A member of the Reform party - a party whose every principle, tenet, and policy is based on pure unadulterated racism - said and/or did something racist?

That’s not a hot take, that’s empirical fact: https://lifehacker.com/this-chart-shows-how-computer-literate-most-people-are-1789761598

The only option now is to slap an Intel Inside® sticker on your forehead and wait to be backdoored by three-letter agencies. My condolences to you and your back door.

It’s so good for more reasons than just being able to use other mods safely! It’s really nice being able to transition between areas without having to resummon, how some progression/unlocks are shared, and that all connected players get to use Torrent and spirit ashes.

I dunno man, the trumpets still buy whatever shit he shovels out and they don’t seem to have caught on that he’s a scammer yet…

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I love your background!

I’m buying this partly because it looks really good, and partly because ThePruld is the cinematic director and that motherfucker is a genius. If anyone has played Dark Souls and not seen We Are The Souls, I can’t recommend it enough. Also check out his other animations, they’re much sillier and the frantic Italian just makes it better.

This news, from January 2024? https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-and-darker-dev-claims-nexons-preliminary-injunction-has-been-dismissed-court-rules-that-the-game-cannot-be-considered-an-infringement-of-nexons-copyright-or-trade-secret/

First reported by TheGamer, a member of Dark and Darker developer Ironmace has stated on the game’s Discord that they have achieved an early victory in staving off Maplestory publisher Nexon’s copyright lawsuit, with a South Korean court dismissing the publisher’s preliminary injunction.

I have to ask, because you didn’t bother to link it and I also had not read the news. Which, believe it or not, isn’t a personal failing.

Hate is a pretty strong emotion. Why do you hate Linus?

If you’re okay with much older titles, Master of Orion 2 has been my go-to 4X for 30 years. It holds up really well.

If you want something a little newer and absolutely brilliant, and you don’t mind sacrificing some 4X for some RPG, you could try Starsector: https://fractalsoftworks.com

Neither of these are particularly similar to the Total War games, though, in case that’s a deal breaker.

“For fun” and “funny” are different things, though. I’ve turned down loads of offers to run marathons from friends who do it for fun.

Ah-ah, now hold on there. Not “dude” - one. One is far too sophisticated and intelligent to sully one’s filigreed tongue with such drab and pedestrian nomenclature as “dude”, as evidenced by the robust vocabulary on prominent display in this most considered - might one even posit, scholastic - query.

That’s because you’re used to convoluted and this is convolucated. Get 👏 edumacated 👏

Eh, I still wouldn’t call it a scam. Words have meaning and scams are intentional; this team just couldn’t do what they thought they could, and made a mediocre version of what they had planned. Game development is hard. I’ve tried to get started on simple little projects in UE and Unity a couple times, and the furthest I got was a model that could run and jump on an endless procedural landscape (before the game crashed because the map got too big I mean).

So yeah, absolutely call it a bad purchase, but I don’t think it’s fair to say they were out to “scam” anyone. We got a game, and it wasn’t even truly terrible - way better than that Gollum “RPG” for example - it just didn’t live up to the hype, and better games in the genre exist like Grim Dawn, Last Epoch, PoE, etc.

Welp, I backed the wrong horse there. Shoulda bought Last Epoch instead. Or just kept playing Grim Dawn, that game is fifteen years old and still supported by the devs.

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Any relation? 🤔

Don’t you hate it when you reach for a napkin but then your hand gets stuck to the dispenser and you watch in horror as the sides of the dispenser morph into tentacles that reach out and mercilessly beat you into bloody mush - or they would, if it were a full-sized mimic, but instead the angry lil guy can only pitter-pat against your wrist and you’re all like

Nyawww, lil napkin mimic, so angry and vish! But bro I kinda need my hands back now

So you pat and stroke the napkin mimic until it calms down and even lets you take a napkin like you wanted?

Tell you what: you go host that instance, with no pearl-clutching. Don’t worry about any knocks at the door, or federal agents abseiling through your windows. You don’t clutch no pearls, right?

And Nova just got a big update, too! I’ve been using this launcher for almost 12 years across every device I own, and I got the “Nova Launcher Prime” license for like $0.25 in some sale back in 2012. Probably the best-value app purchase I’ve ever made.