Yeah for sure, but security through obscurity only works until it's actually important or exploitable for monetary gain. I wouldn't even mind that, but e-mail can do so much better and it's treated like a giant security risk.
I'm almost there with you, the advent of the smart phone and social media are pretty big game changers. Maybe not for the better, but they do change the game.
Fax operates as data over phone line, similar to dialup. If you can get a wiretap on a phone line, you essentially can get everything that passes over it. Technically you could encrypt it, but it's usually not required you do legally.
It's considered a secure method of document transfer over email, despite email being able to be secured and fax can be hacked with like a length of wire and a knife. Fucking irks me.
I understand where you're coming from, but I also heartily disagree.
Sure it's remaking something using similar technology, but doing something out of the simply desire to do it is one of the most important things for a human. Not only that, but projects like this are excellent for building skillsets in the industry.
That's entirely fair. I think it suffers a lot from most of the interesting stuff getting hidden in the codex. I totally get your experience though, I've had a few games that have been good, but I've seen the concept done enough for it but to hook me in.
I cannot do balders gate 3, or any rpg of that style. I suspect it's to do with trying to roleplay a character while simultaneously viewing them in that top-down third person perspective. I can do X-COM, strategy, I can do roleplay in third person, but that particular combination just kills it for me. It's bizarre.
Personal opinion here obviously: Mass effect, or at least the first one, was actually surprisingly well written and internally consistent. Kind of like a star trek lite. There was interspecies tension, people expressing feelings on the state of the universe, but also enough moustache twirling to keep it interesting as well. It struck a good balance between that and a decent looter shooter/RPG combo, at least for my tastes.
The later games lost a lot of that and overly relied on what the first game setup up without expanding much on it, but that first game was just chefs kiss.
Not saying you're wrong or anything, more just this is what I personally get out of it.
Hell yeah deltarune still going strong. Just had a power outage, kept myself amused by seeing how low you can put the tdp/clock settings on it without it breaking.
Turns out I can't break it. I don't know if there's a computer that exists that couldn't run this game honestly.
Yeah, but unfortunately the people that are predisposed to fucking the children kind of seek the roles out. That or the amount of power it takes to poison some people is much lower than I thought, but I don't want to consider that.
Kinda. I wanted to go into game dev, didn't really exist as an industry in my country at the time. Had some artistic talent, had it stifled by my parents.
Ended up going into IT, those jobs have dried up in the last few years. Now I have three fields I'm good at but flairly unable to pursue.
Fuck me that might have been me as well. Never even considered that.