Ngl those keycaps and base plate mighty fine.

But Kaihl switches & proprietary firmware are a hard pass.

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Both AoE 3 and AoE 4 have a review rating of 83-86%.

Meanwhile AoE 2 is rated at 94%

Similar to Civilization V (96%) vs Civilization VI (85%)

Proof that low effort 3D versions aren't automatically better than 2D or old-school graphics.

I really don't understand what is so damn hard -- if Age of Empires verbatim copied the 2D sprite style in 3D and the exact mechanics 1:1 their game would score in the 92-98% easy.

All this "New Crap" just annoys me and other gamers too -- like "swear filters" taking the fun out of modern games.

Games of all things should not be influenced by "the church" of modernity (but that's a detail that I could write entire essays about).

Maybe by the time they make Age of Empires 5 they'll find a way to make it free-to-play and finally get the 3D right. In any case garnering more interest in the series is a smart move -- they should have done this with 2 -- then the masses would be in a swarm to play and buy more.

Edit: to clarify -- If swear filters or gore are things a person wants -- they should be "opt in" and not "opt out" -- Serious Sam 3 is the perfect example of this where they replace all blood sfx with hippie flowers and it's just so much fun -- because games are supposed to be games and not real life.

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Isn't Ubisoft the one where if you don't login for a few months they delete your purchases?

Maybe they're just a chaotic company /shrugs

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOne thing all of the docks are missing is a USB-C Out with display port. This way uou can vave the NReal Air plugged in without an adapter.

HDMI. Absolutely Proprietary.

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Quoting: emphyWell, as an armchair lawyer myself I can tell you that it's not any alleged copyright on the key that is the legal problem, it's that one can use the key to circumvent digital restrictions.

For the same reason, most linux distro's don't ship with decryption libraries for dvd's or bluray disks.

As a criticism of Euro-logic (not your post at all)

Kitchen Knives should be banned because someone might do something illicit with it.

Cars & Trucks should be banned because they might be an accessory to vehicular manslaughter.

Dihydrogen Monoxide [External Link] is a dangerous chemical and should be banned.

And TL;DR -- Just make illegal things illegal and then criminals will snap their fingers "Aww shucks" and obey the law after all.

Eurologic: Thing X can be used for bad, destroy Thing X

Experts agree: Food is the #1 cause of climate change, destroy all the food!

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Quoting: Lefl

Quoting: WoodlandorWait… CS:GO uses FACEIT? I thought Valve just used their own VAC or something similar they rolled out on their own.

No, you can install the Faceit anti cheat and match make on their servers.
Normal CS:GO still uses VAC

This really UNDERLINES a good point.

Anti-Cheat should be OPT-IN not Opt-Out (or no opt).

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Of course, considering Kernel Memory access, Filesystem access, and how game developers and modders are keenly aware anti-virus doesn't scrutinize gaming binaries (my polish game dev friends turned me on to this) --

It's more probable that anti-cheat is intended to be malware to spy on people -- after all -- WHY NOT only run it when connecting to gaming servers -- why does it need to be running the whole time a game is open?

(I even knew some chinese game developers who outsourced some work to china and got banned from steam for accidentally shipping malware)

Concerns like this are why I have completely separate Linux Gaming Rigs from my work rigs. ( and why I prefer immutible root for certain use-cases like gaming )

There's NO need for Anti-Cheat to be running except at a minimum, and the code might as well be open-source too while we're at it.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: ElectricPrismI thought Intel just canned their entire NUC division?

I think the phrase you are looking for is "nuked their NUC division" :D

Exactly, tired me just needed some coffee. I also had to double check and confirmed Intel nuked several of their divisions.

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I thought Intel just canned their entire NUC division?

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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELM [External Link]

Edit: (I think we're going backwards in time to Behemoth Company Towns)

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Good for Debian, Arch and others, bad for Fedora. (making people agitated that is)

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