I played many hours of the original Guild Wars. In fact, it was the first MMO that I ever played. Guild Wars 2 was fun for what it was, but it just didn't have the same feel.

Yes, I definitely agree there.

While I also enjoyed GW2 for a while, it is definitely "just" a normal MMO with a few nice touches.
The gameplay in GW1 is entirely different, I'm not even sure I'd call it an MMO to be honest.

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Age verification should be illegal. This world has gone crazy. The ruling cast is infested by predators.

The world has gone crazy, but with those statements, you fit right in! :grin:

Maybe step outside a little, take a walk, take a few breaths.
Less tinfoil, more nature.

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Why on earth do these sites keep the ID scans?? Validate the user, save the date date and a 'yes valid' checkmark. Then delete the damn id.

That is really the biggest wtf of this whole thing.

Age verification? Sure, do it.
In fact, should just be mandatory to access social media at this point (fully on board with Australia's plan here).

But there are honestly drastically better ways to do this than scanning and sending government IDs.
Such as how this has been done for many, many years in Finland for example. There are several ways to confirm your identity, often through your banking or mobile providers.
Those can confirm (after 2FA in general) that you are you and they could say "yes" or "no" when asked "is this person age X+?". No scanning, no webcam crap to compare ID and picture, just call an API with minimal data and get an answer to your query.

But even if you did it the oldschool way with government ID scanning - why the hell store them? That is just gross negligence.

Daddy and his old worn-out privacy concerns. Sigh.

Think your kids might be right here.
There is no way your data is fully safe anywhere - you'd have to be off the grid, essentially, to achieve that.
And since that is the case, quite frankly: Why bother?

Take this very example, right?
So now some actors could find out person X has authenticated themselves on Discord.
Oh no, the horror.

Be reasonable with what you share of yourself in public (or semi-public) spaces and you'll be fine.
Because eventually, your data can and will very likely leak and your "anonymity" will be gone.
That's a much better lesson to teach kids than appear all tinfoil hat to them with cumbersome "solutions".

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as Java user we still have to wait...

As Java users we have access to the far superior Minecraft experience anyway, heavily modded and with launchers like Modrinth.
I honestly find it hard to get excited about anything vanilla MC anymore, as the modded experience has just advanced so far beyond it with hundreds of more creatures, biomes, weapons, RPG systems, village management and whatever else you want.
It is great that they are expanding the game, but 90% of the time I just think "I've had this and so much more for ages".

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No numpad, no buy. :whistle:

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Oh boy, the poor devs that will have to deal with all the nonsense this feature will no doubt produce.

But just think of the memes! It will be glorious!

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Yeah, this is not an autobattler - you are controlling the unit.
I think you can even, if you want, fire shots manually (some games in the genre have that optional feature, not sure if this one).

Autobattler is games like Mechabellum, Dota Auto Chess, etc.

Anyway, DLC for this is great, I wanted to get back into it anyway.

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Fantastic game.
I'd describe it as "Programmable Autobattler Pokemon Class Build Pr0n".

It is not technically an autobattler, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone play it after the first few hours without using the VERY programmable autofight macros and without setting the speed to the highest setting.
A few times, the available commands are not quite enough and you need to intervene manually, but it is rare.

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That's weird about Itch. Something happening there?

Not weird at all.
Plenty of stories about Itch not paying at all or extremely delayed, being absurdly slow with their customer service if they do reply at all, not having done any noticeable development on their client for years, shutting down threads where people complain about this (after all, why fix issues when you can close threads in which people complain nobody fixes issues), etc.

As an indie dev, I'd use Itch for very early, pre-pre-pre alpha development, but I'd never ever count on it for revenue.

The whole service seems run by incompetent and/or chronically overworked people.

It's not like it offers discoverability, anyway (nowhere near a strong enough userbase for that) - might as well go fully homegrown like Vintage Story or Starsector.

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HD2 is one of the more beautiful games you can play today.

Yeah, no :grin:

But HD2 looks good in motion from the perspective of the player.
This trailer, however, zoomed in on all kinds of stuff you wouldn't normally see up close: Low poly digging effects, low poly particle effects, etc.
It's like they turned the shading/texture/etc. levels down for the trailer.

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