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Hi-Fi Rush really is a nearly perfect game. Everything from the gameplay to the art style to the animation to the writing is just... chef's kiss

Made me even more mad over everything that happened to Tango Gameworks (and, frankly, the game industry for the past decade or so)

Fortunately for Tango Gameworks, they did find a buyer (Krafton) after Microsoft cut them loose, and they kept the IP and plan for more Hi-Fi Rush content.

Let's hope the new owners treat them better.

Anders wouldn't have gone off the deep end if Ser Pounce-A-Lot was in Dragon Age 2.

Just make sure you follow proper administration procedure.

For the uninitiated, the Mormon church has more than $200 billion in a "rainy day" investment fund they created using the tithes they demand from their members, with an estimated $7 billion more being added to their reserves each year from tithes and donations alone.

At least it's better than his last term, where his personal doctor said he was the healthiest person ever (using language that clearly came from Trump himself) and the medical records were confiscated by his bodyguard.

Kind of like how he sued his old college to prevent them from sharing his grades - those are definitely the actions of someone who has nothing to hide.

Time In A Bottle.

Oh no...

I would point at Android as an example of what would happen. It's not public domain but the end result is similar, namely that the open source originator (AOSP) suffers from a severe lack of features compared to the commercial offerings.

The default AOSP apps are incredibly barebones compared to the ones Google and the carriers put in their ROMs. You have to choose between "have nothing more than the basic features and compatibility with only well-established services" or "get the latest and greatest with all the bells and whistles (plus a huge heaping of telemetry and invasive advertising)".

It turns out it's really hard to compete with a major corporation who can throw entire teams at a problem and can legally copy anything you add to your own version. That's not even getting into the things that open source projects lack due to their haphazard team structure such as unified UX designs (Blender pre-2.8 and GIMP pre-3.0/unified window mode being the most famous examples of terrible user interfaces that lingered for far too many years).

Kings Field relied heavily on timing attacks as you move forward so they'd land just as you came into range of an enemy's hitbox, then immediately backstepping before the return attack hits you. That and circling behind enemies and strafing around to take advantage of their glacial turn speeds.

Both of those were hard enough on the pre-analog stick PlayStation controller - it would be miserable to pull off on a mobile keyboard.

(I'm still probably going to try it. Kings Field, my beloved.)

"My Steam backlog wasn't enough, let's add a couple thousand more to the pile with a few romsets."

Someone posted this article a while back that goes into more detail on some alternatives, as well as contains one of the best and most intuitive explanations of floating point that I've ever read.

Bitwise operations are elegant in the same way nunchucks are elegant: they are impressive and versatile in the hands of a master, but inflict a lot of self-imposed bruises in the hands of novices.

Embracer is also splitting into three separate companies to shed the tainted Embracer name, all still owned and run by Wingefors of course.

Asmodee Group (for board games) and Coffee Stain Publishing (for indie games) are the only two with official names last I heard. The unnamed third is the big one and Embracer's direct successor, but I guess they're delaying naming it to minimize bad press associated with the new name.

Embracer bet it all on a multi-billion dollar deal with a Saudi investment company that fell apart at the last minute due to Embracer adding more and more demands. This deal failing also caused their stock price to tumble. They've been cutting everything, everywhere ever since to get out of debt.

I wish they'd do so by selling their studios whole instead of chopping them apart and leaving them hollow shells of themselves. I can only think of three major sales as opposed to the dozens of studio closures and nearly a hundred projects they've canceled.

When I was a kid my parents still called the remote control a "clicker" because of these.

Or just excitement at getting "exclusive" early access as a small streamer. If you don't know there are thousands of others, it'd feel like an opportunity to make it big.

Not just a black guy, but one of the most famous and popular characters in portrayals of the time period, in a franchise that shoehorns in every historical figure even remotely related to each game's setting. But of course this time it's suddenly too much.

Or the Oblivion cell phone port!

(Please don't. It was awful.)

I loved Morrowind's vague directions, they felt so authentic - like visiting a small town and getting directions from a local. Even a basic fetch quest felt like a journey since you had to check your journal and follow what the questgiver said or you'd get hopelessly lost.

Navigating by landmarks needs to be in more games. There have been a bunch of games since that let you turn off quest markers and item glows, but without any instructions all that leads to is the player wandering randomly until they stumble upon their destination.

Yes, that's it!

Well, damn. I remember a comment where someone mentioned they'd modified their server fork to create a dummy account for each poster and use that when federating votes, and also said they planned to submit a pull request with the feature to the main repository, but I couldn't find anything when I looked for it. I've searched through my upvoted and saved comments as well as the issues and pull requests of several fediverse platforms but had zero luck.

I remember it coming up in response to either this drama or when the Lemmy devs asked if votes should be fully public last year, but the related threads had nothing either. Maybe I hallucinated the whole thing!