I’ve been okay with games that released targeting the PS4 generation, which is still a very wide net including many games released in the last few years. I finished AC: Odyssey on my Deck for instance.

Fits pretty neatly with the word “humble” - it should only be said externally.

Burn Notice, at least the first 2-3 seasons.

It has an overarching plot, but it only spends about 5 minutes an episode on it. To serve that plot, Michael Westen, ex-spy, must solve a problem each episode for ordinary victims across Miami using trickery and con tactics.

It always evoked a bit of Macgyver-style creative feel in me. Sadly, the story and the actors went downhill with time. (For that matter, Macgyver is a lot of fun in spite of being an oldie. There’s some kind of remake which I never bothered with)

I still want to make my game idea: The Hardest Game Ever Made; committed to being truthful about that fact and little else, and simply state that the developer has beaten it.

You’d quickly discover that hundreds of forms of difficulty are bullshit, cryptic, and not fun.

I’m wondering if the speech was delivered in Spanish, and it’s four words in a given delivery.

Thanks. Didn’t see an easy way to give two links in one post.

A streamer I like has been playing Avowed. It’s different in a lot of ways, and on modern detail levels it ends up being smaller, but I feel like it was maybe a bit over-criticized by players.

Funny! Outer Wilds was exactly the OP question for me.

Utterly frustrating realistic space controls, unguided exploration that leads to reentering the same planet for the 8th time and still not finding anything new, annoyingly specific timing-based puzzles…

I’ve had games in my wishlist now that I see “It’s like Outer Wilds!” and I start to think twice about them.

As a web dev: Remember IE6? The stagnation, self-prioritization with nonstandard features, laden with spyware? That’s Chrome now. They’ll egg websites into enabling proprietaryBullshitStandard() when it’s still just webkitProprietaryBullshitStandard() and give little room for discussion. Their “move fast and break the web” attitude is why Edge, which used to be a unique browser maintaining a third competing rendering engine, gave up and became a Chrome fork. The team at Microsoft couldn’t even keep up with Chrome’s bullshit, and now 90% of the browsers people list just use their engine.

I think one very scary thing to admit is when a mother has this feeling towards their baby. Sometimes, the movie magic just doesn’t hit; and it feels like an annoying, parasitic burden rather than a precious living human.

But to be in any way vocal about it makes one seem like a horrible or evil mother, and could lead to intense ostracization.

I guess if we define it loosely I know of a few of those now. Baby Steps, and Easy Delivery Co are simple games about getting around, with some terrain challenges.

I really want a good way to vocalize this to the people who think the “Pro-Woman” crowd means inherently being “Anti-Pervert”. Everything is always one or the other to these people. Meanwhile the LGBT world, as well as the furry world, is super pro-perversion.

Thus we have the worst, stupidest, loosest definition of the word “woke”, that these people live by.

Jedi: Survivor. The game maintained a high price and performs terribly on PC, so I wasn’t so interested. But the story is pretty darn good, especially for a premise of “The Empire is winning, and we’re basically spitting in the wind. What’s the point of resisting?”

I admit to falling bait to some of the cameos, but they were pretty well executed.

I got pretty annoyed at the chorus of “People only say they like it because of the Zelda title”. I hadn’t cared about Zelda for decades at that point. It was just a well-done, well-paced open world game that I found myself openly devoting dozens of hours to.

My favorite bit of that game is, after two games of developing tons of movement abilities in the air, including various forms of extra jumps…

If you don’t want your info (whether you are an adult a teen or a child) to be shared with “owners of apps that are on the Epstein list”, then don’t install those apps. There is nothing in this law requiring you to download any particular app.

Linux, as well as any decent system of security, operates via varying levels of trust. If I install a game on Steam, that does not get root access with permission to rewrite my kernel. Similarly, if I have banking info on my device, it doesn’t get to view that, or anything with my face or name. You can install and even run something without trusting it with your life.

If an app were sending this data to a third party, like palantir, then they would be in direct violation of this law.

We have seen time and time again that courts do not provide adequate protections for these types of data breaches. The law does not matter. At the most, software companies get slapped on the wrist, but more likely they get away with it, as “programming is hard, and it’s easier to just send everything”. It is far, far easier to assert that a malicious app is not submitting marketing, or “fuckability” information on your child if that device does not denote itself as a child’s device in the first place. That’s only possible if the law isn’t hammering the OS into openly exposing its own user data to anyone that asks for it.

Your last point about personal responsibility is an important one. It’s why, if you happen to be using an old insecure device running Windows XP, you can toy around on the web with it, but you should disconnect it from your personal network, and should not enter personal info on it. Any device software that is forced to keep an open “Would_President_47_Seek_To_Rape_This_User” flag, available to every application, is removing that option for personal responsibility.

A car powered by gasoline? It’ll never take off. I mean, what will you do if it runs out of gas? Start a war in the middle east?

We’re sort of past the point where anything Xbox-related is newsworthy for this community. I don’t care what patch notes are coming to China’s Playbox knockoff hardware, I don’t care what a dead console is doing in its cloud.

Does it even allow for user privacy protection? Nothing I’ve read of the bill suggests that an app could ask whether the user is of a fuckable class by its Epstein-list owners, and allow the user to block the prompt. Every other app has to ask for permission to use the camera, to write to certain directories, they can even be firewalled to prevent network access. The very idea that an OS must code in a form of user information that must be provided to any app, trusted or not, is a warped, Palantir-driven approach to (in)security.

Most practitioners of data security are aware of the severe dangers of fingerprinting users, and that is a hardline issue. Thus, in order to maintain their security practices, their only choice is to not collect this sort of info on users at any level. If they’re delivering a security product with a built-in vulnerability, they’re not delivering a security product. It’s much better to just surrender one state until it invents sanity.