I stopped buying PlayStations when the PS3 was so hard to get, for so long.

I’ve loved every PlayStation I’ve owned.

I’m not sure this tells us much, since the first buyers are usually the ones who don’t care what it costs.

The big question is how long can it maintain the higher price, once the enthusiasts all have theirs.

I’m no pirate, but if I was, I would pirate Mass Effect 3.

It’s definitely one of the titles that makes me feel like EA is handing out eye patches.

Am I misunderstanding that it’s single player?

Why in the world can’t I just give them some cash and get to play it offline without spyware?!

I know who will let me play Mass Effect 3 offline without spyware.

And they be good hearted folk, once ye get to know 'em. Aye!

It’s surprisingly capable hardware.

I know, right?! It keeps surprising me, in a nice way.

A “real answer” is rarely as credible as an article with quotes including time and place, as well as citing statistics and peer reviewed studies.

Depends what kind of learning is needed. Fixing a car, I have found rando-on-the-Internet to be a far more effective resource, than peer reviewed sanitized but irrelevant information.

Different tools for different needs, and all that.

People are even writing entire fanfictions about current events to fit their narrative.

Impossible!

(This is sarcasm, meant to purposefully demonstrate your point.)

That makes sense.

I gotta say, the SteamDeck has been a weird journey. I’m playing a lot more high graphics titles now that I can just quickly check for a ‘SteamDeck Verified’ badge.

On the one hand, mine is a first generation portable, so there’s a lot of games it is never going to run.

On the other, it keeps surprising me what gets ported to it.

Nice. An effective union is probably the only thing that will bring me back to shopping for AAA titles again, so this seems like a win for everyone.

This does not address the searchability issue

Search will always be a challenge, but my understanding is that WordPress is as well or better optimized for search than any thing else that exists.

or the complexity and cost of self hosting.

WordPress is the single most hosted app in existence, I think.

I want less friction for the user who is only focused on publishing and does not care much to own their infrastructure.

You just described WordPress.

Edit: I don’t even like WordPress. Lol. But I still think you’re dismissing a likely 80% or better solution to your problem, if you don’t look into WordPress.

For creating an RSS feed, WordPress will certainly get the job done.

FFVII on SteamDeck maybe? I would probably play that.