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  • Oh yeah, I'm totally aware of that. I was more thought spinning a from the ground up redesigned remake taking advantage of knowing how far the tech and design knowledge has come. Change up the levels, mechanics, and weapons design with a profession game developer level of resources while still using a fairly retro engine and keeping the original spirit.

  • It's a good thing to have the game faithfully remastered, though part of me does wonder what a more ambitious remake might have looked like.

    Issues like the imprecise aiming seem like artifacts of having to work around the original game's limitations. I don't know how different the Jedi engine is to the Build engine, as they seem superficially similar. Seeing games like Ion Fury being made on the Build engine makes me curious how a from the ground up remake of Dark Forces on an improved Jedi or Build engine, with some unshackling in terms of redesigning game mechanics with lessons learned while still keeping the original atmosphere might have gone.

    But I understand that's a lot of money and dev time that's way beyond the scope of these kinds of remasters.

  • Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden's pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn't just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.

  • If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?

    I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.

  • For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don't like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)

    The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.

  • Not fond of repeating myself, but:

    Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

  • told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

    Oh honey.

    You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

    Companies hire temps and dangle the "well maybe we'll hire you some day" out there to string them along.

    Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after "x" time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

    If I were you, I'd start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn't actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.

  • Hyundai is doing some relevant things.

  • Fallout 1, which I've probably replayed about ten times more than the second game. It's concise, with this depressing and dark world that gives a feeling never fully replicated in sequels.

    Lords Of The Realm 2, a great little strategy game with an effortlessly charming aesthetic.

    Civil War Generals 2, when I feel like really grinding out a strategy game. It has the bright colors and charming graphics which create a clear and readable battlefield that can be brutally difficult as units get ground down into ragged bands.

  • Really it just means the sorts of bugs you find with minimal QA testing combined with stilted voice acting, potentially untranslated audio or text, cultural beats that don't quite cross over, and some game design choices that are different than how a game developed alongside western games might do things.

    If you can stand this lack of polish, these sorts of games can at least give amusement for their price point.

  • Oh those. I meant the Gillette Fusion razor heads. They are supposed to be disposable, and I do eventually get rid of them, but I extend the lifespan by a lot with a squeeze bottle of alcohol on them to clean them. A head that should last weeks will end up lasting me months with just a little care.

  • Reverse osmosis filter, you can just get an under the sink one of you don't plan on drinking your shower water. Kind of pricey up front, and you have to replace the filters every so often, but it gives good taste and peace of mind for filtering.

    I am telling you from first hand viewing that bottled water plants use the same kind of filtering.

  • disposable shavers

    I have them, but clean them with a squirt of alcohol and they last ages. I think the last time I bought a pack was 2020.

  • When somebody won't just take the compliment. It's like come on, just take the W.

    But also I feel strange getting praise in a real time conversation.

  • I'm commenting late, but there is The Precursors which does require Slavjank tolerance, but if you have it, it provides an interesting flavor on a space opera adventure.

    I also haven't tried The Tomorrow War which seemingly requires even higher Slavjank tolerance, and probably isn't a top of all time game, but seems interesting if you like peering into strange forgotten games. Warlockracy did a video of this one.

  • TLDR Bloated staff sizes and poor workflow management means salary costs skyrocket while a lot of people on staff are left waiting for things to do. The article keeps saying the costs aren't just about better graphical fidelity, but I think this issue is somewhat related because a big chunk of staff are going to be artists of some variety, and the reason there are so many is to pump up the fidelity.

    Not that it much matters to me personally. I've said before that games have long ago hit diminishing returns when it comes to technical presentation and fidelity. I'd rather have a solid game with a vision, and preferably a good visual style rather than overproduced megastudio visuals. Those kinds of games are still coming out from solo developers and small studios, so it doesn't affect me one bit if big studios want to pour half a billion into every new assemblyline FPS they make.

  • Serious hat for a moment, but the idea that Canadians burnt the White House is a misconception. It was British soldiers from units raised outside of Canada, which had been sent over for the war which did that.

  • In the stealth section there are static guards and patrolling guards. At the bottom of every turn the players pull from a deck of cards which says which of the patrolling guards will move and also a special event- this can be the meter towards the alarm ticking down, some of the guards reversing direction of their patrol, or reinforcements prestaging just off board.

    During stealth if a dead guard or a player character is spotted by a specific guard, it will shout alerting other guards inside a certain radius and act according to the combat logic. At this point the stealth section will likely shortly end because of all the negative stealth modifiers.

    In the combat section, enemies will move towards and fire at whatever spotted player character is nearest. The combat is very simple, which is balanced by it being very difficult for the players to survive, which means you want to delay combat as long as possible.

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