Quoting: ArehandoroFun times :D

P.S: Crossing my fingers all the time so the PC, boiler, internet or electricity don't suffer any hiccups during these days lol

P.S: Feeling absolutely fine now, most likely was a man flu and nothing else

Did it all work out?

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Quoting: Eike30% off on Steam.

33% on GoG (and they also have a Deluxe version xD)

Ha, Also Known As; Game + Soundtrack.

The manual is in the extra edition, too (which I find strange, but I'll probably get the game with manual, but discounted).

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Quoting: ArehandoroFun times :D

"There is a Chinese curse which says, 'May he live in interesting times.'"

Stay safe and sane and all!

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I wasn't aware of the slight increase in Linux users. Nice! Still thinking about going back to dual booting after five years Linux only...

Happy holidays, happy new year!
It can't get worse... or can it? X)

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30% off on Steam.

Is it working all fine on Nvidia?

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Quoting: soulsourceAlso if I would make a smug comment like Süleyman frequently does: "I suppose I can do this in the spirit of almsgiving."
:tongue:

Now that's the spirit...! ;)

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Quoting: soulsourceI wonder if granting demands still _lowers_ the AI's opinion of you, or if this has finally been fixed?

Hm. :)

Of course it doesn't make sense from a tactical point of view, but if I - which I herewith do - demand a hundred bucks from you, and you would actually grant it, it would really lower my opinion of you. :D

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Quoting: PhiladelphusThat's my memory, at least, though to be fair that was years ago at this point and I've been thinking of replaying it recently to see how my memory holds up. Perhaps I'd appreciate it more now. Maybe that was just a "phase" of the game and I stopped before it got good, who knows.

I don't think it changes too much after some hours...

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe biggest problem right now is that governments are operating on the logic of "We must do something about X; Y is something; therefore, we must do Y" which is the kind of thinking that leads totalitarian minded politicians to believe that any decision they make, no matter the consequences (both intended and unintended), is morally justified.

Someone else might believe they could do something else is not an argument against anything. (There's even been peopel abusing Darwin's theories, so should we refrain from Darwin's theories?!?) There's real measures against a real threat that can be evaluated.

Quoting: Mountain ManThere was a curious study that was recently published (and then hastily covered-up) by Johns Hopkins showing that deaths in 2020 attributed to the Chinese coronavirus have risen in direct inverse proportion to deaths attributed to other causes like heart disease and cancer such that overall death rates are not significantly greater this year than the year before.

That's why I showed the Spanish numbers. It's quite obvious that (many) more people have died that wouldn't have died normally, and that Covid and other deaths do not sum up to nearly any normal amount of deaths - right? (I'm very surprised that at least here, such numbers haven't been shown in the news.)

Quoting: Mountain ManShould our governments have done something in response to the Chinese coronovirus? Probably. Should they have necessarily done what they've done? Probably not. Like I said from the beginning, it's not the virus that's out of control, it's our governments.

We might find out afterwards that there's been measures that didn't help too much or were not worth it. And/or that there would have been other great measures that would have inflicted less problems. But there's been exponential(!) rise of deaths, way over what's normal, and nobody knew (or knows now) how to best stop it. The king of Sweden, the country which used to be the example of people opposing the measures at least in Europe, recently admited that they've been doing it wrong and payed the death toll. Where ever you are from, the virus in your town is as dangerous as the one in Spain and Sweden. They had to do something serious about it.

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Quoting: wvstolzing(I have to confess the "Mel" game was a bit of a disappointment for me — it wasn't really the 'difficulty'; it was rather the fact that a number of solutions involved subtly breaking the rules the way a speedrunner would, like finding that precise pixel that would allow an otherwise impossible jump, etc. Not the most elegant examples of forcing the player to 'think outside the box'. Make it 'difficult' given the existing rules of the game world; expecting the player to guess (more like brute force) the precise way in which you've bent the rules doesn't really foster creative thinking.)

I'm not sure what you mean. Did you feel like you had to do it overly precise or that you didn't have to (but wanted to)?
I don't think the game calls for precise moves, but for thinking, which I absolutely prefer.

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