Mein Leben!

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Quoting: tomaszgSad he had to apologize. It's only encouraging more attacks of this kind on other people.

Well, he did something that one should actually apologize for. It's not one of these situations where some bored blue checkmark dug up some ancient tweet or forum post, removes all context and starts going on a crusade for virtue currency.

He made really bad comments on topics he didn't know much of anything about - on a public space.
Like... stuff that makes casual N-wording seem innocent (IMO).

But it was so odd and so out of touch, it's easy to see how if that wasn't edgy satire, he simply didn't know any better (and his general social awkwardness is well known, not all people are aware of all things social), so an apology and quite a loss of power is fine.

Of course, to the cancel and outrage mob, an apology and sensible consequences is never enough and once they smell blood, they'll keep at it until the target has been properly removed from society or they get bored and move on to their next ritualistic public hanging.

It definitely speaks against the FSF that they were unaware about the uproar this would cause in modern times.
But their handling of the situation - from not letting a member getting cancelled to seeking to improve their structure to prevent further similar incidents, it's all just very level-headed - definitely made me a supporter.

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I'm always very sceptical about "free" games.
But I see no MTX here or anything.

How are the developers planning to raise money - or is this more of a hobby project?

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Quoting: Luke_NukemHonestly I wish the Nu-Dooms had mode slike this too. Endless arena combat with waves is tiring.

It's only endless if you die... and you know what the solution to THAT is :wink:
Though I do agree that a few of them felt like they were really dragging it out.

For Amnesia, I really don't get the need for it, though.
The light sources are ample unless you light every single torch on your way, dying is inconsequential (I died a bunch and wasn't locked out of any ending), ...

Anyway, for this kind of game, I don't have a problem with story modes existing.

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Quoting: WJMazepasI really loved this game. Last year was the first time i played Duke Nukem and Ion Fury and really enjoyed both of then so now i want to try every FPS made on this engine

Once you run out of the "official" games, I can recommend The AMC TC a lot.
A fan-made total conversion with some custom features, 9 playable characters (yes, really) and some pretty decent to good maps.

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Hmmm, mixed bag.
Github is fine after their acquisition. As is Minecraft (if not better, actually).
Skype just went downhill after MS took over.

Those are honestly the only projects that MS bought that I had any personal interest in.

I don't really care enough for Discord to react one way or the other.
I'll just keep using it as needed, unless it becomes crappy now.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou have 'gravity gloves' that yank things into your hands from a distance. There are fights where you have to duck behind objects and shoot at enemies. It's incredibly intense, and the experience wouldn't be anywhere near as good with a mouse / keyboard. There are even alien exploding balls that you can hold in your hand, until you squeeze them, then you have a few seconds to throw them before they blow up. Even cooler, you have to try to snatch them quickly from the grasp of the weird tentacle thing that is holding them.

Every action you mention here could be implemented with a normal mouse click + kb. Or a chain of clicking, holding, etc.
It would definitely be doable via simplification. Valve just decided not to do it, probably because of multiple reasons.

It is also somewhat funny, as most of these things are not "VR" at all - they just use the controllers typically associated with VR.
But there's no real reason you shouldn't be able to use these touch/finger controllers with just a normal monitor. In the end, they are just a much improved variant of what started with the Wiimote.
I've always said and will likely always continue to say that not the headset, but the controls are the actual "revolution" here. The headset "just" increases immersion and lets you look around - saving a button/stick on the controllers.

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Interesting. I'm working on researching and testing algorithms for a game sporting highly complex procedural generation - and part of that will at some point (far in the future) be the need to integrate mixed manual-procedural quests and storytelling (e.g. create a quest "outline" manually, incl. most writing, then let the procgen fill out the details).

And it just so happens I'm using Godot for the project.

I know there are tons of tools for writing dialogue trees, etc. but so far I wasn't aware of any that could be directly integrated into the toolchain I'm using anyway and was halfway content having to write that on my own, as well.
Definitely storing this one in the "to take a look at once it is time" pile.

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Quoting: Gueststarting new is certainly a different experience with just the one ship where you're rather lowly.

One of the most fun aspects for me (when playing in 3.1, but no doubt this is still the same) was starting in a little ship doing some mining or patrolling maybe.
And then upgrading to the next big category of ship. Standing in those giant space docks, seeing how your new ship dwarves your old one from the perspective of a human-sized person.
And then repeating that through all the size categories.

I wasn't quite sure what the point of first person would be in a game like X4 that doesn't actually do much with it. Well, that epic sense of scale is certainly a good point.

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