They are reportedly working on it and fairly confident they can optimize it well enough to run standalone.

Don’t forget the common colloquial “I’m 14”.

The soundtrack is absolutely golden. It’s truly one of the greatest games ever made.

My retro slanted suggestions:

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters is one of the greatest games of all time and it’s free. There’s a Steam version, but I think you lose a few of the original music tracks in exchange for easier management. They’re also crowdsourcing a sequel, about 30 years later.

https://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

I’d also recommend UFO 50. It’s a treasure trove.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/

I’ll also let others claim the keys but you’re a good egg for doing this! Some really decent games in there!

I think it’s more about tsunamis of content now. Graphics have been on a track of diminishing returns for ages now. Today it’s all about generating hundreds of skins, weapons, badges, hats, drops, whatever. It would explain why everybody’s salivating over generative AI.

Right. I’m not saying anything like “Steam must allow all content because free speech” - I’m just saying if someone is trying to make a game with complex or even weird themes, Valve should at least participate in a conversation instead of dealing out irrevocable absolute judgments based on content that isn’t even finished.

I think I read a different article because there are some key factors here:

1. (not super important but overlooked here) The “horse” is a woman
2. (definitely important) The scene was only an unfinished scene still being worked out
3. Valve has given no recourse or appeals process despite good faith efforts

I’m not trying to trash Valve, and FUCK child abuse, but I definitely think Valve should have handled this more fairly. Given the established premise of the game, I don’t think the existence of that scene in an unfinished state was a move consistent with “hey let’s make a pedo game”.

Fair enough. It’s got some solid spectacle so I’d be down for a big screen rerelease. Pity nobody actually liked it enough to warrant one. Oh well.

It does everything it can to improve the book and a lot of those decisions are phenomenal. But it’s still not a good movie. I just love it dearly.

Ready Player One. It’s a terrible movie that adapts a terrible book, but for some reason the vibe just entertains me and makes me feel comfortable. I don’t know either.

Cut a strip of vinyl siding, cardboard, whatever, about two inches wide and eight to ten inches long. Drive a nail through it at the centerline about an inch from the end. Remove the nail. Cut a slit from the nail hole to the end down the centerline.

Now if you need to drive a nail just out of reach or hammer one in without risking your fingers, just stick a nail in the hole, set it with a few strikes, then tug to pull the strip away.

Make sure you have a library card and an account in Libby/Overdrive. Ebooks galore.

What I did was buy a phone-sized e-reader (Bigme Hibreak Color), and use that in combination with some focus mode app blockers to switch my habits during the day from doomscrolling to reading ebooks. I get through so many more books now than I used to and it’s wonderful.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’m a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.

I think they’re pretty much all paired with a phone for a lot of the workload.

I’m curious enough about Brilliant Halo to have preordered one, but my expectations are tempered. It’s a lot like what you described.

There’s open source but not video capable. The Brilliant Labs Halo glasses coming in November are more of an informational companion with a peripheral-view display rather than a field of view overlay. So it’s not what you’re looking for now, but maybe a generation or two later it’ll meet your needs.

No, he actually steals one from them and absorbs its power.

It, unlike this post, is very good. It’s by the guy who made Veep and it’s unbelievable yet disturbingly true to life.

Fun fact: they toned down the medals for this character because it seemed too absurd.