Ads are a brainwashing technique designed to turn my baser instincts against myself for someone else’s gain. And they’re unwanted content that disrupts the flow of the content I’ve chosen to watch.

Let’s not forget the grand daddy of them all: The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Somewhat apropos I recommend watching Adam Curtis’ take on what he calls Oh Dearism:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism/

I would be inclined to agree with you, except that the simulation is one of the weakest parts of the second game.

But also part one did not have the same ludicrous number of game-breaking bugs on release.

CS2 has gotten better for sure, and will keep doing so over time, but I’ve given up on wanting to buy it because it seems fundamentally worse than its predecessor.

If they ever add DLCs for true simulation of the economy and for showing fire, police, and ambulance crews at work as well as re-adding bicyclists I might reconsider.

You’re not supposed to place your laptop directly in the lap of your fur suit. Always leave an air gap for ventilation, smh.

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

FWIW: It’s currently in the Humble monthly bundle.

Yeah that was on sale recently so I finally took the plunge. I’m mostly enjoying skirmishes in the Frontline mode but the campaign is okay as well.

Overly lengthy AI slop posted by a bot to shill for a stupid app? No thank you.

No, rouge is the stuff that ladies put on their cheeks. You mean rogue, as in wildcard, untameable, privateer.

No need to be intimidated. Just pick it up in a sale. Definitely a brain teaser but there are spoiler reduced guides out there in case you get stuck. But you should be able to finish the game even without guidance.

I like them too but I’ve noticed that some games are not updated to the same version as their Steam counterparts.

Yes! Return of the Obra Dinn 100%. You can still watch other people play it on YouTube later and have a blast seeing them figure things out. And read Lucas Pope’s excellent devblog later as well.

Correct. My example for another necessary intervention would be YouTube. That’s a space in which Google does have a monopoly.

Dave the Diver and Dredge come to mind.

I wasn’t aware of the existence of this tool until now, so thanks for posting this here.

Lucas Pope is a genius.

I (occasionally) like the frantic style of Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation game reviews. Together with the wacky animations, they’re quite something.

My favorite soundtrack ever, of course, is that of The Secret of Monkey Island (MT-32) by Michael Land. A lot of nostalgia there.

I also very much like the soundtrack to Dune by Stephane Picq. There’s an edition that combines the Adlib, Adlib Gold, and MT-32 versions which is “chef’s kiss”. Alternatively, I can recommend the Space Opera edition.

Strike Commander by Nenad Vugrinec on MT-32 is also great.

For chiptunes, I really liked Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 by Alex Mauer.

Or, for a real classic, Earthbound by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka.

Yes, I have a bit of a thing for retro sounds. 😁

For me it’s lack of driver support that’s keeping me from buying AMD cards. Has been for literal decades. I’ve never had a more unreal number of bluescreen crashes and black/frozen screen hangups than with AMD cards. Ever since switching to nVidia, maybe one per two years. Every now and then I try AMD again when replacing a card (last in 2016 when the RX480 was touted as a bargain) but the story remains the same.

Maybe it’s an ASUS thing but both my current and previous boards have been pretty good with the help texts.