I trust that they’ll be complete push-overs when it comes to law enforcement and agency data requests without a warrant.
Outside of moving data overseas, away from 5/9-eyes, I’m having a bad time figuring out how to obtain cryptographic control over my data within existing services. This leaves me to just upload crypto blobs everywhere with no real services to support it, or buying my own hardware and co-locating it myself.
Meta. But perhaps an additional and entirely petty reason: It’s a terrible pun.
Indeed. Riker needs to back the fuck up. Also, where’s that human sacrifice?
It’s super neat. Map quality is all over the place, but most are real gems. I’ve only had one soft-lock in about 20 maps, and only a handful of those had impossible to beat final fights (I’m sorry, but failing to take down 15 shamblers at once, in a room with four central columns for cover is not a “skill issue”).
In fact I never heard much about Quake having singleplayer.
It had good singleplayer for the time. IMO, it hasn’t aged particularly well. ID was learning how to do a fully 3D game on the fly here, and it shows in spots. The best moments are built on experience with building Doom maps, but that’s practically a different sport.
Hell I’ve gotten back into Doom in the past few year
There’s also the Quake Brutalist Jam 3 that came out last month. It’s playable with a modern Quake I engine, and man, some of those maps are incredible.
All for the low-low price of $0.
This could literally cause the collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry.
Wouldn’t be the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
TL;DR: A much smaller gaming industry was enshitified at an alarming pace, barely after it got started. There were too many competing options, many of which were sub-par experiences, and there was no way to tell until after purchase.
Perhaps that’s not directly comparable, but to my eye, the biggest similarity is not enough value for the liquidity (disposable capital) people are willing to put forward on a product. At some point, people will just spend less or spend on something else entirely.
Meanwhile, you have older gamers like myself that are more than happy to take a trip down memory lane, since a few decades can make those old games fun again. I’m in this 14%. That said, I tend to buy new indie titles, mostly due to the lower pricepoint, lower expectations, reliably better art, lower system specs, smaller time commitment, and so on. Games like Assasin’s Creed Odyssey showed me that big studios aren’t necessarily pushing more and interesting narrative into monster-sized titles, opting for cut/paste easter-egg hunts and aftermarket content purchases instead. Less really can be more.
Really, these are great for most things and a dirt-cheap hygiene option too. Use them for potato chips, cheetos, cheeze-its… everything where you’re tempted to lick salt/powder/sugar off of your fingers. Did we really learn nothing from the pandemic?
The Crow could make for an awesome RPG experience.
It really deserves the Disco Elysium treatment. Yeah, the eponymous anti-hero gets his kill on throughout the whole story, and that’s tempting to build a game out of; standard revenge plot stuff. That said, there’s way more on offer here. How about a detective story that follows a murderer that’s already dead? Or, maybe you start off not knowing you’re dead and puzzle that together as you go. Or perhaps you’re constantly crossing paths with said detective, solving your own mystery, always a step behind the shadow of your dead friend?
You’re painting with negative space. This is art. Carry on.
:: clears throat ::
Whatever.
It’s a mass-produced book, and a paperback at that. You can certainly keep any such book in good condition to archive or re-read on your own terms. But that stack of acid-paper and cheap glue is going to eventually self-destruct. Unless it’s a limited production run, in danger of getting burned, autographed, is an actual collectable, or something else that makes it distinct or valuable, I say: go for it.
Source: I own a stack of these from back in the day. Despite my best efforts to store them appropriately, they’re all slowly rotting away. Some things just aren’t meant to last.
Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.
And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.
Throw in effective cleaning tips for the worst stuck-on crud, and I’m there. Acids, abrasives, bleach, ammonia, detergents, brillo, scotch-brite, magic erasers, scrapers, heat, cold1, steam… they all have their place but a lot of people aren’t aware of the best tool for the job. Plus there’s already people watching power washing, lawn mowing, and snow removal on youtube - the audience is already there for a clean sink.
I would’ve reviewed the dishwasher after buying it and that would’ve been the last video on the channel.
That’s begging for a collab with Technology Connections.
1 - throw bacon grease into a ceramic coffee mug and refrigerate; other materials may not handle the temperature shock and break. After it’s set it’s easily used as a cooking fat. Also, it’s now solid enough to sit in the kitchen garbage without leaking everywhere.
Agreed. The real slow-cooker superpower is where it cooks dinner for you while you’re away at work, letting you come home to a hot meal.
Too many pronouns, message unclear. Plus I’m missing context if Brock himself is a troll, comedian, dumb, or just a waste of space; I have no clue who that is.
Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.
Not entirely. I’ve had a few snaps become useless when it comes down to providing configuration data. How an individual snap integrates into the filesystem depends on the author/packaging, and quality varies. Ultimately, it’s a PITA since the mapped filesystem paths are not in the stock/standard locations the product docs say they are. I chalk this up to packaging software that existed pre-Snap, or the original authors did not do the Snap packaging. It’ll probably get better as the ecosystem matures, but right now, it’s not a great experience unless the Snap-ed package can run as-is.
but instead we pay for this shit.
Yes, but not nearly as much. :(
Exactly. We’re already there with which side has more human resources. Meanwhile asymmetric warfare is an escalation of technology and the resources to produce them. Sure, you can tip the balance of power on the battlefield with very clever use of resources, but it’s ultimately a contest of who is willing to dump the most into the conflict.
It could also be argued that technological warfare in a global economy makes resource blockades even more important. Nobody is 100% reliant on their homeland resources anymore. To effectively siege your opponent, you have to cut off everything that can fuel their ability to make war. That can be a huge perimeter in some cases.