Ten years of early retirement is probably enough time to refuel his interest in creating

2-4 depending on the mood. Could go higher but then games would take too long to finish

Nothing, maintaining a library like that would be too much work. 95% of the time I don’t want to play a game more than once and if my chosen store closes I can ethically pirate it. Or maybe the game will be buyable as a $5 retro game 20 years from now.

I have 100+ digital only games on Switch too. That’s going to shut down at some point but in the future you’ll be able to download NS1.zip in ten minutes and it’ll have the entire library. So why worry about it now? Once the switch console batteries all start degrading PC emulation will be the default anyway.

Just don’t buy anything with zombies or realistic gray/brown graphics? Why is this difficult

Very interesting observation, I think you’re right here. I don’t think they need to be sub systems but it does look like a trend now.

They’ve gone in a circle back to dictatorship so it doesn’t really matter

Chinese internet users are overly sensitive

No it’d get flooded with “2 dollars” or “free”

“AI, how do I do <obscure thing> in <complex programming framework>”

“Here is some <language> code. Please fix any errors: <paste code here>”

These save me hours of work on a regular basis and I don’t even use the paid tier of ChatGPT for it. Especially the first one because I used to read half the documentation to answer that question. Results are accurate 80% of the time, and the other 20% is close enough that I can fix it in a few minutes. I’m not in an obscure AI related field, any programmer can benefit from stuff like this.

Compare Llama 1 to the current state of the art local AI’s. They’re on a completely different level.

From the article:

“It was pretty much done, it was in final [quality assurance testing],” Free Radical founder and former studio director Steve Ellis told GamesIndustry.biz in 2012. “It had been in final QA for half of 2008, it was just being fixed for release. LucasArts’ opinion is that when you launch a game you have to spend big on the marketing, and they’re right. But at that time they were, for whatever reason, unable to commit to spending big. They effectively canned a game that was finished.”

I’m wondering if we’re in the process of seeing the parties flip tbh. It seems like D’s are becoming more conservative and R’s are now trying to make systemic changes. Granted it’s not a perfect flip and R-progressiveness is more like going backwards at times (abortion) but things feel weird now.

• D: Trying to maintain (aka conserve) the status quo. Haven’t been truly progressive for decades. Doesn’t seem to have learned anything from losing in 2024.
• R: Got suddenly forced into populism by Trump’s surprise win and staying power. Their status quo rich politicians are all being forced out. “Anti-Elites” and big chaotic changes are now their calling cards.

If R’s realize that voters will strongly support them for attacking the rich, it might happen imo.

The one poll I’ve seen about him was from a “company” that was created a few days before the poll released

That article is 10x longer than it needed to be, in a good way. They must have sent out emails to EVERYONE.

Whenever you see hardcore fans say “this obscure low budget game is the actually the greatest of all time”, chances are it’s just bad. TQ is one of those games. I played it this year (all expacs) because of the hype and it was not a good use of my time.

T3 was supposed to be a microtransaction trash game. They changed their minds during development but it came out weird/bad as a result.

I want it so much but

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.

Yes

Yeah you’re right

That’s how awards work lmao. 5 losers, one winner