And again they're sucking up to the publishers instead of catering to the people that actually provide the money.

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I suppose there will be no surprises here. The game will be short, good and polished like the first one. And it'll probably be a bit on the expensive side for such a short game.

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My plan to try and at least finish the main BL3 campaign has not panned out so far. Even though they're saying that the writing will be better this time, I choose to have no faith in that statement. Prove it.

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Another one where it is not about anti-cheat, but about anti-modding. After all can't have modders devalue your m[ia]crotransactions.

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Should I care? According to the ratings it seems to be a pretty mediocre title.

As a game? You can decide for yourself. As a data point? Yes.

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Now imagine how many flaws their Windows drivers have, unbelievable clown company.

Windows doesn't need security vulnerabilities. Microsoft built them into the OS.

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It's an interesting concept for a puzzle game. But the demo did reveal a few issues that diminished things for me. The biggest problem revolves around using LUA as an interpreter. This is a full featured scripting language and without limitations solving these puzzles becomes fairly trivial. It also makes optimisation less fun since execution times and code size now become somewhat vague as there is no real info on how the lua code translates to either. Some things you can figure out by trial and error, but others times details seem to get lost in lua internals. I'd much rather have seen a more compact dedicated script to make it more of a puzzle game instead of work.

So not really for me, but at least it's cheap.

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you mean from the browser?

Separate user account with very few permissions. Also my personal files/software/games are installed in places without "other" permissions. Access to the process list is restricted to processes by that "discord" user only, so it can't spy on what I'm running or playing. So basically a clean install is all it can see. I assume you can do similar things with flatpaks, but this setup has been running like this for a long time.

And the browser that it can start run on a temporary profile, so whatever links I click leaves nothing around after the browser is closed.

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Has the bundle changed or is this a regional thing?

I see them, so must be a regional thing. I guess it could be blocked in Germany.

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We'll see how this goes, but if it goes full on enshitification I wouldn't be surprised.

At least I've been running discord in full isolation on my system. It has no access to any of my files, it can't read the process list and it can't even see what games I have installed on Steam, so all that it got from me was what I typed into the client directly.

Maybe it's time to set up some bogus "servers" with nonsense conversation. Poisoning the well before they start training an AI on it. :grin:

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