Kobolds with a keyboard.
Elder Scrolls games by and large suck out of the box. The prolific mod community is what makes them worth buying / playing. I’ve got a few hundred hours in Skyrim and I’ve never actually finished the main storyline. Don’t know how it ends, don’t care.
Mistborn books 1-3 would make an absolutely fantastic 3-season show.
He did at least once; he streamed it and had no idea how to play the game, spent hours in silence being heckled by chat.
He should make it interesting. Pledge, say, 300 billion to a number of humanitarian charities if he doesn’t succeed in making a highly reviewed AI game in 2026. Put it in an escrow account in the meantime.
Personally, I prefer your last case. I put comments before my functions that explain in plain text what the function is doing, e.g. “If the widget is vibrating, do X; otherwise, do Y”. If the function is particularly complex, I’ll put more comments inside it that explain how it’s accomplishing that, but I like being able to just see at a glance a summary of the function’s… function, without scanning the whole thing for comments. It’s like the index of a book. You quickly scan to find the page with the thing you’re interested, then you read that page in detail.
…which makes it so baffling. They could buy a lot of goodwill if they just made the store more consumer-focused, even if they earned less from it in the process. But no, they have to just commit whole hog to just being the worst.
Spyware cum!
Alternately, you’re playing an RPG, and you’ve reached an emotional climax. Mid-cutscene while a character is delivering a gut-wrenching dialog, an ad for Raid Shadow Legends fills your screen.
Hard no-thanks from me, but I could see this maybe being a viable option for folks who just can’t afford to buy games which, given the state of everything, might be a growing percentage of the population.
There’s problematic cases like information on active spies (for example) that would make it hard to remove it entirely, but I agree with you that it could / should be drastically reduced. Obviously this is coming from someone without top secret clearance so I really have no idea how damaging unredacting everything suddenly would be, but there have been many cases where things were redacted or classified purely because it would make the government look bad if it were released, and that, in my opinion, is bullshit. That should be public knowledge.
Okay, I wasn’t aware that I had to tailor my comment to be consumed by extreme pedants. Allow me to revise my statement:
“This should apply to everything that’s created for public consumption, not only software.”
I would have thought that would be implied, but I guess not. Should I explicitly state that it also doesn’t apply to military hardware, or can we just accept that a certain degree of reasonableness must be applied, given this is an internet forum, not a legal document?
This should apply to everything, not only software. If it’s funded by taxes, it should be freely available to everyone (or provided at cost, depending on the thing in question).
unbugged 1.0 launch
Based on recent Steam reviews, it seems to actually be pretty buggy, and the Mixed review score doesn’t bode well for it anyway.
I wouldn’t have beaten the ‘true’ final boss without them. No way in hell.
Nine Sols did this perfectly. It’s another very hard metroidvania, but it has some options you can enable if you want to that adjust the difficulty in a variety of very tangible ways. I wish that was standard.
It really wouldn’t take much. Just some accessibility options to address some of the most punishing mechanics would do it. Would be great if mods solved this.
The high points of the game are very good. The low points ruin it, in my opinion. I get that frustration might be fun for some people, but I find it discouraging and I don’t feel like Silksong wants me to be successful. It feels like it wants me to feel frustrated and angry, and that’s not an experience I want to have. I doubt I’ll finish the game, which sucks, because I loved Hollow Knight, and I love the parts of Silksong that aren’t just making me mad.
Fun fact: It’s actually possible for two countries to both be authoritarian!
Having never heard of that show, I clicked that link fully expecting a horrible TV adaptation of the SNES era fighting game, and was wholly disappointed.
I know nothing about the situation that resulted in the ban and won’t comment on it, but based purely on your attitude and rhetoric in this post, I’m inclined to think that it was warranted and that, honestly, we’re probably better off without you.