God yeah, what a frustrating sentiment to see. Very common among people who won’t give the fediverse any modicum of good faith engagement. “This is different from what people are used to and is therefore bad” instead of understanding that maybe there’s a reason it’s built that way.

I always like to say the fruits of FOSS labour are the common heritage of mankind. It belongs to all of us as a public good, created and maintained by selfless workers. (Nevermind the fact that most FOSS projects are based out of Europe anyways).

My shortlist is probably WipEout Pulse (I love how that entire series feels like a game made out of electronic music, the same way Doom is made out of metal), WipEout 2048 (for the same reason, but I played it even more), Forza Motorsport 2 (cuz it had a huge influence on my taste at a very young age), and then maybe Gran Turismo 5?

I really haven’t understood the reactions I’ve seen to the game. To me it’s a really tight, interwoven, streamlined action-RPG that checks so many boxes for me that other games haven’t tried to touch for years. 9/10 from me personally. It’s been wild seeing the incredibly lukewarm reaction everywhere else.

I’m in love with it, it feels like it was made just for me. Like a combo of Skyrim and Fable II. Not everyone feels the same though.

Womp womp.

As a sidenote, I’m very impressed by how much Avowed is reminding me of some of my favourite memories playing Fable I and II back in the day. It feels like the same sort of action RPG, with the blending of swords, bows/guns, and magic. Certainly an unexpected treat, given the more obvious Skyrim comparisons that game has been getting.

I think it’s very interesting to note that mainstream consoles like the Switch or PS5 have massive ad campaigns behind them, expensive television spots, and a constant churn of new exclusives that they’re using to keep themselves in the conversation. The Steam Deck certainly had an ad campaign, but it feels impressive to me that they managed to make those numbers happen mostly just through throwing up an announcement on the Steam front page and then having it review well once it found its way into critics’ hands.

I’m genuinely kinda obsessed with it right now. Feel like they made a special one just for me. A perfect mix of my two childhood RPG favourites: Skyrim and Fable II.

You don’t need a study to tell you that, GothamChess makes tons of content off of ChatGPT playing chess and outright spawning rooks over and over

It certainly has launched in a poor state with missing features, especially baseline things like hotkeys, game settings, etc. But I can tell that even with what I’ve played so far it clearly has some brilliant gameplay changes under the hood that could propel it to being one of the most mechanically polished Civ games in the series after a year or two of updates and expansions.

I love the eras system for providing a clear chunking of gameplay time as you go through it instead of one massive and unwieldy playthrough. I love the addition of army commanders and the removal of builders. There’s so many small tweaks to things that make them finally feel like the ideal version of each gameplay system to me; things function in the way that I think I imagined them functioning when I first played Civ IV all those years ago.

But again, they should be well criticized for the state of the launch, and 2K’s greed with regards to the clear plans to sell more leaders and civs as DLC.

Finally the live service bubble is popping.
I hope the developers working on these projects get put on to something else, instead of shown the door as is so often the case.

Uptime: 26d 17h 44m

I was saying death to Windows.

A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it’s trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.

I think all I really want is something shaped like this with a keyboard, like an old Blackberry that could be used as a terminal.

Hell, in Canada they don’t care at all either.

Just bought Riven, I’m liking it quite a lot so far. I see why it’s a classic. Love the feeling of being dropped into a completely alien world.

Damn this thread really makes me feel like a minority, but I prefer GNOME! It comes useful out of the box, sane defaults, easy to extend without ripping out the soul of how it functions. Best of all it has a new and interesting direction for the desktop UI rather than just copying Windows. It has some original ideas that really serve it well.

I’ve found that sorting by New Comments is the best way to have a steady stream of interesting stuff on my feed at any given time.

Hope it turns out well, the announcement trailer was a wicked vision of a wild artistic and sonic direction, but it seems like the actual development process has been quite troubled.

I’m very intrigued, Dan Sup is one of the most interesting people working in the fediverse these days, and I’m very curious about anything he puts forward.