South Africa does too. UK does too. New Zeeland does too.

It's a honking good idea to add a few small guards to lower almost your entire population stress levels by a noticeably amount.

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I even struggle to convince my partner on why bans are a BAD THING.

If there is illegal activities happening in some streets, the solution is not to ban access to streets.
Nor is it viable to have a police officer that constantly checks that you're allowed to be on a street, even going to the point of investigating if you really appear to be living in that house that you're busy going into.

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"Agentic" is a term to make it sound like it's more than it is.
Call it what it is, chatbots that rewrite text badly, then blame you for anything that went wrong.

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I think this matches the core appeal of TerraTech, will try the Demo.
Thanks for bringing interesting games like this to our attention!

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It's got a very Warcraft 2 look to it.

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Quoting: LoudTechieIt's not attached to the computer it's attached to the user account(poor FreeBSD doesn't have accounts)

They don't have their own accounts either. How many home PC's actually have separate accounts? I mean houses where chaos rules?

Virtually zero, that's what.

That's my point.

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It doesn't make sense to have this kind of data attached to a device like a computer. My kids will just as happily use Grans computer (or ours) as the school computer to fiddle around on Scratch for example.

None of the computers are "theirs", they are not the primary users.

In what world do they expect even well off people like us to provision a separate computer for each person? The kids don't need their own thing, they also shouldn't have unfettered access to screens, so they won't get their own system until they can acquire one themselves.

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I didn't know it even existed :-(

But having the licensing expire after a mere 2 years is ridiculous. Its continued sale will result in continued royalties, I really don't get why :-(

Edit: I read that apparently Paramount/Skydance decided to up Star Trek licensing costs by 2000%
Feels like the "new owners" want to price out the small guy :-(

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LAN parties was relatively rare, so multiplayer meant having social time with friends, we'd often break for food (and it was usually quite a feast as we all enjoyed good food).
So all those memories of co-op was extra good because we were doing it with friends that we knew very well.

I agree in that the standard SS loop won't really scale well to modern-day co-op, but also have to say that the video didn't *feel* like serious sam.

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Quoting: JarmerIn the end it doesn't matter. Smart kids will ALWAYS find a way to get around stuff like that.

In fact, I want my kids to problem solve.

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