Quoting: JSVRamirez

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[off topic]Is it even possible to talk about modern transport vehicules and infrastructure in latin ? :dizzy:
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Whyever not? Surely it is the same for any other language as new words are created?

Words are added to languages because their native speakers need new words to describe new concepts, such as modern technology. But as far as I know, there isn't any native Latin speaker anymore and its usage nowadays is either religious or historical (studying documents written in Latin). I don't see why anyone would require latin words for things like a train, a car or an airport in either of these contexts. But maybe I'm mistaken and there is an active community of Latin speakers, like there are communites for constructed languages such as Esperanto (or even Klingon :tongue:)

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Quoting: junibegoodWho would want to play a video game in Latin ?

Latin students? :whistle:
Arguably, playing games is one of the best ways to learn and practice vocabulary.

Yeah, another one is watching movies in that language, but the movie production in Latin is probably a bit limited. :grin: Playing games make sense.

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As a long time fan of the first edition of TT (even before there was a D added to it), I'm really impressed by all the work OpenTTD team has done. I have not played it in a while (2-3 years maybe), and by then they had already gone much further that just making the game playable on modern computers and on any OS. I might have a look at this new release.

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I see in their announcement that they are looking for translators for several languages, one of which is... Latin :huh:

Who would want to play a video game in Latin ? Even the pope is certainly more fluent in Italian than Latin (and I doubt he plays OpenTTD anyway :tongue:)

Is it even possible to talk about modern transport vehicules and infrastructure in latin ? :dizzy:
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After some time on Dicey Dungeons (discovered here !), I'm now starting a full rerun of the three Witcher games. The first one hasn't aged really well... :whistle:

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Quoting: morphlesI played quite a lot (was in chess club when I was school age) and still play it a little bit. It is overcomplicated mess, or it gives very little "bang for buck" compared to amount of rules and amount of play, compare it to something like hex or havannah. Now modern (well commercial I guess ) board games often times are more over-complicated, they in a way can also be more interesting. But as abstracts go chess is only rated highly because of history and everyone being used to it (might I say like with windows? :D ).

That Windows / chess comparison made my day ! :grin:

I have a background similar to yours with chess, and still play it a little (I used to do some puzzles and games versus AI on my phone with Lichess while having no idea it was FOSS !), and I can understand your feeling. I wouldn't be so hard on chess, it's still an excellent game compared to the massive amount of average or worse games that get released nowadays and that everyone will have forgotten about in 10 years. But yes, a game like Hex for example is deep enough to have expert players write books about it, while having rules that a 5-year old kid can learn. Pretty much how I would define what a good game is !

I didn't know some of the other games you mentioned, but will definitely check them out. Thanks !

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Many Youtubers have had these kind of problems that need weeks to get solved.

Apparently, one of the reasons it's so hard for Google to fix things is quite funny : they rely too much on their own technology. Most of the support is handled by robots. And when you've passed through several layers of useless robots, the human you think you're talking is probably an AI. It talks like a human being, but is as bad as any bot at solving things if your problem is not something that happened a million times before.

Three weeks is probaly the time it takes to reach an actual human being able to understand and solve your problem...

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Thanks for the info, there is a whole bunch of games I've been watching in this bundle !

I think it's worth mentionning that The Battle of Polytopia is in the bundle as well, since it supports Linux natively and is a pretty fun game.

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