Nearly beat it, not a great game 5/10.

The environments are nice and fun to explore.

Story is mediocre. Dialog is tiresome, I started button spamming to get through a lot of the conversations that didn’t matter. Combat is nothing remarkable, no matter the weapon combos, and the enemies are just damage sponges with no real tactics necessary to defeat a given enemy. Magic is kind of cool but you have to really spec into mage to get there. The immersion is about as deep as a puddle on flat concrete.

It is one of the games of all time, a game you could not play and miss out on nothing.

Edit: Just beat it, terrible ending that feels like it was tacked on last minute to provide some sort of conclusion.

The judge said that was not a valid excuse for my actions.

I’m still not allowed on Argon’s property.

The younger gamers will only appreciate brain rot AI gen games because that is all they know.

AI will eventually be given the task of creating a game based on prompts and it will be able to do that with minimal curation with considerations of other similar games and the consensus about them. It will be able to accomplish the entire dev in a fraction of the time of a conventional dev team of humans. This is probably 10-15 years away and will be the death of innovative risk taking games that come to be held in high regard.

What is emerging is AI upscaling that will eventually allow a game made 10 years ago to look new. Soon there will be extrapolative AI that can remaster something like Super Mario Bros or Goldeneye and make it into a modern gen graphics game regardless of what “modern” means.

AI can be a fantastic tool to ease the burdens of the game development process to decrease costs and time so smaller studios can focus on the core of what makes a game good. Unfortunately studios will integrate AI into the development process as they remove humans to decrease costs to an overall detrimental degree and the market will be flooded with mediocre derivative games that offer nothing of value in terms of experience.

I enjoyed Starfield, but it wasn’t anywhere near good enough to put the same hours into it as most Bethesda games. It had such potential, but they dropped the ball.

I don’t know if they make one for the pixel series but I have had Rokform for multiple generations of phones and they have been stellar protection. They also have magnets in them so you can just stick your phone to stuff, which comes in handy. They also have a twist lock for mounting it to things like a dash mount or handlebar mounts.

You know it will have the latest in AI assistant and AI generated ads on hookup unless you have a premium account.

Thanks for the reminder to debloat my S23U after the last update with ADB AppControl.

They have(had?) a setting that prevents screen dimming when you are looking at the screen.

There is no value in AI being used as you describe, typical user habit learning that has been a thing for years can do that. Using AI because you can use AI is not valuable to users.

Samsung supports their phones’ software for 5 years, so the S22 has 3 years of support left. My only concern about the lifespan you are hoping for is the battery on the S22. I would factor in the potential cost of a battery replacement in two years in your decision.

I’d still say S22 over the S21, so you still have to decide if the S23 is worth the jump in price vs the S22.

The S21 doesn’t make sense if the S22 is the same price.

So the decision is the S22 or the S23. Do you feel the S23 is worth almost twice the price?

The S23 pictures and videos are better, but the S22 does just fine if you aren’t someone who uses the camera features often. Some people prefer the S22 selfies and colors thought. The S22’s battery isn’t as good as the S23. The S23 has a much better processor, but will you even notice the difference with your typical usage? Both phones use the same storage controller, the 256gb S23 got the upgraded hardware, so don’t expect wildly better in read/write or response between the S22 and S23 128gb.

Maybe it is the ease with Dex mode compared to other phones that don’t have a native desktop mode?

Do you still use Myspace?

That would work if they had a stable business model and produced something everybody needed or wanted, like diapers or alcohol. Their entire business model requires they keep users engaged and user count growing.

People will leave Meta the more Meta tries to make more off of a stagnant userbase, which will death spiral.

It is more that they are not growing, and that means dying in their business model. By not reporting an accurate metric of user engagement, they are hiding the stagnation or loss. Background logins from apps are likely also hiding the real picture of user engagement. Without active user engagement they lose their revenue, data harvesting and advertising.

So there are signs that they are in a downturn, which will lead to irrelevance and failure.

Google will have the ability to kill, or make useless, apps that they don’t like; ReVanced for example.

It’s no Project Orion, that’s for sure.

Torque Pro with BiScan GM. It will cost $34.98 for both, 4.99 for Torque Pro and 29.99 for BiScan. Try just Torque Pro and see if that does what you need, if it doesn’t get BiScan and it will.