Wow the free market was truly fixed by Valve cooperation there. Glad for your earnings. Rant: But I hate micro transactions and in-game-market-places, imo they can create an other level of addiction after the first stage.

Meta: Thanks for Chessposting on here. Rant: Modern 3D graphics are quite terrible for energy efficiency/environmental reasons, chess offers complexity in the 2D plane and can run on a potato PC.

In general we should pay more attention to board games (maybe on computers).

The golden apple (globe with a cross on top) of the Tsarist symbol in the background represents the worldly aspect of power, that now has fallen onto the soviet-revolutionary. At least that is also my interpretation.

Yeah but if your consumers are children playing video games, and getting dragged into this by other (older and friendgroup) advertisers, it stops being funny.

congrats you avoided the crash in Stock prices (is tf2 just as badly affected as CS?)

The same happens to me 0.AD. when I play against AI bots.

(0AD is an open source game btw, so I will support it over AOE2)

nowadays we also pay with our time and electricity for some BS … which is also an investment tbh

So in short: You regret buying the slop game? Money unwell spent?

I have a similar feeling towards modern games. I decided against buying any new AAA game that is not indie.

The conflict between stationary farmers/settlers and moving nomadic peoples has not ended yet in Africa it seems.

found the trailer on peertube: https://trailers.ddigest.com/w/aGBV1CcfhZTwoM2UdWFMgi

From my view the story seems quite simplistic right now from the trailer. Black haired tribe comes, Prince wants to marry red-haired princess. Random conflict arises. Terrible war starts? I hope there is something more to this, than the shallow trailer.

Gold extraction is quite destructive to the environment though, you need leaching agents, that contain Cyanide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussic_acid. But with modern developments and best practices in the industry it should become easier to mitigate contamination of the environment.

I recently noticed how important eye and head towards the player can feel movements can be especially with minecraft mobs. So cool you mention the eye-tracking behavior, this is the attention to detail I like from devs.

PS1 graphics style looks so good. Some people attempt to recreate them in open-source engines like the godot-game engine. But that attention to detail, while living with the limits of past technology is hard to replicate.

late 90s PS1 Square greatness