Where do I sign up to Hail Sithis?

I use it to generically explain things to me. I give it limited things and ask it to break it down or give me alternatives.

No different than googling skills, how I ask gets different results, and sometimes it’s far faster than digging and digging through forum posts or textbook style documentation. Other times it’s a waste of my time and I quickly move on.

Fuck big gaming but you’ll still hand them money and emulate?

Your comment is what I’m getting at. It’s not the same anymore. Instead it’s like getting a new PC graphics card and finally being able to turn up the settings on mostly the same games.

That too, but also console gens aren’t what they used to be. What has the current gen done to justify itself beyond the prior gen?

The PS5 is basically PS4 Pro 2. Meh.

Where’s the excitement? We don’t have the graphical or storytelling upgrades of the past anymore. What is going to be incredible and new abiht the next generation? Probably not much.

“Political appointee”

This is mainly why I quit. And it especially used to piss me off cause it’ll still demand you put in the disc to play even though the whole fucking thing installed and downloaded patches larger than the game. Might as well be all digital with oversize hard drives and be lazy with swapping games. I know still having to put a disc in for a fully installed game is a long time PC thing, but it really frustrated me.

I also went more Steam and cheaper sale games or key sites. Saw a game for like $3 on Steam and $30 on PSN too many times.

Aside from a few PS4/PS5 games I love or are rare, I’m only really physically keeping older stuff and have actually been playing a lot of older stuff.

Does going gold mean anything anymore? Nearly every major game is garbage at release and needs tons of patches and fixes.

Big reason I don’t understand the obsession with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. The game world is empty and just feels like so much wasted space, and a ton of it looks like PS2 worldbuilding.

Not a PM. But please, keep trying with stereotypical internet replies.

When a team of programmers is left to their own devices, they too screw shit up. They all do things in their own way and argue over what is best, and often fail to see the bigger picture.

I watch scope creep and lack of organizational planning from both programmers and managers. It’s all personality issues.

I also don’t believe anyone actually follows or knows what agile is (not saying I do either). Everyone on every team at every place sure talks about it, but it doesn’t seem like anyone actually does it. These are all just labels for “we adapted as we went.”

In the years since its release, and developer Ensemble Games’ closure

Because Microsoft is run by morons.

Also Sony shut Zipper Interactive around this time. Just idiotic companies shutting down some of the best game studios we had.

Memories of my professor in early 2010s teaching us to do it by hand in case the power at work ever goes out and we don’t wanna get fired … based on his 90s work experience.

He was fun though.

Definitively definite defined definition.

This is exactly the issue that happens. They write things out narratively like a decrease happened, which would cause some panic in certain groups we work with, and then they would argue when we requested they fix it to represent a decrease in the rate of increase, or a slower/lower increase than prior, or however they wanna say it. But it certainly didn’t decrease.

I work in a place full of statisticians, and we’ve had to unfortunately have numerous conversations with some of them about the difference between “a decrease” and “a decrease in the rate.” Apparently “it’s increasing slower” isn’t clear enough for some.

Every company everywhere is doing that. There are ways to limit things and be okay with it.

If companies using your data and pushing gambling bothers you, go live off the grid.

As a long time Steam user, while I still really like Steam and think it’s the more consumer friendly platform, it has devolved greatly. Especially discussion forums are nearly no different than reddit toxicity where people exhibit their worst behaviors. I miss the legitimate discussions and love for specific games. Now it’s mostly complaining and complete disregard for developers being humans.

The flood of garbage games has also been fairly obvious over the last decade. Some filters on your account handle a lot of this at least for the adult ones, but not all of it. It reminds me of the Wii shovelware era, but far worse.

BUT I would remind the Senator they STILL don’t even have a fucking budget passed for this fiscal year we are already a month and a half into and they oughta stay in their lane and do their first basic god damn job before pointing at the supposed failures of others.

He actually claimed 2 trillion.