Man I had a pang of nostalgia and guilt. Google reader was pretty good, and I forgot it existed.

You know that sounds an awful lot like how windows GUI behaves. I only recently started daily driving and the amount of gui elements you can change is mind blowing.

Oh I completely get you, on a rail is a famously difficult spot for a lot of people. I think the lack of landmarks and long duration really hurts that chapter. If it’s any consolation it’s mostly a one off situation, and yeah black mesa doesn’t really have an equivalent.

We don’t hate them, but it’s generally frowned upon because of those issues, and yes we do kill invasive species a fair bit.

Don’t feel too bad about it, the best bits are the first half or so I’d argue.

Which bits in particular? Because on one hand it’s a fairly linear design, but on the other there are some bits that can loop around themselves and objectives aren’t always obvious.

Oof yep I feel that one. I love the wheel and spoke moderately open world level design, but if you actually need to move the story it can be very difficult to find where the next bits are.

So I’ve been playing Tropico 4 for a bit, and it looks pretty good. You’re always zoomed out, so you don’t need to have more than like 8 polygons for a limb.

I literally could not run cities Skylines 2 or KSP 2 at a good frame rate. Everything was modelled incredibly well and looks great, but that doesn’t mean shit if I can’t run the game. I strongly suspect that’s a big contributing factor.

In addition to this, they’re going to against their biggest competitors: the previous game. It’s literally the same game with more content, runs incredibly well by comparison, has a huge mod library, and is much cheaper to boot. Might not be as pretty, but it actually might not matter given what you’re playing.

I think there’s probably a lot of issues that contribute to this to be honest, but it feels like at it’s core it’s a fools errand to begin with.

You know that’s not too unreasonable thinking about it, I’m pretty sure their proton setup works in a similar way

Exactly, on a steam deck a little software and firmware tinkering and you’re done. This is the good stuff, the stuff that shouldn’t work but you say “how about I do anyway”.

It is, but that’s like, hard.

Does a release of all releases contain itself?

Are there 9 haters? It wasn’t my favourite but it’s very good and I don’t think it’s a bad favourite at all.

That sounds well below the acceptable % for doa parts, especially if ASRock is indeed nuking chips.

For real, installing Linux nowadays is pretty painless for the most part, windows has this 27 stage process for opting out of a online account.

Like both have issues, you’re just used to the windows issues, but those are progressively getting more intrusive.

Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

PS4 emulation has come a long way. I haven’t played fully through my copy, but I was going through it at 60fps through the first few areas with little to no issue. You may want to wait until all the kinks are out, but it’s pretty good as it is.

Too big to fail?

It’s okay, I don’t think he can swim.

Might just be easier to spin up a VM of 98 at this point, good hunting to you though.