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  • In other words, Warner Bros has learned absolutely nothing from their recent Suicide Squad failure. One would think that after the first time they forced a single-player focused dev team that regularly produced hits to make live-service garbage, they’d have learned something. Hogwarts Legacy wasn’t even that good of a game, largely due to the live-service elements it already had, but it sold way, way more than Suicide Squad.








  • It’s not going to mimic the revival of vinyl, because vinyl has been revived by audiophiles who can appreciate the quality afforded by the format. Unless your internet moves at a snails pace, you’re unlikely to see any increase in quality between streaming and owning a DVD/Blu-ray.

    In my eyes, this is a battle of preservation. For very crucial, personally important media, the only two ways to obtain permanent access to the content are owning a physical copy, or downloading a pirated copy. All other access is temporary, and can be taken from you by the company. With that in mind, the only real question is whether you want to financially support the same companies who put us in this mess by making legal digital media an ephemeral product.


  • Have to give my recommendation for Laika. Easily one of the most innovative metroidvanias of the year, and one of the most stylish of all time. It can get a bit rough towards the end, but it’s usually because the developers expect you to use every single tool at your disposal in high level combat encounters. At the very least, everyone should take the hour to play through the free demo, and experience the power of parrying bullets with a motorcycle.


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    9 months ago

    It’s not a pact to discriminate, it’s that they’re a high traffic area that tries to quickly treat people through the path of least resistance.

    That’s great if you have visible, obvious issues like a missing limb. If you have anything internal though, forget it. The bevy of tests they’ll need to determine anything will take multiple days, so as long as you can still walk with assistance they’ll do their best to shove you out the door and tell you to schedule an appointment with your doc, regardless of how much pain you’re in.


  • You can definitely learn basic levels of programming without getting too deep into the math, enough to put together simple programs that can automate small tasks.

    The issue is that math is incredibly important for enterprise level programming, particularly for optimization. Programs you write for yourself can be slow, inefficient beasts that hog way more resources than they need. If you wanted to write code as a job though, you’d need to be able to find the line between speed and accuracy, and that can require some complex math.


  • This is a pretty big admission of failure, which is good to see. I’m a little worried it might be too little too late, considering the community has been on fire for at least six months and grumbling since WH3’s botched release. The fact that CA is willing to put their money where their mouth is will go a long way, though now it confirms that the price hikes were the result of unchecked greed and were not necessary, contrary to previous letters to the community.