Kinda reminds me of Carcassonne.

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Looking at their games, clearly Beamdog should have gotten themselves purchased by "Enhancer Group" instead--then they would have been valued. :wink:

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Quoting: Mambo

Quoting: BotonoskiSeems like so many tech companies lately are making hair brained greedy decisions, I'm used to them doing that but not so soon ome after another... Is this an effort on the part of the rich sorts to consolidate their wealth before the recession hits hard? If so they need to cut it out, just making things worse like the TP panic buyers. Wait... it was only really worse for those who didn't panic buy.

Here's r/gachagaming (yes…) discussing this trend [External Link]. Interest rates rising after COVID are mentioned down the thread as a cause of such pressure. I don't know if it affects publicly traded companies the same way as pre-IPO startups. Unity could have done well for itself building a popular engine, but it wanted to corner the market, spent money in unreasonable ways (billions on acquiring movie effect companies, a hundred million a year on its top executives…). Now it's suddenly finding debts are expensive and trying to squeeze everybody else.

The modern way of big business is all about debt. If you want to make money, you could invest money you have and make a return on it. But if you can take on a lot of debt and invest money you don't have, that would mean you're making a return on a lot more money. As long as you can make sure the returns you're making are a higher rate than the interest you're paying on the debt, you're ahead. And greedy people are often optimistic about this stuff. Then they're either wrong about the rate of return, or interest rates go up, or both, and they're underwater. Or rather, the company they're associated with is underwater; the actual people probably take huge bonuses and compensation packages and a few other clever forms of remuneration from the corpse of the company before they jump to the next scam--limited liability FTW.

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Quoting: LoftyWait a minuet

If you say so.
Richard Strauss Minuet, "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" [External Link]

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Quoting: FurysparkThe only way they are likely to rebuild trust is by publicly executing John Rikitikitaco and all the other wretches who thought this was a good idea. Or at the very least, the next best thing to execution.

Eh, let's not, please, that sounds a bit too violent and disproportionate. Let's not incite towards violence. It's a case of corporate greed, so... Just turn it into a nonprofit? :P

I think the stockholders hate your idea more. :grin:

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Quoting: Sanaka3that apology message of theirs feels like any other corporate apology. same "we heard you", same "confusion/misunderstanding", almost like it's made from a template

It is.

The non-apology, take-no-responsibility apology is taught in PR/corporatelawyercritter 101. Say what you did was actually wrong and it could be the basis for a lawsuit, goes the reasoning. Some of the more up-to-date corporate flacks who took recent PR 201 have actually been told "The non-apology apology is so cliched that everybody notices what you're doing; they just annoy the public. Genuine apologies are much more effective." Apparently the Unity folks don't have any of the more recent PR graduates.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Purple Library Guyand a mug of cocoa.

Share the cocoa, would you, please? The weather's getting colder now! :tongue:

Well, I'll do my best. So yesterday, my wife and I went to my favourite fancy patisserie place, Thomas Haas, and along with some very nice pastries I got some absolutely fabulous deep dark hot chocolate, made with a really nice 70%. Strong, very strong, and thick, but because 70% not too sweet. We strolled along the beach and sipped and munched.

Normally at home I don't make hot chocolate, I make cocoa, with cocoa powder, sugar and milk. Lately I've been using cocoa from this place that makes all kinds of very artistic and high quality hot chocolate, called Cocoa Monk. I bought the guy's cocoa powder once, thinking "I probably won't do this again--stuff's foolishly expensive and probably no better than what I usually use." It was so much better. When I went back to get more I asked him why; he said most cocoa powder you get, even "gourmet", has almost zero cocoa butter and so it's crap, doesn't convey the flavour well. His does have cocoa butter. Sounds reasonable. As a result, the cocoa I make is some of the best you're gonna taste. Especially after I add a bit of Calvados or Grand Marnier.

That's all I can manage over the interwebs, I'm afraid.

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Quoting: tuubiThe trailer really does evoke some traumatic memories of dig dug. The style is spot on. I bet I'd be very bad at this one as well. :whistle:

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Quoting: PenglingI love Bomberman

Until you said that I never knew....... :tongue:

I thought she just looked like bomberman! Aren't avatar images supposed to be accurate representations of us? I feel deceived...

(I totally look like a happy penguin. Ask anyone!)

And im a happy fat penguin with full belly of food....... Ask anyone.... :wink:

Well, I am definitely a guy with long hair and a beard and a mug of cocoa.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGranted, I'm not attempting to be antagonistic.

And yet you are succeeding.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: jams3223

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoftyIve seen a lot of new Windows handhelds recently with better specs, but they always fail in certain ways that the steam deck does not.

worse value
worse ergonomics
worse audio
worse controls
worse software
worse drivers
worse configuration
worse updates
worse battery life
worse Windows

Competition is good, but so far i haven't seen a decent enough handheld that can compete. Not even the ROG ALLY is close even though it does beat the steam deck on screen, performance the rest is not as good.

So id say ignore the Youtube click bait about that latest super duper windows 10" Ryzen Z1 handheld that cost $1000 and just get a steam deck.

Funny how effective it is when you plan a whole device as a whole device, with what it's going to be used for in mind.
(and when you dump Windows)

Yea, you can tell most of the competitors are rushing to market get a slice of the Steam deck pie using 'on paper' better specs to lure people in. Trying for paid reviews, maybe chucking wads (not doom wads) at big channels to pull people into a temporary FOMO hype. But giving no future promise of support, in fact probably most likely dumping the product within 6 months onto the next version with some flaws removed but more different ones added.

If you see a gormless open mouthed Soy face holding the latest Chinese handheld at an awkward angle backed by ludicrously over saturated colors on their thumbnail saying "THIS blows the steam deck away and it TOTALLY Surprised Me WOW! 😲️ " .. avoid that content.

edit* added worse support to my original list

People who act like Spongebob's cat

Spongebob has a cat ?

Well, a snail that says "meow".

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