Seems to me like the growth of Chinese users is eating into EU numbers. Percentages are zero-sum game. They always need to total at 100. If one percentage goes up, others must go down even if the user numbers grow everywhere.

It’s corporate. Even if he were to retire or be laid off tomorrow, today the messaging will be “sky is clear, onward”.

Loved the original, but US remake has just all the corners filed and padded.

There is little point in refusing it. The biometrics are already in the database - the scan uses them to let you in without using your passport. Refusing to use the system will not take your data out of the database.

It was nice to have some degree of hope for nearly a year. So I guess, thanks for at least giving it a serious attempt Ross.

I think Tim Minchin, in his prime coined the saying: Alternative medicine is either:

1. Medicine that has not been proven to work Or
2. Medicine that has been proven not to work You know what they call alternative medicine that’s proven to work? “Medicine”

It’s crazy how conservatives adopted the whole Unnecessary Capitalization and you can tell the intention of the copy just by looking for it. The same goes for all caps emphasizing IMPORTANT words, not present here, but common in headlines, tweets and other messaging coming from them.

Right wing grammar.

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. An absolute gem from Dontnod that plays like a double-A god of war with superb writing and voice performances.

Gives me the same vibes as Claire Obscure, but in a less flashy, more grounded world of early colonial America

He also downplayed the risk of electing Trump (first time around) with a “what’s the worst that could happen” attitude. I also can’t stand his misogynist attitude towards women “what could Michelle Obama teach us? How to tell if a dick smells presidential?”

To me that’s an attitude catering directly to the alt-right, incel crowd.

Actor/Comedian Bill Burr. I always found his comedy to be a “gateway drug” to right wing radicalization.

I never used game pass, sorry. Only makes sense they have been hiking it for a while.

Of course it is. First of many. The price will keep rising, since currently Microsoft is losing money on it. The number of games will decrease, the price will keep going up, the users will cancel, rinse and repeat.

It truly is Netflix for gaming.

I pour one out for Bacon Reader

I keep wanting to love Hades but keep bouncing off it. It has all characteristics of what is want - great art, good story, solid voice acting… I think I am not into the combat mechanics though. Diablo, at least I would enjoy until I finished all the story and quests…

Blue Prince is an awesome game, but it confirmed for me that I can’t stand roguelikes. Any game that’s based on repetitive loop where you do the same thing over and over for small progress is just not my jam. That includes multiplayer grindathons, MMOs and roguelikes/lites.

I guess as I got older, time became more and more of a previous commodity and feeling like I’m not moving forward in an experience kills it for me.

Nothing against the game. Just not for me.

o7

I probably could, but I would probably forget I have it, just as I forget to double-click newly created comp :)

About Atomic Heart - a Russian game from a developer tied to Gazprom and Putin’s oligarch buddies.

This shit should be embargoed, not celebrated.

Projects - that I can deal with, but after over 20 years using AE, I still run into the same problem: clone current composition to do a version, rename new composition… Forget to open the new one and continue alternating the original.

This game (and the box spinoff) amaze me in just how well Russian propaganda machine is tuned into an average American gamer. Show them some ass, give them a definitely anti-woke attitude and they will sing praises defending it forever. Meanwhile under the surface the games are all like “see, Soviet Russia is/was actually kinda cool, amirite?”