I don’t know why it isn’t more common to open source really old games.

You don’t have to give away the assets. ID gave away the source to Doom and Quake and people can still play them now. Yet here we are, 20 years later, and they’re about the only studio that ever bothered.

2GW coal plant (the last in Britain) near me got shut down late last year.

So it’s some at least.

As an added bonus my hayfever hasn’t been anywhere near as bad since they closed it.

That’s because whenever you put them in the car, they’re going to the cattery or the vet.

They’re not like dogs where they might go to the park.

Nothing good comes from car rides for cats.

At school we had a thing where if your ring finger was longer than your index finger then it meant you were a bummer. Never mind the fact that you can change that with slight angling of the hand.

This is what those kids are doing now.

Hey girl, are you a bergenia pacifica?

Because you’re a fucking Russian plant.

Ask them if they’d rather pay for the child to be taken in to care.

Because like $3 a day of food is a fuck of a lot cheaper than actually taking responsibility for them by removing them from an unsuitable home.

The New King Trump I edition will.

Glen Powell.

It’s like he was designed by a committee to make the most generic movie star white man imaginable.

He makes me want to buy a rape alarm, and I’m a man.

I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was revealed to not actually exist, and is in fact 100% CGI.

Gal is a terrible actress.

Like, a whole island full of warrior women had to put on an Israeli accent because she can’t do anything else.

I realised this when I took money out of a cash machine in Tenerife.

It shows you an exchange rate and a prompt to accept. If you press yes, you get scammed with a crap rate. It’s not really clear that if you press no you still get money but at your bank exchange rate which is almost certainly better than a scummy airport ATM.

I guess it’s nice that you get scammed right out of the gate, because at least it puts you on guard for the rest of your holiday. Fuck that whole island tbh.

I played Midnight Resistance and RoboCop on the Spectrum constantly. Initially with Pokes for infinite lives and shit, but by the end I could sail through both and barely take a hit.

I had a black and white version of this.

All the games were basically the same apart from the target shooting game.

Whaaaaat? This isn’t what Jesus would have wanted!

Greed 4:19 “You get your own fish and loaves. I paid for this. I can throw it on the floor if I want. Suck it up libtards!”

I mean, it’s probably not safe in a crash at highway speeds (if it can even reach those speeds), but then neither are motorbikes and we allow those…

It’s got to be better for the environment and wallet than those stupid Ford monster trucks. Especially since these would only attract people who actually need to carry large amounts of stuff about, rather than those who once needed to transport a fridge four years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri.

@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world

I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux’d on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don’t really read much about games before I play them.

I’m glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I’ll trust their decision to drop that.

There’s enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I’d have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.

I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We’ve heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is “the shops shut at night”. And here it didn’t even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.

I think I’ve had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.

Patches mean we’re no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they’re certainly remembered that way.

Here’s what I don’t get about every Chinese item on Amazon:

Why the terrible photoshop?

You’ve got a product. You make it. It’s cheap crap, sure, but so are most established brands at this point. You probably make them in the same factory.

And surely somebody who works for you isn’t a grotesquely ugly freak and could just hold the item, or otherwise use it as intended.

But no, everything from digital cameras to sticking plasters is slapped over the top of a bit of stock photography taken at an entirely different angle and lighting conditions to the one you took of the product.

Man, fuck all those guys for doing their job to a sufficient quality and quantity to not get fired, eh?

I’m not sure what most people were expecting but I finally got around to playing the GOTY edition recently.

I got a game with great characters, writing and story, slightly average gameplay, all shackled to a bizarre open world that completely destroys any pacing and urgency. It really did not need all those fixers and like 150 police mini missions, which detract from it all in a major way.

Having also played Witcher 3, that’s kind of what I was expecting, I guess. I genuinely think CDPR should abandon their open world ideas, because they’re excellent at story telling, but really bad at filler bullshit.

Phantom Liberty ups the package to a flawed masterpiece.