What a solid game and experience. I’ve played through it so many times, and I can’t ever get over Bernard’s voice actor being Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnatti

Antichamber

Serious headfuck of a puzzle game.

Everybody expects Google to become Skynet. I guess SpaceX are going to be the ones to create HAL9000.

If your name is Dave or Frank, don’t become an astronaut right now.

Some games do, some games don’t. It’s a design choice.

Also, Oblivion was released originally in 2007, and Morrowind in 2002. The consoles, game logic, and gfx were a fraction of what modern games can do, a lot of games (most, in fact) back then didn’t have the fancy animations for all directions. There were likely other backend/engine limitations at the time that don’t exist today, because CPU/GPU power.

ETA: as someone who has coded a 3rd person camera and animations in 3D to work in all directions, it really fucking sucks to do in a well-known engine with online search available from others that have done it before. Now imagine having to code everything like that from scratch into a custom game engine, being one of the firsts to figure it out. I’m also gonna guess other bugs were far more important than which direction the character is walking in TPV, being a Bethesda game and all.

Place your bets, when will Starbucks / A Company that uses this method start implementing AI to design the buildings and run the printers? The last part of the article they talk about how this was more expensive than normal, but it “addressed a labor shortage.” Motherfuckers will literally spend twice as much just to not pay a human a living wage.

I will say, I’m running in Desktop mode and using keyboard+mouse. Presumably controller works, but I haven’t actually tried in handheld mode.

GOG version runs great for me. I just installed via Lutris using Proton Experimental, no problems to speak of while playing so far.

See my reply to this user above, but yea don’t bother buying it if you only have the Steam Deck. Cheaper and a better experience to buy the original on GOG.

You always have the option to get a full refund within the first 2 hours of gameplay on Steam though, if you want to see the performance for yourself.

I can confirm, even trying several different combos of optimizer mods, plus running the resolution at 1280x720, it stutters like crazy as soon as you get out of the initial area surrounding the Imperial City and looks like dogshit because of everything at low or lowest.

Baldur’s Gate 3 with almost 100 mods (including optimizers), and similar upscaling settings at 1920x1080 in Desktop mode, runs smoother and looks better on the Steam Deck.

Since the remaster is literally using the same game logic as the original, I ended up just installing the GOG version of the GOTY edition, installed a bunch of mods, and it runs amazing. I don’t think I’m missing much in the way of changes/improvements.

I agree with you. I just think about how some government entities are less-than-efficient when it comes to the customer service thing, and that would probably apply here as well.

Probably also makes a difference if it’s at the state or federal level. Local DMVs in some areas are, well, many jokes exist.

The idea is sound, I think. Treat emails, in a way, like we do phone numbers and house addresses. Except this doesn’t ever change, when your name could (or you share a name with thousands of others). I wonder what the identifier would be for the address? Obviously SSN[at]usa.gov is a bad idea 😅

However, could you imagine the nightmare (on both sides) of a tech support call center for official government email account support?

Unfortunately, the people that still use it are not on Lemmy. They’re still on Twitter.

Some further suggestions I haven’t seen mentioned in all these comments yet, surprisingly:

• Foundation
• Manor Lords
• 0 A.D. (FOSS and impossible to get ripped off, AoE clone)
• shapez / shapez 2 (the first one is only $2)

And maybe a little more casual, but still similar vein as city management:

• Mini Metro
• Mini Motorways

Out of all of these, I think I’ve played Mini Motorways three times as much as the rest, combined. I dunno why, I just love it.

lol, glad I clarified it. I was going to leave it vague and then remembered tables.

Also, yes. Markdown is the shit and I’m glad Lemmy didn’t try to reinvent the wheel!

Nah, Teslas will set themselves on fire with a family inside before it allows something like that to happen.

He forgot to give us the point values…

I wonder what they’ll offer in the Tesla rewards shop

I wonder if we could get EU to take over some states if we got enough votes to secede in some areas.

lmao, valid and true.

Get your placebo and spam sandwich while it’s hot!

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

This is precisely why I asked the question, because I feel the same way.

I do wonder still if there is any way this petition could actually be useful for IA, though. My hopes are not high.

The day has been had, and now I am in the lack of day. However, I am experiencing weighted precipitation.