Even though I play board games with a couple friends on a routine schedule, they will never play a pen & paper RPG again. We did it long ago with a DM that we didn't enjoy, and they're stuck with that memory and won't ever try it again. So, programs like this would be a hopeless, disappointing waste of time and money for me.

/saltiness

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Hmm, if he used to drive a WRX, then I met him on the IGN forums about 20 years ago. I may be mistaking him for another person associated with CodeWeavers.

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I guess I dodged this angry bullet because I never let my kids use Roblox. One of their friend's parents asked me to get my kids set up; when I started making an account and reading about it, I changed my mind. That was probably two years ago now.

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Does anyone have experience with both these controllers and the latest official Xbox controllers? I found the Microsoft Xbox controllers to be pretty disappointing compared to the PS5. $20 for a wired controller has my attention though. It could replace the old, mushy (due to wear) Xbox 360 controllers my kids are using.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThinking of mindboggling technologies, I've been thinking for a while that that's something these games often get wrong. For good reasons, but still to my thinking in the end wrong. And that thing is, they nerf the awesome technologies in the name of game balance. They're worried about multiplayer, they're worried that people will get sick of a lack of challenge on single player, so they keep the technologies very incremental no matter how cool their name is. It ends up feeling pretty bland. And my thinking is, screw game balance. If I've evolved my species into beings of pure thought fielding massive inertialess planetoids bristling with cosmos-destroying weapons we control with our minds, I don't want some hicks with destroyers and railguns to be able to put up a fight, I want to bat them out of my way with contemptuous ease. I'm perfectly happy to have not one or two, but multiple totally game-changing technologies, stuff that makes me feel like "Yeah, we're hyperadvanced now!"
Don't get me wrong, I don't think games with more incremental, somewhat boring technology that lend themselves well to multiplayer and stop runaway wins should go away. But I do love the feel of pedal to the metal tech supremacy, knowing all the Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and then some, and looming like a titan over the puny primitive also-rans.

I expect a game mode that allowed such dominant technology would effectively turn into a tech race, because players would quit once they discovered their opponent had the game-ending technologies. Maybe better against AI only.

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What usually sells a console system to me is one main game I gotta have, and any others I want are bonuses. I wonder what that would be for the Ally? What game is the system seller? Fortnite?

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I'd have mixed feelings about going out and buying a new Razer device; agree with drjoms there. Doing so pays for Windows support, increases sale numbers with no tie to Linux, and if I want to support the Linux community, I have to go out of my way and spend MORE, also not visible to Razer.

But if you already have Razer devices, and there are obviously many fans, then community solutions like this are a Godsend.

EDIT: If Razer became a sponsor, it would have a large softening impact on my opinion.

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The annoyance has been minor for me because I disabled "Autoplay videos" years ago, which automatically skips to the first screenshot when you land on a store page.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThis is true, but a way I see it is with GOG I can download all my installers so even if they go under/I lose access/whatever I still have my games. I know Steam promises this and that if something happened to them, but I do like the peace of mind by having my library physically on hand. It's as close to owning them as can get these days.

You can do this with some games on Steam as well - but I have to admit that I don't know how you'd know which ones before buying them.

I'd assume an API call would clear up the correlation between app ID and game name. That's what you guys mean, right? There are 3rd-party sites like Proton and SteamDB that provide the correlation as well. Those sites will have copies of the app ID database.

That said, it's a bit of a weird imaginary situation where the Steam library didn't work but the CDN still did.

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I don't think they should be doing a conversion. They should support existing names as the legacy format, and only new accounts get the new format.

Display wise, they can do what Battle.net does and only display the first portion of your username until you hover your mouse to reveal the appended numbers. In addition, they can copy what Steam does and allow people to assign nicknames to their friends list.

I don't really use Discord these days (will probably check out the GOL channel soon), but I do deal with large corporate changes. In my experience, people like to have timing of migration in their own control. You need to create a reason for them to want to prioritize it, but avoid hard deadlines if you can.

If Discord cannot support the existing name format and a new format at the time same, then they failed the engineering challenge. Where did all those experts go during Covid? Amazon? The talent pool is turning into a vacuum. I digress.

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