Let me get this straight. They KNOW that "lots" of players hate this design decision and go "we know. we won't change it."

It's an interesting question. One the one hand, not all games have to be for all people, and I can respect a developer who sticks to their guns about making something they specifically like even if it means a game isn't for me (I'm hardly short on choice for other games to play, after all, plus modding is a thing). On the other hand, sometimes the hoi polloi are right that a particular design decision is holding a game back from being even more fun, and learning when to kill your darlings is a valuable skill. I don't know what the answer is in this case.

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Team Fortress 2 But With A Bunch Of New Weapons Of Our Own, or TF2BWABONWOOO for short. :tongue:

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Some *are* designed to accommodate seated play[…], or even be designed for it entirely like I Expect You To Die (dunno about the sequels).

I played the first and most of the second at a friend's house, entirely seated, and they both worked fine.

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a menu full of cryptic settings you’re meant to adjust." - so the game is all about adjusting the settings of the game.

*cracks knuckles* All right, I knew getting that "Settings World Champion" achievement in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe would come in handy someday! :grin:

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with a Debit Card and not just a Credit Card (they're different in the UK)

Are they not different everywhere? A debit card lets you access money in a specific bank account, a credit card extends a loan that can be more than you have available to cover it at the time.

Shame they don't use Nexus Mods' technique and use the age of the account.

I see a few problems there; while an old account may signify an old user*, a young account does not necessarily signify a young user – a 50-year-old could get a Steam account for the first time this year.

*And even this may not be the case as people pass on their old Steam accounts to their kids/younger relations (yes I know it's against Valve's terms and conditions, I also know that doesn't stop it happening). Or people could simply start selling old accounts, like iPhones with Flappy Bird installed on them.

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My brother talked me into getting it this past weekend (being only like $8 helped), but I haven't played it yet. I'm looking forward to trying it out, though.

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Nice! I'll have to see about updating soon. I guess it's been about ten years now, since I switched from Linux Mint Debian Edition in 2015 if I remember correctly. :smile:

What's your favourite new feature in Debian 13?

Not having to worry about Y2K38, I guess…? :grin: I dunno, I read the release notes and nothing particularly stood out as important to me personally. RISC-V support is neat, I suppose. Could be interesting to see where that goes.

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Oh, it's by the Rain On Your Parade developers? Will definitely have to check this one out further.

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Yeah, there's a difference between something being made exclusive to a single platform artificially as a tactic to pressure consumers into buying that platform, and something being exclusive to a platform because…that platform is the only one that can do it. It's like a flautist complaining that a Beethoven piano sonata is "exclusive" to the piano…well, yeah, you can't play ten different notes at a time on a flute*.

*As far as I know. No hate for flautists, it was simply an example that came to mind. :smile:

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OK, that's kind of interesting. This is the kind of thing that would've had me enthralled for hours as a kid. :grin:

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