I’ve got the Feb 1980 (5th printing) edition of Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition sat on the shelf next to me… looking forward to comparing the dialect differences :)

They’ve explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn’t promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

They’ve gone above and beyond to deliver, I’d even hazard a guess that they’ve over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They’re working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They’ve done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

I’m not pre-ordering, but I’ll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.

It’s pseudo-realtime; things happen on a tick, but that tick is pretty generous in timings and you can pause the game at any point.

Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games…

I was always a discworld mud player… Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :⁠-⁠P

You’re using teams. Modern teams is built on Skype, which is why it’s shit.

Got it on GamePass yesterday. It runs like a dog, and that’s on a 10-700k with 64GB ram, 3070 and a Sabrent Rocket 4 nvme. Even dropping to 1080 and low still hovers around 30 - 40fps with random dropouts to <10fps in ‘complex’ areas. Given this system can run God of War at 4K Ultra (With DLSS Balanced) at 30fps, or Black Myth: Wukong at High at 50 - 60fps, I’m going to say it’s not the system at fault…

Wait for a few patches, the performance is currently not up to spec. Which is sad, because the introduction got me super hooked and I want to play more.

Visually, at least on the outside, it looks something like a Stottie, Oggie or Pastie from the farming/mining areas of the UK. I always find it fascinating to see the convergent evolution of this sort of food - edible with one hand, hot and filling, with a crust that can be discarded if hands are filthy, or et if not.

It was a term coined to describe the step-by-step process modern tech platforms go through:

1. be good, get customers, grow
2. get large enough to corner market, concentrate on profits
3. get large enough to move to politicise their approach, drive out competition through aggressive tactics, and lock in consumers
4. drive more profit through dark patterns and ensure nobody wins but the stakeholders

It’s specifically that, and there wasn’t a word that described that process previously, as it’s only something that’s possible in a modern, “web scale” worldwide platform.

As “three dead trolls in a baggie” famously sung… “Every OS Sucks”.

As true today as when it was first penned.

Getting 1 star on GitHub

And… Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, too.

No you haven’t…

Gives me, “right you primitive screw heads” vibes.

Max and cheese has two ingredients. Good, quality cheese melted into fresh macaroni.

I challenge anyone to dislike that, with a good fresh salad (I like a chopped salad with a drizzle of oil and balsamic with a sprinkle of salt). The great thing is - there’s a cheese for everyone (except lactose intolerant, and what a shame for them) so this works on so many levels.

Mathacre was right there… right there. Ah well.

I’ve got Braid. Played it, enjoyed it, moved on. Why would I buy it again to listen to someone rambling over it? Some AI upscaled graphics? What’s the point?

Ahem… I think you mean, “hexagons are the bestagons”

Good luck with the update in (if I’m right in the timezone calculation) a couple of hours…

One of the biggest sells for gamepass and cloud gaming (assuming you’ve got a wired network). Shaving ~250GB+ (Given the cache and update downloads) is a hard sell, and I’ve got 6TB of NVME installed.