Sixth Tone is not a “no name magazine”, it’s the English language publication of one of the largest online news publications in Shanghai.
Its a contender for best English language publication in China, and a good source of investigative (well, as much as you can get in the PRC now 财新 has been nutuered) journalism. It still gets to do more critical stories when they’re small scale and frame it as a problem government will find a way to solve.
That’s fair, I have respect for rules like that and also know that camping out for a rare quick animation would kinda ruin the effect when you want to be playing.
Nice write up.
Must admit I’m kinda disappointed the screen shot of Kaepy G isn’t one where the head is twisted nearly upside down.
But it also made me come in and read your thoughts on it. It’s a comfy game to play. Good luck with the project.
With books and older non-unique registration code games it is explicitly legal to sell them second, third, etc hand.
At least in the EU and UK where those overly restrictive licenses you bring up have been declared ineffective. Maybe in the US it’s just another personal freedom sacrificed for freedom of capital.
UK law allows for making and duplication of digital copies of a product you own that version of, provided you don’t share them with others.
At least it did 15 years ago, not 100% certain today off the top of my head.
Presence of catch up mechanics role of luck, amount it rewards familiarity with the game/tracks
East Asia loves gatcha. It’s a huge thing all across the region.
The big area to push should be on Office.
The new versions of Office with that ribbon are terribly user unfriendly (or maybe just non-basic user unfriendly) so hitting that and pushing Libre Office could net some good adoption.
But I guess that’s competing against GoogleDocs and the like these days… But we don’t wanna give the Big G that data.
If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.
Better late than never.
Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
UB are getting all up in my standard and pioneer formats and killing my interest for them/Magic as a whole outside of “limited” precons.
Video:
Doom
Tetris
Chrono Trigger
Table top: Chess
Magic: the Gathering
Everdell
Azul
E1M1 is great, top tier music.
The level clear screen music, E2M8, E1M8, and E1/2M9 tracks are all other top tier track contending for the throne.
Doom II introduced a few more bangers too, but I’m not as able to call the level codes to mind off the top of my head.
People aren’t used to this as a concept, especially when there are so many terms and conditions screens (that have been shown in multiple jurisdictions courts to not be legally binding) they click through on a daily basis as well as many other “as a service” models that are reliable enough that people don’t realise what the pitfalls are (people playing for Netflix are fairly certain it won’t close next week, for instance), even the more technically minded expect sunset clauses - which would be a pretty good legal baseline to improve the situation.
Unless it’s infrastructure or something with a natural monopoly.
The main competition with steam is buying physical copies of things. If we want to support retailers selling physical copies of games and bricks and mortar shops, that’s a good thing.
Alas, I think the games industry is chosing to abandon them. And Steam has the ability to add games purchased outside of Steam to it for convenience. Unlike Epic it puts the user close to the top of priorities.
Lovely interview.
Lutris got Magic: Arena working for me on my Linux machine a few years back and gave me a very enjoyable card game grind for about 3 years until I stayed limiting MtG:A to my phone on the commute.
Amazing work both from the Lutris team, and the interviewer.
Yes, it hurts seeing those 3 or 4 digits numbers.
But once you’ve finished a run once or twice, you’ll get more options and be able to turn it essentially into Sudoku or some other solitaire puzzle and do most levels perfectly once you know what’s going on and having a few more options.
Minimetro and Cultist Simulator are my go to “comfy” games, but cultist simulator really does get you feeling like you’re chasing a mad eldritch horror when playing at times. It’s deliberately obtuse and odd, and then a revelation of the truth takes you over and you push on beyond your wildest expectations.
Slay the Spire and Hollowknight have both been mentioned enough in other posts in case anyone reading this is somehow unaware of either of them.
Faster than Light and Into the Breach are both excellent games. FtL is rng mitigation and crisis control par excellence. ItB is basically chess, and you play out the turns as best you can. It’s rewarding, but once you get good you need to ramp up the difficulty somewhat to keep it fun.
Released in the PRC, so no. Nothing sexy.
Just misogyny (and maybe some homophobia for good measure).