I cancelled back on the first price hike they did. Just wasn't enough for the handful of times I used it per year. They had me at the point where I kinda didn't care I was paying, but the price hike gave me a wake up call. Since then they've continued to up the prices and I've continued to not give a shit. Netflix originally won me back from bothering to pirate stuff cause it was so good and easy, now the opposite is true in the streaming space.
One of them is no keyboard and mouse support on PC IIRC.
Google screwed up like a lot of companies do. YouTube was never profitable to run. They were just burning through cash to keep the lights on and become the number one video host online.
Internally there became a mandate to try and turn it into a profit making machine and the advertisers caught wind so they stepped in with their demands knowing that they were going to be the source of the profits. This is where the content restrictions started to happen as videos needed to become ad friendly.
I wish YouTube would have figured out another path to help provide the service and pay video creators. At least with Premium you don’t get ads and Sponsor Skip means you don’t see embedded VPN and game sponsors.
The Goblin trader that gets left in the Goblin camp. The way he says "Praise The Absolute" whilst brushing his finger across his nose is so well delivered. Reminds me of a character from a Monty Python sequence.
Mine took almost three weeks. Was sat in customs for days and then out for delivery for three days because my address was labelled incorrectly.
I just got a Q5 Pro myself and use the End key all the time so I reworked the keys and flashed the firmware.
[del] is now [PrnScn]
[pgup] is [del] / [insert] (Using + [fn] key)
[pgdn] is [home] / [pgup]
[home] is [end] / [pgdn]
I'll have to order new keycaps to match, but so far it's felt good to use that way and I find that the only time I mispress is when I look at the keyboard.
Is Floorp the only option for Firefox for removing horizontal tabs? I like the idea of vertical tabs, but only if I can get rid of the horizontal bar and free up that extra screen space.
Anyone got a non-paywalled archive link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzIMIJiCBE
I still say this.
It's already dead, please leave the corpse alone.
It is kinda sad given the legacy of the show, it almost made it to 30 and was the place of so many big industry moments (good and bad). Things have become more spread out now across GamesCom, PAXs, TGS, GDC, Develop and the many I'm forgetting.
I can get the argument that we really don't need much of an in-person event given that stuff can be streamed instantly around the world now, we don't need to rely on people setting up cameras in front of TVs to show off noisy gameplay footage, but the fact that so many others shows still exist proves that there is a want for in-person events.
E3's death kinda came about because it got chipped away from all sides. There were better places for industry deal making to be done (GDC), Big publishers peeled off to do their own thing, and the expensive mark up that hit the other companies no longer appealed as they could get what they needed from PAX and GamesCom.
Also known as toothpaste and chocolate.
5 second penalty felt light give he just took a constructor rival out of the points.
Go to the gym. Running on the treadmill listening to an audiobook is great I can just zone into the book.
First name that came to mind when I saw the thread title. His new Weird Stuff in a Can episode was a fun journey.
Siliconera: Armored Core VI may be the best game FromSoftware has made to date
That statement carries a megaton of weapon-grade weight upon it.
The only genres I didn't see were romcom and court room drama, though maybe I just missed those with all the quick cuts.
Mostly kept away from news about BG3 story because I'm playing it and don't want to be spoiled. Had no idea that there might be "backlash" against Lae'zel. Though I'm not going to read much stock in an article that's just a bunch of tweets compiled together.
Had plenty of RPG characters not to be to my taste in other games, but my complaints usually only come in if there's too many of them within a single game. I kinda want to know there's a range of characters to explore with, shows breadth. Certainly if it were a full palette of whiny brats then I'd probably bounce off the game.
My only complaint so far (and I know there's been posts in this area) is just how fucking horny people seem to be. I'm trying to buddy up with party members and they're taking it as me coming on to them. I feel like I'm walking on egg shells when picking some responses in fear it'll get me shoved into the sex pen with them. I'm also surprised at how fast relationships develop. I'm still in act one and have had 3 or 4 people in my camp express their wishes to bed me. Dudes, we've just met and yer boi has a fucked up STD like wriggler in my eye.
I want to run videos on a second screen, but occasionally I need to check on a document or webpage so I'd like to quickly ALT+TAB to bring up the browser window and have it sit on top of the video screen, then I can minimize the browser once I'm done and the video is still there playing. (I'm doing this right now in reply to your message).
Think of it as an animated/audio desktop background.
I've found a workaround for now using Enhancer for Youtube's pop-out player.
I cancelled my sub after I kept getting bombarded by some Michelle Obama podcast/book thing. Popped up so many times over the course of a week that I just yolo'd out and went with Youtube Premium (which gives Youtube Music as part of the deal).
As the title says, I want to use picture in picture mode but allow other windows to appear on top. I think this used to be a toggle option, but now I don't see it.
I've had a hunt in about:config, but nothing I can see will set it.
Any idea how I might try to fix this? Tried rebooting but no joy. Only affects my main character - but shows anywhere his portrait should be seen: bottom bar, combat turns, party list (see image).
Can you add a custom image?
Launching later this year.
Last year, Digital Eclipse released Atari 50, a sprawling, interactive tour through Atari’s long history. I described it as “a cross between an interactive documentary and a virtual museum exhibition,” and it really set a new bar for retro game collections. Now, the studio is tackling another project: Karateka, the game Jordan Mechner made before the iconic Prince of Persia.
Called The Making of Karateka, the new project sounds much like Atari 50, only focused on a specific game. It includes “pixel-perfect versions” of the original Karateka releases and early prototypes you can actually play, along with a host of design documents and documentary-style video features. There’s even a brand-new remastered version of the action game. “What they’ve built around my 1984 kicking-punching debut is so much more than a game remaster, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it,” Mechner wrote on his personal blog.
The studio also says that the game is just the first in a new collection it’s calling the “Gold Master Series.” Basically, the idea is to give a number of influential games the Atari 50 treatment.
“The Gold Master Series is something we’ve been planning for a long time here at Digital Eclipse – independently-produced projects that celebrate key designers, studios, and games that changed the world,” Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler wrote in a post announcing the series. “Our mission is to elevate these games, presenting them in their best possible light while putting them in their proper historical context, an approach we’ve dubbed the ‘interactive documentary.’”
Given how impactful Karateka was for action games, it’s a great place to start. The Making of Karateka doesn’t currently have a release date, but it’s slated to launch this year on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and the Nintendo Switch.
Peter Molyneux returns promising not to hype his next game, before hyping the game | PCGamer article
"Every part of me wants to tell you about it."
No idea what happened to his NFT grift that banked him over $40M. But on to the next one I guess.
Tim Cain, former design director on Carbine's sank MMO, revealed all on his Youtube channel yesterday.
I'd recommend watching the video so you can get Tim's own take on this, emotions and all.
https://youtu.be/YMY5LUNdS-8
A homepage for Rise of the Ancients, a new interactive adventure gamebook series. You can find blank charts here, as well as solutions to the riddles, puzzles and codes in the book.
> RISE OF THE ANCIENTS BK1: BRUIDD > An unlikely invitation compels you to travel to the remote coastal town of Broodhaven to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime competition. There, you soon discover that nothing is as it seems. As you progress through each increasingly dangerous round of the contest, the secrets of the town and its noble families are slowly revealed. A hidden history conceals the truth of your own identity and the real reason why you were summoned here. That which sleeps awakens, and so it falls upon you to confront and overcome an ancient and unimaginable terror! Only you can unlock the past and break the dark cycle! A family legacy must be fulfilled. Destiny awaits! Can you stop the nobles of Broodhaven from unleashing a hideous chaos upon the world, or suffer a fate far worse than death?
> In this interactive gamebook, you make the decisions, and you suffer the consequences.
> Choose wisely or die trying!
I've played the first book a few times and really enjoyed it, though not managed to finish it yet. It's more complicated to play than a Fighting Fantasy book, with many clues and objects to track. With that, I ended up spending some time creating a spreadsheet to track my progress, then I added some code to roll dice, then I added code to handle combat tracking. It's probably riddled with bugs, but should anyone want to use it, here it is (Google Sheets).
This is a fun way to dive into the history of the Fighting Fantasy book series.
If you're wanting a less interactive option, then there's a single linear video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHlNlzxahw
🎉 We’re extending the call for proposals until July 15! 🎉 You’re way down in the depths of a dungeon, hacking and slashing with aplomb, only to look up and...
Calls for talk submissions are open for two more weeks for October's event.
Recommend diving through previous year's events for some really interesting talks and presentations. https://www.roguelike.club/
Another story of investing and growing too much during the covid boom, but also coming to face the harsh reality of how bloated the mobile space is.
Download here: https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer
South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
Are you curious about Warhammer fantasy books, but don't know where to start? If so, this post will tell you exactly where to begin.
words in a post
I've had a few audiobooks over the years that have a mistake here and there, but at the moment I'm going through The Mahabharata - Volume 1 read by Gaurav Marwa and it's chock full of misread lines and words. Often he'll reread a sentence once or twice after making a mistake and it's all kept in the book.
Doesn't help that his reading is really dry. I'd honestly take some AI voice reading it.
Has anyone else come across some really poorly edited (or not edited) books that kept in mistakes?